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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1949
Page
12
No Calendar Needed a Square Circle column recounts spring signs such as seed catalogs busy seed beds chick season and new gear. Farmers prepare for hogs and corn while homes brighten with cleaning bedding and shelf paper. Local residents attend a basketball tourney and offer condolences to the Piper family.
Modern farming demands enhanced expertise across crops, livestock, and technology. The shift toward precision farming drives need for training in data use, machinery, and sustainable practices to boost yields and efficiency.
A breezy Sunday scene celebrates spring as a personified season enters with energy. The text mocks officialdom and hints at a looming March lien, noting the season’s brisk wardrobe and the public’s cautious welcome.
A story describes a rainfall disaster that decimated a flock. Afterward a farmer asks his wife how many chickens remain, she answers that adding 4 percent 4 and one fifth equals 47, implying a math puzzle to deduce the original flock size.
Abe Martin muses on the city’s characters as Aur Sarah jokes about honesty and dressing, a Hollywood note about appearances, and a clerk named George who pretends to be too busy to help move a desk. Jean encounters a desk request met with a yawning excuse.
A casual note recalls Grandma babysitting the other afternoon. The storyteller hints at a lively account forming about the busy scene and the bustle of small chores and care.
A 525 pound Angus feeder calf lot sold for 26.55 per hundredweight at a Wednesday stock sale in Columbus Junction. Martha Butler reports the event.
March 16 stock sale reports light weight Angus steers and heifers around 400 pounds fetching about 25.80 per hundredweight. Feeder cattle ranged from 22.50 to 24.50, choice young cows 19.50, broad sows 65 to 96 per head, and feeder shoats 22.50 to 27 per head. Klotz and Duncan handled both sales.
Seoul reports five members of a communist underground group arrested for the shooting death of Mrs. Horace H. Underwood, 60, wife of a prominent educator. Police chief Kim Tai Sun said the gun used by the killers is expected to be found soon after a meeting of faculty wives at Chosen Christian University.
An advertisement for a waterproof baby sheet named KOOLEEZ claims it stays smooth after many washes and resists odors. It is nylon reinforced, tear resistant, and available in three sizes for bed bassinet crib or carriage. Sold in Golden KOOLEEZ packages at Phillip's Baby Needs Department.
In St Louis negotiators said some progress was made in direct talks to end a seven day walkout by four operating Brotherhoods against the Wabash railroad. Joseph A. McClain Jr. said grievance cases are being whittled down and the union may decide when to return workers. W C Lash suggested an early end could be near. An official report will go to the presidential fact finding board at 2 p.m.
Mrs. Underwood and her husband Horace Underwood, president emeritus of the university, reside in a secluded area outside Seoul where authorities reported a distant, quiet scene on Thursday.
The article notes that more than 30 million people own cars in the United States and over 50 million Americans drive. It highlights a broad, expanding base of vehicle usage across the nation.
Mothers hear good news on babies with KOOLEEZ Baby Pants touted as waterproof comfortable and stretchy in one latex seamless piece They claim easy washing in ten seconds and fit by weight with no chafing or tearing available in white or flesh under Philips Baby Needs department at sixty nine cents in golden KOOLERZ packages.
Waterloo, Mar 22 UPI A county attorney said more arrests may follow stemming from charges against a committee chairman in the national guard stag party investigation Delman Bowers of Waterloo pleaded innocent to 10 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and was released on 100 dollar bond Bowers chaired the Battery B stag party held March 14 where tickets were sold to high school boys who reportedly saw indecent films and drank liquor.
Bill Odom’s Honolulu to Teterboro nonstop solo flight was declared by the National Aeronautic Association as the longest nonstop solo flight in any type of plane and a distance record for light airplanes.
The 4957.24 mile flight will be recorded as official after the National Bureau of Standards checks instruments aboard Odoma's Beech Bonanza and the NAA certifies the results to the Federal authorities.
Well fed birds do not die of cold, in spite of severe weather conditions. Starvation is the chief factor in winter bird losses.
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