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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1922
Page
2
Chicago markets show hogs weak to 10 cents lower with 7 000 receipts and 6 574 holdovers. Cattle and sheep receipts around 3 000 and 2 500. Oil of prices across weights in hogs. top at 9.00, bulk 5.95 to 6.50 with various weight classes. Wheat futures open around 1 14 and 1 13 for December and May respectively. cash wheat 30 car lots steady to lower.
Sale dates announced for livestock auctions including a Poland China sale on November 1 by I B Hanan near Wellaton, a Holstein dairy cow sale, and a closing out sale on December 14 by Alfred Nash near Crawfordsville, with other dates in late October and November listed.
Two thousand Shriners from Davenport Cedar Rapids Washington and Waterloo visit Iowa City for a Shrine ceremony and parade. Governor Kendall attends the event and the group plans to distribute gifts at the children's hospital. A large crowd attends the Iowa and Purdue football game tomorrow.
In Philadelphia on October 27 the United States Naval Academy meets Pennsylvania University in a new stadium. A feature will be singing by the Spectators between halves as the university band expands to one hundred pieces for the occasion.
Review praises Reginald DeKoven’s Robin Hood for music charm and vivid scenery. Notes four women and six men in principal roles with Alan a Dale as a boy. Sheriff of Nottingham provides comic villainy. Extravagant outdoor scenes highlight color and illumination. Performance set for Graham Theatre on Thursday November 2.
Correspondents report visits by Mrs. Elizabeth Alberson of Sigourney and Miss Mina McCleary from Keota. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lowry of Cresco visited. Mrs. J. F. Buxbaum returned from Minnesota. Miss Selvina Lenhart impressed with Erstwhile Susan sketch. Funeral of Mrs. Walter Orris set for Sabbath at 2 in the local Methodist church.
Ainsworth residents report visits from relatives and friends including Nel lie Hoyle and Miss Frankie Bennett from Washington and Mr and Mrs S R Stone of Cleveland. Community events include radio entertainments, a household goods sale, high school lyceum concert, and a Tom Thumb wedding at the M E church.
Condor reaches extraordinary altitude, spending about nine tenths of its life more than three tiles above surface level as it rides thermal currents.
Property Owners Federation urges fire tax payers to contribute to a fund for arrest and conviction of incendiaries across Associatedowns. The initiative frames itself as a service to fire safety, not an insurance product, under section 3 of the Articles of Association.
The U S Department of Agriculture 1921 Year Book surveys corn’s farm role and national impact. It notes 5 million farms grow corn on 100 million acres producing over 3 billion bushels, with 85 percent used in meat production and only 10 percent direct human food. It warns about pests like the corn ear worm and European corn borer, and discusses costs, markets, financing, and future demand tied to meat consumption.
London Oct 9 Eton College opens with 1139 pupils the largest ever admitted while last term 1124 enrolled nearly double the prewar total of 700. Over the past decade demand has outstripped capacity prompting higher entrance standards and tuition but the waiting list remains long and admissions are planned years ahead. The practice aims to secure a place for a boy from birth to ensure admission at qualifying age.
One hundred fifty graduate nurses from 40 training schools in Iowa will arrive in Des Moines to take the State Board of Health examination for state nurse certificate at the state house. The event marks the culmination of extensive nursing education across the state.
Secretary Wallace in Manhattan Kansas argues farm demands shifted War Finance Corporation to aid agriculture and gives agriculture representation on the Federal Reserve Board. He recalls 1920 21 actions easing farm credit, boosting bank liquidity, and the need for policy to reflect farming needs in national finance.
Franklin Booth creates a striking New York poster for the Annual Red Cross Roll Call. Chartered by Congress, the Red Cross is shown on the Capitol home in Washington with a large emblem. It will be displayed nationwide Armistice Day to Thanksgiving as 1923 memberships are enrolled.
A fragmentary listing shows bids for Mutual 93 Fyges fresh laid eggs per dozen Cream test per pound and various poultry items including Leghorn hens and roosters. It also references geese turkeys pigeons beef hides and horse hides with unit pricing per pound or each.
Metropolis Illinois woman Emma Culver credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Fills with relieving nervousness irritability hot flashes and dizziness during a change of life She says eight months bedridden illness ended and she can perform housework walk two miles and feel hale and hearty after using the medicines
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