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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
2
Chicago July 20 estimated receipts hogs 29 000 cattle 10 000 sheep 17 000. Market steady to 5 lower on better grades with top beef steers 10 85 and lambs 13 50. Receipts today hogs 23 452 cattle 10 887 sheep 15 632 calves 1 643. shipments hogs 6 777 cattle 3 573 sheep 4 292 calves 6
In Benton Harbor Michigan on July 2 two Chicago sisters M rs Minnie Wagenun and Mre Nicholas Engele drowned after a Lake Champlain incident. Two more Chicago sisters Frieda Cohn aged twenty and Pearl Cohn aged fourteen perished at Triem Pier on Lake Michigan as their siblings’ lives ended in a summer resort disaster. Their seven year old sister Minnie was saved by an eighteen year old brother as parents watched.
Chief Justice and Mrs Taft return from England and rest at their Murray Bay summer home in Quebec He notes improved British trade prospects while British merchants face post war challenges with courage and vigor A Cheyenne young woman bids farewell to Wyoming troops as relatives in the regiment are cited and a humorous exchange follows about the war effort and gas attacks
National League results show Chicago and Brooklyn ahead with 6 to 2 and 7 to 6 wins respectively while Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 5, New York 5, Cincinnati 2, St Louis 7, Boston 6 appear in the mix. American League scores list Chicago 5 Boston 0 and Detroit 5 New York 1 with Philadelphia and St Leo Washington noted in the muddled lines.
Washington July 20 The progressive pendulum moved again as Kt. B Howell won the Republican senatorial nomination in Nebraska. The result joins a string of progressive successes from Beveridge in Indiana to Pinchot in Pennsylvania Brookhart in Iowa and Frazier in North Dakota.
In Washington on July 28 Senator Gooding Republican and chairman of the farm tariff bloc asserted that 3,400,000 unemployed plus 1,000,000 “floaters” who would not work reflect overproduction and overemployment fueling economic and industrial disturbances.
The Hague July 20 the non Russe commission approved the Russian delegates proposal that Russia be allowed to negotiate directly with foreigners on compensation for confiscated property and with bondholders for settlement of the Russian debt a resolution said the proposal would create a favorable atmosphere and serve as a basis for further negotiation.
A New York syndicate seeks gold in the Belgian Congo after a National Geographic bulletin notes rumors of vast riches drew early explorers. Golden pebbles in a central Congo stream are described as scoopable by the handful and spurring mining interest.
Louisa County Farm Bureau notes describe Sudan grass as a green, summer pasture for dairy cows and hogs, with Brockway’s Letts farm cited as a successful example. It covers planting timing, seeding rate of 20 pounds per acre, drilling versus broadcasting, care to prevent rank growth, and benefits during July August. The column also covers keeping potatoes green through spraying, a soy bean variety test plot near Wapello, and a community meeting with a farm bureau orchestra and movie slate for mid July.
Des Moines July 20 secretary A RK Corey announced the final entry dates for the state fair. August 1 is the last day for registering cattle horses swine sheep and goats with no entries after. Aug 14 closes agriculture graphic and plastics and baby health. Aug 22 closes culinary honey dairy horticulture floriculture textile and china. Exhibitors tickets and tags may be mailed until Aug 21. Over 1000 horse entries already received and overall registrations expected to surpass prior years.
Copious to excessive rains drenched all but extreme northern and western counties. Damage reported across Black Hawk, Boone, Cerro Gordo, Fayette, Greene, Polk, Story and Wright. Harvesting delayed, grain beaten down, and some oats and corn impacted. later dry spell to aid drying. New anti bandit gun noted in New Jersey.
Dr J B Craft led a two day educators course on swine diseases and vaccination with forty nine county farmers attending. Examinations for vaccination permits will be issued in about three weeks while reports of results are awaited. A humorous note about a student’s spelling ends the piece.
Local disease influenced by constitutional conditions and treated with a two part remedy. An ointment provides quick relief by local application while the internal tonic acts through the blood to clear mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over 40 years in Toledo Ohio.
More than 1,000 civilians from midwest states will attend a Fort Des Moines August program. The reserve officers training school opened with 200 officers from the 66th cavalry, 89th infantry and an air squadron from Fort Riley. Training covers air service, artillery, cavalry and infantry with about fifteen planes from Fort Leavenworth. A rifle shoot for national guardsmen runs four days under Major Hurd. The Iowa National Guard encampment will be held at Camp Dodge August 14 to 28, with a new swimming pool ready for use and preparations led by Adjutant General Lasher.
Bonaparte Iowa July 20 a massive rattlesnake said to be the largest in the area was killed Monday by L R Cummings on a farm near Bonaparte. The snake had twenty rattles and a button after being shot with a shotgun. Local reports indicate few rattlesnakes appear yearly but this specimen is regarded as the king of snakes for southeastern Iowa.
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