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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1910
Page
6
Chicago April 18 wheat prices bearish on strong supplies and weak export demand with May July and September levels. Corn shows steady tone with shift to July hedges while oats ease on ample stocks. Provisions fall as hog prices drop, with large hog receipts pressuring values across the board.
Shippers overbuilt cattle early week and local buyers worked five days to steady losses. Beef and fat cattle closed near prior week, hogs fell but prompt buying and traders anticipated May to July runs. Bulls strong, calves steady, stockers firm while hog prices fell to nine to ten dollars. Sheep showed wide swings with owners gaining at week’s close and lambs near nine sixty five.
Cattle receipts 200 unchanged with calf and stocker ranges listed. Hogs receipts 5,800 with price bands from 8.50 to 9.75 for various weights. Sheep receipts 100 with yearlings 8.00 to 8.75, wethers 7.50 to 8.40, ewes 6.75 to 8.00, lambs 9.00 to 10.00.
Des Moines cattle receipts 200 slow and dull with good to choice mainly at 5.25 to 6.90, medium to good 4.65 to 5.50, common to fair 4.35 to 4.80, canners and cutters 1.30 to 2.70, real calves 5.75 to 6.75. Hog receipts 600 with market draggy and weak, top grades good to choice 9.00 to 9.20, medium to good 8.85 to 9.25, rough mixed 8.70 to 9.00.
South St Joseph on April 18 reports cattle receipts of 100 with steady prices for steers from 5.75 to 8.00, cows and heifers 3.25 to 6.50, calves 4.00 to 7.50. Hog receipts 2,200, prices 2.70 to 2.80 top, bulk sales 9.65 to 9.75.
Market list details prices for apples bananas cranberries dates figs grapefruit grapes lemons carrots turnips strawberries tomatoes rutabagas eggplant parsley sweet potatoes radishes and beets. Prices shown per barrel crate basket dozen and case with assorted origins including Jersey Smyrna California Illinois and Louisiana products.
Butter No 1 creamery 32c prose ss 24 5 country roll 25c cooking 24c Eyes No 1 21c No 2 20 cracked eggs 18c Live poultry Hens 18c spring chickens 1344c stags 10c old cucks we hen turkeys 19c young tom turkeys 17c old toms life ducks life
Washington April 19 The hearing before the House committee on expenditures in the department of commerce and labor drew a diverse group led by Representative Herbert Parsons of New York and including Owen R Lovejoy Mrs J Ellen Foster and Professor Samuel M Lindsey among others. The supporters urged the measure as a help for child welfare with its aim limited to information gathering and dissemination not police power. A late contribution came from the grave voice of Thomas F Walsh in favor of the bill aligning with Theodore Roosevelt’s stance. Also discussed was reclassification of the government clerk and a note on La Follette and Morgan remarks in the Senate.
Medical authorities declare eczema is caused by microscopic animal activity under the skin not blood disease. The skin alone is affected while the patient remains healthy. A liquid remedy is claimed to penetrate the skin to cure eczema and is offered by Cook & Sherman for a bottle at a stated price.
The New York Press lambasts lazy landowners and beef trusts arguing idle fields could feed cities if worked nearby. It calls out Sunday spouters who prefer staying in New York and threatens starve or steal if forced to work.
Berthon, a French experimenter, claims a solution to colored moving pictures. He splits natural tints into blue violet green and orange with three narrow colored slits in the camera lens. Images of these slits, in complementary colors, are reproduced on the photographic plate via a screen of many narrow curved celluloid strips.
The piece says gray hair is preventable by sage tea once common to grandmothers, now offered as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur scalp tonic. It promotes its superiority over traditional decoctions and notes availability for 50 cents to $1 at drug stores or by mail from Wyeth Chemical Co. New York, with Mc Elhinney Drug Co as a seller.
Nuns at the convent in Bocariente Spain repelled a band of robbers seeking gold silver ornaments tapestries and paintings. Barricaded doors and windows armed with old firearms. Civil Guards arrived as brigands breached a back door. Two robbers killed three wounded. three nuns injured.
An old advertisement promises to cure backache strengthen kidneys correct urinary irregularities build up worn tissues and eliminate excess uric acid causing rheumatism prevent Bright's Disease and Diabetes and restore health and strength. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhivney Drug Co.
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