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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1919
Page
2
Estimated today receipts hogs 33 000 cattle 31 000 sheep 35 000. Hogs top 14 70 with most sales 13 50 to 14 40. Beef steers and stockers vary from 7 75 to 19 40, cows 5 00 to 12 50, veal 16 75 to 17 75. Sheep and lambs steady to higher with lambs 12 75 to 16 00 and ewes 3 25 to 7 75. Official Saturday totals listed.
Market notes from E. W. Wagner & Co show corn opening at 136 with highs and lows around 61.36 percent, 1.27 percent, and 1.25 percent. Cash market lists 212 cars of corn and 188 cars of oats with No. 2 Y.C. at around 140 percent and 1.41. Clover and coffee quotes include March 30.40 and March Coffee at 16.26.
A reflective excerpt recalling the period of seclusion and solitary walks. The narrator treasures days spent alone with a beloved dog and cat, birds, forest life, and nature’s inconceivable author, Rousseau, over youth’s pleasures.
The article explains how billiard balls were crafted from ivory. Ivory shrinks after curing and are then turned smooth, with the pieces rested in a warm room or stone time for up to two years before another turning.
Farm department announces a series of closing out and reduction sales near Washington Iowa. October 21 features Grosscup Bros. and G W Dodder. October 22 Jno B Griffith. October 23 Cal Underwood. October 25 Chris J Brenneman. October 27 Wm M A Clemens. October 29 A M Wagner. October 30 J B E Ross & Son. November 4 I W Lineweaver and son. November 12 W S Kindelsperger. November 24 Henry Trier with multiple livestock types including Percherons Short horns Poland Chinas and Shropshires.
R S Leedy stock sale at Selma Iowa postponed from last week due to rain and moved to this Friday. Frank Macon will conduct the auction in Selma located southwest of Fairfield, reflecting credit on a stockman traveling far for the sale.
Ernest Carlson sold twenty head of blooded Duroc pigs Saturday at the City Feed Yard. Advertising stayed regional but quality impressed buyers who paid well. A top hog broke a leg after slipping from a Ford truck during transport to Washington, hindering the sale. a good crowd attended.
A Philadelphia postal rate shift from three to two cents allegedly costs the post office about 15000 dollars daily. The figure mirrors Benjamin Franklin’s 1774 colonial revenue transfer to Britain after he spent four years building a colonial postal system.
Ancient pipes unearthed in Roman sites show lavender decorate their bowls. Writers of the era claimed lavender produced an “active ardent, and vigorous” feeling when smoked, suggesting Romans used it as a smoking mixture long before tobacco.
Little Roy describes a folding bed after a week with his aunt. He says it lays down at night and stands on its hind legs in the daytime, a vivid image recorded by the Boston Transcript.
Boston leads Harvard endowment drive with 6.9 million raised by noon Saturday. New York trails by 300000 as the nationwide total reaches 1.565 million outside Boston and New York.
London reported Viscount William Waldorf Astor died of heart disease in Brighton after a year of illness. He was seventy one. The body will be moved to 4 St James Square for cremation and burial in the family chapel at Cliveden.
Quote from James Martineau on life exceeding routine. It contrasts daily comforts and wealth with awakening consciousness and sacred values, arguing that mere survival moments do not constitute life.
Dates form a staple in Arab meals across a large portion of Arabia. Sirup and vinegar are produced from dates, and some distill a brandy despite Koran teachings. Pit byproducts feed cattle and sheep, date pits serve as beads and counters in desert games.
The Zouave name comes from a tribe in Algiers where light infantry units were first used in 1831. Algerian dress was semi Moorish and soon other nations including the United States adopted the Zouave system. In the Civil War and the 1870 Italian assault on Rome they were prominent, notably defending papal authority in the latter.
The term origin lies in France where it described a system leaving industry and trade free from government taxation and restraint beyond public peace. It later expanded to include noninterference with any guiltless exercise of individual will.
In early American history a beaver hat served as a family heirloom handed down through generations. It was frowned upon to wear a new hat publicly and the custom existed to “take the newness off” by leaving the hat out in stormy weather before use.
Leo F. Walters of St. Joe Missouri found a sweater knit by Goldie Thompson of Hopkins Missouri bearing her name. After letters and photos, Walters proposed, they married September 22 in Bedford Iowa. Oelwein man O W Wilson, 68, pled guilty in Cedar Rapids federal court to counterfeiting, crafting a nearly perfect silver dollar clone.
Two Ohio brothers named Chester and John Compton devise a farmer income record book. They claim it is an official publication to help holders prepare their income tax accurately.
The Internal Revenue Service and Comptons formed the United States Audit Bureau of Washington but switched to Income Tax Record Bureau after fears. In Cedar county, Bruce Quick and LaBert P. Sohr started operations near Bennett selling books for 5 dollars until Everett Partridge arrested them for impersonating a government officer. Chicago lawyer O. M. Goldsmith, visiting Sac City, had Civil War ties and stood with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address guards. A Keokuk county German township note recalls Saylor Shanafelt’s reported death during the war.
A petition led to renaming German township to Saylor in memory of a hero. Later discovering Saylor Shanafelt was alive, the county restored his name. Soon another petition sought renaming the county to Plank township after a young man who died in France, and the name was changed to Plank.
A father shows his twins to his daughter and her twin sister. The girl studies the brood of kittens and after a moment declares they should keep only one. She points to the perceived prettier kitten and says, Daddy, I think we'd better keep that one.
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