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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts today about 11 600 with holdover 9 567. Cattle receipts around 1 500 and sheep 2 009. Prices mostly steady with top hogs near 16 66 and heavy weights 14 50 to 15 88, calves and bulls list varied. Official figures show yesterday totals Hog 22 337 Cattle 282 Sheep 7 065 Calves 1 069 with shipments across hogs and cattle components.
Market brief notes corn futures activity with modest gains and slight volatility. Prices show opening, daily highs and lows, with percentage changes indicating small upticks amid mixed trading.
Cedar Township seeks a road superintendent with a team and tractor and grader experience. Bids due by noon on the 19th, 1920. We reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Milo J. Shalla Township Clerk Wellman Iowa n. R. 4.
A collage of quips and cartoons mentions jokes about cars, doctors, attire, and military life from multiple papers. The putative humor highlights include a chauffeur joke, a physician misdiagnosis tale, a skirt and laundress pun, and a doughboy exchange about a sunrise punishment.
The first savings bank of America opened in Gesten on December 1 1818, with a Philadjhin Savings Fund society established the same year. The third such institution in America started in New York in 1811, while the first regular savings bank in Hamburg Germany began in 1778 and the second in Bern Switzerland 116 years ago. The fifth regular savings bank in Great Britain opened in Edinburgh 105 years ago.
Journal notes farm department sales dates at What Cheer and Riverside plus a proposal to host a district Duroc maturity show in this city. Washington County Breeders’ Assn president Carlson reports National Duroc Association offers 200 dollars to help raise 50 dollars. Ten Duroc herds urged with pigs born Sept 1 1919 to Mar 1 1920. Show to include boars sows and litters of four, possibly expanding to other breeds and poultry over three or four days.
Washington business men commit 5000 dollars toward a stock pavilion to be built on recently purchased lots near the Rock Island freight depot. Breeders add another 5000 dollars, with more than twenty purebred sales expected next season. Estimated cost 12000 to 15000 dollars, promising good dividends and local convenience. A county subscription drive follows the city campaign.
Thirty Saline county cattle feeders adopt detailed record keeping to track every pound of feed and labor. E R Keller and the USDA assist, with a spring cattle feeder’s day planned to showcase methods and results.
Des Moines report shows Iowa farmers hold 166,100,000 bushels of corn on hand, 35,000,000 more than a year ago, with 40 percent of the 1919 crop still on farms and 28 percent shipped out. Oats, wheat, barley figures follow, with overall farm value gains from lower to higher quality lands.
Mr and Mrs Alonzo Lovejoy of Iowa Falls are contenders for the longest rural mail service. Lovejoy began on Route 4 out of Alden nineteen years ago and has missed only six days, three from accidents and three from illness. Mrs Lovejoy has substituted for other carriers. Route 4 was 27 5 miles and later extended by two miles. A pending congress bill could grant a pension. Lovejoy, 67, says he is good for several more years.
A short verse featuring locust trees for shade and memory. The speaker notes aging and hardship as the poem moves through scenes of youth Dick throwing stones, Agnes with rheumatic pains, Grinny Bob begging, Jenny and Will walking together, and a warning of war. Parson’s approach and old men’ silence close the piece.
In Monroe Iowa on March 12 election, appointed judges failed to appear at 1 pm. The secretary learned they were busy and could not act, so no voting occurred by default. Only two positions were to be filled and the current two members were the only candidates.
Des Moines dispatch highlights W. H. Bender directing a threefold program in Home Economics Trades and Industries and a county supervised Agricultural Education. The effort spans five counties with winter schools, farm visits, and a unique student program for twelve weeks. It notes prison reform gains under Warden Perkins at Fort Madison and a Miami-style theater program. Naval band visits Camp Dodge boosting morale with cadets marching through the base.
A Washington dispatch summarizes Iowa's World War casualties and prisoners from the American expeditionary forces. The official War Department tally lists officers and men killed in action wounded or captured with figures for each category and status including deaths from disease accident and other causes.
The market reports show a sharp drop in the New York egg market by 12¢ per dozen with weak butter and lower hides and furs. Poultry remains in good condition while culling flock remains advised. fur season closes March 15, urging on-hand stock sales.
Workers finish exterior work on the capital extension and near completion of the new heating tunnel. A coal vein was uncovered while grading to heat the state house for years, with spring landscaping to follow. The State Board of Health struggles to enforce influenza quarantine, as some physicians report cases only under euphemistic terms.
The text notes J L Millner as the Democrat candidate for Idaho governor and cites governors linked to Cass, Marion, Jasper, and Dallas counties. It references the Bill Haywood gang and mentions past residences of governors in various Iowa counties and states.
James W. Gilmore of Shenandoah Iowa and Mrs Capitola Bristow a store clerk in Omaha changed her religious belief to that of the man who proposed marriage to her to ensure harmony at the ceremony. The wedding was planned soon after Haster 1919 but details remain unclear.
J B Renoux of Washington says Doan s Kidney Pills eased his back and kidney symptoms after an accident and cold worsened his condition. He reports reliable relief and urges others to try the 60 cent remedy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
Mr. Gilmore reversed course and Mrs. Bristow files a dust claim for 20 000 in the Federal court at Cornell Bluffs.
Insurance men pursue $115000 against three firms in federal court at Sioux City over G G Knaack’s death. Knaack was found dead in a lake near his car. he had recently secured $250000 in life coverage. Companies named are Travelers of Hartford, North American Accident Insurance, and Federal Life.
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