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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1920
Page
2
Chicago notes show hogs receipts 37 900 with 2 992 holdovers cattle 27 000 sheep 26 000. Prices range with tops near 12 75 for many hogs and 17 50 for prime beef, while wheat futures open around 1 86 1 89 and cash corn mixed in the 84 85 to 86 00 area.
Signor Giovanni Sperandeo lyric tenor and Hugo Hagen pianist performed for a small audience who praised the program. Sperandeo’s unusual talent and his artificial hands were noted as he tours to raise money for further training. Hagen played with skill and the program included Schumann Brahms Schubert Grainger Rachmaninoff Puccini Cadman Burleigh Riesgo and others.
The Scotsman notes a Pennsylvania line collapse with 12 000 jobs cut. A company deficit and overstaffing reduced demand, forecasting an annual loss of 15 006 000 dollars.
FH Sands testified before the Senate Reconstruction Sub Committee that Iowa shows about 49 8 943 homes and 512 515 families in 1910, with an average of 103 families per 100 homes. He noted little new construction since and that Des Moines accounts for most new homes.
James Shevlin, a prohibition enforcement agent, warned in New York about surreptitious whisky substitutes that can be rank poison. He cited a village inn tale of Donald the Scot who drank from a cleaning-faucet sulphuric acid bottle and survived, describing the dram as warm yet with his whiskers catching fire whenever he coughed.
November 23 updates list closing out sales near Riverside, West Chester, Ainsworth, and Washington with buyers like Cris & Lone and J. M. Lord & Son. The notes also cover oats seeding yield reports and soil testing guidance from the county agent and Iowa Experiment Station. A dollar test with lime informs alfalfa and clover yields, advising cautious investment.
Farm Bureau tests on Frank Krall Newport Township and Omar Yoder Sharon Township show early maturing Ito San Manchu and Black Eyebrow best for hogging down corn. Chestnut is promising but lighter yield. For silage and hay late varieties Wilson Medium Green Jet and Sable excel. Jet and Sable resist stand-down best. Medium Green good with fast growth but blinds early and best for hay. Soybeans gaining role in farming with careful seed selection and small seed plots each year.
The December exposition in Chicago draws hundreds of thousands from the United States Canada and beyond. It aims to boost livestock husbandry and food production while showcasing live stock displays and conventions shaping policy and industry recovery after war strain.
The International Live Stock Exposition runs in Chicago from November 27 to December 4, highlighting one of America's largest industries through a major display of animal life and related exhibits.
Anamosa prison, described as a reform school, taught Harry Hollister Ward later known as Chicago’s handsomest bandit. He recounts lessons in safes cracking bootlegging and crime, leading to parole violations and a violent spree that included killing a man and wounding others before being shot by a detective. The piece closes noting farmers’ cherry losses amid low prices.
Iowa reports record corn production at 441.6 million bushels for the year, surpassing the previous peak of 421 million in 1912 and beating last year’s crop by 33 million bushels. Output includes potatoes 11.99 million bushels and apples 4.41 million, with grapes 98 percent and high quality overall.
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