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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1919
Page
2
Chicago hogs show strong tone with 25 to 50 cent gains and top at 20.25 as receipts reach about 4,000. Cattle receipts near 2,000 with heavy steers weak but good and choice calves up to 50 cents. Sheep receipts around 7,000 with feeders mixed and yearlings and wethers firm to higher on week-ago comparisons.
Senators opposed to the peace treaty plan a nationwide tour to explain their case. Hiram Johnson William Borah and Medill McCormick will speak at a Chicago mass meeting next Wednesday night then travel to Indianapolis St Louis Kansas City Des Moines Minnesota and the Pacific coast with joint and separate appearances.
A new construction concept uses glass bricks for outer wall sections. The idea has been adopted in several European cities to create light transmitting facades and modern architectural effects.
Iowa farm officials report extensive removal of common barberry hedges to curb wheat rusts. The joint USDA and Iowa State entomologist campaign spans twelve Upper Mississippi states, tracking barberry’s link to stem rust and urging complete elimination.
Adjutant General Crowder reports 22 percent of 100000 city youths examined for the army are unfit physically, vs 17 percent from farms. The editor’s historical study shows most presidents governors and senators until 1909 were country born or raised, suggesting farm life better trains future leaders.
Mutual 12 W S Reister & Sons lists higher prices for butter eggs poultry and cream with daily deliverables. Exes 37 cents a dozen, cream 9 cents per pound, hens 28 cents, springs 23 cents, old roosters 12 cents, ducks 18 cents, geese 10 cents, turkeys 20 cents, hides and calves priced per pound, horse hides 11 dollars.
Professor John Glass notes oiled dirt roads don t always improve results. He warns waterlogged beds and deep mud hinder use. He urges extending surfaced piling to country roads and estimates oiling costs at 225 to 250 dollars monthly for short hauls.
English financiers warn of weak foreign exchange and limited credits hindering US sales of war inflated goods. Europe may need 3 to 4 billion credits for US cotton exports, while calls for price reductions spread across all lines as costs trend downward.
United States Department of Agriculture promotes careful hog care to reduce sow and pig losses. Emphasizes sanitary housing, feeding, and temperature management from farrowing to weaning to maximize piglets and pork production.
The 1917 report notes Argentina ships 19 wheat and 15 corn in five weeks while new crop oats receipts run about 40 percent below early 1918 movement. US oats exports six months are 40 percent below expectations. World shipping remains scarce and oats consumption patterns show low uptake.
Dubuque reports farmer William Schumacher of Waverly shows cross breeding oats yields doubling neighbors. This year his field averaged eighty bushels per acre versus thirty to forty elsewhere. Last year 102 bushels. Starting with three kernels nine years ago using pollen from Ames, he selects top stalks. one kernel produced twelve stalks yielding 2 410 seeds from initial three grains. He declined a 240 dollar per acre return this year and plans to use much grain for seed next year.
The Laws on Air Line airship making its first journey from Milwaukee to New York crashed in a Syracuse field. No one was hurt. Pilot Charles Cox and Captain Alfred W. Lawson escaped with minor injuries as the airship body was smashed. Several passengers were aboard and must return home after extensive repairs.
Cedar Rapids was named the 1930 convention site by the Iowa American Legion after a two day meet at Hotel Fort Des Moines. Resolutions urged stripping conscientious objectors of citizenship, universal military training, deportation of some draft age men who deserted, and stronger wartime veteran support programs. Officers elected included Matthew Tinley as commander and W. Be Robb as state chaplain, with a regional executive committee chosen for districts.
Delegates were chosen from districts 2 through 11 with names from Muscatine Keokuk Dubuque and Sioux City among others. At large delegates included Tinley MaccVicar and McNider with Barton Hughes Peacock and Bjornstedt. A tribute moment honored 3500 Iowa war dead as delegates halted for a minute facing east.
An official Mexican consulate report from Galveston states Francisco Villa with a small force is surrounded in a canyon in Durango by federal forces under General Dieguez. Weguez’s cavalry has killed wounded or captured 275 Villistas in two engagements with a Villa detachment led by Martin Lopez, who is reported wounded.
News of a Caproni triplane fitted with Liberty motors and 18 cabin passengers flying from Milan across the Alps to Lyons Paris Brussels Amsterdam on its way to London was received in New York via telegram from D C Conti, Caproni representative.
Washington Sept. 5 Senator Underwood of Alabama urged in the senate the creation of a governmental commission with authority to fix railroad wage scales and transportation rates. He is a Democratic member of the interstate commerce committee.
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