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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1924
Page
2
Daily Market Reports from Chicago show hog receipts at 56 000 with prices largely 15 to 25 cents lower than yesterday and varied by weight. Cattle receipts around 5 000 with yearlings and beef steer values uneven and lighter, while fat cows and calves held around steady to lower. Sheep receipts near 14 000 with steady to lower demand for fat lambs and feeding lambs trading around 13.00 to 13.65 dollars.
Cattle receipts 1,200 with slow market and varied bids. Hogs receipts 15,000 down 15 to 25 cents with top at 6.90 and most sales 6.65 to 6.90. Sheep receipts 1,500 with steady market.
Cattle receipts 1300 at South St Paul quoted steady with top steers at 8.25 and bulk 6.25 to 8.00. Calves 1300 head, best hides packers at 9.00 to 9.25. Hogs 1400 head down about a quarter, 150 to 170 lb averages 6.25 to 6.65, sows 6.00 to 6.75. Sheep 1200 head about steady, western lambs 74 to 75 pounds 15.10, yearling wethers 5.50, ewes 6.50 to 7.50.
Cattle receipts 1,000 and calves 100 with mixed demand for beef steers and cows. Hogs 8,006 mostly 10 to 20 cents lower, top 7.05, bulk 6.75 to 7.05. light and medium hogs uneven. Sheep 3,000 with lambs topping 13.00 and most fed lots 12.65 to 12.80. odd lots steady.
Hogs sold at Omaha Livestock AHA on January 18 with early sales 15 to 25 cents, mostly 20 lower. Bulk 226 to 295 pound butcher stock 6.85 to 6.96, top around 7.00. 200 to 216 pound weights 6.60 to 6.85. Packing sows mostly 6.59 to 6.60.
Chicago wheat corn oats rye barley and fats quoted for Jan 18 with prices by grade including No 2 hard wheat 1.09 and No 2 yellow corn 79 44 cents per bushel, oats No 2 white 47 48, lard 12.12 and ribs 9.87 per hundredweight.
Chicago January 18 corn led by eastern connections weighed on the grain pit with lighter trading and a bearish tone. May corn slipped to around 79 percent, wheat and oats followed lower on big shipments from Argentina and Australia. Futures closed weaker with May oats at about 47 percent and hogs softening the provision market.
Chicago market bulletin lists butters and creamery extras with varied prices for standard and firsts as of January 18. Receipts show 5 238 cases with numerous categories including eyes lower, refrigerator extras and firsts with mixed price ranges.
Cattle receipts 4 200 market slow uneven fed steers and yearlings 1¢ to 15¢ lower several items listed. Heet handyweight steers near 9 10, vealers around 9.00 to 9.50, stockers and feeders weak. Bulls 4.00 5.00 range. canners and cutters 4.00 4.50. Sheep receipts 6 000 active fat lambs steady to strong wooled lambs 12.65 12.90 top 12.90, ewes 7.25 7.65 top, feeding lambs near 12.65.
Estimated livestock tomorrow lists 16,000 cattle 1,000 sheep 1,008 hogs with totals and quick field notes. Local markets and agricultural officials provide the figures as part of routine farm week estimates for the region.
A. H. McNulty, traveling salesman for Langan Paper Co of Des Moines, collapsed and died in Robert Williams furniture store and undertaking establishment in Clear Lake after entering to chat with Mrs Williams. A doctor was summoned to the scene.
A musician at the scene concluded Mr. McNulty died instantly, likely from heart disease, after an incident observed by witnesses.
A lengthy list of public and closing out sales is announced with dates from Jan. 17 through Feb. 28. Sellers include Glen Miller, R F Hamil, Mike Trier, E W Harrison, Lambert and Sigafoose, H T D Henderson, Henry Witting, Chas Rohnec, John Anderson, Ed Beranek, Roy Steele, C E Griffith, Ke d Hotle, CC R Richards, Sebe Jones, Ernest Carlson, Fred Cannon, P W Palmer, James K Helmick & Son, Welding Walters, Rwusse DeLaughlin, Elmer Kolosik, Rathmer and Wells, and others near Washington, Ainsworth, Keota, and Fairfield county towns.
A list from W. S. Reister Creamery at 2110 East Washington shows fresh cream and cream grades by pound, hens by weight, springs leghorn and black, roosters, ducks, geese, swan and geese varieties, plus hides and horse hide values. It notes an extra payment of 4 cents more for pot delivered and 10 cents per pound for altry.
Oscar Rock, longtime Iowa state agent and head of the Bureau of Investigation, died recently. He was famed for delivering a “square deal” to criminals and officials alike. His career included cleaning out the Ford gang in 1915 and leading the capture of five men connected to a 1920 murder case after the Plymouth county jail breakout.
An old market snippet lists produce and poultry pricing with 12 1/2 and 66 cent marks. It notes higher poultry payments at 4 cents more per unit and references horse hides per unit.
A four man gang killed the town marshal at Murray and robbed a bank, then fought a sheriff's posse wounding three. Adams was killed at Wichita, the remaining three receive life terms. Rock solved Lerner and Griffin murders arson cases in Mahaska and Jasper counties, securing nine confessions. he became head of the state bureau of investigation.
A testimonial claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy relieved stomach trouble after an operation was advised. The ad states the preparation removes catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and calms inflammation linked to stomach liver and intestinal ailments including appendicitis. One dose proves money back. Lemmon's Pharmacy.
The office was established in 1921 and he held the position from then until his death, marking a long tenure in the role.
An aphoristic note compares adversity to fire testing friendship, asserting that only through hardship can true bonds be distinguished from counterfeit. The quote frames adversity as the infallible measure of genuine loyalty.
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