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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1924

Page

2

Daily Market Reports Chicago Live Stock

Hogs receipts 60,000 with mixed to higher bids. 225 to 230 pound butchers 7.35 to 7.45, top 7.50. 160 to 200 pound averages 7.10 to 7.30. sows 6.70 to 6.90. killing pigs up 25 cents. weights 6.25 to 6.75. Cattle receipts 11,000. beef steers and yearlings slow, steady to weak on heavy weights. top 1,150 lb steers 11.75. 1,500 lb averages 11.35. handyweights 10.50 to 11.00. fat cows steady to firm. bulls and feeders uneven. Sheep receipts 17,000. active and near steady. fat wooled lambs 13.50 to 13.75. ewes 6.50 to 8.00. feeding lambs 12.50 to 12.65.

Chicago Kansas City Omaha Sioux City

Kansas City Livestock Prices and Receipts Report

Kansas City livestock prices list cattle calves hogs and sheep with receipts totals and price ranges. Desirable light steers steady to mildly higher and heavy weights near steady. Hogs up 150 with tops around 7.25 and most sales 6.95 to 7.25. Sheep lambs uneven yet near steady with top around 13.25.

Omaha Livestock Prices and Currents Report

Hogs receipts 13 500 with prices 7.05 to 7.15 for 220 325 lb butchers. Cattle receipts 6 500 with fed steers 8.00 to 9.00, vealers 9.50 10.00, stockers 6.25 7.00. Sheep receipts 10 000 with slow sales, lambs 12.65 12.85, ewes 7.25 7.50.

Cattle and Hog Market Summary From St Paul Livestock Sale

Cattle receipts 2200 steady with under tone improving limited top yearlings to 8.00, calves 1800 receipts with better weights around 3.75 to 4.06. Hog receipts 16000, higher grade butcher hogs 7.00, lighter weights 6.75 to 6.99, sows 6.00 6.25, stocker pigs 6.00. Sheep receipts 7000 steady with natives around 12.50 to 12.75 and fat ewes about 7.56.

Livestock Receipts Steady to Higher at East St Louis Market

At East St Louis on January 17, receipts totaled about 1,200 hogs and 1,500 cattle. Hogs ranged mostly 7.40 to 7.55 per hundredweight for larger pigs with lighter weights 6.75 to 7.25. packer sows 6.45 to 6.50. Cattle saw strong demand for steer and heifer classes while cows and cutters posted modest gains. Market tone described as firm for most classes with higher quote ranges noted.

East &T. Louis

Chicago Grain Prices Reported for Wheat Corn and More

Chicago markets show grain quotes with wheat at No 1 hard 1.11 percent and No 2 hard 1.10 to 1.11. Corn offers No 2 mixed 78 percent and other mixed and yellow grades from 74 to 80 percent. Oats No 2 white around 50, rye No 2 at 73, barley 62 to 74, Timothy seed 6.50 to 8.00, and clover seed 18 to 23.50. Lard 12.12, ribs 10.00, bellies 9.62.

Chicago

Corn at New High Prices Fails to Hold Gains

Chicago corn futures opened at a season high but reversed to close unsettled. May corn slipped to 79% while July held around 80 81 cents as profit taking and light arrivals cooled the market. Wheat and oats followed a weaker trend with May wheat near 1.09 and oats steady, amid mixed receipts and Winnipeg weakness. Provisions rose alongside hogs.

Chicago Winnipeg

Christmas chimes and town tales on Brighton route

In Brighton and along Route One residents share news from church to wood cutting. A nephew’s death in the south is mentioned. Esther Woodford joins Sunday school as pianist and Max Waterhouse is re elected chorister. A young minister travels to Fairfield for college. Neighbors haul wood, sell, and visit. and a Buick is pulled home by horses.

Brighton D. EB. Hart Clay Ford Esther Woodford Max Waterhouse Fairfield Wallace Savage Anson Woodford Cecil Meachem Canada H. A. Woodford Mary Ellen Woodford Charles Bill Horton Glena Beauchamp Nick Elmore Laird Woodford Clay District Church Hill S. C. Woodford la Salle Ill Ralph Brinton Kansas City John Brinton

Closing out sales span many farms near Washington and Keota

A long list of public and closing out sales dated January through February covers many farms and towns around Washington Keota Crawfordsville and Ainsworth. Names include Glen Miller R F Hamill Mike Trier E W Harrison Lambert and Sigafoose H T D Henderson Chas Bohac Ed Beranek John Anderson Ed Hotle C E Griffith Sebe Jones Ernest Carlson Fred Cannon P W Palmer James Helmick Welding Walters R H Paul Rathmel and Wells with locations described as miles from Washington or nearby towns.

Sheep market steady with light bulk wealers and receipts

Steady to lower tone described for the sheep market with bulk light wealers at 11.50 and practical top 11.75, few at 12.00. Sheep receipts noted at 1,000, but too few sales for firm quotations as part of a lighter load.

Sioux City Livestock Market Report gains and gains from cattle hogs

Sioux City cattle receipts reach 1500 with strong demand and 25 cent higher slaughter cattle. Hogs receipts 9000 with prices up 5 to 10 cents topping at 7.05. Sheep receipts 1200 with lambs to 12.90 and ewes to 7.75 amid declines.

Quarantine Release Noted Amid Scarlet Fever Mention

The report notes Thursday's release from quarantine and references Little Ruth Mary with scarlet fever while Miss Grace Zilman spent Wednesday night with friend Miss Myra Gowey.

Ruth Mary Grace Zilman Myra Gowey

Chicago Poultry Prices Rise in Early Trade

Chicago poultry markets show prices advancing with alive fowls at 16, springers 21, roosters 14 percent, geese 15, and turkeys 20 as the day opens. The report notes overall higher activity in poultry trading.

Chicago

Estimated Livestock Tomorrow Report Readouts

Hatimated figures list hogs 48000 cattle 6000 and sheep 12000 to be counted tomorrow. The notice shows livestock totals by species and implies a market or inventory update for the next day.

Realistic novelists limited on liable topics

The remark notes a trend where writers of realistic fiction seldom accuse identifiable people, yet there exists a notable abundance of such references in the field. It suggests a tension between fiction and potential liability concerns.

All Women Who Work Pinkham’s Remedy Testimonial

Zahl North Dakota woman recounts seven years of illness and nervous breakdown after an operation. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength for work as a dressmaker and milliner. Over 12140 respondents report 98 percent benefit from the medicine.

Zahl, N. Dakota Lydia E. Pinkham Zahi North Dakota

Gifts and schemes entwine in a tense family town

Kenneth pounds through a busy day moving into his new house while Barry Lapelle plots to secure Viola by marrying her and avoiding disinheritance. Viola confronts family tensions, offers to help furnish Kenneth’s home, and hints at shared past and unresolved loyalties as their complicated web unfolds.

Kenneth Martin Hawk Kenny Jack Trentman Gwynne Barry Lapelle Viola Viela Isaac Stain Moll Hawk Barry Lapelle Rachel Gwyn Machiavellian Gwyn House Zachariah Violas Brother Kenny Farry

Also Mentioned on This Page

Daily Market Reports Cage Grain Kansas City Livestock Omaha Livestock St. Paul Livestock Paul Fast St. Louis Livestock Hugh Gassaway Wilbur Day Glen Dunbar Glen Miller Haskins R. F. Hamil Crawfordsville Mike Trier Keota E. W. Harrison Washington Lambert and Sigafoose H. T. D. Henderson Henry Witting Chas. Bohac Ainsworth John Anderson Ed Beranek Riverside C. E. Griffith Wellston Ed Hotle C. R. Richards Sebe Jones Ernest Carlson Duroc Sale East End Garage Fred Cannon P. W. Palmer James K. Helmick & Son Columbus Jct Chester White Broad Low Welding R. H. Paul Rathmel and Wells Sioux City Livestock W. S. Reister & Sons Cash Buyers of Suet East Washington St R. L. Gibson Tee Ridney Col 2. F. Macon Dempsey Land Company D. F. Macon E W. Harrison Farrow Emerson Gang Concord Lydia E. Binkham Tohn Main Floor Exchange Commission Merchant CO. & Yard Illinois Beach-Wickham Grain CO Chicago Board of Trade Burlington Iowa Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon Dead, Mead & Company, Inc Zacheriah
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