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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1919
Page
2
Chicago markets show mixed cattle hogs and sheep with steady to higher tones. Hogs top 19.50 with varied classes, calves and cows range widely, and lambs demand steady with feeders improving slightly amid large receipts and shipments.
Furnished by E W Wagner Co Iowa City Iowa 3 B Hunt Manager Phone 726 Prices show oats and corn with high and low values and changes. Cash and futures figures reflect car counts and slight declines with clover noted in the closing line.
Chicago March 14 Four automobile bandits fled the Metropolitan State Bank on West Thirty fifth street after a fierce gun battle with employees. Cashier William Bigel led the defense and was seriously wounded. An unidentified woman bystander was also wounded. The robbers failed to take about 25000 from the vaults at opening.
Next week sale programs list March 18 in What Cheer Poland China sale and March 20 public sale near Washington with closing out sales March 21 near Brighton. J K Dunn sale at Wyman brought strong prices for horses and machinery and a large crowd enjoyed refreshments. Mahaska County organizes a county sheep association as part of the state group, aiming to improve marketing and husbandry. government reports show wheat waste and harvest savings from conservation.
Farm service days in Washington county drew about fifty attendees per session despite poor roads. Speakers were Mr. Deem and Mr. Galloway with county agent Fedderson. Meetings shifted from Ainsworth to Crawfordsville West Chester Wellman and Brighton. Washington morning session canceled. Brighton show interest in a cooperative elevator and farmers discussed keeping permanent farm records. Two feeding systems for fowls were described as dry-feed and mash.
New York reports indicate tenor Enrico Caruso will settle his 1918 income tax of 153 433.70 at the second district collector’s office. He paid 33 483.42 as an installment using the installment plan. Clerks estimated around 7 000 000 collected in income taxes Wednesday.
Washington March 14. Secretary Wilson after conference with immigration officials and attorneys for the aliens has reached a decision to proceed with deportation of seven of the forty eight aliens now held at Blix inland.
Tight bottom racks saved unexpected quantities of shattered grain and point to broader gains. The demonstration shows conserving small wastes boosts bread supply and farmers' incomes, saving spilled oats and corn, tankage on muddy hog feet, and hay losses from poor mangers.
A Tennessee boy invested $50 in a purebred gift pig in May 1918 and now shows profits of $587.35. He farrowed seven pigs, sold part for $133 to buy a high quality breeding boar, and won grand champion at the East Tennessee Division Fair with $87 in prizes. His animals are valued at $525, total earnings $745, minus $157.65 in feed, net $587.35.
The city home garden movement argues that tending vegetables offers daily outdoor activity for indoors bound business people. A short daily cultivation period relaxes the mind and provides healthful muscle exercise.
A short essay extols home gardening as an affordable pastime, noting hoe and rake costs under a golf outfit and a nine hole course can fit in a city yard. It argues modern Americans neglect play, urging quiet work in the garden as recreation for all ages.
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