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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1926
Page
2
August market notes show hog receipts near 25 000 with uneven demand and slow trade as top bids rise for 140 to 200 pound hogs while heavy weight hogs fetch varied quotes. Cattle receipts around 8 000 with fats steady to higher and grassers scarce. sheep receipts 13 000 with fat lambs and ewes trading steady to strong and feeding lambs slowing.
Chicago officials released estimates for tomorrow listing hogs 14,000 cattle 2,000 and sheep 8,000 with details unavailable besides the figure totals and classifications for the upcoming market day.
Toledo Ohio August 5 Clover futures quoted cash for immediate delivery 17.75 with October 18.85 and December 15.70. Timety seed cash for September and October 3.85 asked. ALSIKE and other seed bids listed for August and September as shown.
A man suffered extensive burns after gasoline from a truck tank exploded near Carthage Illinois. Mike Brandon ran a quarter mile to his home tearing off clothing as flames engulfed him. He was hospitalized in Fort Madison Iowa and expected to recover despite the serious burns.
State Senator Simpson and special prosecutor in the revived Hall Mills case announced an arrest was ordered for Ralph V. M. Gerline, choir leader at Rev. Edward M. Hall’s New Brunswick church. The exact charge and Gerline’s whereabouts were not disclosed.
Ted Bracton aged 70 was fatally injured when attacked by a brown Swiss bull in a pasture on the Verne Wiebrande farm near Cedar Falls where he worked. He died en route to the hospital after family members, drawn by a barking dog, rescued him.
A Washington market price listing shows butterfat cream 87 cents per pound, eggs hens and springs priced per dozen or pound with several weight classes, geese and ducks listed by size, and beef and horse hides priced per pound or each. The text notes no market for damaged poultry and an injury incident where hull workers carried an injured man to safety.
Katherine M. Kavanaugh, 69, of Leon Iowa, died from burns after paraffin used to seal a jelly jar set her clothing ablaze. Her husband, burned while trying to beat out the flames, was released from hospital as she died. Funeral set for Leon. Montreal golf: Gene Sarazen and Johnny Farrell tied for lead after the first round of the Canadian Open.
The Rev. John Webster Keeler, 85, pastor of First Congregational church in Burlington, Conn., and possibly the nation’s oldest active Congregational minister, died today.
The article catalogs tomorrow’s radio schedule across many stations led by WEAF New York and WGN Chicago. It lists concerts, orchestras, soloists, lessons, and varied programs with times and venues. The piece notes a local crime item: the third boy in a staged auto accessory theft was sent to Eldora reform school yesterday.
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