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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1925
Page
2
Daily market report from Chicago notes hog receipts about 100000 with mixed prices, top 10.85, light weights uneven and mostly steady to lower. Cattle receipts 22000 with weak to lower trade, beef steers down, heavy stock steady to higher on some cuts. Sheep receipts 19000 with slow sales, fat sheep lower and feeding lambs steady at 17.60 to 17.76.
Chicago Feb 2 official live stock estimates report hogs 48 000 cattle 9 000 sheep 14 000. Waukon Ia Feb 2 the embezzlement case of D J Murphy a Waukon lawyer and financier was continued to the term beginning March 31 by District Judge H E B Taylor.
A list of upcoming public sales and closings near Washington with dates from February 3 to February 17. Entries include Geo Burge, Homer Jarrard, Fred Sipe, Roy Fisher, Clint Shull, C W and H F Busy, Edw Bopp, Earl Edmondson, W E Swift as referee, H P Grant, J C Riley and others. Locations span Winfield Kalona Crawfordsville Washington and surrounding townships.
Chicago market report shows wheat and corn prices by grade with ranges for No 2 hard No 4 hard and No 3 white. Oats and rye values listed by grade, barley and timothy seed prices included.
A brief listing shows Clover seed priced from 25.00 to 33.00 while lard costs 15.72 and ribs 15.26 with rellies at 17.50. The snippet reflects a mid 20th century price board style.
Chicago trading saw wheat dip to 1.99 a bushel from a Saturday close near 2.00, a 4 cent drop and about 6 percent below a recent high. Bio shipments to Europe, especially from the southern hemisphere, weakened values and kept speculative buying limited. Winnipeg prices were more volatile, with an extreme six cent swing, while hogs and provisions moved lower on the day.
A column lists editable market rates for Washington produce items including butterfat, eggs per dozen, various sizes of hens, springs, ducks, geese and beef hides. It notes there is no market for cull or sick crippled poultry.
Six bandits robbed Arthur Wesley, paymaster for the transcontinental Oil Company in Mexico City. In Washington, the National Publishers Association filed a brief with Senator Borah opposing what it called an imminent embargo on pulp wood by Canadian paper makers and urged reaction to what it deemed class legislation.
Chicago bowler Jimmy Blouin defeats Detroit’s Joe Scribner in the world bowling championship by a score of 17,703 to 16,684. The victory caps a tense final round with Blouin securing the title for his city and era.
Dr. H E Harnard director of the American Baking Institute says a loaf of bread in Chicago may cost from 1 to 3 cents more due to higher flour prices from the wheat advance He notes other cities may follow this trend as well.
Margaret Mally, 20, entered a guilty plea in district court to forgery. She was sentenced to up to ten years in the Rockwell City women's reformatory. She passed checks totaling over 200 dollars on merchants in Cedar Rapids and nearby towns. Her husband divorced her a month ago after eleven months of marriage. She was described as coming from a once highly respected Palo family.
George Wilson former head of Oklahoma A and M college under Governor Walton shot and killed himself in Oklahoma City. Police say the shooting was accidental.
Stephen G. Clow editor of Broadway Brevities, convicted of using the mails to defraud, was sentenced to six years and one day in the Atlanta penitentiary and fined $7,000.
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