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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1924
Page
2
Daily market report shows hogs receipts at 4,000 with mixed demand and prices near Friday's best. top hogs at 10.10 with various weight classes listed. Cattle receipts 600 with better grades up 16 to 36 cents, fat cows 4.00 to 6.25, veal calves 10.00 to 12.00. sheep receipts 2,000 with steady to firmer tone and lambs up around 16 cents.
Sioux City cattle receipts 500 with fat steers and yearlings up 25 to 65 cents, top 11.10. fat cows and heifers 25 to 50 cents higher. hog receipts 10,000 steady to 25 cents lower, top 9.60. butchers 9.00 to 9.60. sheep receipts up 25 to 50 cents, fed lambs 13.50, light ewes 7.25.
Hogs receipts 10,000 slow mostly 25c lower. Bulk 200 to 300 pound butchers 9.25 to 9.36, top 9.40. Cattle receipts 100 with mixed changes across weight classes. Fed steers and yearlings 8.25 to 10.25, top 10.75 for medium weight steers. heavy steers 10.65, yearlings 19.50. Sheep receipts 250 with fat lambs up about 50c. Fat range lambs 13.50 to 13.75, natives 13.25 to 13.50, feeding lambs 12.25 to 13.00.
Kansas City Mo Aug 16 cattle receipts 1 300 calves 50. Handy weight steers and yearlings strong to higher heavies dull about steady grassers and cake fed steady to 15 cents higher top grain fed matured steers 10 50 handy weight and yearlings 11 00 calf prices 25 50 to 60 cents higher for calves weak to strong depending on type and weight.
Wheat and corn futures prices listed with multiple grades and bid ranges for No 2 and No 3 varieties. Oats Rye barley and seed prices are provided along with lard ribs bellies and other meat cuts rates.
Feverish trading pushed all grain prices higher in Chicago today as forecasts of continued summer heat or absence of frost supported the market. May corn jumped to 1.21 while December and May oats and wheat also posted gains and outlooks of firmer demand persisted.
Higher bids for steers and bulls with grain fed tops 10.25 and bulk stockers steadier. hogs firm with shippers up to 9.90 and bulk 9.35. sheep receipts 500 with killing classes up 25 cents and best lambs around 13.50, native grades 12.25 to 13.25, feeding lambs about 12.25 to 12.75 and breeding ewes 8.00 to 9.75.
In Los Angeles on August 16 E. A. Boone, 19, was revived with spirits of ammonia at a receiving hospital after an amateur hypnotist put him to sleep for friends and could not restore consciousness.
Chicago reports wild corn market volatility due to unfavorable weather and optimistic crop notes. Prices jumped with futures at times a cent per minute, while traders warned the summer not bringing heat, forecasting potential non merchantable corn from Fort Dodge to Chicago.
Miss Cayenne questions a proposal after prior refusal. The young man admits his mistake, saying he did not recognize her after she bobbed her hair and wore knickerbockers, highlighting a change in appearance.
A shopper notes to the merchant that they saw the ad in the Journal. The remark underscores the paper’s role in local trade and advertising windows as retailers cite reader contact from the publication.
A forest duel near Berlin pitted two lifelong friends over a 21 year old woman. The merry squire and a wealthy businessman exchanged fake letters prompting a meeting. The friend shot, saving his companion, then the squire vowed to abandon the girl after witnessing the tragedy.
A Philadelphia reporter Richard Harding Davis refuses to surrender his game badge to Arthur Brisbane. Davis says his city editor sent him to cover the game and he must keep his badge. Brisbane later tells editor McCloy that the reporter deserves a salary raise.
The article explains that sweat glands run from skin layers to the surface and could cover about 80 miles if end to end. It notes sweat removes liquid waste, depends on evaporation for comfort, and continues in winter though less noticeable.
Bethlehem Pennsylvania grew into a national musical center under Moravian leadership. Count Zinzendorf founded the city before Christmas 1741 and Benjamin Franklin praised its church music. In the late 1800s J Frederick Wolfe led a choir that first performed Bach in America and established an annual Bach festival.
The handkerchief evolved from Roman refinements to a general accessory in Henry VIII's era. Likely linked to ecclesiastical dress and the maniple, it served now as a facial or left hand cloth. In 18th century France pocket handkerchiefs appeared richly adorned as snuff taking spread among women.
Radio Digest provides a sequence of tomorrow broadcasts with dozens of stations in major cities. Performances include orchestras string ensembles sacred songs sermons choral works and church services across Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Des Moines Davenport Davenport Fort Worth and beyond with times ranging from early morning to late evening.
A compilation of radio station schedules shows WB and city entries with times for music talks concerts dance and orchestral programs. Notable entries include WEG Buffalo WLW Cincinnati WTAM Cleveland WHK Cleveland WWJ Detroit WEAF New York WOR Newark KGO Oakland KGW Portland and KFOA Seattle among others with varied lineups.
In Chicago on August 16 the potato market remained steady with receipts of 110 cars and total U S shipements of 663. Prices varied by region with Kansas sacked Irish cobblers at 1 35 to 1 50, Missouri at 1 30 to 1 45, Minnesota early Ohio's at 1 25 to 1 35, Maryland bulk at 1 80, New Jersey at 1 90, and Virginia barred cobblers from 2 85 to 3 00.
Sioux City reports the start of construction on a municipal golf course to be built next year. Work has begun on the first nine holes on high ground north of the Military road near Riverside suburb.
The Journal offers advertising services with a promise of intelligent placement and effective reach for readers and businesses seeking to promote products and services via the newspaper.
Chicago Aug 15 The Western Railway Association says its roads are in better shape to move crop traffic than ever before with 47 000 grain loading cars stored by July 15, about 10 000 more than a year earlier. Western lines also own about one third more box cars. Total grain shipments exceed last year, with 41 970 cars loaded in the week ending July 12 up 2 500 from 1924. In western territory 29 488 cars of grain products, up 2 776. Farmers’ fruit and vegetable traffic requires refrigerator cars, and railways note past delays from car shortages. In 1922 perishable car totals reached 1 205 046. 1925 figures are at least 50 000 higher, though disruptions in refrigeration car service caused congestion and delays at many terminals.
A collection of humorous sayings and social observations on money restraint romance work and technology. The bits mention caution in faking, saving money, pruning budgets, choosing friends, and ironies about marriage and modern life.
As of April 20 1923 and 1924 refrigerator car inventories rose from 142218 to 151621 with 9256 cars under construction. Cooperative Regional Advisory Shippers Boards and Car Service Division talks bolster rails capacity and reduce congestion through better equipment repair and mutual coordination between railways and shipper groups.
Washington, Aug. 15 The Agriculture Department reports farmers on Aug 1 expect to sow about 42 919 000 acres of winter wheat this fall. The estimate reflects intent to plant as indicated by growers nationwide.
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