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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1922
Page
2
Chicago May 6 hogs receipts 5,000 holdover 6,783 cattle receipts 500 et cetera. Market mostly 6 to 10 higher with top around 10.75 and bulk 10.15 to 10.50. Weighed varieties show pricing by weight and quality. Livestock estimates for Monday list hogs 46,000 cattle 21,000 sheep 16,000.
Canton Ohio reports three men dead and two robbers dying after a woods gun fight with an armed posse following the kidnaping of a motorcycle policeman. Oklahoma Slim John Levins, gang member jailed locally, is wanted in multiple midwestern bank robberies as police probe the Lima Savings Bank robbery link.
Archduke Friedrich and Archduke Albrecht arrive in Budapest after years abroad. Albrecht's bid for the Hungarian throne is backed by a strong party with ample financial backing. An American syndicate is said to be buying Archduke Fried rich estates to support his son.
West Virginia officials report higher April coal output after a May 6 statement. The WV Coal Association notes production over the past ten months and says unconsigned coal on rail sidings suggests demand lag. Walter H. Conningham, secretary, comments on the situation.
Francisco Sia, a former bandit leader, denies being a candidate for governor of Durango in a letter printed by El Universal Grafico. He says he is not thinking of politics and is focused on reconstructing the country with constant work and energy to drive progress.
The message insists the main aim of work is personal growth and moral development rather than accumulating wealth. It argues that forming a fine character is a greater achievement than mere prosperity.
In the Atchison Globe quote, men discuss selling prices while women consider buying costs, reflecting imagined gendered approaches to commerce and household budgeting in a public discourse.
Des Moines May 6 For the first time in years the June primaries will have only two tickets republican and democrat. Socialist groups failed to qualify due to insufficient votes two years ago and prohibitionists have liquidated. The democrats present a full ticket with candidates for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state auditor attorney general and more along with congressional contenders across districts. The republican slate lists a U S senator candidates and a full state ticket with numerous district hopefuls. Clyde Herring leads the democrats for U S senator with other names noted for multiple offices across the state.
A terse quotation urges steadfast courage in combat saying one must never surrender or flee despite many wounds. The line stresses unwavering manliness and persistent arms bearing as a guiding ethos.
Marshalltown reports county agent W A Buchanan notes three ton lime applications raise clover and alfalfa hay yields by about 30 percent and improve clover stands where previously impossible. He cites that every ton of clover hay removes 18 pounds of lime and warns lime supplies are running low as soils grow more acid.
iG FARM BUREAU PICONTIO Rock Rapids Iowa announces a county picnic on June 14 with speakers Governor Ken dall and Mrs Richardson of Pella. Location pending.
Lyon county will conduct potato growing experiments on sixteen farms this year to compare certified northern grown seed with common northern seed and home grown seed. Varieties include Irish Cobbler Early Ohio and Rural New Yorker under Prof. Fitch of Ames and the Lyon county farm bureau. Wool growers in Cedar county will again ship wool cooperatively through the county organization with reduced handling charges and supplies distributed.
Tipton Iowa May 10 soil washing demonstration will be led by H H Sanderlin and county agent C H Obye. Terracing on J B Wagner farm Sugar Creek township and visits to nearby farms follow. Weather condition reports by the farm bureau office will be available after ten each morning from Des Moines service.
Ly on county to conduct a corn yield contest on three farms Jansen Reimers and Merrill south of Rock Rapids. White yellow varieties tested four rows each husked weighed and moisture adjusted to determine yield. In a separate note Frank J. Schreyers of Larchwood reports killing 196 rats in March and early April, a farm pest count in Lyon county.
County agent Frank Kerrigan says Ida county will start poultry culling demonstrations in late June and run through several sessions in each township. Owners who hosted demonstrations last year will not have to host again.
Through the Williamsburg Shipping Association farmers in the area now ship hogs to the Ottumwa market. About 150 members are sending stock to the new market.
Marengo Iowa farmers will gain a new farm directory soon. County Agent Zentmire says steps have begun to secure names through the farm bureau with a directory company. The bureau will collect name address and township and place entries in alphabetical order.
County Agent T. R. Minor urges Doulleston farmers to value good fence post timber. He notes waste land can be turned into timber with small care. Osage Orange is suggested for pest control and can be grown in groves or as fence rows.
Washington reports the cruiser Huron has landed 150 Marines at Taku to protect American interests in Tsintsin. The detachment is armed with machine guns, but dispatches indicate no disturbances have occurred. Another Marine detail was sent to Tung Chow near Beijing to guard an American missionary school, also reported quiet.
Floodwaters from the Mississippi and swollen tributaries continue to spread in vast areas of Louisiana and Mississippi increasing the number of refugees and others needing aid. A typhoid fever case in a Harrisburg refugee camp complicates matters as Louisiana National Guard medical corps inoculates all in the two colonies.
Complete returns show Albert J Beveridge defeating Senator Harry S. New by 20 384 votes in the Indiana Republican primary for the U S Senate. In New York City five hundred recruits joined the police force as two classes of two hundred began training, to become full officers after six months probation.
Henry county farmer Sidney McAllister expands soybean growing with Black Eyebrow variety for hogging down corn and for seed. He drills beans with corn planter, spacing 36 inches, using 3–4 pecks per acre, with field harrowed before emergence.
New York reports daylight saving in over 400 large cities and about 200 smaller towns with Atlantic states largely on the time. Major cities including New York Philadelphia Chicago and Boston switch clocks at midnight. New York state and much of New England move toward statewide daylight time while some cities in New York and New Jersey join the shift. Maine Rhode Island and Massachusetts extend saving across most urban areas, with New Hampshire and Connecticut showing mixed adoption.
The note advises storing honey in a dark place to preserve its quality when kept without grain. It emphasizes dark storage to maintain sweetness and prevent spoilage.
Fiona Macteod writes of pine seeds and weed tossed to the wind as a symbolic gesture toward triumph, tying nature’s green majesty to personal resolve and ascent. The passage frames victory through a ritual act aimed at turning fortune in the speaker’s favor.
In Governor Miller’s first year the farm bloc repealed daylight saving but allowed local option. Syracuse voted April 10 to end clock tinkering, with other cities like Ogdensburg Water town Oneida Ithaca Cortland and Auburn following. New York banks and the stock exchange will use daylight time. trains and timetables must adapt, creating travel confusions from Albany to Syracuse and Rochester.
A new chemical substance enables amateur photographers to develop photographs using white light. In Germany about 2,000 cases show a measles vaccine from convalescents' blood prevents illness in exposed children, achieving roughly 97 percent protection when given in the first days after infection.
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