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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1918
Page
2
Chicago markets show hogs closing mostly higher with top at 18.75 while receipts and trade details run across hogs calves sheep and cattle. Opening volumes and select prices reflect slow packing demand and mixed quality with steady to lower tone for cattle and strong hogs.
Close of grain futures listing opening high low and final values for corn and oats as of October 15. E W Wagner Co provides the market data with manager B Hunt and Contact info in Chicago Illinois.
The Turkish note requesting President Wilson to intervene for peace arrived at the State Department via the Spanish ambassador. The message, similar in tone to German and Austrian notes, came amid expectations of a Germanic victory or Turkish appeal for surrender as Constantinople’s pro German government neared collapse. The note is unsigned.
A compact aphorism from the Syracuse Herald notes a cynical reflection: not all sorrow flows from romance. The line cites a Buffalo News quote about a woman both loving and losing, implying complex motives behind sadness beyond romantic failure.
Mrs T Nevrever of Fau Claire Wisconsin and Mrs Dr Gilkeson of Youngstown Ohio report success using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for severe croup and persistent coughs in children. They praise quick relief after failed remedies and recommend the product from their own experience. The note credits Demmon’s Pharmacy Washington for supplying the remedy.
Public sale notices span October to November for buyers near Crawfordsville Washington and Des Moines with sellers including J W Sommers John Soukup Wm Beranek F R Schantz C E Griffith J C Lemley and Weaver Gardner Duroc Jerseys and stock sales noted. Article reports corn and clover seed markets near Des Moines, cattle feedlots, timber sale by Leo Shelangouski, and Brown as the timber seller. It also mentions foreman profit arrangements and farm economics impacting net income and farm expenses.
The world’s record production of marketable potatoes on one acre, 49 531 pounds or 825 bushels, was grown near Kanab Utah near the Arizona line. The record came from a competition by the Mormon Church, which awarded $1 000 to a Kanab Ward representative. The yield is certified by more than 650 farmers and reported in the Reclamation Record.
H M Yoder of Wallaces Farmer was absent from the Ernest Carlson Duroc sale after being called home due to his wife’s illness. She died Friday at Iowa Lutheran hospital Des Moines from pneumonia and a weak heart. The 560 head sale total reached 5312 dollars with top cows selling to Red Oak Fairfield Wayland and Washington. John A Yoder of Kalona conducted the sale.
The Deferred Men's Organization of Madison County Indiana pledged a ten percent rise in swine and wheat production for 1919. Two energetic meetings in Anderson heard the pledge. Spring wheat in the county yielded up to 33 bushels per acre.
Burlington Iowa October 15 The United States food administration will issue general orders to public eating places defining their scope and detailing strict limits on bread sugar butter cheese and meat servings to conserve supplies. The orders include bans on certain garnitures and rules on sugar caps and waste reduction.
An advertisement urges feeding B A Thomas Hoe Powder to hogs mixed with ground feed and moistened slightly. It promises a beneficial dose per animal and a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The notice lists Sherman Bros as the seller.
A central Michigan 500 acre farm showed ten years of losses until radical reforms were made. A year after changes including four horse machinery replacing two, better dairy stock, silo plan, and foreman pay, the operation earned enough to cover all expenses and yield 5 percent on a $60,000 investment.
In several rural Tennessee communities cooperative cheese factories operate successfully after a year or more. Farmers deliver surplus milk and receive cash. whey returns as hog feed equal to 80 percent of the milk originally delivered. Stockholders share in profits.
The article notes declines in 1917 grain output in European Russia and Siberia versus 1916 and 1909–13, rationing in Petrograd in July 1918 with limited bread and eggs, and a 1919 target to ship seventeen million tons of food across the Atlantic, a 50 percent rise. It calls women to contribute to reserves and urges turning in nut shells for gas masks at Red Cross stations.
The Food Administration imposes a rule banning purchase or sale of cream with more than twenty percent butter fat for licensed milk and cream distributors. A conference with five big packers and about forty smaller firms reached agreement to support price stabilization for hogs with minimum goals of 15.50 per hundred for heavy droves and about 18.50 for defined months, aiming to limit weekly price swings to fifty cents.
A vintage advertisement touts a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a reliable thirty five year remedy. It claims the medicine acts through the blood to heal mucous surfaces and improve general health after short use. Readers are urged to bend for free testimonials from Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
The article notes that across mountains and coves, cabins hold sorghum patches. Eager pioneers grind cane and boil juice as in old times. Sorghum served as a Civil War standby for syrup and baking, and remains valued today.
The Food Administration declares the fourth meal unnecessary and unpatriotic. It orders public eating places to remove all meats from suppers and offer sea foods, in season game, egg dishes, and meat by products. Elaborate lunches and banquets should not be served.
Greens August Flower is promoted as a remedy for disordered stomach and inactive liver with ailments like sick headaches constipation sour stomach and nervous indigestion. It is described as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion and cleanses the alimentary canal while stimulating bile secretion. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Chicago preacher Dr. Charles Frederick Wishart, pastor of Second Presbyterian, argues that true peace must be real and guaranteed, not verbal. He warns that mere peace can fail, cites Russia, and praises American soldiers fighting for a lasting solution backed by a league of nations and representative German government.
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