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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1924

Page

2

Daily Market Reports Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices Aug 13

Chicago live market data show hog receipts 32 000 with mixed price moves, prime lots at 9 60 to 9 66 for 180 to 240 pounds, lighter weights at 9 30 to 9 40. Cattle receipts 13 000 with slow killing classes and declines about 1 cent, heavy weights above 11.00 for strictly choice heavies, vealers steady near 11.00 for packers. Sheep receipts 15 000 active with fat lambs 13.00 to 13.76 to packers and outsiders, range lambs 13.25 to 13.76, feeders steady.

Chicago Monehly

Kansas City Livestock Prices Mildly Mixed With Varied Demand

Cattle receipts reach 10 000 with calves at 2 000 and slow demand. Grain fed steers and yearlings mostly steady to 25 cents lower, top matured steer prices 10 25, bulk fed stockers 8.00 to 10.00, Texas cake feds around 7.00, grassers 6.25 to 6.50, cows and bulls show mixed shifts. Hogs receipts 8 000 with prices 15 cents lower to decade, top 9.25, sows 7.90 to 8.00, stock pigs uneven. Sheep receipts 3 000 with higher killing classes 15 to 25 cents, native lambs around 12.60 to 13.00, ewes 7.00.

Kansas City Kansas

Hogs Cattle and Sheep Receipts Trend in Omaha Market

Omaha reports for August 13 show hog receipts at 11,000 with mixed price shifts. butchers 8.90 to 9.10, sows up to 8.25, most hogs 7.85 to 9.00. Cattle receipts 6,800 with steers and yearlings steady to slightly lower, top 10.75 for medium weight fed cattle. veals steady. Sheep receipts 12,000 with lambs 13.00 to 13.60 and fat lambs around 13.60 for top lots. sheep steady amid demand for feeders.

Sioux City Livestock Market Report August Cattle Prices

Sioux City cattle receipts reached 2,600 with active demand. Prices ranged for fat steers and yearlings from 7.50 to 10.75, bulk 8.50 to 10.60, fat cows and heifers 5.50 to 9.50, grass and feeding cattle mainly 2.00 to 6.50, feeders and stockers 6.00 to 7.50, and calves 4.00 to 7.00.

Sioux City

Wheat and grain prices move on Chicago markets

Chicago markets report mixed grain and feed prices with wheat and corn varying by grade and quality. The notes provide bid ranges for No. 2 red wheat at 1.31 percent to 132 percent, corn mixed grades around 1.16, oats and rye figures, and livestock items including lard bellies and rivbea among others.

Chicago

New High Price for Corn

Chicago reports a new high price for corn as buying boosts December and May deliveries. Weather is unfavorable for corn growth, aiding bullish sentiment. Wheat rose with corn, while oats followed trends and hog values declined despite overall market gains.

Chicago

Potatoes and Livestock Markets Report

Market notes from Chicago dated Aug 13 show stronger potato receipts at 63 cars with total US shipments 495. Minnesota, Maryland, Kansas, Missouri, and Virginia prices listed for various potato grades. Hog prices eased 0.15 to 0.65 with top at 9.15 and mixed orders around 8.16 to 8.75. sheep market steady with lambs at 13.00 and ewes at 7.00.

Chicago United States Minnesota Maryland Kansas Missouri Virginia

Inventor Creates Saving Clock Requiring Coin Wind

A inventor unveils a clock that requires users to drop small change to it before winding to save money. The device aims to encourage thrift by tying daily use to monetary input.

Farmer's Wife Finds Astonishing Relief

A patient claims long term stomach suffering ended after one dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. The ad says it removes centarrhal mucous and calms inflammation covering stomach liver and intestinal ailments. Money back at Lemmon's Pharmacy and Druggists.

Mayr Lemmon's Pharmacy

Exhibit shows progress on Iowa farms at fair

Five counties display progress in agriculture at the Iowa state fair exhibit. Winnebago county holds the first certificate as a cattle tuberculosis free area. Boone and Bremer counties show soil and forage improvements through legumes and limestone, dairy testing, and cooperative livestock marketing.

Associated Press Des Moines Iowa Farm Bureau Mills Boone Winnebago Bremer Winnebago County State Department of Agriculture Boone County Farm Bureau Bremer County Dairy Testing Iowa County

Had Proved Herself Too Good a Teacher

A London writer recounts a tale of a couple in love faded by money woes. The woman opens a correspondence college for women promising advice on beauty and marriage. She grows wealthy while the man travels abroad and never returns, having found new pupils and a distant colony.

London Correspondence College

French Mother's Admonition and Advice

The note presents a motherly moral guide urging self discipline pride and kindness. It emphasizes inner strength intellectual growth charitable conduct and forgiving love while trusting in a future reunion in another life and urging devotion to virtuous beings.

Always There Egotists Stand Out in Public Life

A breezy column notes that self confident individuals dominate attention and keep visibility high. It argues such personalities attract both praise and criticism while shaping public discourse and events.

Parsley Adorns Mythic Hero's Head with Egyptian Origin

In myth the herb parsley, said to be from Egypt, crowned the head of Hercules as a symbol of honor and festivity, reflecting ancient ritual use and legendary symbolism.

Egypt Hercules

Rate of Quake Vibration Estimated at 142 Miles a Minute

Experts estimate the average speed of earthquake vibration at 142 miles per minute, indicating rapid subterranean shifts during seismic events.

Largest Paper Mill in Newfoundland at Grand Falls

The Grand Falls pulp and paper mill on the Exploits River stands as the world’s largest and best equipped facility of its kind. It dominates regional industry with extensive production capacity and modern machinery.

Newfoundland Grand Falls Exploits River

Good and Bad Luck Connected With Cats

A survey of cat superstitions notes beliefs about cats bringing good luck on wedding days and risk of bad luck when crossing paths or sneezing. Dreams of cats imply false friendships, while kittens reverse the omen to suggest protective friends.

Petrified Forest in Northern Arizona Landmark

The petrified national forest in northern Arizona south of Adamana is a national monument since 1906. It contains three main petrified wood forests with trunks over 100 feet, wood replaced by silica, and stones like chalcedony opals and jasper surrounding the fossilized trees. Captain George Pelletier D Oisy donated his flight plane to the Japanese Army after his Paris to Tokio journey.

Petrified National Forest Arizona Adamana D'Oisy Japan Tokio George Pelletier D’oisy Paris Shanghai

American Legion Pageant Schedules Defense Plan in Sioux City

Sioux City post of the American Legion announces a Saturday pageant to explain the national defense plan in a plain manner. It will seek an army organization chart and assign simple standards to each unit carried by a Legion air, testing views on American citizenship. Other state notes include the Pottawattamie county Legion picnic drawing 56 000 attendees and a farewell address by Mrs Carrie Hunter in Des Moines.

Sioux City Iowa Amer. Legion National Defense Plan Department Army National Defense Organization Avoca American Town Legionaire Carrie G. Hunter Women's Auxiliary A. H. Hoffman

Photographers Reach Untouched Olympic Peninsula Areas

Asahel Curtis leads a scientific expedition to photograph Washingtons Olympic Peninsula the last frontiers wild coastlines and river valleys. Their route covers Quinault Queets Hoh Elwha and Sol Dur regions, Mont Olympus high divides, and remote beaches offering first time views.

Seattle Wash America Olympic Peninsula Washington Asahel Curtis Quinault Queets Ocean Beach Hoh River Bogachiel Elwha Sol Dur Mont Olympus

Zion City awards contract for 5,000 watt super station

Dr Aug 12. Wilbur Glenna Voliva oversees Zion awards contract for a new 5,000 watt broadcasting station hearable 7,500 miles. The present WCBD, built under two years ago at $50,000, will receive improvements costing another $50,000 to become a super station.

Zion City Wilbur Glenna Voliva Zion WCBD

Real Bravery and a Kitchen Lion

A reflective piece contrasts public courage with private shyness in the kitchen and marketplace. It urges readers to note and act on local advertising, reminding one to tell merchants about seeing their ads in the Journal.

Poultry and poultry products price list fragment

Fragmentary price sheet lists per dozen fresh eggs and various weights of hens and springs, geese and swan geese per pound, roosters by weight, hides by pound, and special notes on culls and delivered poultry. Some lines are garbled and unclear.

Also Mentioned on This Page

Daily Market Reports Chicago Livestock Chicago Grain Kansas City Livestock Omaha Bologna Sioux City Livestock John A Babcocke Exchange Commission U. S. Yard Illinois Chicago Cash Grain Rede Ordé R Ia Appancoes County New Oriental Coal & Mining Co Centerville, Iowa Joseph Loup New Orleans Bero Real Petrified Forest American Legion Montrose Wim. L. Crane Post Des Momps Bert Ingwersen University of Iowa June van Meter Clinton Iowa Legionaire Washington City Marion Ave St. Marion Ave Ave. B Mrs LP. Faris Macon R. L. Gibson W. S. Reister & Sons Buick Tucker & Eicher White Way Garage
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