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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
2
Hog receipts 14,000 dull with early sales to shippers and yard traders up 10 cents. Light and packing hogs varied from 12.70 to 14.50 with strong weights lower. Cattle receipts 10,000. choice fed steers scarce and firm, rest uneven. Sheep receipts 10,000. fat lambs active and higher, natives and western feeders priced around 15.00.
Cattle and hog receipts at East Saint Louis show slow trading and mixed pricing. Hog top at 14.50 with various weight classes steady to lower. cattle including native and western steers, cows, canners, and grass heifers with prices from 2.50 to 10.75. sheep and lambs trading steady with best lambs around 14.75 and up to 15.00 for top quality.
Official stock estimates list hogs at TR.000 and cattle at 15,000, with sheep also 15,000 in the Chicago market.
A reproduction of the Black Hills gold rush will be staged during Deadwood South Dakota's Days of 76 celebration on August 12 13 and 14 A duplicate of the 1870s Deadwood Gulch mining settlement will host a frontiersman pageant depicting life and characters from that era.
Wheat ranges No 1 hard 1.60 to 1.65 and No 2 hard about 1.59 to 1.62. Corn bids feature No 2 mixed at 1.08, No 3 mixed 1.074 to 1.08, and No 2 yellow 1.10 to 1.11. Oats list No 2 white 43 to 44 and other white grades. Barley 70 to 87, Timothy and Clover seed with prices, plus lard ribs bellies at market rates.
Clover seed cash 17.20 for August and 15.75 for October, with 14.90 in December. Timothy seed cash 3.95 for August and 4.25 for September, 4.15 for October. Market figures reflect current cash bids in Toledo Ohio.
Hollywood Cal August 4 Irving Cummings outlines a system for selecting plots that fit 14 dramatic points to boost a film’s chances of success. He states future productions will face fewer failures as audiences are targeted and key ingredients like ambition conflict and love are emphasized.
Leading characters in the pageant celebration include Wild Bill Calimiyvy Jane Colorado Charley and California Joe. Pioneers of frontier days assist directors in recreating life of that period.
Mrs Emma Willits and her daughter from Mount Pleasant were in Washington as shoppers yesterday.
The First M. E. church welcomed back Pastor Dr. Bowers who preached on life beyond meat and the value of simplicity. He contrasted mountain and city experiences with faith and cited William Jennings Bryan as a model of sincerity courage and faith while praising the church's music and Sunday school enrollment.
Dare's Mentha Pepsin promises rapid relief from gas bloating and stomach distress. It claims to conquer indigestion dyspepsia and gastritis while alleviating dizziness headaches and despondency. The ad notes pleasant taste and tonic benefits with assurances from J E Lemmon and local druggists.
Local notices list numerous group meetings and events for August six including Bethel Presbyterian lawn social at the Davis Brothers home and various church and women's club gatherings. Activities include regular meetings of Ainsworth O. BS chapters, Rebekah regular meeting, Prairie Flower church cantata, Rural Woman's club vacation discussion, American Legion October meeting note, Circle reading, Temperance Union session, Ladies Foreign Missionary Society, and Methodist choir rehearsal with attendance emphasis.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Second United Presbyterian Church will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. T. Stephens. Members are asked to note a change of meeting date. The Sed Division of the JS church will meet Friday at 2 30 at the church with Mrs. Nettia McLavahlin as leader. The convention magazines will be discussed. The TE TE Club will meet with Mrs. J A Harter Thursday afternoon and roll call will be answered with a favorite recipe.
Keota social note notes Mrs Fairy Dunshee of Keota visited last night at the Charles Dunshee home. W H Stephens piano tuner is currently on site with contact at 180.
Mrs L O Dasner of Valdosta reports severe female weakness with back side and leg pains improved after Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound treatment. She credits the medicine as wonderful for nervous run-down women and notes disappearance of unpleasant symptoms.
Mrs C F Palmer of 247 Champion Street Battle Creek Michigan writes of relief from pain and swelling after reading a Cleveland paper about Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She reports improvement after the first bottle and offers to help other women by answering letters about her experience.
A new social and dining club opens in central London to serve women workers. Large firms with canteens help staff, but smaller employers lack catering, so the club offers affordable meals and a social hub for sports and evening engagements, saving travel time.
The document shows a dense list of train numbers names and daily or partial daily departures and arrivals including westbound eastbound freight and passenger services. It notes agents and local passes with times from early morning to evening and mentions several No. trains such as 4 12 50 33 49 11 87 99 and freight and passenger services.
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