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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1923
Page
2
Chicago May 2 1923 market report shows estimated receipts hogs 30000 cattle 9000 sheep 11000 with active fair to steady trading. Hogs top 8.40 priced 8.25 8.35 for 225 lb hogs and 7.90 8.20 for 250 lb butchers. beef steers strong to higher top 10.25. stockers strong. lambs 15.25 top, clipped lambs 11.75 12.65. Shipments and futures commentary follow with grain tone and tomorrow estimates.
The article traces early ring use in statuary such as Prometheus who wears a ring containing Caucasus to link him to bondage. It notes the ring as a symbol of restraint and links this idea to bishops and doctors once they signed independence to aid humankind.
A fragmented quote discusses how prientship yields prosperity while easing sorrow by shared burdens. It invokes Cicero and hints at a periodical reflection on social virtue and collective resilience amid adversity.
The Department of Agriculture issued a formal statement asserting that grain futures trading will not be halted by the Grain Futures Act as long as exchanges follow the law. Several exchanges are already compliant and the Chicago Board of Trade will cooperate in enforcing regulations. The statement rejects claims the law will close exchanges or hinder hedging and ordinary speculation while warning against manipulation or false information.
The Mohammedan and Hindu families in Kashmir for generations have taught their children that swimming is an ungentlemanly art. They argue that those who go often into the water run a risk of drowning.
The article advises timing for cluster bud spray in apples and pears within ten days when pink buds appear but before blossoms open. It details mixtures using liquid lime sulfur and arsenate of lead, with adjustments for dry lime sulfur, plus guidelines for plums, cherries, and peaches, and notes past Farm Bureau achievements in transportation rate reductions totaling hundreds of millions in savings for farmers.
The county schedules two soybean demonstrations this year on the A W Woodford farm in Clay township and in Seventy-Six township by J E Powell. Ten varieties including Early Brown Manchu Black Eye Brow and Peking will be grown with corn to compare maturity and value for hay silage hogging and other uses. A wool growers meeting Friday May 4 at the Farm Bureau Office with W G Warner to discuss grading marketing and cooperative shipping may form a pooled car plan. Last year pooled Iowa wool averaged 37.3 cents while speculators paid 28-32 cents.
Transportation department display highlights agency programs and policy goals. Officials preview infrastructure plans, funding priorities, and public outreach efforts across the department.
Iowa City May 2 Judge Rh E Popham ruled former state superintendent P C McClenahan did not violate laws by accepting $40 for lecturing at Johnson County teachers institutes. He held lectures were extra official duties, not duties of the office, not interfering with official work.
Sir Jagadis Clindra Bose of India invents an instrument called Cresogreph that makes visible the heartbeats or throblings of a growing plant as it expands. The device is described as delicate and capable of revealing the plant’s internal activity.
The Theater Francaise in Paris, home to the Comedie Francaise, is described as the world’s most famous theater. It was destroyed by fire in 1000 but rebuilt immediately, with the original building erected in 1782 and later greatly altered.
A speech extols American individualism as the core of politics and society, tracing its roots to pioneering work and equal opportunity. It argues against autocracy and socialism, urges steady devotion to reform through individual initiative, and calls for preserving liberty, responsibility, and service to safeguard a flourishing social order.
Two men killed and several wounded as communists clash with national military forces in Milan while attempting to stop railway workers from resuming duties. PMID: Associated Press reported from Rome on May 1.
Thomas Delany former prohibition director of Wisconsin received a two year prison term and a heavy fine after the U S circuit court of appeals denied a rehearing in the prohibition assault case.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions horse hides and pricing per pound with unclear context and missing details. The legible elements include a weight unit and reference to hides, suggesting a livestock or hide trade item. Further text is unreadable.
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