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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1924
Page
2
Daily Market Reports from Chicago show hogs uneven and mostly lower with select good grades at 7.20 to 7.25 per unit and slaughter pigs 4.60 to 6.25. Sheep receipts reach 11 000 with fat lambs rising 15 to 25, while cattle volumes edge up and beef heifers trade 6.25 to 8.00 with fat cows 5.00 to 7.00 and stockers scarce.
Chicago April 26 official livestock estimates set hogs at 20000 cattle at 7000 and sheep at 8000 for tomorrow.
The world championship skating contest in Christiania between Arthur Staff of the United States and Oscar Mathisen of Sweden was abandoned after protracted talks over prize money and a series of harsh newspaper exchanges. Mathisen refused to meet the American.
In Berlin a 1811 Rhine wine theft by a wealthy family with historic vineyards caused a sensational antic. Rewards were posted for any return and detectives watched antique shops for clues.
Chicago April 29 Wheat prices range No 1 hard 1.07 to 1.12 No 2 hard 1.07% to 1.12 Corn prices span No 2 mixed 76 to 76 No 3 mixed 76 to 76 No 6 mixed 73 to 78 No 2 yellow 78% to 79 No 3 yellow 76 to 78% No 4 yellow 74% to 76 No 6 yellow 74 No 6 yellow 73 to 74% No 2 white 78% to 79 No 3 white 76 to 76% No 4 white 75 to 75% Sample grade 68 to 69 Date No 2 white 48 to 49 No 2 white 47% to 48% No 4 white 47 to 47% Rye No 2 65% to 67% Barley 72 to 87 Timothy seed 6.00 to 7.50 Clover seed 13.50 to 21.00 Lard 16.60 Ribs 9.87 Bellies 10.26
In Chicago trading on April 29, wheat edged higher amid end of month accounting and shifting May to July contracts as Washington farm legislation uncertainty weighed on sentiment. May closed near 1.03 and July around 1.06, while corn and oats faced declines before later rallies. provisions remained firm despite hog price drops.
On April 29 in Chicago the potato market showed slow trading and dull activity. Receipts totaled 31 cars with United States shipments at 385, featuring Wisconsin sacked rounds and bulk prices from 1.05 to 1.25, Minnesota and North Dakota sacked Red River Rhips 1.00 to 1.40, and Idaho sacked Roussets 2.25 to 2.40.
Ambergris is a fatty secretion from sperm whales found in the sea or washed ashore in lumps up to 200 pounds. It develops a sweet disagreeable odor when exposed to air and has high commercial value for perfume production due to rarity and rising demand.
Filbert Hubbard extols three essential practices the work health and study habits as the keys to all worldly worth. He argues one condition enhances them to limitless potential and that imagination cannot conjure greater improvements.
Havre notes show Mr and Mrs John Cuningham of Crawfordsville visiting Will Foster and family. Frank Mayhew of Washneton paints a farm house interior. Bonnie Bereiter and Vyril Dunbar appear in a Washington art gallery program. The class includes 7 boys and 13 girls led by Veryl Dunbar and George Simpson. Characters attend church in Washington Sunday. A car of oats shipped from Washington Tuesday. A round of visits to Richland and Crawfordsville concludes the week.
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe is described as the highest waterfall in the world with drops exceeding 400 feet. David Livingstone, the famed explorer, was the first European to view the falls in 1855. The Grand Falls in Labrador are noted as possibly North America’s highest at about 325 feet.
Mrs Clarence Timmins and son Marion are very sick with grippe. S P Beatty and daughter visited Jim Schulty last Monday. Ethel Amlong and John Swartzen Druber wed in Washington and will live in Iowa City. Wise Eyestone was kicked by a horse last week. Marie Stewart returned home after seven weeks teaching. Ezra and Mrs Gardner helped Wade with spring work. Warren Matthess and family visited Washington Sunday. Lee and George McAvoy filing for Jim Schulty.
The Brighton High School hosted its annual Junior-Senior banquet in the gym. Decorations featured orange and white colors with a Parisian garden theme, six tables of forty eight seats, and a reception separated by streamers. Sopomore girls in white organdy served the menu including fruit cocktail and brick ice cream as toastmaster Siebert Mortimore announced program numbers and scenes from Paris.
Seventy six seens list community happenings. Junior Henderson is sick while Six School closes April 26. Miss Dorothy Ralston and Miss Ruth Endicott visit Lera Romine. several others attend lodge and visit relatives in West Chester and Washington.
Sunday gatherings as many families visited relatives and neighbors around Henderson and Romine households. Local residents report illnesses, new car purchases, and cattle deliveries with several mentions of work, visits, and small family events in the area.
Mrs Frank Gerot and Mr and Mrs Fred Moss of Riverside visited Pete Gerot home. Mrs Stanley Heck visited with sister Mrs Milt Waldroth near Washington. Bert Flynn returned to Iowa City after helping his sons on the farm. Mr and Mrs Victor Burich spent Thursday with Frank Lear. Mr and Mrs Joe Kupka visited Hills. The Pehoda Jr couple hosted a charivari and big feed with ice cream and cigars as they start a new life in Iowa City. Chas Havel and son visited Washington on business and at Eli Applegate home. The South Side Needle Club met with Mrs Lee Backwalter, seven of twelve members present. Mrs Buckwalter served refreshments. Mrs J L Benda returned to Iowa City from visit with daughter Mrs Roy Cummings. Stanley and Albert Heck, John and
An Ohio physician Dr Edwards popularizes Olive Tablets as a gentle liver and bowels tonic to combat a sallow complexion dark circles pimples and dull eyes. Marketed as a substitute for calomel these olive colored tablets come in 15 and 25 cent sizes promising natural buoyancy and impurity clearance.
A Truman Minnesota woman describes severe pain and fatigue eased by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She reports regained energy for housework gardening field work and harvest chores including milking and corn picking after using the remedy before and after the birth of her four month old baby. The ad urges other women with common sex-related troubles to try the product, noting decades of relief and availability through druggists.
A veteran nurse from Wauwatosa Wisconsin testifies Tanlac restores health and strength in run down patients. She cites her own eighty year old mother whose appetite improved and general vigor returned after taking Tanlac. She praises Tanlac and its pills and notes extensive sales.
Floyd Wieland and Richard Skala joined the Modern Woodmen of America and were received into the Riverside lodge on Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott of Riverside visited over Sunday at the Ovecar McArtor home.
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