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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1923
Page
2
Daily market reports from Chicago show estimated receipts of cattle 26 000 hogs 42 000 sheep and lambs 48 000 with varied tone. Better fed steers and yearlings rise while other grades stay steady. Packers bid lower on cattle and hogs with early sales around lower quotes and fat lambs active for shippers.
A traveler may journey seven hours by railway and cover more than 00 miles between Singapore and Penang in the Federated Malay States while never losing sight of rubber plantations and related landscapes.
A sequence of sales listed with dates in October near Washington Iowa including Duroc Jersey and Hampshire hog sales by Noble Sensation and others. Auctions cover land and personal property near Ainsworth Everett Shearer and köta area with cattle and hog sales by Juzeler Bross Knotek and others through October 18.
Weekend visitors include Hagel Anwy and family from Fromont Iowa. Washington attendance by Mrs Lola Rhea and Miss Mina McCleary, with high school freshmen entertaining sophomores at the schoolhouse. Other travelers include John Wooley returning to Columbia Missouri and Loren Moorhead from Yellowstone Park en route to Des Moines.
In the Balkans women tending goats and cattle in the mountains choose trousers over skirts because skirts prove cumbersome among rocks and rough terrain.
In the American Legion Weekly a discussion notes many electrical applications in farm work as farmer Upton advocates and farmer Swaybauck remains skeptical about expanding beyond traditional methods.
Acting Governor Hammill backs a state wide effort to enlist all men’s groups in a November 11 to 18 program in Iowa. The Father and Son idea is promoted by Dwight Lewis with lodge participation and invitations to sons. Rotary and YMC A leaders join the effort with local committees planned to teach that fathers make the best big brothers.
Des Moines reports the Women’s Christian Temperance Union plans a state convention at Shenandoah next week likely to relieve President Mrs. Idabb Wise Smith of many duties.
A public sale at Wyse farm offers 56 head of dur hogs including 9 spring boars 1 yearling and 40 gilts near all sired by Wonderful Orion Sensation a top prize winner. Sale highlights include prize fair winners, free crate delivery for one or two head, and possible truck delivery for distant buyers. Sale day Oct 3 with morning trains from Noble and Crawfordsville.
A complaint surfaces over a slur used to label Arab youths as archaus or sheike, seen as a low trick targeting a minority. The remark draws criticism for its derogatory tone and social impact on the Aruba community.
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