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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1923
Page
2
Estimated hogs 58 000 today with holdover 7. Cattle receipts 30 000. Sheep 39 000. Beef steers mixed, vealers steady to lower, native lambs 25 lower. Feeding ewes 6 25 to 6 75. Official yesterday hogs 5 392 cattle 774 sheep 796 calves 343. Grain: Wheat steady to up slightly, corn 2 lower, oats steady. No. 3 yellow 8.84-8.99, No. 2 yellow 8.64-8.87.
Opinion from Charleston News remarks that constant labor blocks striking views and deep life perspectives. It asserts that relentless work drains one of life’s finest scenes and asks who can truly enjoy life while forever watching the toil.
A detailed sequence of sales schedules lists farmers and locations around Washington Iowa including Sept 15 to Oct 18 events. Entries include W C Hotle Edgar Todd W R Gamon J M Lord Hillhouse Hillhouse Beighard Al Cocklin Frea Wyse L H Rinner J E Adams Everett Shearer Welsh Wagner Forest Embree Chas Nicola Ernest Carlson Duree Knotek and Robert Sheetz with auction types such as Poland China Duroc Jersey and land and personal property auctions across multiple towns and roads.
A reflective excerpt attributes progress to breaking barriers and uniting through science, sea routes, and continental links. It notes philosophy building planes of thought for all races to meet in harmony of faith and purpose.
A tired businessman boasted of his pretty stenographer in town while noting her habit of leaving her van sy case in the cloak room and never pausing to powder her nose in the middle of a letter.
The article notes that whales, men, nurses, and bats are mammals. It explains most bats have one infant, some North American forms may have up to four. Babies cling to mothers as they forage and learn to fly, causing mothers to carry multiple times their weight while feeding.
The federal employment report shows Iowa's industrial firms kept normal forces in August with a positive fall outlook. Des Moines reports curtailment in building and some seasonal layoffs but strong general farm labor demand. Dubuque and Sioux City note balanced or improving conditions. Davenport and Cedar Rapids report full-time operation with ongoing farm labor calls. Neighboring states show mixed results with Nebraska surplus and Missouri slackening.
The Pittsburgh Gazette Times highlights a publicity seeker who enjoys misquoting himself to invite further misquotations. The item satirizes blitz of public attention and the cycle of attribution.
A little girl tells her parent she is improving in drawing her mother. She recalls drawing a cake on her slate and Bennie guessing it resembled something to eat, likely an oyster, in a light domestic scene.
The Highland Center school opened September 1 with Miss Hazel Askea of Washington as teacher. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. George McGinnis and family and Mr. and Mrs. Doc McGinnis were business visitors in Anamosa last Monday. Ben Miller visited Wayland. Threshing meeting held at Sterling Holmes Tuesday night. Glen Miller cut his foot while chopping wood last week. Clair Kron and family visited Ft Madison with relatives. Journal Want-Ads offer to sell items.
The article records Luis Firpo weighing in at the State Athletic Commission office for the Firpo Dempsey bout with the beam tipping at 216 pounds. It also lists local social notes from Iowa City including visits, travels, and community club activities alongside hospital news and sewing training attendance.
The Lexington Ladies Aid Society will host Harvest Home Dinner and Bazaar at the Lexington ME church basement on Thursday September 26. A chicken dinner starts at 11 a.m. Prizes include angel food cake dark cake white lager cake one pound butter bread jelly homemade candy cabbage pumpkin and more. An afternoon ball game and amusements plus special music are planned.
A stark quotation on posthumous respect echoes through an exchange about honoring graves. The phrase questions why society rarely adorns graves while people live, arguing flowers symbolize recognition that death often lacks while the living may forget.
A snippet explains how in seventeenth century Turkey refusing coffee to a wife could justify divorce and that modern divorces cite wives neglecting to serve good coffee as a separation cause.
In a playful Everett True style note, readers teased to abandon hands for vegetables, suggesting a fork and a computer tip as tongue in cheek. The quirky prompt riffs on modern gadgets while keeping the cartoonish humor.
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