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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1918
Page
2
Chicago reports today include hogs with estimated receipts around 16 000 and bids easing. cattle and calves show slower demand with mixed grades and higher prime limits. Sheep and lamb receipts near 30 000 with volatile bids. packing demand cautious and prices varying by class.
Iowa City Iowa farm market bulletin lists grain futures close figures reported by E. W. Warner Co with L B Hant as manager and contact phone 726 for inquiries.
Turner Grain Co led the St Louis Grain Market with M W Hewitt as manager. Cash close figures show No Red Wheat varieties at 2.24 to 2.18, yellow corn from 1.43 to 1.65, and No 3 white oats at .71 to .72. Chicago receipts list 551 wheat cars, 375 corn cars, and 844 oats cars.
Letters from readers in Eau Claire Wisconsin and Youngstown Ohio praise Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound as a reliable remedy for coughs and whooping coughs. They report relief for children and adults after trying other medicines, noting the product eases throat inflammation and chest irritation. Lemmon’s Pharmacy in Warrington advertises the treatment.
A teacher comforts Gladys who, teased for red hair by schoolchildren, says she will be glad to become an old lady so her hair can turn gray. The teacher asks why and Gladys explains her hair would finally turn gray with age.
The article explains that Blue-Bellied Yankees was a derisive label for New Englanders tied to Puritan blue laws. It notes that Pennsylvania Dutch originally described a language and not a people, with dialects from Germany later labeling speakers rather than origins in Holland.
A concise note attributes daily thought to the idea that conversation reveals character as well as thought, reflecting on expression and personality. Only a short caption preserves the observed link between talk and inner traits.
Farm and Stock News recounts hogs turning in a field behind a temporary fence of corn rows and binding twine, noting efficiency and low trouble. It also covers dairy operations by R. Shafer, pasture and corn feed, pasture grass gains from rains, and praise for patronizing the dairy industry per Dr. McCollum's address.
Joe Marek builds sturdy east end posts needing six sacks of cement and sand per post. Posts sit three and a half feet deep, built with iron staples for fencing, using on-farm iron and self-made blacksmithing. Hedge fence damaged, clover yields poor, corn hopes hinge on returns. Nearby, 100 Texas pigs travel to Marek’s, likely more than 100. Cr J Wolfe plans a new cistern with hauled brick, while Koenig Miller prepare seed and hull clover. Grasshoppers reduce yield but farming continues.
A fragment notes passing a field of corn that had been divided, reflecting on shared labor and changing farming practices. The line hints at communal effort and the legacy of harvest work in rural life.
President Sykes of the Corn Pelt Meat Producers association returns west after blaming General Crowder for passing the buck on farm labor exemptions. He says boards and Washington pass responsibilities, leaving farmers with no relief and no change to excess profits reckoning without law amendments.
Early returns from Milwaukee and Ripon show Gov. Fr R Philipp with 152 votes to Roy P Wilcox 128 and J N Titte were 10 in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Lt governor results list Dithmar 134 Perrett 78 Nickerson 21. Milwaukee and southern areas favor Wilcox’s renomination while Philipp is seen as the likely nominee overall.
Pat steers of 14% pound weight sold for 19 at the Chicago market, the highest price ever paid for cattle there. Previous high was 18, with the top price year ago at 16. The Kansas herd carrying the brand sparked the record at the stock yards.
Director General McAdoo approves a second wage order boosting roughly half of U S railroad staff. Track laborers watchmen clerks station agents and other low paid classes gain increases from 10 to 50 percent totaling about 100 million dollars yearly. Details to follow. garnishment of pay is forbidden to curb loan work while non paying employees face dismissal.
An advertisement from Lemmon's Pharmacy in Mi mira New York touts Foley Kidney Pills. It quotes C F F Reynolds stating a sick worker recovered from kidney trouble after taking the pills and returned to work with no further back aches. The ad links the remedy to sleep-disturbing bladder issues.
American shipping gains 88 wooden vessels in August announced by Charles Pies vice president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
London reports the risky preparation of long range bombers for raids on Germany. Armourers insert fuses and detonators into fourteen heavy bombs, with ground crews guiding and securing each bomb. Engineers fill petrol tanks, engines are tested, and carpenters, electricians, and gun crews service weapons before crews travel at midnight to strike Rhenish factories and rail hubs.
J G Gaston of Newark Indiana reports trying many cathartics but Foley Cathartic Tablets gave superior satisfaction. The ad claims they regulate bowels sweeten the stomach and tone the liver and calls them the best cathartic tablets made.
President Wilson urged every member of the Boy Scouts of America to aid the fourth Liberty Loan. He cited 1,322,649 subscriptions totaling 203,169,000 dollars from prior campaigns as proof of patriotic service. Colin H Livingstone thanked the president and pledged stronger effort. Secretary McAdoo advised limiting Scout activity to the campaign’s final seven days.
Washington D C Sept 4 The home canning program nears 1 500 000 000 quart target as output of equipment rises sharply Makers report a 50 percent firm rise in canning supply makers and 25 percent increase in equipment sold Rubber ring demand surges 200 percent and 125 concerns distribute Agriculture Department instructions in ten languages Community canning kitchens spread nationwide with over 2000 expert canoers supported by thousands of volunteers and youth leaders
The USDA and state colleges push a broad campaign to expand home canning. New York and other states report numerous community kitchens and rural centers, with over 100 kitchens active in New York and many more in the South and Midwest. Arizona Delaware Idaho Indiana Iowa Ohio also show growing coordinated canning efforts. Michigan has twenty centers operating and more planned as the season progresses.
London reports from Reuters that American forces refused to yield in France, advancing on Juvigny after three days of brutal combat. They faced a skilled, stubborn defense, with machine gunners contesting every foot despite heavy shelling and German gas assaults.
A typhoon swept over Formosa killing fifty people and destroying about 3,300 houses. Telegraph and telephone communication were wrecked while sugar plantations suffered only light damage.
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