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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
5
The piece highlights Herbert Hoover advocating domestic market expansion as key to American agriculture. It notes tariff protection to raise domestic production of wool sugar and oils, reducing export dependence, and argues a growing population requires more dairy and beef, with profits higher if domestic demand drives pricing.
A profile of Joseph Henry Warren known as Warren the Seed Man. Born in Illinois, he moved to Iowa, then Washington, where he ran a grocery briefly before turning to seeds. He touts seed quality, tests varieties, and promotes his flower and vegetable seed business with public enthusiasm.
June 15 reports heavy rain across Coppock and nearby towns. Farmers fear river rise while crops look good and a food harvest is hoped. Local residents—Simpson, Hesser, Hess, Nicola, McKune, Stone, and others—visited, fished, or hosted gatherings as rain persisted through Sunday.
Charlie Scranton and Mr. Mc Connell plowed corn for A. B. Carr last week. Earl Perry works for Ed Simmering. Ed Simmering lost a valuable horse Tuesday. Mrs. Everett Palmer, operated on at Washington County Hospital about two weeks ago, was getting along fine in the last report.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Fulton visited Elmer Cherry and Hal Fiegans near Pichmond to see Everett’s brother. Porters hosted Johnny Freeland and Fern of Macon at dinner with Frank Bandy Sr. and Jr. Donald Phillips’s son stayed with grandparents J. N. and Mrs. Phillips. Briley family and Charles Cherry joined Decoration Day at Columbus Junction for supper with C. W. Hannan. Gerald Carris of Keota stayed with his Pringle relatives this week.
Lloyd Humston hosted a gathering Tuesday evening while a large crowd attended Monday’s tent show and the strawberry and ice cream social in Ben Briley pasture. Residents recall manager Peter Aiey from past years as Parsons College marked its 50th anniversary in Fairfield.
In London on May 20 Lord Balfour chairs a British Academy committee gathering scholars to replace tens of thousands of books destroyed in Tokyo by the earthquake. Already 12,000 volumes have been donated and the government has allotted 125000 dollars for more purchases.
President Coolidge appoints Robert B. Olds of St. Paul as assistant secretary of state in a June 17 announcement. Olds previously served in the state department and will assume duties promptly.
Richard Dix stars as Geoffrey Farnell a World War I veteran newspaper reporter in A Man Must Live at the Fog Theater Jacqueline Logan leads Dix’s supporting cast with Edna Murphy also in a key role The film adapts Jungle Law by I A R Wylie and marks Paul Slothe’s directorial debut as a motion picture director
Cloyce Huston of Crawfordsville a 1922 University of Iowa graduate has been named an assistant in the Cairo consular office. He has taught at the University of Cairo for three years and will begin July 1. After one year of service he will return to America for the consular and diplomatic service exam. Huston was editor in chief of The Daily Iowan during his last year at Iowa.
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