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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1922
Page
2
Estimated receipts hogs 4 500 cattle 1 500. holdovers 13 838. Market uneven steady to 1 56 higher. top 10 80. bulk sales 10 66. Heavy weight hogs 250 lbs up 10 15 10 40. light weights 150 200 10 55 10 75. Offical yesterday totals receipts 26 372. Wheat 210 cars corn 260 cars oats 100 cars tone unchanged. Estimated Monday hogs 45 000 cattle 19 000 sheep 18 000.
The article explains Mount Ararat as a western Asian highland in Armenia near Russia Turkey and Persia with two peaks Great Ararat and Little Ararat. It notes Ararat as a historic district name and the biblical ark resting on mountains of Ararat not the mountain itself. James Bryce climbed Ararat in 186 and wrote about Transcaucasia and Ararat in 1877.
The text urges parents to foster speech by letting children recount stories and daily events. It warns against repressing conversation at meals and promotes active participation to strengthen language use and memory. Mental associations grow with practice and weaken without it. Daniel A. Laird in the Yale Review.
The article argues thrift strengthens individual prosperity and supports orderly government. It notes homeowners and savers promoting progress and opposing destructive trends, stressing thrift builds emergency backing and fair social aims while world conditions stabilize toward normalcy.
The United States Weather Bureau releases hydrogen balloons twice daily to measure weather conditions. Readings are taken every minute with a theodolite until loss from view and telegraphed to Washington for a consolidated radio report. The photograph shows Nelson Hoss and William Haines sending up the balloon.
The American Forestry Association declares the Chico California oak the largest in the world. It soars over 100 feet tall with a 2414 foot circumference and a 105 foot longest branch. Its branches spread 200 feet north to south and could shelter thousands of soldiers at noon.
The swordfish is described as good food for man and hunted with a harpoon. Fishermen pursue this strong and dangerous fish, though its slaughter is said to disturb nature’s balance by allowing sharks to multiply without swordfish-imposed restrictions.
A compact reflection on amateur work and the motives behind it. The piece questions what amateurs love and why they create and warns that spirit, not skill, shapes defects like poor spelling or grammar.
Mrs. E L Russell of Des Moines county promotes a novel scarecrow method using a potato stuffed with white chicken feathers on a pole to deter birds from cherry trees. She urges passage of a law punishing poultry theft on highways between sunset and sunrise. Indiana? Local agents discuss farming woes and a farmer in Riceville reports high egg output from white leghorn flocks.
Washington county poultry raisers met at the farm bureau office to hear J. J. Warren of Iowa State College discuss what can be achieved through a poultry raisers organization. An Iowa State College experiment showed chickens fed fresh buttermilk produced nearly three times as many eggs as those without protein supplements.
Guthrie Center county agent W A Geiger reports packers will pay ten cents premium per hundredweight on hogs found free of tuberculosis. Applies across Iowa counties to encourage herd health. Geiger notes Guthrie county testing effort could cover testing costs. Baker township leads with over 300 hogs tested.
Farm Bureau women of Guthrie county will meet in Guthrie Center on July 10 to form an auxiliary to the county federation. Miss Bertha Holden of Ames will lead the meeting at the city park, inviting all county women and men to attend the picnic and gathering.
A do it yourself fly spray recipe for cows is outlined using coal tar dip fish oil whale oil and oil of tar with laundry soap and water to yield thirty gallons enough to spray forty cows twice a day for ten days. The item also notes Mrs. Sorenson sold 100 cattle in Woodbine for 8800 and discusses farm profits and corn feeding.
Wauk on Iowa item shows Plymouth county farmer bureau members meeting note with unclear details and partial phrasing about go somewhere or action.
In Riverton Iowa F. E. Cowden and son Earl marketed two carloads of heifers on the Omaha market. They sold at 8.35 dollars per hundredweight, highest price for a load of straight heifers this year, averaging 749 pounds. Purchase price was 6.50 at the feed lot last December after a mid January start on full corn and silage feed. Earl led feeding and expressed pride in the shipment.
Clarion reports Watkins of Wright county near Eagle Grove sowing twenty acres of red clover with oats as nurse crop. He plans to plow under the crop in fall to serve as green manure while a two to three rod strip of Hubam clover runs beside it for later comparison.
The Berliners demonstrated a helicopter near College Park Maryland under Navy observation. The craft rose to seven feet, hovered, then circled a half mile before landing. Commander J C Hunsaker declined to comment pending official report. The elder Berliner pursued the project for twenty years and with younger Emil Berliner Jr. refined the design to enable roof landings and operation in tight spaces. The 110 horsepower engine powers dual lifting propellers 14 feet long with a rear tilting propeller for forward motion.
A compact plea urging remaining faith over doubt, urging the reader to share faith while keeping personal doubts to oneself. The quotation reflects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe urging steadfast belief and personal conviction.
Miss M Hester Lerman registrar of vital statistics says Hawaiians are not dying out but marrying out of existence Births in 1921 fell 42 from 1921 fiscal year figures and 160 Hawaiian marriages occurred with 58 Hawaiian men marrying non Hawaiians and 142 Hawaiian women doing the same The Homes Commission reports 78 applicants for Molokai land allotments under the back to the land program with 20 to 24 lots available and plans to settle Nawaliians on Molokai with first groups by July and more tracts later
Minneapolis reports two people found shot to death in a car at Minnetonka Mills. Police investigate whether it was murder or a suicide, thought to be Mr and Mrs Charles F B Cometeck of St Paul.
Washington July 15 Prohibition Commissioner Haynes warned druggists and prohibition officials that counterfeit physicians prescriptions for liquor are flooding the country.
In Chicago at School street and Kedzie avenue a stall car was hit by a five ton truck killing one woman and severely injuring two others who faced probable fatalities. In Boston Charles Ponzi, awaiting federal fraud sentences, was denied bail on 22 indictments tied to his promotion scheme.
The Grand River flood near Chillicothe Missouri causes over 2 million dollars in crop damage as the river rises further and bundles of wheat float downstream.
Nogales Ariz July 15 A searching party found contractor H Gordon Glove on the coast of Sonora after his fishing schooner sank in a Gulf of California gale last week.
Maj. Gen. Frederick Falkner Minchin, who advised the minister of munitions in 1915, died at Tipperary, London reports.
A historical note claims Earth's rotation varied as it settled into its present shape. It suggests only a very slight change could cause rock fracturing, and confirms no trace of such a vetion was found by volgeobests.
Rev A St Hickman of Groton Presbyterian Church performed an operation on a speckled hen to remove binder twine mass from its crop. The hen, after a neck incision, recovered and resumed laying daily eggs, leaving how the bird swallowed the twine a mystery.
The article notes that coin stamping began over 2,200 years ago with Greek issues bearing Alexander the Great. It praises ancient Greek coins as art objects with superb workmanship, contrasts Roman coinage with Nero to Greek beauty, and remarks on crude money in the Dark Ages including a speculative English coin from 1000 A.D.
Twenty five couples in Lewistown Pennsylvania petitioned the Lewistown and Reedsville Electric Railway for after midnight service to return home. The company granted the petition with a three times weekly patronage condition but the men failed to support the service, leading to the car's removal.
Mrs Gladys Hempel Tilden of 5020 Woodlawn avenue sues wealthy broker Edward Tilden TI for divorce in Chicago Superior Court alleging habitual drunkenness and cruelty. The Tidens married April 30 1910 and separated July 1945. He is a University of Illinois graduate and former Red Cross ambulance driver overseas.
About 100 maintenance of way workers at the Monon shops in Payette walk out in sympathy with shopmen. The stoppage was not authorized by the national union. The strike includes roundhouse crews and helpers and protests foremen at work. Judge Maker in Hammond issued an injunction for the Baltimore and Ohio and Wabash railroads to stop mass picketing and interference with trains.
Paris observed Bastille Day with artillery crashes and firing salutes. A monster procession and a large crowd marked the celebration, with the American Legion marching in a long parade and a military review at Long Champs.
A brief exchange quotes a preacher urging preparedness for immorality by living bravely and cheerfully as possible, attributed to Horton.
A dealer paraded crude chairs as from the Californian Missions to boost novelty and sales. Another seller coined the term Mission to mimic the look, adding Maltese crosses to imply origin and spur belief in authentic mission furniture.
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