Daily Market Reports Hogs Cattle Sheep and Calves
Market provides estimated receipts for hogs cattle and sheep with price ranges. Hogs receipts around 36 to 37 thousand mix of weights with top reported 7.25 per cwt. Cattle receipts about 13.9 thousand with beef steers and heifers price spreads shown. Sheep receipts near 19 thousand with lamb and ewe quoted ranges and feeder lambs listed. Reports from W Wagner & Co Iowa City describe wheat corn oats and livestock estimates for tomorrow.
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Chicago
Hieber
Closing Out and Pure Bred Horse Sale Dates Nearby Washington
Sale dates list several auctions around Washington Iowa including Dec 7 A C Cannon 5 miles SE closing out sale Dec 13 Caleb Lemley Washington Dec 14 Mrs Wm Galloway NE of Washington Dec 15 Rowe and Westbrook Columbus Junction pure bred horse sale Dec 20 J M Wolfe Clegg Bros Evergreen Farm Columbus Jct Shorthorn Sale Jan 10 Val Redlinger 5 miles NE of Washington closing out bale.
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A. C. Cannon
Washington
Caleb Lemley
Iowa
Wm. Galloway
Rowe
Westbrook
Columbus Junction
J. M. Wolfe
Clegg Bros
Evergreen Farm
Columbus Jct
Val Redlinger
Oliver Players to Visit Canton with Three Shows
The Oliver Players bring Otis Oliver and Vada Heilman to Canton for Dec 8 9 10 performances at Graham. The Canton Register calls them best stock company visiting Canton and notes a capacity crowd. They present My Lady Friends Margy and The Common Law by noted writers.
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Oliver
Washington
Canton Register
Best Stock Co
Canton
Otis Oliver
Vada Heilman
Olive Thomas
New York
Oliver Players
Lady Friends
Margy
Quote on marriage and restraint from the Los Angeles Express
A witty remark on marriage opening with a line about the trouble with most marriages where a man marries the woman who carries him off his feet rather than one who keeps him grounded. The quote reflects humorous social commentary from the Los Angeles Express.
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Los Angeles Express
Kenyon predicts success for disarmament conference
Iowa Senator W. E. Kenyon told Iowa State College that the Washington disarmament conference would succeed, praising Secretary Hughes for laying out plans. He blamed taxation and postwar excess for farm distress, urged farming prosperity as national prosperity, and cited farm relief measures approved in the recent congress session.
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Ames
Charles Evans Hughes
Kenyon
Iowa
Iowa State College
Senator Kenyon
Hughes
Washington
Ferrero
Rome
Blue Sky
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
Reserve Board
Farm Loan
Dante on Hell and Purgatory imagery in The Divine Comedy
The excerpt discusses Dante’s concept that Lucifer’s fall created a pit on one side of Earth and a corresponding Hill of Purgatory on the other. It notes the poet’s arrival at the hill’s foot after his descent through Hell as a highlight of literature.
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Heaven
Hell
Purgatory
Corn Production and Sales in the United States 1919 Census
The fourteenth census shows U S corn production of 2 345 832 607 bushels in 1919 with 49 997 139 bushels sold or to be sold. Illinois Iowa led Sales while Iowa harvested 371 362 393 bushels in 1919 and 106 547 801 bushels sold representing 28 7 percent of production.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Indiana
Ohio
South Dakota
Missouri
Kansas
Minnesota
Texas
Pennsylvania
California
New Mexico
Colorado
Arizona
West Chester community notes and rail freight debate
West Chester residents report visitors and local movements including Davenport callers and Lee Craig moving to Nevins farm. Old soldiers keep driving jobs while grain prices and railroad rates affect commerce. A chicken pie supper is planned at the U P church and a schoolhouse meeting was held to kick off community activities.
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West Chester
Davenport
Lee Craig
Haven
Nevins
B. F. Hart
Bureau
P. H. Dayton
Golden City
Cedar Township
James Nelson
Keota
Washington
Chicago
Frank Fleming
Lexington
John McKinstry
C Lear
Walt Mason
Wm. Goodspeed
Huber
U. P
Iowa to play Ohio and Yale next year
The 1921 Western Conference champions Iowa football team will meet Ohio State in Columbus on November 18, 1922 and Yale in New Haven on October 14. Coach Howard Jones released the schedule listing Illinois Purdue Minnesota Northwestern and other home and away games for Iowa at Iowa City and Columbus.
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Chicago
University of Iown
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio State
Long
Yale
New Haven
Howard Jones
Illinois
Urbana
Purdue
Iowa City
Minnesota
Iowa
Scarcely Accounted For One Prever Lost Politeness
Quote from the Boston Transcript on politeness and social gain noting that politeness rarely harms but many avoid risking it.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Strategy. A Man Is as Old as He Looks in London Opinion
A terse London Opinion item notes that a man’s age equals his appearance while a woman is judged as ten or fifteen years older. The brief reflects social attitudes toward aging and gender in headlines.
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London Opinion
OsKaloosa Banks Lose $30,000 Tax Suit
Mahaska county wins suit to estop tax collection on bank capital stock and profits under state assessment. Judge Wagner dismissed the banks' bid to keep county treasurer from collecting taxes, dissolving the temporary injunction. The ruling affects capital stock and profits tax, about $30,000.
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Oskaloosa
Mahaska County
Wagner
T.H. Graham
Defense counsel led by Maxwell O'Brien in civil case
The defense was conducted by Maxwell O'Brien while the plaintiff banks were represented by James A. Devitt and the law firm McCoy & MeCoy in a civil matter.
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Efense
Maxwell O'Brien
James A. Devitt
McCoy & MeCoy
Large French Watercress Farm at Baghion Near Paris
The world’s largest watercress farm sits at Baghion near Paris. It spans 45 acres and uses parallel ditches about 260 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 18 inches deep, with three foot grass paths between them.
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Baghion
Paris
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Daily Market Reports
Hogs
B. W. Wagner & CO
I. Hunt, Met
Chicago Market
John A. Babcock
U. S. Yard
Graham
Dante
Col
Umbus
Northwestern
W. S. Reister
East Third St
Mutual
East Washington
Tone Bros
Des Moines
J. A. Cunningham's
R. L. Lytle
Farmers Union Stores
Richard Johnson
A. J. Gault
W. H. Conner
John Squires
Ainsworth Road
Jersey
McCormick
Deere-Mansur
Deere
Hayes
Emerson Gang
Emerson
Fairbanks- Morse
Stewart Range
Charles Brown
Ralph Dougherty
Caleb Lemley Moriarty
Utuaire
R. L. Gibson
Ade
Ise
BROMG
C.ulgrove
North Ave
L. H. Orr Land Co
Safeguard Or Gazette Office
John Striegel, Jr
Harper, Iowa
Property Owners Federation, Inc
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