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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1925
Page
2
Chicago market notes show hog receipts 33 000 with prices 10 to 25 cents higher and cattle demand active. Open high low close details for May July and Sept futures across cattle hog and grain markets.
Chicago on February 20 reports livestock estimates for tomorrow with hogs at 6,000 head, cattle at 500 head, and sheep at 2,008 head.
Mrs. John Birney and daughter Clara visited near West Chester with George Birney and family Friday. Clyde Sands of West Union joined M E Ebner and relatives in the evening. Mrs. Hal Figgins helped her mother Mrs. Palmer at the farm near Haskins. The two daughters helped straighten up and returned home Saturday. Mrs. John Godlove traveled to Washington Saturday to spend the day with her mother Mrs Warner and Bert Gordon.
A series of public and closing out sales are listed for February in and near Washington. Items include household goods at Mas ons Transfer Co and Denison's Barn Horse Kale, with multiple near term closings on February 21, 23, 24, and 27 involving residents Goodberet, Mrs John Taylor, H R Baker, Ernest C Carlson, and R L Smylie in Columbus Junction and surrounding locales.
A published price list from Washington markets lists per pound and per dozen pricing for hens, ducks, geese, swan geese, and beef and horse hides. It notes no market for cull sick or thin poultry and contains various price figures such as butterfat at 87 per pound and hens under four pounds at 12 cents per pound.
Wheat and grain prices listed for Chicago on February 20 show No 4 hard wheat at 1 78 and No 3 corn at 1 18 to 1 20 with multiple mixed, yellow and white grades. Other listed items include oats rye barley timothy seed clover seed and animal fats with prices ranges.
Little Richard of Town City spent Sunday with home folks. Miss Ruth Hazen of Davenport visits her parents. Mr. and Mrs Jim Foster returned from a week with Ola near Marion due to Ola’s ill child. Mrs. Foster’s sudden illness remains serious. daughter Carey Brown assists. Four carloads of stock shipped from Haskins to Davenport. Davis Bros two cars cattle, Joe Guinn one car hogs, J B Rathinold one car hogs. Bill Luckey sent a hog car to Davenport. Harold Rathmel improving. Mrs. Jim Cherwinker recovering and able to sit up. Mrs. Clara Frye arrived in Los Angeles to be with sister Mrs. Anna Buchanan. Dr. Looms notes ancient human presence. Clemenceau at home writing a political philosophy book.
An advertisement claims success depends on a healthy liver and stomach and touts Mayr's Wonderful Remedy as a simple harmless prep that removes intestinal mucus and allays inflammation. It targets sufferers of stomach bloating and related ailments and is offered at all druggists.
The text notes Parks, a 42 year old bachelor and long time Alaska field worker since 1907, being appointed governor by resident Cookitee. He had served as supervisor of survey and was greatly surprised by the decision.
A collection of misc notes mentions a lion with eye problems in London and its glasses, a German professor teaching a fish tricks, a man teaching someone to buy an old car, a vaudeville performer shot in Manchester, and stray thoughts about Buenos Aires and South America. The passage also touches on weather changes and language quirks with casual, diary like observations.
South Carolina game warden A A Richardson, on the federal migratory bird board, proposes shifting open duck season to Nov 15 to Feb 15 nationwide and adding a one month open season for wood ducks Oct 1 to Nov 1 to better suit southern conditions. He warns southern ducks arrive weak and suffer higher slaughter.
Sixty percent of guests at a London sale of early Chinese porcelain left empty handed as Ming period bottles failed to fetch bids reaching 382000 dollars. The turquoise blue pieces crackled richly in a rare auction. A tiny camera measuring three quarters of an inch was sent to Queen Mary for the Queen's Doll House.
The federal government has collected 589 million dollars since 1917 in taxes for motor vehicles and has paid out 264 million dollars, or forty five percent of this, for federal and state highway funds.
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