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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1926
Page
2
Chicago market notes hog receipts 48 000 uneven with light hogs in good demand and prices mostly steady to down 25 26 cents for heavies. Cattle receipts tally 35 00 with fed steers and yearlings down 25 to 40 cents. stocker and feeders relatively scarce amid season’s largest receipts.
Steady to lower readings across cattle with medium weight steers at 10.40 paid and heavies at 10.00 while fat stock cutters and weaners show declines up to 50 to 60 cents. Sheep receipts reach 14,000 with fat lambs firm to higher, ewes soft, and feeding lambs showing strength. breeding ewes around 8.50 with culls near 9.00 to 9.50.
Official live stock estimates released in Chicago show cattle 10 000 hogs 26 000 sheep 17 000 for tomorrow.
In Toledo Ohio on August 16 Clover seed cash prices show imported 16.25 and October 21.15 with December 15.95 bid February 16.10 and Timothy seed cash prices old 2.90 new 3.10 with September and October at 3.05.
A Sunday Journal note discusses the paradox of how people grow more obsessed with voicing opinions as affection for the subject wanes, reflecting on communication and social trends.
A survey reports nineteen hundred sites of Indian culture across eastern Pennsylvania. It catalogs remains of villages camps burial grounds and related traces, outlining the region's prehistoric and tribal heritage for study and preservation.
Keota August 16 1200 people attended a Walden Farm field day organized by the Keokuk County Farm Bureau and the Keota Chamber of Commerce. Dr C L Holmes Ames professor spoke on farming economics noting future profits depend on current earnings and seed price planning.
A Thrift Magazine quotation states that personal progress relies on the willingness to settle down to hard work. It emphasizes discipline and sustained effort as the path to ambition.
Market list shows varied prices for eggs hens springs and ducks in Washington with per pound and per dozen figures. Includes butter fat cream and calf hides and horse hides pricing. Notes no market for sick or crippled poultry and delivery terms referenced.
Radio Digest lists tomorrow’s schedule with stations KGO WHZ WEAF WEBSH WLIIT WRVA WSHT WSML WTIC and others. Highlights include KDKA dinner concerts KFNF concerts KYW music and speech hours WDAF School of the Air Nighthawk program and evening orchestras across major markets.
John Elliott known as the apostle to the North American Indians translated the Bible into the Natick dialect of the Algonquins. A copy of this edition with the epistle dedicatory was sold in 1882 for $2.9)
An advertorial pitch offers McCoy's Cool Liver Oil Compound tablets as a quick fix for flat chests and hollow cheeks. It claims 60 tablets cost 60 cents and a 30 day trial with money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
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