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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1926
Page
2
Hog receipts 46 000 with bids near 11 15 to 11 35 for 125 to 290 pound hogs. Cattle receipts 14 000 steady with yearlings strong and vealers 11 00 to 12 00. Sheep receipts 23 000 slow opening with feeder lambs around 11 75 and ewes 5 00 to 6 50. Tuesday’s top yearlings 10 00.
Chicago dealers report open high low and close figures for grain as of December 14 with price ranges and market activity noted.
Official report from Chicago lists tomorrow's live stock totals with hogs at 14 000 cattle at 10 000 and sheep at 000 indicating a preliminary market outlook for traders and buyers.
Chicago Pec 14 eggs and butter price notes for January February and December. Fresh patchered firsts January 43 1 2, February 32 3 4. Refrigerator standards December 38 5 8, January 47 1 8, February 47 1 8.
Chicago December 14 reports poultry prices steady as receipts total 12 carloads of fowl. Market activity shows stable demand with supplies of common and higher grade birds moving through the auction.
Market brief lists cream butterfat test per pound and fresh eggs per dozen, plus chicken hens and heavy breeds prices per pound. It covers leghorn, springs, old roosters, ducks, geese, swan breeds, and hides with per item rates. No market for thin or sick poultry is noted.
The fragment lists various poultry prices and ranges including turkeys at 35, roosters 1843, ducks from 24 to 26, geese 18 to 20, with 18 to 24 and springs 18 to 231 percent appearing as stray data. No coherent event or names present.
Chicago traders quoted mixed corn and yellow and white varieties with price ranges for No. 2 to No. 6 grades. Mixed numbers span from 63% to 75% across several grades, with yellow and white corn showing tighter ranges and samples at 56 to 68 percent.
Eureka school Miss Perry presented a Thanksgiving play at the Eureka church last Friday. Eva Wagner stays with grandma Davison helping with work after a tumbler accident. Howard Wagner family visited the Lewis Duke home. Ward Essley learned of Mrs Mina Essley of Boston death after an auto crash. Fred Wagner and C G Davison families visited W R Davison. Mrs Beenblossom and baby ill with grippe.
Len A. Pierce 36 deputy city marshal and former 168th Infantry Rainbow division veteran who lost an arm at Tra Teau Thierry died Sunday in Burlington while working on his automobile from wounds sustained in France. Phonographs used in a London school to teach parrots to talk.
Comprehensive station by station guide for tomorrow’s radio slate with times and performers across KDKA KEENE KHJ KMA KMOX KOA KPO KYW WCCO WDAF JAR WEAF WGN WERL WIZ WMAQ WYVAO and others, noting Lions club and concert programs, orchestras, quartets, and niche broadcasts across major markets.
Six masked bandits with sawed off shotguns robbed three Philadelphia wholesale jewelers of cash, diamonds and jewelry totaling 29 280 dollars. Authorities investigate the December 14 robbery and seek leads.
In Baltimore federal court Judge Morris A. Sepher fined 36 fertilizer firms from 1500 to 8500 dollars for alleged violations of federal antitrust laws. The action marks a broad enforcement step in the industry.
The Standard Furniture Company building in Centerville Iowa suffered a devastating roof and upper floor fire of unknown origin. Loss is estimated at $50 000 and is covered by insurance. The incident marks one of the largest southern Iowa furniture concerns affected in recent years.
An advertorial touts Dare's Mentha Pepsin as a cure for indigestion gas and shortness of breath. It claims the tonic builds a run-down stomach enabling free eating and asserts wide daily sales and druggist guarantees.
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