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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
2
Chicago hog receipts reached 52 000 with weights from 180 to 220 pounds showing strong prices while 100 to 150 pound pigs were slow. Top price 8 35 with most bids around 8 25 to 8 30. packing sows firm and light weights scarce. bulk weights 190 to 220 pounds averaging 8 25 to 8 30.
Receipts show cattle at 10,000 with feeders steady to weak and best fed steers 14.25 to 17.25, shippers in trade 12.50 to 15.00. Slaughter cattle and calves list varying prices from 8.50 to 18.65 for different weight classes, with feeders mostly firm to lower and heavy sausage bulls 7.50 to 8.25. Hogs and pigs range from 6.25 to 9.00 for various weights and quality grades.
The market lists cows at 8.50 to 11.25 for good and choice grades, common and medium 6.25 to 8.50, low cutter and cutter 5.35 to 6.25. Calves run 7.00 to 9.50 for medium to choice, vealers 7.00 to 14.09, feeders and stock cattle steer grades common to choice 7.50 to 12.00.
Chicago grain column dated January 12 reports open high low and close quotes for the day. Market notes focus on price levels for wheat corn and oats with brief shifts from prior sessions. No explicit figures are provided in the readable text.
Chicago cash grain quotes list wheat, corn, oats, timothy, clover and barley prices. Wheat and corn show varied colors and lots. barley ranges near 0.96 and 0.97. Quotes include oats at 55 to 57 and timothy around 3.05 to 3.80 and clover at 22.50 to 30.00.
Toledo market notes list Clover and Timothy grain prices with cash and imported bids for January February and March. Mount Vernon report notes Cornell College first semester 1926 27 honors with six women and two men high honors and nineteen honors overall. 27 honorable mentions.
This column relays a long recorded letter from the John 8. Wilson family of Kalamazoo Michigan describing Christmas at home, mild winter notes, and plans to send more Journals to Michigan. It also sketches local visits to Fairfield and Washington with many named residents, church events, a funeral, and social anecdotes including Cal Gormley and Fred Can.
A sequence of closing out and public sale notices lists dates from January through February in towns including Washington Keota Crawfordsville and Brighton. Names include Leslie Gates Edwin Lewis Lee Foster S J McKee John OBrien John Thompson E M Fulton Henry Horning Ralph Bauer Ralph Kloppfer W D Stafford Fred Grosscup Knotek Bros with sale locations such as 415 W Minn Os 2 Davis 5 miles NW Weilman 8 miles N of Washington and Busby sale pavilion.
A market price list shows hens and pullets at 16 to 20 cents per pound, leghorn and black roosters at 16 to 20 cents, springs and ducks priced per pound, eggs at 33 cents a dozen, beef hides and goose prices noted, and a caution that sick or crippled poultry has no market. No market for sick, thin or crippled poultry.
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