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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1920
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hogs receipts 32000 with holdover 206. cattle 12000. sheep 8000. Detailed price ranges listed for hogs, veal calves, butcher cattle, feeder and stocker cattle, lambs, ewes, and hog receipts of 22029 cattle 7217 sheep 8997 calves 2822 with shipments 4223 4209 1910 253.
Grain futures prices listed by E W Wagner & Co Iowa City show 144 cars of corn with a 2 cent off, 72 cars of oats with a 1 cent off, and October Clover at 24 45.
Hart-Parr 15 30 Tractors advance $100 April 1 and Sam son Tractors advance $20 April 1. Would you place your order at once as stock on hand remains at old price. Mason's, Authorized Agents at Washington, Iowa.
Miss Gladys Deacon of Boston, sister of Princess Radziwell, wins $500 damages and costs from the Daily Graphic for a libelous article published January 1. The article claimed she was banished from Germany and linked to the crown prince. editors apologized and stated no foundation.
March sales listed for L. L. Twinam S Sands Marie Carkuff and B F Boling. Weaver Gardner Shorthorn sale at Uppermill Farm near Wapello set records with an average over 2000 and top prices 6700 for Village's Robin and 5000 for Villager's Marigold. One calf sold to Uruguay. herd highly regarded nationally. sale held in a large tent marked a historic event.
Des Moines readies a grand cattle pavilion for the 1920 Iowa State Fair. The 820 by 445 foot barn will shelter 1600 cattle under one roof and include a 1000 seat sale ring plus dining, sleeping, offices, and herdsmen lounges. The legislature budgeted 150000, but costs rose to about 180723 by Jan 1 1920, prompting lighting and plumbing cutbacks.
Reports from the Bureau of Markets of the USDA indicate a plentiful seed supply this spring, with price declines for many seeds including cabbage carrot onion spinach and turnip seeds. Garden seed sales to home gardeners rise in most regions while eastern center prices drop due to labor shortages on truck farms.
Records from W. J. Todd, local manager of the Farmers Union Shipping Association, show ninety days of shipments totaling 5 000 hogs and 472 cattle. Returns to local farmers amount to 252 953 13 dollars, just over a quarter of a million.
Readers are urged to send or call in farm related notices to the Journal office. Shipments of stock public sale prices or any special farm activity items are especially welcome due end of day.
More than two thousand Arkansas hogs are shipped to Washington DC by the Stephens brothers from Ainsworth and Mammoth Springs. They collected 3200 feeders weighing 75 to 125 pounds and sold six carloads to other buyers with the rest sent to Ainsworth. Each herd shows rapid gains though care was needed to condition them before shipment.
A Pathe Special Feature premieres Saturday for a two day run. The Thirteenth Chair is a screen adaptation of Bayard Veiller Broadway hit with stars Yvonne Delya Creighton Hale and others. Critics hail it as a superb mystery with a gripping, unresolved crime.
Classified snippet lists hide prices including beef at 66 cents per pound calf hides by the pound and horse hides priced per item. The fragment suggests a miscellaneous commodities listing from a market page.
Marcus Kuhn produces the Rotary Hog Feeder with patents and plans to expand as demand grows. The self feeding machine, built in the former Bick ford harness shop near the post office, delivers grain with an iron casting that triggers portions as the hog eats. kohal
In the final scenes the entire mystery is resolved in simple terms. The theater urges audiences to attend the final run of The Thirteenth Chair with confident appeal.
Rural Route Three notes include visits between Knotek and Shalla households and Carris family movements. Edith Carris met her grandmother in West Chester, while the Andersons welcome a baby girl. Local livestock updates mention nine pigs shipped to Chicago averaging 231 pounds and concerns over lung fever in horses.
Des Moines reports a state fund drive to contribute 5000 toward a 250000 Marne battlefield monument praised as Americas gift to France. George Cosson chairs the Iowa committee with John Blair as treasurer, while county committees recruit public support and pennies are valued as highly as dollars.
A lesser known southern belief holds that evil follows if you touch large patches of brown froth on stumps and rotten logs called snake spittle.
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