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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1921
Page
2
Summary of Chicago market activity with hogs cattle and calves receipts and shifts in prices, plus detailed wheat corn and oats quotes. includes a proposed plant quarantine extension and a public hearing notice set for October 11 1921 in Washington DC for the Federal Horticultural Board.
Sale dates announced for multiple hog auctions across Iowa towns including Mahannah North English Wellman Kalona Washington Ainsworth and Wagner. Breeds include Chester White Jersey and Poland China with Duroc Jersey noted among entries.
A formal October 11 hearing by the U S Department of Agriculture federal horticultural board will study steps to prevent spread of the European corn borer. Quarantines exist in New Hampshire Massachusetts New York and Pennsylvania with rapid spreading reports in northwestern Pennsylvania and northern Ohio.
The Evening Journal notes Iowa high school football is among the nation’s best and questions why Iowa schools do not play a major inter sectional game during holidays. Writers cite Iowa players in Notre Dame and praise the Hawkeye style as potentially national in prominence.
The article surveys global finance amid German reparations talk, noting debt levels in Germany France and Britain, U S debt comfort, and anticipated concessions to France. It reports improving U S trade activity, rising copper, steel and oil prices, falling federal rates, and strong rail and copper stocks while warning about sugar surplus and moldy corn concerns in harvest markets.
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation highlights its efforts across taxation and land value equalization, credit and financing for farmers, and cooperative marketing. It cites legislative wins, studies abroad, and coordination with national bodies to shape policy, secure fair rates, and defend farmers in court and regulatory proceedings.
Eileen Percy stars in Maid of the West a Fox Pictures release shown at the Fox Theatre. A ranch girl dreams of New York as an aviator arrives on a stunt laden chase to win her hand despite scheming kin and social society crooks. The film blends humor with a Western caper as the aunt yields and the couple declare love. Supporting cast includes William Scott Hattie Buskirk Charles W Meakin June Laviere Jack Brammall and Frank Clarke.
A boy named Wright returns from the bank with his weekly amount and discovers his book is missing. His mother questions him and he whispers that a girl took it and kept it, suspecting she planned to welch on the amount.
An old-time advertisement from W. S. Reister & Sons at 120% East Third St lists fresh laid cream per pound and butterfat content, hens by the pound, springs, roasts, turkeys, geese, and other staples with unit prices, reflecting a grocery market catalog.
A Warsaw Missouri woman describes five years of weakness and a nervous breakdown. After seven bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained health and strength, praising the remedy and recommending to others. The letter urges other nervous women to seek help and notes the medicine's claimed success for nerve-related female ailments.
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