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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
2
Chicago market data shows opening slow hog bids down about 10 to 20 cents from yesterday with tops around 18.65 for butchers. Cattle receipts and prices vary, with beef steers stronger and calves and cows mixed. veal calves quoted 15.75 to 16.25. Estimated receipts today include 31,000 hogs and 29,000 cattle with yesterday totals listed.
Close of grain futures furnished by FE Wagner & Co Iowa City with L B Hunt manager contact 726.
Advices from Constantinople report the Tewfik ministry in Turkey has resigned. Izzet Pasha becomes grand vizier and minister of war, favoring peace, while Enver Pasha had led the pro German cabinet. Tewfik Pasha, former Turkish ambassador to Great Britain, remains, with Naby Bey handling the foreign ministry in interim.
Readers from Wisconsin and Ohio share testimonials praising Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for severe croup whooping cough and persistent coughs. They report rapid relief after using the product and recommend it to others based on personal experience. The note cites Lemmon’s Pharmacy in Washington as a supplier location.
Readable fragment notes goods for sale in food and clothing categories mentioning Poland and China. No dates or full names provided.
A list of upcoming stock sales in Kalona Riverside Lone Tree Wellston Washington What Cheer and Thornburg with dates October 19 21 22 25 26 and 29 plus district farming reports. The piece also describes farmers paving roads hauling rock building hog houses refining fences and noting corn yields and hog numbers as harvest approaches.
Des Moines Oct 17 The 1918 state fair premiums totaled 72 850 13 against 72 442 07 in 1917 a decline of 91 94 with losses in agriculture sheep and poultry and gains in speed cattle and swine departments.
A peculiar fatal cattle disease, diagnosed as the mad itch, has broken out among George Gooden’s herd south of Cambridge, Iowa. Vets report the animals begin itching at the throat and rub viciously against rough objects, risking injury near barbed wire.
The state veterinarian arrived as the disease is blamed on smut on cornstalks. Mr. Gooden reports fifteen cattle lost with his herd now threatened, and authorities caution the illness may be fatal.
Seattle dispatch reports the power schooner Ruby, damaged by storms, failed to reach the Kushkokwim river district with cargo for thousands of miners and prospectors. Captain D S McAlpine says relief may be too late before winter. The area suffered a light famine last year with several deaths before aid arrived.
A quotation notes that across professions people craft outward appearance to shape how they are perceived, suggesting the world is composed of façades and roles rather than true character.
Dispatches from Zurich report a Czech Slovak council protest against Bohemia food exports triggering a general strike that spreads to Moravia. Martial law, troop deployments in Prague Pilsen Pisek Tabor, fighting in Brunn Olmutz and Shoka, machine guns and artillery in streets. Public resistance continues despite armed presence.
American Minister Vopicka at Jassy reported to the State Department that he had heard news of his arrest and said the report was untrue. The cable from the temporary Romanian capital arrives in Washington on October 17. Read the advertisements.
A historical letter argues dogs cause serious farm problems citing disease transmission and livestock predation. The author laments dogs roam freely injuring sheep and spreading illness, claiming many farmers report dogs as a major factor in sheep scarcity across the United States.
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