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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1924
Page
2
Hogs receipts 62 000 with 16 to 250 higher prices across weights and categories. Cattle receipts 5000 with steady tone. fat cows 360 to 4 25 and heifers 4 75 to 6 00. Sheep active with fat natives and western fed lambs 16 26 to 16 50 and top early at 16 75.
Official live stock estimates for tomorrow list hogs at 6000 cattle at 500 and sheep at 1000 in Chicago market briefing released today by authorities.
Dec 18 residents visited for Sunday school at the Bar Kephart and Ed Simmering homes. Families including Wit ting Jones and Kephart clans gathered with McCall and Chalupa kin. A. B. Carr shipped two carloads of cattle from Havre, and Lester Macon shipped hogs from Havre.
The passage urges starting each day with purpose despite reluctance. It claims forced work fosters temperance, self control, diligence, willpower, cheerfulness, and contentment, yielding virtues the idle lack. Charles Kingsley emphasizes daily obligation shaping character.
Eight prospectors slept in freezing cold on a dead miner's grave to beat rivals in Rhodesia. They aim to erect the discovery notice first to claim the site for gold.
A woman confronts her Clerkenwell landlady asserting she was always courteous while translating a sharper rebuke. The exchange centers on decorum and grievance within a domestic dispute in England.
A bale of closing out sale dates lists events at multiple locations including J W Hendrickson 4 miles north of Haskins on Dec 22 and Duane McCreedy at Haskins on Dec 23. Other sales include Chan BF Dunshee near Keota on Dec 20 and Gus Croquet at Ainsworth on Dec 30. Later dates cover Tipton and Simmerman near Washington on Jan 28 and J E Wright with Mrs Emmett Hamm near Washington on Jan 14 and Jan 28 nearby Washington listings.
An advertisement urges readers to give cod liver oil tablets from McCoy Laboratories of New York a try. It claims healthy weight gain and robust growth for men women and children with a money back guarantee. The ad touts 60 tablets for 60 cents and highlights sugar coated tablets with a fishy taste avoided.
The report shows prices for wheat corn oats rye barley timothy and clover seed with No. 2 red wheat at 1.81, corn No. 2 mixed 1.22 to 1.23, oats No. 2 white 61 to 61.5 percent, rye with no sales quoted, timothy seed 6.00 to 7.15, clover seed 24.75 to 32.00, and lard ribs and bellies priced around 15 to 17 dollars.
Chicago markets report a blank day with no open high or low figures available as of close. Traders await updated data from the exchange and financial wires.
Wheat prices climbed past 1.75 a bushel for May delivery in Chicago led by a strong Liverpool market and expectations of world grain shortages. May rose to 1.75 1/2 after opening 1.73 to 1.74 and December gained about 3 cents from yesterday. Corn and oats followed wheat higher with firming provisions amid grain and hog price movements.
The piece argues that courage wanes when one imagines avoiding demands, and true strength comes from keeping the mind steady. It promotes advertising as useful when done intelligently and assures the Journal’s service to readers.
Market list shows cream 87 per lb, eyes 44 per dot, hens various weights from 0 to 18 per lb, springs 14 or 12 cents, ducks 10 cents, geese 10 cents, swan geese 6 cents, beet hides 0. Then notes no market for cull sick or crippled poultry.
A Sunday School lesson on Zaccheus in Luke 19 1 10 presents wealth as a by product of faith not a goal. Jesus invites Zaccheus to stay with him leading to restitution and generosity. Wealth becomes a tool for service and salvation as love replaces self interest.
A collage of odd snippets notes a Chicago girl found wandering with a blank mind while authorities call her a vergee girl. John D Jr nets about 111 million in the Wall Street boom. Los Angeles faces a water shortage but residents still bathe in winter. An Illinois boarder poisons his landlady. stamps valued over 1000 dollars are stolen in Ohio. France and Germany agree on a tax, Coolidge urges treeless Christmas to save forests.
A terse reflective fragment notes that Providence leaves some cordial drops in every man’s cup, allowing extraction of good circumstances to grant contentment or at least rest. It links scarcity with subtle consolation and urges prudent use of frugal blessings.
In District Court in Vacation after November Term 1926 the State of Iowa Washington County No 6438. W J Todd deceased March 6 1909. A hearing is set December 24 1924 at 10 AM in Washington Court House to prove the will before the District Court or Clerk. Frances E Wilson Clerk of District Court.
Elizabeth Smith born in 1776 at Burnhall County Durham showed skill in mathematics and languages including Hebrew Arabic Persian Greek and Latin Her works Fragments Translation of Job and Translation of the Life of Klopstock appeared she was a noted poet born. died 1806 at age thirty in Chicago Journal
The Boston Transcript notes Mrs. Blunderby lamenting Mr. Green, idle for six months and living off his father. She fears the young man will become a parricide, painting a dark outlook for his character and future.
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