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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1922
Page
2
Estimated receipts today 29 000 hogs with holdover 9 881 and top 10 90. Cattle receipts 60 0 market steady to strong top 9 75 steers to 9 90. Lambs 11 75 to 13 25 for 84 lb lambs. feeders and stockers listed. Official yesterday hogs 54500 cattle 23430 sheep 15077 calves 3824. Shipments 11982 5473. Grain tone unchanged with oats and corn prices given.
A bride in England completed her wedding as firefighters battled a blazing church. Despite the flames and smoke, she insisted on continuing the ceremony and was wed with sparks flying as the fire drained water from the surrounding flames.
A traveler from Aurora describes Labra dor offering rare facilities to view the aurora borealis. He recalls hearing the northern lights during rapid movement with a faint rustling sound.
In a small town mood, residents fear a bustling event on Main Street as rumor spreads of a show arriving for the evening. The scattered chatter questions whether this performance will surpass a prior, disappointing outing.
Dear Editor. The Spud Boys report life at Pine River after dinner letters home. They eat fish mostly and joke about cooking duties and a 15 pound pickerel misweighed by scales. Oscar photographs the catch and asks for alcohol preservation. A meeting relieves Bill from cooking duties.
The United States Geological Survey has issued a voluminous bulletin disputing the myth that a Y-shaped stick inverted over a successful well will turn over. The claim has been controverted for centuries according to the report.
The article describes widows and widowers who grieve twice daily for a year and fast every other day for a month, detailing funeral rites of head-hunting natives in Borneo.
The quotation argues dress shapes conduct and character. It suggests Germans with dirty boots and ill attire reflect a broader neglect of behavior, implying outward appearance signals inner discipline and manners.
An advertising merchant in Lennox South Dakota offers an unusually frank remark in a Transcript post saying they do not claim others are cheats or liars nor judge everyone by their own standards, reflecting a measured stance on honesty.
A Chicago widow hosted her ex husband for dinner and he delivered a check for alimony. She accepted it laughing and quipped that it felt like taxation without representation.
Chaigea Eph and Miegiwend Tines speak of repetition and sameness in a meadow, expressing local dialect views on daily life. Their dialogue hints at a shared weariness with the ordinary and a belief that events recur unchangingly.
Louisa County Farm Bureau notes urge farmers to watch for Hessian fly in wheat, noting 7 to 8 percent damage in some fields. Entomology experts advise crop rotation and delaying replanting this fall, with identification tips and a call to contact the County Agent for help.
Professor Morrison and Professor Harrison of Ames discuss keeping potato foliage green until frost with proper handling and spraying. They cite Bordeaux mixture for leaf hopper and lead arsenate for the potato beetle to maximize tuber yield. Also announces a Farm Bureau film program from June 19 to 30 featuring Poultry Raising Kinogram and a comedy Oh These Women.
The board of control reports a coal pinch from the strike with only two weeks of supply at some facilities. Fifteen carloads were bought in Kentucky for immediate delivery including ten carloads of western Kentucky mine run coal at 4.40 per ton and five cars of eastern Kentucky screenings at 3.50 per ton. Freight raises delivered cost. Eldora Industrial School is a main recipient. Also $3,500 will be spent to repair storm damage at Glenwood from a Tuesday tornado damaging buildings and fruit.
The article recalls Everett Hale opening a bank account with 45 cents. It notes that this small deposit represented a sizable sum at the time, illustrating how modest beginnings could grow into a substantial nest egg.
Wild elephants disrupt development work on Sumatra by repeatedly tearing up above ground pipelines through jungle. Gangs of men continually repair the damaged lines as the animals exhibit a persistent dislike for the pipes.
The American Forestry Magazine notes bloodroot as one of the earliest flowers to appear above last year’s leaf carpet. It is named for its reddish juice that exudes from stems and roots when damaged, a substance once used as war paint by aboriginal tribes.
Sunday afternoon events recount Mrs. Garden's refined social role in a piece titled From Latchkey Ladies by Mr. Grant. The description highlights a vivacious yet artificial persona, noted for frosty golden beauty and makeup restraint.
The text asserts that the European aboriginal man was Neanderthal and divides Caucasian stock into three invaders Aryan Alpine and Semite. It claims only the Aryan is European and describes early Aryans as blond savages in eastern Russia marshes, noting western Baltic regions were icebound then.
The novel excerpt follows the ex-engineer Cressley once a respected Las Vegas pioneer now a drunken outcast. He discovers a breached dam conduit endangering the town and races to warn and stop the flood, confronting his past and the Denton family's scorn as darkness falls.
A frantic man races through Las Vegas shouting a warning that the dam has burst. He encounters empty streets and closed houses as the torrent looms in the valley. He collapses on the riverbank, awaiting the flood.
A fragment describes a bride joyful at first then wailing that her idol has feet of clay. The text mentions tracks on a cornet and a character named Uncle Gil Blaa Jadee in a quoted exchange.
Paris June 20 The first aerial picnic on record will occur tomorrow with thirty five airplanes carrying France's famed pilots and air ministers and their wives. They will depart from Rue de Villacoublay Issy les Moulineaux and Toussus le Nobles at 11 30 am for a field at Tillieres sixty miles from Paris. A luncheon will be served in the open air from baskets on the planes.
Clifford Thorne of Washington Iowa former U S senate candidate will address the Marshall County Farm Bureau picnic at River View Park on Wednesday June 21 He will discuss the American Farm Bureau Federation work across forty six states Officials expect record attendance due to Thorne’s appearance and early season farm work completion
A short reflection urges judging others as we judge ourselves and showing generosity toward all. It argues that practicing kind thoughts toward everybody elevates the mind, overcomes petty jealousy, and enriches the inner nature, as noted in London Tit-Bits.
A fragmented account claims Christophe Colombus first suggested entrusting a message to the sea during a storm near Mundeien in February 140, describing a written statement of ventures hidden in a cask. The tale notes many messages cast into the ocean over centuries with little to show for them.
About a century ago the first permanent photographs were secured by a Frenchman named Niepce. In 1830 Niepce formed a partnership with Daguerre, whose name lives on in Daguerreotypes.
Des Moines June 20 Increases in premiums exceed the original offerings by 114000 bringing the final prize list to 118976.25. The final list covers horses cattle goats poultry agriculture horticulture textiles arts and education with trophies ribbons and cash prizes added in recent weeks. The boys and girls club department adds 8942.75 making the grand total 118976.25.
Evidence traces the piano to Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua in 1710 with harpsichord roots. Early English pianos emerged decades later built by German mechanics. The first American piano arrived in Boston in 1822, crafted by a firm that still produces the instrument after about a century.
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