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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1926
Page
2
Hogs receipts 40 000 with active demand and gains across weight classes. Major buyers inactive. top hogs up to 22.85 per hundredweight for light weights. cows and pigs mixed with gains noted in several categories. Cattle receipts 11 000 with steady to higher prices on fat steers. fat cattle and feeding lambs show strength. sheep dull with limited early sales and steady fat sheep.
Chicago officials publish live stock estimates for tomorrow with hogs at 22 000 cattle at 11 000 and sheep at 15 000.
Seed price table lists Clover seed at 19.00 cash and 15.40 for January February March and Timothy seed at 3.85 cash and 3.90 for January and March. A Balkan note states mothers must raise boys to be soldiers.
Chicago markets report prices for wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds with no. 1 hard wheat at 1.80 to 1.81 dollars, corn mixed grades 74 to 80 percent, oats white grades 42 to 43 percent, lard at 15.12, ribs 15.87 and bellies 16.37.
The Crawfordsville high school boys basketball team defeated Wyman H. & Bove 23 to 13 at Wyman on Thursday. Crawfordsville led 13 points in the second quarter for their sixth straight win. Substitutions included Davidson for BH Lowe and H Lowe for Davidson. Ted Sauer of Fairfield refereed.
West Chester dispatches record family health update and social visits. George Statler reports his father recovering after an operation in Davenport. Local arrivals include Rev. Hillis and Mrs Hillis from Washington and Joe McGraw en route to Washington who plans auction of George Klett farm near Kinross and Keota, expected around 300 dollars per acre.
Millions of users salute Peterson's Ointment for piles eczema salt rheum pimply skin sore feet and itching. A Sherman Bros sell price is 60 cents. A testimonial from William J Nichols of Rochester New York claims 51 leg ulcers cured without amputation.
In a tense street scene Julie Hem pel Arnold confronts Selina Peake as a wagon cart spills vegetables on Prairie avenue. Selina is supported by Julie and Selina’s auntie-like ally, with police and a dramatic family arc unfolding as Davenport Gardiner, head of Prudential, dies in a collision near Carbon Cliff.
The Washington market lists prices for poultry and livestock including butterfat test at 42¢ per lb, eggs at 230c per dot, hens by weight and breed from 0 to 22¢, springs 16–18¢, old roosters at 0.00¢, ducks 20–22¢ per lb, geese 18¢, swan geese 7¢, horse hides $3.00 each, with note that cull sick or crippled poultry have no market.
Dubuque county grand jury indicted farmer John Wascher for first degree murder in the death of his son in law John Dolenc during a November quarrel on a Farley area farm.
A sequence of sale notices lists dates and locations in Iowa and Washington. Featured events include Closing Out Sales near West Chester Riverside Keota Crawfordsville and Wellman, plus Pure Bred Duroc Jersey and Low Sales by Knotek Bros John Jackson Charley Rickey Cynthia Cain and Mike Trier with dates in January and February.
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