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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1919
Page
2
Estimated receipts today 16 000. market dull with gains 25 to 40 cents. Beef and cattle and hogs quotes show varied weights and classes. heavy packing hogs steady. cattle and veal prices listed. lambs and feeders with mixed values. total receipts hogs 33 902 cattle 16 155 sheep 39 485 calves 2 745.
Varnished by KE Wagner Co Iowa City lists grain and commodity quotes with car counts and prices. Entries include corn oats and clover with March and December price figures and percentage notations.
A satirical line urges care for a cold with a quack remedy. It mocks folk therapies by recommending a nonsense method involving ukelriptus and boiling water while ignoring the ailment. The tone imitates Pearson's Weekly’s spoof style.
Dates list multiple farm stock sales around Kalona Crawfordsville Richland Washington and English in late October and November. A detailed corn yield note cites 110 bushels per acre from a 1 1/2 acre plot near Washington with seed developed by W R Stryker and seed history from Ralph Livingston. The article also notes poultry culling demonstrations by Lapp and Lowe with egg production results.
The Iowa Experimental Station will demonstrate a new two-horse corn picker with a motor on October 28 29 and 30. The press preview notes recent market entry and many new features. Visitors in Ames on October 29 Wine Feeders Day are invited to view the machine.
Iowa Experiment station reports the Council Bluffs orchard produced 25 to 30 bushels per tree, averaging 18 bushels across 50 trees. A gross return of $45 per tree equaled over $2000 for the fifty trees, confirming that good orcharding yields sizable profits.
Soil samples from the Joe Wright farm in Jackson township show one to two tons of limestone needed to neutralize acidity. The least productive corn areas yielded higher acidity in the samples.
New York reports Admiral Kolchak’s anti Bolshevik forces have sent to Omsk more than 600 million rubles captured from Bolsheviks. A. J. Sack, director of the Russian information bureau in the United States, provided the statement.
Nazimova stars in the screen version of Ception Shoals with two strong roles and a dramatic plot. Faith and Eve face tragedy after Job Coffin condemns them to island isolation. a stranded yacht and dense fog bring romance and peril. Cast includes Bryant Harmon Palmer and Davis with Capellani directing.
In Bermuda small ground sharks are used for food and valued across classes. The fish weigh eight to ten pounds and sell for 12 cents each. In Honolulu the hammerhead shark is common in markets and its flesh is considered nourishing and heavily salted.
In a rare voice vote the House removed Representative John F. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts and seated former Representative Peter F. Tague. Both men are Democrats and previously represented the district.
Henry P. Davison war head of the American Red Cross will head the laymen section of a nationwide Protestant Episcopal church drive. The campaign aims at broad church outreach and a major Americanization effort among aliens in cooperation with the federal government.
A reader reports that tigers enjoy water and use available tubes for washing in the zoo. The piece mentions strong swimming ability and historical claims of tigers crossing to prey, reflecting old beliefs about their behavior in Singapore.
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