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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1922
Page
2
Chicago market notes show estimated receipts for hogs at 16 000 and cattle at 5 000 with holdovers 7 074. Beef and pork prices vary by weight and grade from common to prime, with top hogs around 10.35 and beef steers to 9.40. Wheat and grain futures follow steady tone with corn and oats trading modestly. Tomorrow's estimates call for hogs 24 000 cattle 8 000 sheep 14 000.
Former Nebraska official Howard warned the senate and house committees about the water power trust during a Florence chamber of commerce talk. He claimed Henry Ford would gain the nation’s leadership if Muscle Shoals is not allocated to him, attacking the Alabama Power Company and water power interests in Alabama and Nebraska.
London reports a tentative end to the threatened lockout as representatives of the engineering trades unions agree to accept employers proposals as a basis for renewed negotiations. The move signals a temporary pause in industrial tensions and a path toward settlement.
Osceola March 29 Sheriff West returns with Slim Weisgerber to face murder charges in Murray C W Jones death from Oct 19. In Camden Geo Weisgerber bragged of eight murders and thirty seven robberies across Iowa Kansas Missouri and claimed to be last of Eddie Adams gang responsible for late Santa Fe robbery. He admitted killings beyond count.
Edna Sondreau known by multiple aliases is under arrest in St Paul for alleged fraudulent claims on soldiers allotments. She faced a Mason City official and a former navy sailor Merritt, with accusations tying her to a conspiracy with Arthur Savern. Police assert she profited from soldiers' allotments while traveling in high profile hotels.
The article outlines correct flag display: banner hung with union in the upper left corner, stripes vertical with union in the right corner, and rope or treetop setups directing the union toward the east or north depending on street orientation. It also notes a house rope scenario with the union facing the street.
Proper storage in a dry airy place improves coal burning. Avoid close poorly ventilated cellars as lack of air traps gas and wastes fuel.
The Louisa County Farm Bureau schedules an all day session on April 1 with Mr Don Fish Assistant County Agent Leader instructing members on current work and policies of national state and local Farm Bureaus. The meeting invites members to bring wives and families and expects a garden planning segment and hot coffee.
A major Lee county farm meeting is set for March 80 with all farm bureau matters to be discussed. Don Fish from Ames will discuss New Year plans. The issue also reports plans to test sweet potatoes as a paying crop with R H Porter from Iowa State College and five bushels of Yellow Jersey seed. Alfalfa expansion is urged by agent T R Miner with nurse crop Timothy and recent trials in central and northern Iowa. County farmers Wm Watenauer and G C Hamm travel to Wisconsin to buy dairy cattle.
Instructions describe a potato treatment using formaldehyde in water to prevent scab and advise planting on clean ground. A Farm Bureau play by Grace Tripp of Kent Union County is praised for inspiring thrift and legislation amid high costs. Cylinder elevator joins U S Grain Growers Inc with local farmers backing the move to market grain through the new agency.
Emmetsburg, Iowa report shows Palo Alto County agent Fred F Clark urges farmers to treat seed potatoes before cutting and planting. He outlines two methods hot and cold with the hot method using formaldehyde in water at 122 degrees for disinfection.
Plymouth county hosts a five day nutrition and tree pruning demonstration led by C B Holland and Miss Dorothy Taylor. Sessions in five townships cover pruning fundamentals and supervised work while Miss Taylor oversees meals and nourishment planning. A large April meeting with BE Cunningham of the State Farm Bureau as speaker is planned, and county breeders favor an expanded fair to include crops and club work.
It is reported that about 65 000 pounds of coral, valued at sT00000, are taken annually from Japan’s coral beds. Divers perform the harvest with a master diver grading the coral as it is divers’ breveted. Wholesale firms maintain inspectors to bid on the color graded corals, with bake pale quince color considered most valuable followed by pink white light red and dark reel.
Des Moines realtors and bankers report Iowa farm land values rising from $25 to $35 an acre due to corn and livestock gains. statewide average values hover around $194 an acre in January, up from 155 in 1916 but below 1920 peaks. Prices show regional variation with Lynnville farms selling near 1919-1920 highs, while overall activity remains limited to about 5 or 6 percent of land sold in 1919.
Forest City Iowa March 29 Alphonse Naert of Buffalo Center after 160 days in jail must pay the federal government 5238 69 for illegal liquor operations. At January term he pleaded guilty to operating a liquor nuisance and was fined 500 with three months in jail. Internal revenue records show lens notices for 5231 69 against Naert under federal prohibition penalties.
A Pittshurch man breaks his leg chasing a skunk, illustrating Providence and the consequences of human folly as discussed in the Boston Globe Transcripts commentary.
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