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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market update shows hogs receipts 29 909 with holdover 1 359 and cattle 24 000 with sheep 29 000 holdovers 1 399. Prices mostly 10 to 15 cents higher. calves and sheep receipts vary with flats and primes listed. Chicago wheat and corn futures quoted with mixed gains and losses as livestock estimates for tomorrow project hogs 20 000 cattle 11 090 sheep 30 000.
W R Gamon and Sons held a Poland China sale at the Fast End Garage Saturday afternoon with a good crowd and strong interest. Auctioneer Cooper called the best Poland China lot he has handled this season and top price reached 195 dollars for a boar. average sale price near 50 dollars with every animal sold. Purchasers include A D Porter and Son Goodhope Illinois R J Moore Griggsville Iowa Co W Overton Knoxville Iowa E W Smykie Solon Iowa Everette Emde Wellman Iowa Donahoe Bros Holbrook Iowa Robert Sheetz Keota Iowa and others in Washington Independence Wayland and Kalona.
Sept 20 L H Rinner Noble Duroc and dairy cows then Sept 21 K Frechin 719 N 7th Ave Washington closing out sale Sept 24 Keating Pros Washington stock sale Sept 27 J C Huston Crawfordsville Spotted Poland Chinas Oct 1 Kuotek Bros Washington Duroc Jersey sale Oct 5 E J Paul Washington Spotted Poland China Oct 15 P J Welsh Washington Poland China sale Oct 22 John Wagner Washington Poland China sale Oct 25 Ernest Carlson Washington Duroc Jersey sale
Anita Stewart headlines the Fox Theater showing of Sowing the Wind produced by Louis B. Mayer. The silent drama follows Rosamond from a gambling den to love and family truth with strong supporting players Ralph Lewis James Morrison Myrtle Stedman and William V Mong. Directed by John M Stahl the film adapts a Sydney Grundy stage play and aims for suspense with moral undertones.
Des Moines to Indianapolis train runs Sept 24 8 40 p m to Sept 25 4 p m with Chicago stop. arrival in Indianapolis 4 p m. Special rate of 1 cent per mile applies both directions for Grand Army veterans their wives dependents widows and Civil War nurses.
The passage notes a royal custom where the king’s equerry delivers £200 to the house steward to distribute among the staff after a royal stay. It explains a fixed practice tied to the king’s visits and gratuities.
Receipts of eggs are lighter with higher prices for fine stock. Lees cream arrives at creameries with firmer demand and prices. Demand remains for current consumption. Fowl market up but temporary. larger Lexhorh hens favored, Leghorns and small chickens cheaper. Iowa dairy judging team named. ISU students undertake Omaha inspection trip focusing on packing plants and stockyards. Poultry records show 11,884 hens laying 128,161 eggs in August. Webworms attack shade trees. control methods offered. Iowa farmers with automobiles debated. argues autos aid packing and markets, boosts farm life quality.
Census figures from the fourteenth agricultural census show Iowa topped the nation in value of chickens and eggs in 1919 with 70 212 444 dollars, outperforming Illinois and Missouri. The national total for livestock products on farms was 2 667 738 931 dollars, with New York and Wisconsin leading dairy output and overall totals.
A note on how urban living seems to influence hair color, with city residents often having darker hair than country people observed by observers.
The American Farm Bureau Federation approves a Women’s Committee to represent farm women. Mrs. Charles Schutler of Missouri chairs with members from Michigan, West Virginia and New York and a western member to be named. Floravee Ward will advise. a National Women’s Department is planned with an assistant secretary. The panel will craft recommendations for the Atlanta meeting in November.
Iowa City Press-Citizen analyzes a misprint where the phrase the fat men's race listing W N Helme colored H A Dunlap and Thomas Murray altered meaning. The word colored, a linotype mistake, changed Colonel Dunlap into a false descriptor and distorted the writer’s intent. Correction notes underscore how a line break or misspelling can ruin sense.
Osceola national guardsmen, led by Sgt Fred Nelson of Troop F, 1st Iowa Cavalry, compete for national honors at Camp Perry. Nelson reports Troop F has better riflemen than the present state team and could win a majority of 1922 Iowa spots with coaching.
Nelson tops Iowa list and averages 288 of 300 per man in the preliminary U S militia shoot. He Believes U S Marines will win the open shoot as most marines have broken world records with the new 1921 model army rifle praised as a humdinger by Captain O'Brien. Riflemen nationwide use these rifles in the national shoot.
Vac lav J. Klofac a Czech senator visited Cedar Rapids Amana College and Iowa State Agricultural College Ames and Nebraska to study farming methods in the United States. He served ten years in the Austrian parliament and spent three years in an Austrian jail during the war.
Census returns show Sothond’s population below 5 million with a current figure under that threshold. Over the past decade the area added about 121 000 residents, indicating slow growth.
Des Moines forecast for the week says generally fair with normal temperatures. Scattered showers are possible Tuesday or Wednesday across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys.
Franklin D. Roosevelt former assistant secretary for the navy and last year's Democratic vice presidential candidate has a mild case of infantile paralysis. Doctor George Draper said Roosevelt arrived at Presbyterian hospital from Campobello and is slowly recovering after four weeks of illness. Draper added some leg muscle control is returning and Roosevelt should not be crippled though hospital stay is uncertain.
An American women founded one of Japan’s first girls schools in Yokohama in 1871, marking a pioneering step for female education in the country.
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