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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 02, 1924

Page

2

Daily Market Reports Chicago Aug 2 hoge receipts and cattle veal pork terms

Hog receipts 5,000. prices range 8.60 to 9.90 for various weights. Cattle receipts 600 with mixed changes. top matured steers 11.76, beef steers 8.60 to 11.00, cows 4.00 to 6.60. Sheep receipts 2,000. native lambs 13.25, fat lambs 13.60 to 13.65, feeding lambs 12.25 to 32.60. Market tone mixed with gains and declines noted across weights and categories.

Chicago May Lord

Omaha Livestock Market Report Aug 2 Omaha Neb

Cattle receipts 250 beef steers and yearlings up to 0.50 with top yearlings at 11.60 gran fed cows and heifers up 0.25 to 0.50 vealers 7.56 8.00 stockers and feeders 8.06 9.06 sheep receipts none fat lambs and yearlings higher to 13.65 natives and fed clipped lambs listed with price ranges closing bulks and weights as typical for the day.

Omaha Neb

Sioux City Livestock Market Receipts and Price Shifts

Cattle receipts 300 with mixed changes from the prior week. Fat steers and yearlings up 25 cents to 11.25 top, fat cows and heifers 25 cents higher, grass cattle down 1.00, feeders and stockers steady to strong. Hogs receipts 1,000 with prices up 25 cents. top 9.60, most sales 7.75 to 9.40. Sheep receipts 300 lambs 25 to 60 cents higher. lambs around 12.00, ewes higher, light ewes 6.56.

Bioux City Oklahoma Texas Colorado

Kansas City Livestock Market Prices Aug 2

Cattle receipts 800 and calves 160 for the week. Grain fed steers and yearlings 60 to 75 higher, cake fed cattle 25 to 50 cents higher, better grades grassers up to 25 cents, plain quality grassers weak to dull. Top weights 11.20, best mature steers 11.25, grain fed cows and heifers 25 to 50 cents higher, medium grassy cows dull, light weights 60 percent higher, bulk steady after prices: grain fed steers and yearlings 8.76 to 10.85, cake feds 7.35 to 9.10. Wintered Kansas.

Kansge City Kansas

Wheat and grain prices in Chicago market report

The Chicago market lists commodity prices for wheat corn rye barley timothy seed and clover seed with several grades and bid ranges. Lard ribs bellies also shown with pricing details across No grades and weights.

Wheat Market Rising Amid Rust Reports and Dawes Plan News

Chicago markets saw wheat advance as Canadian black rust reports suggested ruin to much land wheat near Melita Manitoba. Dawes plan acceptances buoyed prices while foreign exchange and 5,000,000 bushel vessel charters supported gains. corn and oats also climbed amid bullish weather outlooks and broad grain strength.

Chicago Canada Melita Manitoba Montreal

Potato Market Report From Chicago Aug 2

Potatoes show weakness with 82 car receipts and total US shipments at 721. Kansas and Missouri sacked Irish cobblers bring 1.10 to 1.20, few fancy shades higher, poor stock 1.00 to 1.05, Virginia barrel cobblers holdover stock sells at 2.50.

Chicago United States Kansas Missouri Virginia

Market report shows varied livestock prices across species

Cattle receipts and price ranges appear for Oklahoma, Texas, beef cows, heifers and feeders with top figures around 8.75 for fleshy feeders. Hog receipts total 1,600 with packer and shipper markets higher and tops near 9.50. Sheep and lamb markets rise with lamb tops around 13.35 and ewe prices about 6.75 to 8.50, reflecting overall strength this week.

I Saw Your Ad in the Journal

A reader notes they plan to tell merchants they saw their advertisement in the Journal. The line emphasizes referencing the newspaper as a source for consumer outreach. This brief item highlights ad awareness in local commerce.

Iowa crops show best progress of year in latest report

The weekly Iowa weather and crop bureau report notes warm, mostly cool nights and crops advancing well. Corn led progress with wheat threshing starting. oats in shock. barley, rye, spring wheat ahead. potatoes excellent. farm crops, truck crops, clover, and haying in good to excellent condition with regional variations and one note of heavy rain damaging some fields.

Des Moines Iowa Lowa Weather and Crop Bureau Charles D. Reed Woodbury Dubuque Timothy Dickinson Marshall

Market Gains Lifted By Dawes Plan News

The New York stock market opened firm as the Dawes plan revival boosted buying. Oils rails steels and coppers led gains with several issues rising a point or more, while others eased slightly amid weekend profit taking and upward foreign exchange moves.

New York Magma Copper Schulte Kresge Willys- Overland

Radio Programs Schedule Across Major Cities

The page lists radio broadcasts from AP via Radio Digest with stations in Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Davenport Detroit Kansas City Los Angeles New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland San Francisco and Schenectady. It details times and types of programs including concerts services organ readings choir hymns and Bible classes across many stations.

Gram WQJ Chicago WEBH WLW Cincinnati WSAI WHK Cleveland WFAA Dallas News WOC Davenport WCX Detroit Free Press Central M. E. Church Bigin Town City Jefferson City WDAF Kansas City WJZ New York Philharmonica Orchestra WHN WFI Philadelphia WCAR WIP WCAE Pittsburgh KGW Portland KPO San Francisco WGV Schenectady

Radio Listings Across Cities Highlight Evening Programs

A compiled timetable shows stations from Buffalo to Zion airing music, news, concerts, dance, and orchestral programs. Notable items include opera at WLW Cincinnati and Rigoletto at WCX Detroit Free Press, with entries for New York Marine band broadcasts and Philadelphia orchestras.

Wsai Cincinnat WHK Cleveland WTAM WFAA Dallas News WOC Davenport WWJ Detroit News WCX Detroit Free Press KFI Los Angeles WEAF New York WBBR WHN WOR Newark KGO Oakland WOO Philadelphia

Local News and Social Notes from Cotter

Aug 1 report from Cotter notes Mr and Mrs J F Wright Paul June and family and Frank Gleason recently left Biloxi for San Diego after a three week stay with Mrs L A Meredith. Kathryn Edwards visited Iowa City near her father’s bedside. Hugh Morris visited home folks Sunday. Hog shipments rose as several carloads left Tuesday during the high market. Beulah Meredith vacationed in Washington. Hugh Edwards died in Iowa City July 28 and was buried July 30.

Beulah Meridith Washington Hugh Edwards Iowa City

Brass cleaning with oxalic acid and muriatic alum bath

Oxalic acid rubbed on tarnished brass removes tarnish. Wash with water and rub with soft leather. A mixture of muriatic acid and alum diluted in water imparts a golden color to brass items when dipped briefly.

Weather Report Finds US Week of Favorable Grower Conditions

U S weather bureau weekly report shows moderate temperatures and abundant sunshine with light rain aiding harvesting haying threshing and cultivating across the United States through July 30. Soil moisture adequate central and northern regions. drought intensifies in west gulf. corn mostly good with some river bottom areas poor and needs rain west of the gulf. potatoes and minor crops perform well except dry southwest. spring wheat developing well in North Dakota and Minnesota with harvest starting in South Dakota.

Des Moines Iowa United States United States Weather Bureau Rockly Mountains West Gulf Missouri Valley Gulf North Dakota Minnesota South Dakota

Fifty-Five Summer Session Grads at Iowa State College

Iowa State College awarded bachelor of science degrees to 55 candidates at the end of the first summer session which closed July 18. Eleven earned master of science while four received two year certificates and Victor G. Heller of Ames earned a doctor of philosophy. Home economics graduates totaled 18, industrial science 10, agriculture 11. Enrollment reached 1400 for the session, the largest in college history. The second summer session begins July 12 and runs to August 28 with commencement for those completing requirements.

Iowa State College Victor G. Heller Ames

Lady Astor Ranked Fourth Among Women Orators

In a London political dinner survey the most effective women speakers in the house of commons were ranked led by Margaret Bondfield. The Duchess of Atholl, Mrs Wintringham, Lady Astor, Lady Terrington, Mrs Phillipson, Miss Susan Lawrence, and Miss Dorothy Jenson filled the rest with varying judgments on eloquence and restraint.

Lady Astor Commons London House of Commons Margaret Bondfield Duchess of Atholl Mrs. Wintringham Lady Terrington Phillipson Susan Lawrence Dorothy Jenson

Farmer Profit Outlook From Corn Hog Practices

Des Moines reports Charles D. Reed of the Iowa weather and crop bureau says farmers could profit whether hogs are sold now or fed on high priced corn. If hogs are held to maturity, prices rise. if they sell now, they gain from saved corn. Pork consumption in 1923 reached 91.4 pounds per capita, with 1918 being the low in the century.

Des Moines Charles D. Reed Lowa Reed United States Europe

Tags Attached to Salmon to Track Sea Travel

Salmon will be tagged this summer to trace their movements from the North Pacific to spawning grounds in southeastern Alaska. Assistant Fisheries Agent E M Ball says details will include how when and where captured. A reward of 50 cents per tagged fish is offered by canneries, aiming to tag up to five thousand salmon at Indian Island Cross Sound Kingamill Port Chatham Strait Ruins Point Sumner Strait Cape Chacon Clarence Strait Tree Point and Revillagigedo Island.

Juneau Alaska North Pacific Ocean E. M. Ball Indian Island Cross Sound Kingamill Port Chatham Strait Ruins Point Sumner Strait Cape Chacon Clarence Strait Tree Point Revillagigedeo Island

Cedar Rapids Farmer Benefits From Sealed Corn Market Claim

A Cedar Rapids reader rebuts F W Murray arguing farmers gain from rising prices. He cites a northeastern Iowa farmer who, after selling last fall’s crop at 60c, sealed corn under the Iowa state warehouse law and reaped 1.02 a bushel this week, earning 3200 more than planned.

Cedar Rapids F. W. Murray Mr. Murphy Iowa

Ocean Volume Factoid on Pacific Islands

The Pacific Ocean covers 68 million square miles and would require a tank one mile by one mile by one mile to store its contents daily for 440 years.

Pacific Ocean

Lead for the common good urged in Abilene Ref reflector

An editorial from Abilene Kansas Reflector argues that leadership is needed to steer cooperative efforts. It condemns the view that others should simply follow and emphasizes collective responsibility and clear direction to achieve communal goals.

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