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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1919
Page
2
Chicago markets show estimated hog receipts 31,000 with holdovers 5,843 and mixed losses from Monday’s averages. Cattle receipts 19,000 with openings steady for choice native beef, feeders slow, and calves steady to strong. Sheep receipts 16,000 with lambs and yearlings offering a range from 7.25 to 16.75 and ewe prices from 2.25 to 18.75.
Furnished by E. W. Wagner & Co. Iowa City data shows car and price entries for corn and coffee. Includes 130 and 210 cars, price notes and tones, with Clover and December Coffee price points airily listed.
National League in Pittsburgh shows a 0 to 5 score for Green Diamond A. A., with Roston at 64. American League Boston loses 3 to New York 14. American Association includes Milwaukee 12 over Columbus 2, Kansas City 3 over Paoli 4, Indianapolis 7 over Idianapolis 4.
The United States Department of Agriculture replies to an Indiana State Food Committee inquiry emphasizing normal acreages for fall wheat and rye in the Midwest. It urges balanced, efficient production of staples, restoring meadows and crop rotations, and avoiding speculative farming. The Milk Week campaign promotes milk in daily diets with school lessons and public talks, urging at least a pint of milk per family member daily and a goal of higher milk consumption.
Des Moines County voters approved hard surfaced roads in the county and rejected a World War memorial for soldiers. Burlington precincts mostly backed roads. memorial support failed countywide, with women to vote on a city measure next spring.
Local market report from Mutual 12 W S Reister & Sons notes plenty of free parking and a plant at 120 East Third St. Stores will be closed all day Sept Lith. Poultry markets rise slightly due to receipts. butter remains high. eggs steady. Prices for produce delivered include bees per dozen, hens and springs per pound, cocks per pound, geese per pound, turkeys per pound, rabbits per pound, hides per pound, and pelts per item. selling ranges from 1100 to 1010 likely indicating farm sale figures. Weather remains warm, encouraging frequent marketing.
Long Beach California Sept 6 Former president William H Taft through his secretary has asked Walter J Desmond postmaster to locate an anonymous local writer whose 1825 letters over five years are illegible The missives often lack postage and use six pages each The opening lines quote from a poem about gems and caves and ocean depths.
A compact moral quote contrasts two snobbery types. It targets those who shame poverty and those who boast pedigree or wealth as equally snobbish. The mid-Victorian critique notes social pretensions across classes.
David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, rejects the idea that farm product prices must fall before manufactured goods drop. He argues manufacturers must cut prices contemporaneously and that profiteering should end. He notes the department will help farmers cut costs through better methods, financing, marketing, and disease control while extending fire protection beyond town limits where feasible.
Mt. Pleasant officials consider limited country fire coverage beyond the city. Farmers would fund an auxiliary pump on a fire truck and maintain cisterns for instant water. If a fire is reported, the department would respond and connect to local water tanks to spray 800 gallons per minute as long as roads allow access.
In West Liberty Iowa on Sept 9 Hildebrand doubled Page sacrificed and Collins delivered the go ahead hit in the eleventh to give the Letts Boosters a 3 to 2 win over the Riverside Green Sox. It was a tight pitching duel with West edging Riverside starter Ziegler. Collins made a standout catch in the tenth and Riverside and Letts set for the rubber game at Columbus Junction next Sunday.
The article notes the old-fashioned kitchen garden centered on herbs like sage and thyme and a range of medicinal and savory plants. It highlights French cuisine for its refined herb use and flavor, attributing much of its culinary success to skilled herb usage by French cooks.
A broker touts 30 tons cabbage 15 per ton 450 per acre and 400 to 600 dollars per acre potential, with onions and spuds yields and prices. Details include 240 acres near town with 80 cattle, 2 wells, brick silo, tenant farmer, mortgage assumptions 20 000 at 5 percent due 1932 and 10 000 due in five years. Address Robert Lubiens, cashier, St Ansgar Iowa.
In Centerville Iowa a new $10,000 fire truck rammed from the garage at 25 mph plus during a fire run. Driver Swafford sped away as three firemen chased the vehicle, tearing down a brick wall and breaching the Kearville building before backing into the White brick structure across the street.
A simple method instructs cutting a half inch from a cork, fitting it into the pipe bowl, and cutting a hole to fit a water tap nozzle. Gently turn on water and let it run through the stem until the pipe is cleaned.
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