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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1920
Page
2
The Chicago opening market reports steady cattle activity with mixed beef prices and heavy receipts. Wheat and corn futures show small gains and declines, with detailed bid ranges for cash grains in Chicago and St Louis markets and official Friday livestock estimates.
Local announcements include a box supper and candy social at No. school house near Washington on Friday Nov 5 with a short program and fortune teller. invited guests from Haskins and Iowa. Teachers Eva Godwin Blanche Woodburn Ethel Beatty. Missionary society gathering Nov 6 hosted by Mrs Will Sickles with devotional leaders and program coordinators. Ainsworth Chapter No 392 C E S meets Nov 5 with initiation. The Nineteenth Century club meets at Mrs Homer Darbyshire’s Nov 7 at 2 30. Womans Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church meets at Mrs Lyman Bunce on Fri 2 30. led by Mrs R H Clyde and Mrs M E Brown. The Billy Sunday of Japan Sumio Uesugi M A B D speaks at the Baptist church Wednesday at 7 30. Uesugi noted as a Japanese scholar with notable degrees.
A partial OCR fragment lists odd monetary-like marks such as .56e¢ .80¢ .20e¢ 15e¢ lic 0c Te without clear context or full sentences. The text shows irregular symbols and cents markings, offering no identifiable event, person, or organization.
A local note announces that the Grace Hill Community building entertainment is postponed to Friday evening November 5. A silver offering will be taken and attendees are invited to hear the speaker who is described as an accomplished orator and devout Christian.
Journal notes upcoming farm auctions including Aberdeen Angus cattle in Columbus Junction on November 25 and Duroc boars and sows in Ainsworth. It also reports a Jersey calf shipment from Oregon to R L Badger of Brighton with a high quality dam and sire from Portland stock, and a haystack of farming notes on orchard spraying, poultry culling in multiple counties, and the value of spray rings.
Local notices promote Fordson tractors and Ford cars with repair and parts services. The Rummage sale runs Friday and Saturday. Various residents, including Mrs. W. H. Van Winkle, visit Brighton and Richland on business. A Ford sales claim highlights 160,000 Fordsons sold in 2 1/2 years, alongside references to Washington and Des Moines comparisons.
The Quebec Government leads in New World forest preservation planning to plant two trees for every one cut. It maintains an elaborate forest patrol with air planes for fire detection.
Daily price quotes for today show cream per pound, eggs per dozen, hens per pound, old roosters per pound, springs per pound, ducks per pound, geese per pound, and turkeys per pound for toms and other cuts, reflecting market rates.
An English writer argues that if China used 10 percent of its population in war, maintaining a kill rate of 1,000,000 soldiers per year would take 50 years to destroy the first armies. In that period two new forces of 60,000,000 would rise to oppose the aggressor.
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