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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1926
Page
2
Market news shows hogs steady to higher with loads at 11.60 to 11.76 and top 11.75 for 260 to 259 pounds. Cattle receipts total 400 with yearlings down and heavy steers steady. fat cows up to 10c. Sheep receipts 200 with gains limited. feeding lambs and native ewes noted across multiple price ranges.
Chicago market report shows butter receipts at 7 652 tubs with extras 4 standards 50 1 2 extra firsts 4 1 2 to 61 1 2 and firsts 44 to 46 including seconds 29 to 42. Eggs receipts 5 561 CARES unchanged.
Grain and poultry items reported from Chicago. Brief notices list December 18 dates and station names without detailed data.
Receipts show three cars listed under the alive firm with counts of fowls and poultry goods. The figures include turkeys roosters ducks geese and related springs and totals.
Chicago market report lists several corn grades with bid prices and ranges. Notable quotes include No 4 mixed at 66 1 2 to 69, No 2 white at 75 1 2, and No 3 white at 74 1 2. The sample grade stands at 56 a4.
Unofficial livestock estimates for Monday show Hows 65000 head, Cattle 23000, Sheep 22000. Hogs for all next week expected at 150000 head.
Ainsworth notes report C. P. Nichols returning from Minneapolis for his brother's funeral and Rev W S Moore called to Mediapolis by a nephew's death. Other items include local social events, holiday plans, cantata at the Methodist church, and upcoming Orient lodge officers.
Dec 23 at 7 50 p m a Christmas program will be held at Oregon No 3 school with Mr and Mrs M G Campbell hosting and inviting all residents. Local shoppers Washington visits and neighbors are noted along with grippe illness and various small town activities.
The compilation assigns 105 Shakespeare columns as the largest portion, followed by Milton with 30, Pope 25, and Byron 22. Other authors like Wordsworth Tennyson Swinburne Cooper Dryden Browning Scott Burns Hood Coleridge Goldsmith More Southey Campbell Shelley Thomson Spencer Herbert Gray Keats appear with smaller column counts.
The Eddy Ladies Quartet delighted a large Washington audience at the Graham Opera House on Tuesday with expert blending voices and refined stage presence praised by Mr. Van Horne of the Muscatine News Tribune as an ideal program. Local politics and business changes fill pages with mentions of Dewey and Bell for state senate seats and new ownership at Campbell Dodds meat market and Clyde Bros hat store.
Lloyd Hughes portrays the ambitious young lover who pursues fame on the football field and battlefield while Mary Astor lends her graceful beauty to the central feminine part.
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