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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1924
Page
2
Hogs receipts 17 000 with moderate to good demand and price gains across weight classes top 30.00. Cattle receipts 9 000 with better grades up 18 26 cents and strong activity for yearlings and steers. Sheep receipts 16 000 active with range lambs strong and natives holding around 13.50 to 14.00.
Sioux City cattle receipts 1500 with active market. fat cattle 7.50 to 10.75. veal 6.00 to 10.75. feeders 6.00 to 7.50. Hogs receipts 8000, prices 8.60 to 9.50 top 9.55. sheep receipts 200, market steady.
Omaha trading Aug 14 shows hog receipts 7500 with prices 8.00 to 9.85, line lead 9.40 for 200 to 400 lb. hogs. Cattle receipts 4700 with yearlings and medium weight steers active, prices 8.25 to 10.60, top 10.60 for 1,131 lb. sheep receipts 13000 with native lambs 13.25 to 13.50 and fed clipped lambs 12.60 to 12.90, ewes around 7.00.
Official estimates from Chicago set hogs at 18 000, cattle at 2 000, and sheep at 8 000 for tomorrow’s market. This gives traders a clear view of expected supply levels across major livestock categories.
Des Moines reports the National Professional men's club holds its first convention with Dr F M Elliott urging inter professional cooperation. He says unity will prove increasingly necessary as the group grows and influences public life.
The Chicago cash grain page lists wheat prices for No. 2 red No. 1 hard No. 2 hard and No. 3 hard in a range from about 1.27 to 1.30. Corn prices show No. 1 mixed through No. 6 mixed and yellow and white varieties with varied cents per bushel figures. Rye is unquoted. timothy seed clover seed lard ribs and Hennies complete the market notes with specific cent values.
Wheat futures drifted lower in Chicago as spring movement starts and Canadian weather improves. Sept and Dec futures opened down, with a late rally and further declines as hedging, exchange shifts, and frost prospects influenced prices. Corn strength steadied wheat briefly, while December and May hit season highs before slipping. Hog and horn futures supported provisions with firmer quotes.
Chicago August 14 potato market shows minor gains in barrels and steady sacks. Receipts 37 cars, total US shipments 467. Prices listed for Kansas Missouri Irish cobbler sacks 1.40 to 1.50 and Kentucky sacks 1.75 to 1.80, Minnesota sacks early Ohios 1.20 to 1.36, Virginia barrel cobblers 2.75 to 3.00.
Ollie Corum, 21, told County Attorney Hamilton Tobin he was present when Charles Hirschfield, 63, was slain at Atkins, Iowa, last Saturday night. He denies being the killer and says he does not know the name of the other participant.
F C French of Lake City Colorado native of Humboldt Iowa has been selected dean of the Marquette University College of Engineering announced from Milwaukee. French graduated from Iowa State College in 1896 and taught at Iowa State University Utah and Marquette during a long career in engineering education.
Harry C. Ward has returned from a business trip to Chicago. He was away for several days engaging in meetings and key negotiations.
A humorous reflection on words starting with sn from Emerson to the Utica Observer Dispatch. The piece catalogs terms like sneak snob sniper sneer snicker snatch snap snore snarl snip snivels and snub, noting mixed positive and negative connotations and social judgments.
A mountain doctor, Dr Henry Drury Hatfield former West Virginia governor, rode 20 miles in a storm to treat a mountaineer's wife. The grateful man offered a cow as payment. Hatfield asked for cash. when the man walked back with the cow, Hatfield offered five dollars to cover the journey home.
Adolphus Annum, a chronically tardy clerk, explains he arrived at eleven after his wife gave birth to a son. The boss retorts with a wry dig about an alarm clock, and the office crowd laughs at the exchange.
Washington Aug. 13 Thom as Brown a clerk in the Richmond Va post office in 1810 has been credited with inventing the post office box. Postmaster General New acknowledges him as inventor while records do not disprove the claim. Brown described his plan using glass partitions and pigeon holes to serve about 400 boxes at 50 cents for three months.
A string of disconnected, humorous and critical lines on autos, husbands, wives, courage, trade, and everyday life. The piece riffs on gender roles, consumer habits, and social norms with playful paradoxes and partial sentences.
The tribute by William Henry Seward extols Adams for beneficent labor and personal contentment. He did not seek wealth or office yet spent life in service and charity, dying in affluence despite avoiding partisan ties. Adams is lauded as having a longer, more varied public service than any other citizen.
Washington dispatch analyzes the possibility of a presidential electoral deadlock with three candidates Coolidge Davis and La Follette in the race. It considers how a House vote by states could decide the president if no candidate wins a majority and notes current party-state delegation alignments.
Charles E Hearst president and Ray L Gribben secretary of the Iowa Farm Bureau federation travel to Chicago to study the Grain Marketing company merger. The firm unites five large grain firms under a temporary plan pending growers control and a nationwide Farm Bureau verdict on its value to farmers.
The LaFollette followers control the Wisconsin house delegation and seek to swing other states in the Electoral College if a deadlock occurs. With 25 votes needed to elect, they boast that readers can figure out the math themselves across listed states and party columns.
Senator La Follette meets with three AFL officials in Washington to discuss endorsement of his presidential bid by the federation's executive council. Gilbert H. Roe and labor chiefs Frank Morrison James O Connell and Martin F Ryan also call on him during the federation’s three day political campaign committee conference.
The Athenians deride Boeotians for dullness while Boeotia contributes Hesiod Pimdar Plutarch Epaminondas and Pelopidas. In Epaminondas era Thebes led Greece as the leading city.
A man contemplates earning early to secure freedom for thought in old age. The saying urges financial prudence and timing, linking wealth with the ability to pursue philosophy later in life.
The Romans lacked symbols for operations and wrote words for each step. They abbreviated centum as C and mille as M during calculations. Most computations used the abacus, similar to bead frames used in early education.
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