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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1925
Page
2
A Hazelwood Avenue resident jokes about the toughest dinner table job as asparagus is eaten. He mentions varying methods including impaling with a fork, cutting tips, using fingers, and hopes for a clear rule to please all, per the Detroit News.
William Lyon Phelps notes Anatole France as a man of letters and an aristocrat in politics a Communist his universal appeal drew mourners from all classes. He highlights the canceled Comedie Francaise play originally set for funeral day with tickets refunded.
Ad lists two fox terrier puppies one male one female described as beautifully matched with singing ability guaranteed. Breeder listed as Arbert in the Legion Weekly section of the Birmingham News.
Dearborn, May 9. William Ford, brother of Henry Ford, says he would not trade places with the richest man in the world. He runs a small appliance business near Fordson tractors, employs about 40, and prefers to chart his own path. He led Dearborn as village president and police chief, cleaned up crime, and remains a beloved, modest local figure living with his wife and three children.
Hog receipts about 4 000 with prices up to 25 cents higher and strong weight gains across categories. Cattle receipts 500 with steady to higher finishing prices and scarce stockers. sheep market steady to higher with California springers and light-weight lambs driving activity. Grain futures show mixed moves with May wheat at 1.62 and corn around 1.11 to 1.12.
Unofficial Monday figures show hogs at 44 000 cattle 19 000 and sheep 20 000. Projections for next week estimate hogs at 130 000 across markets.
A compact column jokes about ideas and work with snappy asides on education health and daily life. It mentions Yale banning motorcycles, a grasshopper plague in Mexico and a quip about Washington scientists curing a jag in 30 minutes. It references Ford and a fur coat line.
Chicago market prices show wheat and corn varying by grade with No 2 red wheat around 1.68 to 1.69 and No 2 yellow corn about 1.13 to 1.15. Oats and barley prices are given with rye unavailable and meat cuts priced from lard to bellies.
The bureau of standards recommends applying a thin egg albumen coating to leather bindings to prevent decay. Avoid ammonia in dilution and preservation. After beating, whites may be made antiseptic with camphor thymol or essential oils. vaseline can also serve as a leather binding preservative.
The article notes teosinte as the only plant cross fertilizing corn and mentions teosinte as a semi tropical grass in Central America. It cites Nature Magazine and discusses ancient Mayas Aztecs and Incas as sources of early cultivation evidence.
A retail exchange unfolds in a hardware store where a merchant touts a can opener as the best on the market for tomato cans while an Inquirer objects wanting fruit can openers. The buyer and seller exchange brisk banter in the shop.
Cecil B DeMille presents Feet of Clay at the Fox Theatre for two days next Monday and Tuesday featuring Rod La Rocque Vera Reynolds Victor Varconi Ricardo Cortez Julia Fave Theodore Kosloff and Robert Edson. The production blends thrills and fashion with bathing scenes exotic dance and a modiste shop. Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Millhauser adapted the serial into the screen play from Margaretta Tuttles magazine tale.
The text lists the Seven Sages of Greece with their cities and mottos. Solon of Athens urged to know thyself while Bias of Priene spoke on moderation. Thales of Miletus and Cleobulus of Lindos offer caution and balance, Pittacus of Mytilene urges timely action, and Periander of Corinth proclaims nothing is impossible to industry.
The term deodand meant a thing causing a death belonged to the Crown or lord and was sold for the poor. This medieval forfeiture was abolished by a British act in 1846.
Not sorry 20 year old Mello Ghilardi of Chisholm Wisconsin says his father struck and scolded him and he shot and killed him. He says the crime was committed in self defense or due to abuse.
Railway Time Tables Co lists eastbound trains No 4 No 12 No 50 No 30 No 88 with arrivals and depart times. Westbound trains No 2 No 29 No 49 No 11 No 87 show departures and arrivals. Knoxville Branch trains No 450 No 430 No 836 and No 429 No 449 No 835 run daily with local and freight service.
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