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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1919
Page
2
Weather outlook for the period May 5 to 10 calls for fair conditions across the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys with low temperatures and occasional frost likely during the stretch.
Chicago markets report estimated receipts for hogs 35000 and cattle 19000 with lambs at 12000. Prices show uneven gains 25 to 50 cents, heavy weights and feeders firm, beef steers and calves up to 25 higher, lambs mostly higher with top around 20.50.
Furnished market notes show corn at 138 cars with tone and 1.72 to 1.72 percent. No 3 YC moves from 1. to 1.72 percent. No 3 W advances to 71 or 72 percent. October clover priced at 19.8.
A terse reflection notes that no human is perfect and even the best must submit thoughts and actions to law or risk severe punishment, as Montaigne muses about justice, restraint, and moral discipline.
The John E. Griffith sale totaled 8995.00 with 56 head sold, 48 females and bulls, 8 unsold. Most buyers were in Washington county, top cow $327.50 to L. J. Smith, top bull $207.60, prices rising on aged stock.
Phone 116 Mutual 12 W S Reister sons report April month record egg production in Washington county with 168000 dozen eggs worth 62160.00 while other produce costs 5228.97 and labor 2408.25 totaling 69797.22. Current prices offered are eggs 29 cents per dozen cream butter fat rise per pound 24 cents hens and roosters 24 cents per pound and old cocks 1 0 cents per pound.
The site claims to reduce digestible carbohydrate costs and raise farm earnings. It asserts easier work, greater storage, increased cow production, and richer farms, leading to more pleasure and profit from labor.
The State Agricultural college extension warns eggs now cost about 40 cents a dozen and can be preserved to be indistinguishable from fresh next winter. Infertile eggs are best for preserving. a $15.6 million annual loss from spoilage is noted. Water glass is recommended with guidance available from county agents.
A railway motor car struck a large rock placed on the Rock Island track near Millerton at noon. George Hart was killed and Foreman Chapman Oliver Hawkins and John Clark were badly injured along with five road workers. Rescue teams were dispatched from Mondreal with hopes to save the injured.
Barbadoes island stands as the easternmost of the West Indies and was the site of George Washington and his invalid brother Lawrence’s only foreign journey. The text notes it as highly densely populated, averaging 1,120 people per square mile.
A nineteen year old youth named Cornillon was arrested near Premier Clemenceau's residence in Paris with a stiletto and anarchist literature. He claimed intent to make a "vesture" rather than kill the premier and was linked to Emile Cottin, who had shot Clemenceau earlier. Cornillon from Venay said to have met Cottin in 1918 studios in Paris.
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