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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 27,000 with holdover 7,? and cattle receipts 10,000. Prices across hog and cattle categories listed with ranges for weights from light to heavy, plus sheep and lamb figures. Official yesterday totals include hogs 70,175 cattle 18,070 sheep 22,308 calves 3,338. Futures close note by Beach Wickham Grain.
A list of sale dates and locations across Iowa and nearby towns outlines several household, stock, and horse auctions from March 1 to March 10. Separately a Texas cotton pest originating in Laguna district Old Mexico threatens cotton growers, with eradication tied to stopping cotton planting for years.
A raucous anti prohibition comedy ends with a brawl that wrecks a bungalow used for filming The Kick in High Life at the Fox. Henry Lehrman and actors Al Ray Hugh Fay and Charles Conklin stage a wild melee smashing furniture and breaking plates as part of the production.
D. J. Rose relays a long letter from Mrs. Paul MacEachron of Pei Chow China detailing famine relief. She describes fund transfers, use of money for schooling, careful aid to only the destitute, Red Cross road building in Shan tung, and collaboration with American soldiers and marines assisting grain distribution and storage.
A speaker recalls asking household servants about inviting strangers into the home. They deny it, but later reveals that Paul led the intruders upstairs. The speaker cautions they cannot be overly friendly to avoid exposing children to contagion and illness.
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