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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1912
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hogs opening weak at Saturday averages with receipts estimated at 40 000 and leftovers 2 291. Hogs graded light to heavy mostly in the 7.35 to 7.85 range with varied quality. Cattle and sheep receipts reported at 32 000 and 45 000 with cattle weak to 10 lower and sheep steady.
Receipts today total 53 000 with 13 085 yesterday and 780 shipments yesterday. Week receipts 152 158 and month 573 431. shipments 11 737 this week and 60 928 this month. Cattle market steady to 10 lower with Beeves 5.60 11.00, cows and heifers 2.75 7.65, Texas steers 4.40 5.75, stockers 4.35 7.65, western cattle 5.59 9.20. Sheep and lambs: native 3.75 4.65, western 4.00 4.65, yearlings 5.00 6.35, lam bs 5.75 7.75, western lambs 5.75 7.75. Estimated receipts tomorrow 27 000. bulk price ranges 7.55 7.70 for bulk, 7.25 7.65 light, 7.30 7.75 mixed, 7.35 7.75 heavy. Porkers 7.40 7.70. pigs 5.25 7.25.
Chicago December 2 1912 market opens with slow trade. Rough heavy cattle range 7.35 to 7.50. Best cattle steady others ten lower. Sheep steady.
Fragmentary notice reports commissions in Newfoundland with adjournments and room numbers 27 29 for a meeting in May. No further details available from the readable text.
The fragment notes a Washington Iowa correspondent named Morrison Bidgehoto for Lawsor Chicago. More readable facts are unavailable.
Market notes list dairy and feed prices including 1.7 dollars per hundred for some item and 1.60 per hundred for another. Sila SE meal sold in 10 ton sacks from a creamery. Prices appear in a concise listing with limited legible details.
A short editorial from the Christian Herald branding greed as unworthy and urging balance in sharing resources. It argues stewardship over abundance and cautions against hoarding while promoting fair distribution among people.
A lighthearted poem on the modern telephone praising its reach while joking about its flaws and central exchanges. The speaker muses on how life would be worse without phones and laments busy signals yet hopes for future improvements.
The Haskins Mo-Ka-Wa Indian medicine man and family relocate permanently to Washington. He claims his medicines, made from pure earth roots, cure chronic diseases for thirty-five years without charge if cure is achieved. Diseases listed include nervous prostration, rheumatism, heart failure, ulcers, syphilis, malaria poison, and cancers.
Daisy and her mother react to Spot the puppy with a broken vase and a velvet kitten. The report then lists a string of local movements and visits including Miss Parker, John Wooley, Dr. and Mrs. Stewart, and others visiting homes in Washington, Iowa Falls, Tipton, Morning Sun, and Sigourney.
Miss Janet Dean from Muscatine visits the Henry Boyd home in Haskins. Ebner family spends Thanksgiving in Ainsworth. Luttons of North English visit. Lutton to cashier Farmers Merchants Bank for ten days. Various residents visit relatives, attend school events, or travel to Davenport, Burlington, Moline, and Chicago for holidays and chores.
Postmaster J M Lytle requests local business to answer Washington fed blanks gathering statistics for the parcels post plan effective January 1 1913 Questions cover daily parcel volume weights sizes local delivery share mailing cadence insurance registration perishables and C O D usage to help prepare a reliable community report
December opened in a wet, cold spell following a mild November that kept Washington county roads smooth. A two inch snow blanketed exposed surfaces while rain and a sharp drop in temperature produced near season a cold record. Auto owners had enjoyed unusually good roads through November, but current conditions end that stretch.
Washington reports that the Department of Commerce and Labor will reveal in a near term which entities profit from current coal price levels. Commissioner Charles P. Neil of the Bureau of Labor has completed an exhaustive inquiry in line with a House resolution.
Quotation notes that Puritans opposed bear baiting not for animal pain but to deprive spectators of pleasure, as explained by Macaulay.
A Citizen urges the state to own rock crushers and use convict labor to macadamize roads. He cites Mississippi bluff rock as abundant and pledges to fund crushed rock freight with a post office job, arguing timely action will outlive this generation.
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