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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1919
Page
2
Chicago markets show active hog trading with prices up to 19.90 for bulk sales and top at 19.16 while heavy and light weights vary. Beef steers and butcher stock rise, cattle and calves show gains, and sheep demand strengthens with lambs and yearlings trading at higher levels.
Iowa City firm BE Wagner reports oats and corn futures with May and July prices mostly steady or up slightly. Cash market shows No 2 yellow corn at 1.53 to 1.56 and oats around 1.04 to 1.05 with slight gains, while white oats price quotes appear garbled in places.
New York March statement from St Mihn Reot advocating the league of nations covenant as published by the peace conference. He urges arbitration provisions with disarmament limits, five member guaranty to secure territorial stakes, and protection of American intercession in continental affairs. The speaker links approval to broader revisions of international law and covenant redrafting after a world war threat.
Journal notes healthy green wheat in heavy soils and general crop optimism. Oakland township farmers sell eggs worth nearly $800 claiming care and mixed breeds yield all summer and winter. Reports from Kankakee and Cleveland indicate strong corn and oats movements and shifting May July prices amid export discussions.
A nineteen year old Guernsey cow named Toldie achieved 7,234.2 pounds of milk and 357.3 pounds of butter fat in a Wisconsin contest. Feed for the year totaled 6,064 pounds of mixed hay and 1,420 pounds of mixed grains costing $86.01. If butter fat sold at 60 cents per pound, revenue would be $214.38, leaving a net profit over feed cost of $128.37.
The article argues that a competent farm hand with experience and self control is scarce and essential. Farmers increasingly use machinery to boost productivity but still need reliable human labor, especially for stock care. It suggests smaller family farms as a solution to labor challenges and outlines how farming may shift from a money-making enterprise to a family living model.
Washington March 31 The farm value of sweet potatoes has doubled in ten years and now ranks second to Irish potatoes in commercial importance. The U S Department of Agriculture has published Farmers Bulletin 999 Sweet Potato Growing, covering soil prep planting growth harvesting storage and marketing.
Friday and Saturday marked the first heat victories in grain markets for some time as Argentina boosts offerings. Springfield reports the purchase of 110,000 pules of corn overnight, indicating a liberal country movement and a reversal in farm markets.
A historical notice extols lamb for its healthfulness and strength-building qualities. It notes doctors prescribe its extensive use for convalescents and cites consistent New England housewife buying as evidence. The passage urges careful choice of lamb to avoid "woolly taste."
Since 1913 the USDA has led a nationwide effort against hog cholera with about 165 federal veterinarians. In 1918 over 5.5 million hogs were inoculated and 2,200 infected farms were cleaned and disinfected, while more than 15,000 farms were inspected to prevent outbreaks. The death rate fell to 42.1 per thousand, the nation’s lowest on record.
Period forecast for Des Moines covers March 31 to April 5. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys expect fair weather with rain midweek. Temperatures near or above normal.
Davenport police arrested Moses Allendi, Mexican saloon proprietor at 305 East Third Street, for bootlegging. Officers found twelve pints of whisky under the bar and peeper sized glasses. Allendi admitted the charge and awaits federal handling.
Webster City leaders drive the Victory loan effort with Dr. Effie McCollum Jones as state manager of the women publicity campaign and Mrs. F. E. Whitley guiding Iowa's federation clubs and national defense council.
A discussion of meat pricing and preparation shows how bones and fore quarters of mutton or lamb can be tender and flavorful when properly boned and rolled. It notes breeders improved flavor, and addresses complaints of woolly taste as avoidable with proper trimming.
An old advertisement urges spring cleaning of the body after winter indoors. Foley Cathartic Tablets are promoted to cleanse stomach and bowels and to tone the liver, offered for sale by Lemmon's Drug Store in a short advt.
Sheriff M. D. Myers and Deputy W. R. Milliman recovered the H. A. McManus car stolen from a garage near Orson. The vehicle had tires, cushions, oil tank and other fixtures removed, valued at 400 dollars, and was found in the hills about six miles from the McManus home.
Des Moines March 31 reports senate bills proposing a $10000 annual appropriation for the state board of health to fund investigations and to promote sanitary measures and fight epidemics including influenza. A second bill seeks $5000 for an annual horticultural exhibition under the state horticultural society.
Sioux City Iowa reports more than 100 boys victimized by Stanley Rybsky a male nurse at a local hospital and E M Grant a wholesale clerk who posed as a Christian youth worker. Both are under arrest as investigations by F W Woolworth the boy scout executive are released.
The Spencer News Herald reports F. A. Corey of Algona threatens to leave the state unless better roads are built. The Algona Advocate notes he owns seven houses in Algona and will sell them if the Iowa legislature does not start a definite movement for road improvements.
Article notes that Martin Van Buren, the eighth president, was the first born after the country declared independence from England, and that John Tyler was the first born after the formation of the United States.
Gail Cooper, who was convicted in 1916 for a crime involving another man and a bleary night of liquor near New Market, has received a full discharge by the parole board dating from March 18, 1919 after being on parole since March 38, 1918. The case drew county attention as the victim Goldie Reeves was declared feeble minded and the crime led to a life sentence. Cooper’s co-defendant Lon Casteele served a one year sentence and has since completed it. Cooper’s parole is now final.
A newspaper ad invites readers to mail 5 cents to Foley Co. in Chicago for a trial package of Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold by Lemmon's Drug Store.
Eldora will celebrate the Fourth of July for the first time in years at a countywide event. The Eldora Commercial Club approved the plan to invite all returned soldiers and feature a four-war delegation: Mexican War Civil War Spanish-American War World War I. The celebration aims to be the biggest and best in the county’s history.
The jury ruled for Oscar Ruff company in its damage suit against Western Iowa company. Ruff wins 71532.74 for losses from the Hedges building collapse that killed 39 people. Ruff operated a drug store and was trapped eight hours under the ruins.
In Cedar Falls on March 31 a 19 year old, Axel Damm, son of Mrs Andrew Damm, ten miles west of town, was reported in critical condition with the so called sleeping sickness. He had battled influenza this winter and was slowly improving before the new illness struck.
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