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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1919
Page
2
May 12 to 17 forecast for Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys. Local showers possible Monday or Tuesday with generally fair weather afterward. Normal temperatures expected.
Chicago markets list estimated hog receipts 35,000 and cattle 17,000 with holdovers 8,423. Prices range from 19.00 to 21.05 for hogs and 10.25 to 19.50 for cattle, with no early trading and sharper declines from Saturday levels. Official Saturday figures include shipments of hogs 9,381 and calves 710.
The Town Cattle Feeders Day at Ames highlighted seven lots of steers with lot No 7 silage fed achieving 100 pounds gain at $14.80 cost and 27.33 profit per steer. Daily ration 52 pounds silage 3 pounds oil meal 1.5 pounds alfalfa hay. Also notes Farm Bureau enrollments 260 new members since February 1 and plans to reach 400, plus a new power sprayer for 200 orchard trees per day and an orchard route from Blairstown to La Porte City.
Close of grain futures lists corn at 70 cars tone up four cents and oats at 125 cars tone up one cent. October clover price shown for 1997.
Sentiment across Germany is strongly against signing the peace treaty. Citizens denounce the accord as a skeleton that leaves Germany with nothing. Berlin discussions blame thePresident for the terms while distinguishing the American people from his actions. Germans hope the terms will be modified.
Phone 116 Mutual 12 W S Reister & Sons promote butter eggs poultry and cream in Washington Iowa noting heavy cream arrivals push butter fat down but not below 50 cents before hot weather. List prices include eyes 400¢ per lb hen 20c duck goose turkey per lb hides and calves priced, tame rabbits per lb.
The USDA uses farm opportunities at demobilization camps to steer soldiers toward agricultural work. Representatives present clear job options from stock farming to dairying, with county agents offering local placements and credit help. Institutes, libraries, and tailored lists boost farm returns over city work, aiding soldiers from farms to rejoin food production.
An advisory piece urges local associations to promote a single breed across cattle hogs sheep dairy stock or horses. It suggests adopting the majority breed in the area such as Hereford or Angus, encouraging owners to consolidate and raise the dominant stock to make the community known as a reliable seed source.
The Breeder's Gazette argues economic progress and social harmony hinge on farmers adopting the breed numerically strongest in their neighborhood. It warns against unneighborly jealousy and abandoning the local breed to showcase independence, claiming such acts hinder community standing and progress.
A court in England held that an engagement ring remains property of the giver when a fiancée breaks off the engagement. The woman kept the ring as a souvenir until the court intervened, per Savannah News.
A magazine advertisement poses the line Is it always the husband s fault focusing on marital blame. The copy suggests some issues lie outside a husband s responsibility and notes Kansas City as a locale in the sparse readable text.
A dilapidated man entered the Syracuse Medical College office and offered to sell his body cheap. He said he was out of work and discouraged. The superintendent replied that students would take his heart if they ever had the chance.
A sample discussion notes the endless creation of English words with estimates from a major dictionary ranging 400000 to 500000 entries. It highlights word derivatives like run running ran runner and other forms expanding the lexicon.
A Boston Transcript quip notes a French governess au pair ad misuses English. The woman promises quick French lessons and offers to be nourished, lying down, and bleached, treating these as conditions for the arrangement.
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