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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1921
Page
2
Chicago July 26 domestic market notes show hogs and cattle receipts and price ranges. Estimated hogs 12 99 with holdovers 10 029. cattle receipts 9 000. prices span light to heavy weights with top around 11 30 for hogs and beef cattle from 4 25 to 9 75 for varying grades. Sheep receipts 14 000 with lambs and yearlings range and breeding ewes listed.
Chicago markets report July wheat at about 1.24 with mixed highs and lows, Sept and Dec futures near 1.23 to 1.27. Corn remains around 0.64 with steady tone. Cash grain shows steady tone for wheat and corn, with oats and yellow corn priced in current ranges. Livestock tomorrow projected at 17,000 cattle and 15,000 sheep.
Report shows hogs 46599 and calves 3501 in receipts, cattle 18473 and sheep 19427. Shipments list hogs 12037, cattle 3464, sheep 1255, calves 189. Totals reflect livestock trade activity across categories.
Two Henry County funerals, large scale and military, honored fallen WWI soldiers Bob Tribby and William Ackles. Tribby’s service drew thousands. American Legion post and 125 ex servicemen attended. Chaplain Williamson delivered the address as procession moved from city park to Forest Home cemetery.
Funeral details for Bob Tribby, a Mt. Pleasant native and World War I soldier, with line of march, pallbearers, chaplain, and firing squad. Tribby died September 13, 1918 from wounds in the St Mihiel battle after serving with Co K, 3rd Regiment, 42nd Division. He left a grieving family including parents, a sister Mrs Henry Gillis, and brothers Ray, Dale, Don, and Dwight.
The text describes Slav weddings where the bride is fetched by the groom as a relic of past forceful abductions. Albanian weddings require the bride to weep and resist leaving home. The groom must give a handsome dress to the bride to show guests the groom's taste.
The livestock market reports higher hog and cattle prices for the week ending July 16 with exports and domestic demand lifting values. Hog top prices reach the highest since March while cattle and lamb movements vary by region and weight class. Regional markets in Chicago Kansas City Omaha and East St Louis show mixed gains and tightening supplies.
In a National Geographic Society bulletin dated July 26 Washington reports Greenland the world’s largest island by area with about 800000 square miles and 15000 inhabitants. The article notes its Arctic climate sparse population and coast ice free fringe where Eskimos and Danes live amid glaciers and frost.
The clog almanac, a square wooden stick with day notches and festival symbols, was once common in parts of England. Even older are Scandinavian runic calendars carved on wood or bone, inscribed with runic letters.
A jumbled note from a reader at a Boston public library desk hints at a story about a youngster and a sale titled Twenty Thousand Lege Under the Sea. The maker, possibly misreading a Revere beach tale, adds confusion to the record.
Local directory entry lists W. S. Reister & Sons with contact number 116 for business inquiries and listings.
Cream Station Mutual advertises poultry and egg prices at 120 percent East Third Street and 110 East Washington Street. Fresh laid eggs per dozen, breasts and other poultry items priced per pound with various rates such as turkeys at 20 cents, old roosters 16 cents, ducks 16 1/2 cents, geese 18 cents, and hens at differing per weight rates. Local address and contact details provided.
The text argues that the key benefit of schooling is the habit of study not deformity. A trained mind enables solving life problems, while lack of training leads to bewilderment, and education provides comprehension.
Sioux City reports the temple contract let with a $274 600 bid from a Minneapolis company. Heating lighting and interior details will push the total near $460 000 for the quarter block site.
The author argues that publishing many unnecessary books is better than losing a single good one. He likens needless volumes to infertile seeds that vanish, while living books survive because readers seek and cherish them.
A college English literature exam note recalls a student whispering who wrote the first sonnets in England. The professor coldly answers Adam, prompting Chicago Journal to remark on the moment.
The note shows W S Gilbert declining a collaboration with an amateur composer who claimed to be born a composer despite training as a chemist. Gilbert quips he would have preferred a born chemist who became a mechanic, highlighting playful wordplay on professions.
Sunday visit to church ends with a child’s odd family moment. Donald tells his mother’s gift was a vickel and he placed it in the pope’s popper, prompting a humorous family recollection.
Mrs. George Tegarden of Moundsville West Virginia says two years of irregular monthly periods and pain vanished after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges other young women to try it and to write to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts if relief is not prompt.
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