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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 03, 1924

Page

4

Market Report Sparks Mixed Livestock and Grain Moves

Kansas City reports cattle receipts around 6,000 with calves about 1,000 as steers hold near steady early but trade slows later. Hog receipts near 11,000 show prices 100 lower than yesterday’s, while sheep and lambs ease 10 to 15. Chicago wheat slips on weak demand amid cold belt conditions with mixed gains for corn and oats and overall firm close in May and July contracts.

Chicago Board of Trade Liverpool Europe

Omaha Livestock Prices Open With Moderate Trade

Hogs receipts 13 000 with early sales to shippers and yard traders 25 cents lower. packers bid 15 to 25 cents lower. mixed loads 7.00 to 7.10. top 7.16. cattle receipts 8 000 with slow demand for feed steers and yearlings. veal and yearlings 8.90 to 9.25. sheep receipts 12 000 with fat lambs steady to 11c higher and clipped lambs mixed. ewe top 8.00. feeding lambs strong to 25c higher.

Omaha Neb

Sioux City Livestock Market Report January 3

Sioux City livestock receipts total 4 660 with slow cattle and 10 to 25 cent lower killers. Steers and yearlings mostly 6.00 to 11.50, bulk 7.26 to 8.50. fat cows 4.25 to 8.00, canners 2.00 to 3.25. feeders 6.69 to 7.60. stockers 4.50 to 7.26. Hog receipts 12 000 with prices 19 to 200 lower, top 7.96. bulk 6.76 to 7.00. Sheep receipts 1 900 steady.

Kansas City Port Road Sioux City Livestock Sioux City

Chicago Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report

HOGS receipts 63 000 slow with declines across grades big packers 7.40 and 16 6? 196 lb averages 7.00 7.36 etc CATTLE receipts 17 000 moderately active beef steers yearlings and heifers 10 to 15 lower spots 25 off heavy stock 15 to 25 lower heavy bologna bulls 5.25 9.50 veal calves uneven. shippers bidding up to 14.06 SHEEP receipts 22 000 fairly active lambs steady to 25 lower. sheep and feeding lambs near steady with fat lambs 13.25 13.64.

Chicago Cannes

Inheritance Tax Language Cited by New York World

An obscure World headline fragment questions timing of inheritance tax collection and the phrase as an hour after we seek inherit the earth. The note hints at tax procedures and authority without clear details.

New York World

Grain and livestock prices and estimates from Chicago market

Chicago markets show cash wheat and corn bids with various grades and percentages. Oats and rye prices listed alongside barley timothy and clover seed values. Estimated livestock tomorrow include 60,000 hogs 10,000 cattle and 17,000 sheep.

Chicago Produce Poultry Prices Steady on Jan 3

Chicago on January 3 reports poultry markets steady with fowls 16 to 26 cents per pound, springs 21, roosters 13, ducks 23, geese 16, and turkeys 14 cents per pound.

Chicago

Chicago provisions report on potato prices and shipments

Potatoes show firm demand with good receipts across the United States. Listings include Wisconsin No 1 sacked round whites 1.25 to 1.46 per cwt, bulk 1.35 to 1.50, Minnesota round whites 1.25 to 1.35, Idaho sacked russetts 1.85 to 2.00. Total shipments reach 345 cars with 35 cars receipts.

Chicago United States Wisconsin U Bulk Minnesota Idaho Russetts

Roads Slippery After Freeze Wrecks Reported

The recent freeze and snow have left roads slick and car wrecks more common. Several vehicles slid into ditches or collided with others, with some damage but no injuries reported.

Tough Luck Willie Plays For Wagon With Friends

In a rustic exchange a child invites Trey and Fiddie to join in a wagon play. Fiddie refuses claiming his father has gone to golf and is wearing his knickers, adding a humorous social miscue.

Willie Trey Fiddie Fidie

Wall Street proves U S is land of opportunity

New York January 4 The United States remains a land of opportunity as five years show 30 former page boys and telephone clerks bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange at $80,000 or more each Benjamin Jacobson paid $80,000 for a seat Celestin A Durand rose from obscure clerk to prominent trader Arthur G Somers started as a Tunner then bought membership for $96,000 borrowed. he now runs 100 clerks and predicts 3,000,000 shares traded daily before 1924 Honest effort and apprenticeship mark success in Wall Street.

New York United States New York Stock Exchange Benjamin Jacobson Exchange Celestin A. Durand Arthur G. Somers Charles M. Schott, Jr. & Co Tunner Wall Street Somers

Garner club hosts college bound youths banquet

The Garner Commercial club honored local students home from colleges with a holiday banquet attended by sixty youths. Speakers stressed athletics, education's religious aspects, and value of college training. In Cass County officials warn of cracks in courthouse walls and ceilings and consider dome removal or remodeling to stop further settling.

The Associated Press Garner Garner Commercial Club Atlantic Cass County

Counting trillion would be reached soon in Germany

The report notes that since terms like billion and trillion entered German usage with the paper mark, if Adam began counting from Eden and continued to today, he would reach a trillion within the next year.

Associated Press Heidelberg Germany Adam Garden of Eden

Fraternal and church notices list Friday events

A collection of announcements lists Friday evening and Saturday meetings at various churches and groups. It mentions installations, Christmas parties, receptions, book reviews, and social gatherings by Odd Fellows Moose Lodge Baptist and Methodist groups plus the Glendale Telephone Company meeting and other society activities.

Rebekah Odd Fellows Moose Lodge Highland Four B. FK Methodist Church Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church W. W. Bowers Wickham Chas. Pauls Glendale Telephone Company Glendale West Chester Baptist Church

City to pave forty eight blocks next summer

Manchester plans forty eight blocks of paving in the coming summer with bids to be opened this month. Mason City hosts the National Buttermakers association convention in October or November with about six hundred attendees led by president H D Larson of Madison and treasurer A W Rudnick of Ames. Des Moines reports federal employees in Iowa buildings urged to beware calendars.

Manchester Mason City National Buttermakers’ Association H. D. Larson Madison Wis A. W. Rudnick Ames Iowa Albert Erickson Clear Lake Des Moines Jan

Church meeting notices for January and February

Church notices list meetings for January 7 January 8 and January 11 1924 at various homes and church groups including Mrs Jesse Busby Mrs M E Ebner Mrs Roscoe Roberts Mrs Ream and Ruth Bauer The notes request bring clues dues or participation and mention no rehearsals for the Presbyterian choir and a short rehearsal after service

Church Jesse Busby Presbyterian Choir Ream

Ladies Social of the Presbyterian Church Meeting

The Ladies Social of the Presbyterian church will gather Saturday at 2 30 in the church building at 7512 for an afternoon event.

TOS. BK Max A. Marble East Jefferson 10Th Century Club W. M. Keeley Tal W. Rc The Presbyterian Church

Closing Out and Public Sales List for January and February

A sequence of sale notices lists dates and locations for closing out and public sales across Washington, Coppoch, Crawfordsville, Brighton, Wellston, and nearby areas. Items include John Koehler, Joe Amerine, Chas Gray, Hillhouse and Reigard, McCoy and Rose, Elias Williams trustee, J E Myall, Lambert and Sigafoose, Henry Witting, C B Griffith, and P W Palmer with varying distances and dates from January 3 to February 12.

John Koehler Washington Joe Amerine Coppoch Lambert and Sigafoose

Federal rule limits public calendars display

A federal ruling bars advertising calendars on walls and mandates displaying only calendars issued by federal departments for local officials use. An annual wait occurs due to scarce federal calendar supplies as the shipment arrives each year.

Iowa Woman Seeks Divorce From Deserting Husband

Nellie H. Garner files in Washington County District Court for divorce from Harry S. Garner alleging desertion on December 10, 1921 after a 1920 marriage. The case notes residency since for over a year and calls for general equitable relief plus costs with a January 14, 1924 term. failure to appear may result in default.

Harry S. Garner Clerk of the District Court Washington County Iowa Nellie H. Garner Washington Livingston & Eicher

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