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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
2
From Chicago on December 18 1912 revised receipts total 26000 with 6437 carried over. Market shows slow prospects from yesterday with goods priced light 6.80 to 7.15 mixed 6.90 to 7.25 heavy shipping grades 6.85 to 7.25 and rough 6.85 to 7.00. Cattle receipts around 19000 with weak to 10 lower prospects. Sheep receipts about 20000 with steady prospects.
Market roundup reports hogs at slow steady tone with receipts today about 30 000 and potential 23 000 tomorrow. Beef cattle show steady to ten cents lower with Beeves 5 45 to 9 75 and western cattle 5 25 to 7 50 while sheep and lambs trade slowly near prior closes and yearlings 5 40 to 6 65 and western lambs 6 00 to 7 20.
Market: Slow and shade lower with bulk prices 7.05 to 7.20. Light goods 6.75 to 7.15. Mixed 6.85 to 7.25. Heavy 6.80 to 7.25. Rough heavy 6.80 to 6.95. Cattle dull and weak. Sheep weak.
The fragment shows prices for oats hay flour bran corn meal butter and related items with many garbled words. It includes a price of 1.70 per short hundred and 35 for butter but lacks clear context or full item names.
Mrs W P Paugh, longtime Columbus Junction resident, died in a Chicago hospital where she was taken after becoming ill while visiting. A Pennsylvania born 55 year old, she leaves husband F Paugh and two sons Charles of Chicago and Walter a Spokane banker. Burial will be in Pittsburgh.
County wide digest of local events and society notes from community correspondents. People, gatherings, and daily happenings across towns feature in this compact county page.
Resident notes report Emma Shererr visiting at the Buntenbach home then returning to Rock Island. Fred Wagner to have gall stone surgery at the county hospital. Rev J W Carson leads church meetings begun Thursday. Mt Pleasant student Shirley Bloomquist visits friends and hears sermon. Lois Fetes family welcomed a baby boy Sunday. Marion Township residents plan to attend Crawfordsville short course. Several locals travel to Washington and return from Stronghurst Indiana. Doelker lectures on The Master of Destiny discussing fate and personal control with a painting reference.
Charley King aged 11 was dragged to death by a frightened pony near Fairfield. He tied a rope halter to his arm before mounting. the pony bolted, dragging him a quarter mile. He suffered fatal neck and arm injuries and died within minutes. He was the eldest of four children of Mr. and Mrs. Z. King. Funeral plans were not set.
Investigators trace a forged cashier's check drawn on Commercial Savings Bank of Washington to Walter M. Small for 25 dollars. The check, cashed in Columbus and routed via Chicago to Washington National Bank, bears a forged D. J. Ross signature. Local staff flag the discrepancy. authorities cite possible source from a lithographing plant strike and dispatch Burns agency and Iowa and Ohio bankers associations to locate the culprit.
Washington Lodge No. 26 met at the Masonic temple last night with seventy eight members present including about thirty from outside towns. The third degree was conducted by Howard Wilson of Cedar Rapids aided by younger members followed by a banquet at the Congress hotel with extemporaneous speeches. Visitors named include W T Trotter Emery House John Adams M L Miller C R Stearns Warren Parrow Bert Marsh Grover Neiswanger T J Easter E W Spessard G C MacCaleb James Chambers E Iseminger Floyd Letts C N Easter A Patterson Joe Trotter of Ainsworth RR D Hughes C C Stapp George B Stapp R L Richards of Columbus Junction W A Sigler R H Carr of Wellman R S Radcliff C A Speer of Wellman G C Mathers of Chabangay New York H D Root of Sycamore Illinois.
Seven natives at Dacca, India, were convicted of swindling women by pretending they could double money deposited with them in three days through supernatural power. The court verdict exposes a local scam tied to alleged mystic finance schemes.
An elderly witness describes a violent altercation at a mountain home. She recounts Bill Saunder calling Tom Smith a liar, a knife wound to Tom, Sam Jones shooting another man, and several others being cut. The judge questions her, and she confirms the fracas caused much excitement.
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