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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1921
Page
2
Chicago reports estimated receipts for hogs at 20 000 with holdover 11 675 and cattle at 7 000. Market notes show lights and mediums steady to strong, others 10 to 15 lower, with detailed price ranges for various weight classes and livestock types. Official yesterday totals and shipments listed.
Mrs Rob Edwards and two sons depart for Iowa City and Muscatine visits while others travel to Winfield Chicago Cedar Rapids and Newark. The funeral of Earl Lamotte follows a highway crash near Martin Texas where his wife and two sons faced a long rail return. Gerald Lamotte of Eagle survives a broadened family.
The marriage of actor Owen Moore to his leading lady Kathryn Perry was announced today. Moore, recently divorced from Mary Pickford who later wed Douglas Fairbanks, married Perry in Greenwich, Connecticut, last Saturday.
Iowa State College researchers report Iowa 105 oats performed well under hot weather at the agronomy farm near Ames. L C Burnett notes that heat cut early yields by about 20 bushels per acre, with later harvests potentially improving, as tests compare varieties.
An old advertisement lists butter and egg products with prices and contact details. It references Cream Station at 110 East Washington Street and East Third Street, noting poultry deliveries and various per pound or per dozen rates for items like butter, eggs, and ducks.
In Des Moines on July 26 four former division commanders and other senior army officers received leaves of absence to attend the first annual reunion of the 88th General staff unit.
Edna Hickman confessed with May Knuckles to plotting an attempted robbery of taxi driver James Adderson and his wife in Des Moines. The pair described chloroforming the couple and stealing their valuables, detailing careful planning during two weeks of police custody.
Miss Hickman reports a taxi driver seized control of the car and forced four girls from the vehicle ending the plan. Policewoman Berkey led both to a nearby field where a buried knife was recovered and a chloroform handkerchief believed hidden there after the affair. The girls are in jail charged with conspiracy to commit lottery.
Des Moines July 19 Mrs Kendall’s condition remains unchanged but doctors expect to perform an operation today at Methodist hospital. The news came from hospital officials citing the patient’s doctors.
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