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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
7
James A. Edgerton describes the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago from November 27 to December 10 as a premier event of prize winners and the pinnacle of breeding. The piece highlights the diverse races of horses cattle sheep and swine from distant regions and the show as a convergence of animal aristocracy and agricultural progress.
The piece envisions an exaggerated future where cattle hogs and other livestock become impossibly fat while the International Stock Show grows into a grand, decisive event. It highlights the show as the season’s culmination, its pedigrees and speed events, and notes how higher livestock prices follow stronger breeding and education from exhibitions. It cites M. F. Dunlap of Jacksonville KY selling ninety eight prime steers and red Hereford stock as an example of demand.
The piece notes 1834 pound cattle averaging 165.61 per head, the highest since the Civil War, and cites the Chicago International Live Stock exposition as driving rising top prices and advances in farming. It highlights the show’s scale at Union Stockyards, horse and cattle showcases, and expects the 1900s event to surpass all prior exhibitions with broad international participation.
James Freeman Curtis of Boston, previously United States district attorney and a former intercollegiate golf champion, has been chosen as assistant secretary of the treasury in Washington.
A playful riddle notes that a camel is quick to anger because it always has its back up, a pun on the animal’s posture.
The Nourmahal, Colonel John Jacob Astor’s 250 foot yacht, was missing from West Indian ports prompting a US government search after a Caribbean hurricane. Built in 1884, she features cement steel construction, three masted rig, and luxurious interiors. Crew totals 46. armament includes cannons rifles and cutlasses.
Spokane man offers a hundred dollars in gold for a better name to describe the Congress approach to dry farming. The unusual prompt seeks a precise term to replace the misnomer and attract more accurate understanding of the policy program.
W. Lewis Clark of Spokane proposes a substitute title for the national dry farming congress to be adopted at its fifth session in Spokane next fall. He argues the current name misrepresents the era and aims of the congress and that a change would better fit its objectives. An attempted rename at Billings last month failed, with the original title remaining.
The military department in St Petersbu rg studies a new wireless telegraphy system by a Russian student claiming messages reach from St Petersbu rg to Sebastopol with accuracy. It promises tapped messages are undetectable and plans include a Ural station linking to a Wadivos tok stroilar station.
A 240 foot long six foot wide three ply leather belt destined for a Bogalusa Louisiana lumber company was built in New York City at a cost of 5800 dollars. It used hides from 340 Texas steers and is billed as the largest and most expensive belt of its kind for power drive.
A short verse recalls Thanksgiving traditions where a family shares duties and the narrator enjoys the meal. The parson preaches, mother oversees the roast, and father sharpens knives, while the speaker finds simple joy in sitting to eat.
Dr John B Smith names a blue green metallic bee the digger bee. Females dig tunnels to depth of four feet or more, forming breeding cells in protected underground chambers. Workers die after provisioning for their young as the first offspring emerge.
An old negro preacher in Kentucky used a zoological angle to discuss Bible tales. He described Noah's Ark animals two by two, Jonah and the whale, Daniel with lions, and a youngster asking if lions were like those today. The punchline: they were before cartoons, or before circus.
At a Vermont way station passengers wait for a Burlington bound train. The station master explains the service is freight and passenger mixed, described as scrambled. The dialogue captures a puzzled crowd reacting to the odd combination.
A terse exchange jokes about the ease of having a sophisticated husband. The line notes it is an advantage because it avoids wasted time searching through his pockets at night. The Chicago Record-Herald caption captures a light domestic quip.
Des Moines reports the state drainage waterways and conservation commission plans to cooperate with State Game Warden Lincoln to spend about $60,000 from hunters licenses. The money will be used to preserve Iowa rivers and lakes for fish and game benefits.
Chicago reports William J. Moxley running a strong campaign to succeed William Lorimer in Illinois sixth district. Moxley won 14 594 votes with Independent Carl L Barnes 3 317 and Democrat Frank J Ryan 6 414 in a three way race.
Delegations from ten eastern chambers of commerce met in New York at the Merchants' association invitation to discuss the Spokane and allied freight rate cases. A committee was named to report on creating a central traffic bureau to safeguard eastern interests amid interstate commerce hearings.
Timothy L. Woodruff, chair of the Republican state committee, signals a push among Republicans to back ex President Roosevelt for New York governor upon his return from Africa. He notes he has no knowledge of Roosevelt’s plans but says if Roosevelt consents he would likely be nominated and elected, a development he says would greatly affect the party in New York.
Mrs. William Hayes Chapman, a Brooklyn widow of wealth, weds Philip Van Valkenburg of New York in a quiet Hotel St. Regis ceremony. The couple’s fortunes are estimated around 30 million in total with the bride’s and groom’s personal worthions noted. Several foreign nobles reportedly pursued the bride before the wedding.
A Newark bake shop produced a fifty pound Thanksgiving pie for President Taft. The largest pie ever baked in America weighed twenty five inches in diameter and three inches deep. A committee of bakers delivered the pie to Washington.
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