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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1924
Page
2
Market report from Chicago on April 24 shows hogs steady to uneven with various weight classes trading from 6.25 to 7.40 per pound and top figures around 7.40. Cattle receipts near 11 000 with beef steers and fat cattle weaker and veal prices drifting lower. Sheep and lambs active with fat lambs up 15 to 25 cents and woolly ewes around 9.00 per hundredweight.
Chicago officials release live stock estimates for tomorrow with hog receipts at 28 000, cattle 3 000, and sheep 2 000 reflecting market expectations.
Dr Karl Helfferich a leading German financial figure and his mother were killed when two express trains collided near Berlin Zona. The report notes his prior posts including ambassador to Russia, interior secretary, vice chancellor, and Deutsche Bank director, and his stance on war loans and postwar reparations. A Berlin dispatch also clarifies Hjalmar Schacht was not killed in the crash and remains in Berlin.
Tokio April 14 Japanese groups including government arsenal workmen associations and the Japan Educational Association continue meetings and pass resolutions in protest of America’s exclusion legislation.
Wheat No 1 hard 1.05 to 1.12 dollars. Corn various grades range from 76% to 89% for mixed and yellow, with standards listed. Oats No 2 white 49% and No 4 white 47% to 48%. Rye No 2 67. Barley 76 to 88. Timothy seed 5.00 to 7.60. Clover seed 13.50 to 22.00. Lard 10.67, Rives 16.12. Bellies 10.60.
Chicago April 24 wheat prices eased as favorable crop reports and weather reduced gains. May futures drifted around 1.02 to 1.02 with slight rallies after a favorable McNary-Haugen report, then eased again on Caraway senate action. Corn followed wheat lower, oats held steady, and provisions stayed firm amid light selling.
In Bend Oregon on April 24 authorities reported three missing trappers Dewey Morris Edward Nichols and Roy Wilson were found shot to death in Big Lava Lake after being missing since January 15 Investigators believe they were lured from their cabin shot from a bush and their bodies carried to the lake on a sled before being dumped in the water.
A joint resolution moved by the judiciary committee in Des Moines safeguards teachers with three years of successful experience from retroactive certification changes. It aims to keep accredited schools eligible for state aid and protect teachers from arbitrary new standards, while preserving board dismissal powers.
Mrs Jon Novak of Louisville Nebraska reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for twelve years prior to her three year old son. She cites her long trial and recommends the remedy to others. A country-wide canvass found 68 of 106 buyers benefited. For sale by druggists everywhere.
A tractor driven machine lifts tops and piles beets, claiming to end child labor in beet fields and cut production costs to restore beet sugar's wartime status. Also includes a probate notice listing Samuel S. Wright's will filed for Iowa Washington county.
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