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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1921
Page
2
Cattle and hogs receipts listed with price ranges by weight, breed, and quality. Estimates show hogs 19 000 today and cattle 6 000 with steady to higher trend, lambs strong up to 8 ¾. Feeder and stocker categories noted with price bands. future day outlook included.
The Washington Iowa firm lists sales since 1917 including saw frames, platforms, scales, waterers, tractors, washers and stove parts. Numerous customers and items noted with prices, shop calls and deliveries. the ad promotes dependable goods from Winona Curtis Fairbanks and others.
Journal notes multiple livestock and farm auctions from Oct 22 to Oct 29 including John Wagner Washington selling Poland China hogs and an estate sale by Mary E. Wolfe in Ames. It also reports Ames offering free blueprints for H D Hughes scarifying machine to boost clover seed germination, plus Swine Feeders Day on Nov 15 with details of hog feeding trials and practical demonstrations.
The Lincoln Journal notes corn prices around 20 cents per bushel and $7 per ton for stored grain while coal costs about twice that. It argues farmers save transport costs by burning corn and questions coal’s economic advantage when comparing fuel value, recalling the 1896 7 winter and many sales of corn.
The author compares 1921 corn to 1896 cheap corn in buying power, noting corn now buys less coal and clothes, while taxes worsen the farmer’s plight. Railroads and coal miners feel the impact as farm prices sag. Secretary Wallace urges a new link between farm prices and other prices to restore prosperity.
The author contrasts past depressions with current global gloom and expects recovery in time. Citing 16 to 35 cent corn as examples of price swings, they suggest investors once held corn to profit later. They warn of a hard winter but insist a recovery will come, offering cautious hope.
By virtue of a writ of special execution issued from the District Court of Washington County Iowa the goods lands and tenements of J A Morrison and Lola Morrison are seized and will be sold publicly in front of the described real estate in Ainsworth on Saturday October 22 1921 between 9 PM and 4 PM The property lies 45 feet east of the southwest corner of lot 7 block 5 original plat and includes land measured north to the north line of lot 7 and 29 feet west in Washington County Iowa
Execution sale of J A Morrison and Lola Morrison on property described as a 53 by 53 feet area in block with reference to lot 6. Sale set for 2 30 p m on the day of notice at the Washington county sheriff's office. Charles M Denison sheriff. Dates Sept 23 1921 Oct 7-14 1921.
A worn clock is repurposed for medical use in the sickroom. After administering medicine the clock hands are turned to announce the next due time, aiding timely dosing.
A brief excerpt quotes Shillings Brooks noting that any occupation must elevate the practitioner’s life to be worthy of reverence. It emphasizes self-development through one’s work and dismisses occupations that fail to enhance the worker.
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