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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1923
Page
2
May 1 1923 Chicago reports show hogs receipts estimated 25 000 cattle 12 000 beef steers uneven prices stockers and feeders firm lambs and sheep values mixed. Market tone active with higher grain notes and steady to higher cash bids across corn oats wheat markets from Beach Wickham Grain Co.
About 200 boys attended a week opening secular program at High 1 on Monday afternoon. Dr W W Bowers Al Eldridge and A R Miller spoke on topics including The Boy and Religion and the call to attend Sunday school. Eldridge praised religion and Scout ideals while urging boys to live justly and humbly with God.
Brighton reports two deaths yesterday afternoon a 78 year old man and a five year old boy. Karl Kessel died after a brief illness and leaves four daughters and seven sons. Harvey Johnson died from scarlet fever and will have a family burial due to quarantine with a private grave service tomorrow at 2 30.
Frank Young of Crawfordsville is in town on a business trip today. He will meet local executives and discuss potential deals and partnerships during his visit.
Marion Davies stars as Princess Mary in the Cosmo metropolitan epic When Knighthood Was in Flower at the Fox Theatre for a two day run. The production features regal crowds, knights in armor, and a central romance with Charles Brandon. Robert G. Vignola directs, Lyn Harding is King Henry VIII, and Theresa Conover Maxwell portrays the queen. The film is praised as lavish and costly, with three studios used in filming.
In Tokio on April 8 the Associated Press reports that since last spring about 100000 workers from 20 large factories have been discharged. More layoffs are planned this summer from the Tokio and Osaka arsenals and other government offices, signaling a steady rise in unemployment through the first half of the year.
Mrs. Charlotte Bennett, 99, a Michigan pioneer and reputed sole surviving mother of a Civil War veteran in the state, says the world is not worse than in her girlhood. She laments declining neighborliness but holds that today’s people remain as virtuous, noting each generation has faults and redeeming features.
Mrs. Alice D. Davis of Jamestown New York says she recovered from nervousness backache and fatigue after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in liquid and tablet forms and Pinkham's Sanative Wash. She recommends the medicine to other women and notes managing a rooming house during the Change of Life.
The chair urges all fathers to stay home this evening and invest time in their sons. It cites historical figures who accomplished early achievements to stress the value of father son companionship and planned, purposeful time together.
The government filed proceedings in St. Paul at Attorney General Dougherty’s request to end operations of a western lumber manufacturing association of about fifty companies. The petition alleges the group is a combination and conspiracy restraining interstate trade and commerce in lumber.
Winnipegged report states Jujiro Wada, famed Japanese prospector and musher, arrived back from Herschel Island after a solitary 2500 mile trek with five dogs. He has long courted danger, once narrowly escaping a lynch mob of gold hunters in Alaska.
The article notes that maps were introduced to England in 1489 by Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, marking a notable moment in early cartography.
A historical price list details per unit charges for butter eggs and poultry including cream graded by quality. Items include cream first and second grade rates, various hen weights, leghorn hens, springs from 1922 3 hatch, old roosters, geese, pigsons, beef hides and worse hides with per pound or per item figures. The document reflects a regional market listing from a mutual creamery.
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