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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1922
Page
2
Market reports show hogs and cattle prices with wide ranges. Beef cattle and veal prices listed, along with lambs and sheep. receipts projected, and grain futures including wheat corn oats quoted with open high low and close.
Sale dates announced include September 19 Welch and Wagner Washington for Poland China hog sale September 30 Hillhouse Brighton Iowa Spotted Poland China sale October 16 W R Gammon Washington for Poland China hog sale. Tell the merchant I saw your ad.
The Upper Iowa conference gathers in Mason City Sept 26 to Oct 2 drawing about 275 ministers and wives. Notables include Rev Frank Boeye, Bishop Ernest Richardson, Dr Hutchison, Rev J J McLaughlin and Rev Harry Farmer. Other Iowa conferences meet Keokuk Sept 18 Des Moines Chariton Sept 20 and Ft Dodge Oct 3.
London September 5 General Booth tells Welsh Salvationists in Cardiff that there is no smoking room in heaven. He notes no New Testament prohibition on smoking but wonders what St Peter would say if faced with a man with a meerschaum in his mouth.
The Exchange notes that recent statements about water gas may promise much but rest on shaky grounds. The public should see these reports as demonstrations of science tackling daily problems rather than firm solutions.
Grape growers in New York Ohio and Michigan begin spraying to shield crops from leafhoppers berry moths and other pests per USDA reports. The study outlines long term breeding tests with guinea pigs poultry and swine alongside livestock radio listeners and a Michigan State Fair exhibit promoting purebred stock and its higher earning potential.
The Chicago Federation of Labor pledges support to the railroad strike and plans fundraising. A Pittsburgh fire rescuing strikebreakers killed seven, ten burned, suspected incendiary origin. Federal officials consider injunction status. Labor Day plans announced. crowd violence reported and warrants discuss.
South Bend, Sept. 4. Professor John T. Tiernan of Notre Dame University, author of several legal books, prompted the arrest of Harry Poulin on a paternity charge. Tiernan defends his wife and the child, says he will prosecute Poulin for the sake of justice, and notes his university position remains secure while he decides how to proceed with the domestic issue.
During his final Criccieth visit, Premier Lloyd George hosted a tea party for 19 former pupils of Troedyrallt school, aged over 90. The eldest guest, a 91 year old carpenter, still works, and another attendee now blind once carried love messages between the premier’s parents.
The Cleveland agreement signed August 15 by United Mine Workers and coal operators spurs resumed soft coal output after idle months. Indiana and Illinois operators largely capitulated, with production near normal levels expected, averting a looming industrial coal famine for the Northwest. The pact, viewed as a miners victory, delays wage deflation and faces public-operator tensions ahead of a March 1 1923 renewal, signaling renewed government involvement and a broader fight over public interests versus private interests in coal regulation.
Frank J. Haddock of Rhodes, once a farmer, recounts how wartime service and a chance parachute exhibition led him to join a flying circus as a parachute man. He left farming after convincing his mother, then took up aviation with C. D. Tinsley Moving Picture Film Company in Corning.
The superintendent reports that among 22,000 examined criminals only four were college graduates. In a 1000 prisoner sample seven percent had high school, 25 percent grammar school, and 64 percent only primary grades. A French inventor touts paper piping made by winding paper tightly with an adhesive, claiming it is nearly unbreakable and light.
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