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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1913
Page
2
Parkets opening in Chicago shows hog prices around 7.30 to 7.60 for various grades with five to ten cent declines expected. Cattle receipts near 17 000 and sheep 22 000 with markets steady to higher, while overall hog prospect gaps hint at a mixed early session.
Chicago January 27 receipts 52 000 hogs yesterday 12 229 shipments 1 681 leftovers 3 007 expected tomorrow 32 000 hog prices 7 45 7 55 light 7 20 7 60 mixed 7 30 7 57 heavy 9 15 7 60 porkers 7 50 7 55 pigs 5 75 7 35 weekly receipts 198 127 shipments 31 159 Chicago Ill January 27 receipts 19 000 market steady to a shade lower cattle Reeves 6 0049 00 cows and heifers 2 70 7 20 Texas steers 4 65 5 65 stockers and feeders 4 80 7 45 western cattle 5 50 7 20 sheep 25 000 native 4 75 6 20 western 4 75 6 20 yearlings 6 40 8 00 lambs 6 75 8 90 western lambs 6 75 9 00
Chicago market report shows slow opening. Bulk prices around 645 for light and mixed classes, heavy at 7.60, rough heavy 7.15 to 7.30. Cattle steady, sheep weak as session begins.
Jan 25 1913 Wellman Iowa residents attend open schoolhouse ceremonies and church reception while reporting illnesses, travels, and funerals. Mrs. Jane Lauser visits son Henry. 250 people attend a church program. Cemetery work discussed. several residents travel, visit, or report illness.
Sunday visits in Kalona and Monday errands in Iowa City mark a string of small town doings. Residents travel for medical care, sales, and social visits with numerous mentions of families and local farms in Franklin Center and Washington.
Miss Eva Benson returns home near Havre after visiting grandmother Mrs Thom as Smylie. Mrs Wilkins of Washington acts as housekeeper for J H McCleary. Mr and Mrs Max Keller visit Ainsworth yesterday. John McCall and family from Havre stay with W A McCall. Mrs W G Robertson and Mr and Mrs J H Reed travel to Washington.
Send your name and address to Booth's MI-O-NA Buffalo NY by postcard and request a sample. The ad promises trial relief for indigestion dyspepsia gastritis and catarrh of the stomach with refunds if dissatisfied. Lemmon's Pharmacy backs the offer with a refund of purchase price. MI-DNA tablets priced at 50 cents and widely recommended by pharmacists.
Fragmentary text from a local page references church ladies and an entertainment outing with playful self dialogue. It mentions a First church and appears to be a personal Musings or notes without clear names, dates, or events.
West Chester notes record buyers and movers including H L Fretz Milt Denison A G Leet family, and G T King. Items mention sales auctions church meetings stock shipments and travels to Davenport Missouri Denver and Washington with several residents returning home after visits and trips.
The exchange centers on a Colorado man who has reportedly lived 60 days without food, prompting the boarder to remark on his own six months of boarding. The humor hinges on contrast between extreme hunger and routine lodging.
The speaker rejects the phrase can you saw wood as bad grammar and explains correct usage may be can you see wood or I see wood but can saw wood.
London notes a summary of cholera and plague outbreaks from ancient times through 1905. It lists plagues in Rome Athens and London, the Black Death, sweating sickness, and later outbreaks in France Italy Holland England and Egypt. It highlights cholera in India with weekly mortality peaks in 1905 and total casualties reaching over a million.
Salem reports a Christmas reform as all parole violators and disciplined inmates receive no stripes. Governor West grants clemency paroles to James J. Riley and Frank Nash, easing their paths to freedom for good conduct. Riley, jailed one to 15 years for killing Louis Long as he chased Riley’s wife, may reunite with her. Several other prisoners gain probationary liberty.
A small army of goats is sent from Fort Washington to clear shrubbery near the Potomac river approach to Washington. An artillery detachment likely will be ordered to protect the goats. The plan aims to reduce malaria by removing breeding grounds while soldiers guard mountain laurel buds from the goats. Fort Washington is known for malaria problems.
A double elopement from Yorktown Iowa to Maryville Missouri led to a statewide stir. Ray Warden and Ona Loy along with Eleazer Friesz and Ella Wiehr Camp reportedly fled, then headed toward South Dakota as authorities traced the group via a Council Bluffs telegraph.
The report describes a couple's journey by train to Maryville Missouri for a wedding then by the Wabash to Council Bluffs and their subsequent telephone call to relatives with the wedding news.
A Denver telegram reports Henry Maloney and Crist Decker of West Gate Iowa seriously injured when two touring cars collided near West Gate. The Iowa party car was hurled 20 feet down an embankment. Maloney was unconscious at first and later revived while L Elkeman of New Hampton suffered minor cuts after being thrown through the windshield.
A Fairfield Iowa carpenter, F. W. Lundquist of 1201 S. Main St., testifies to quick relief from backache and frequent kidney symptoms after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He confirms prior praise and urges others to use the product sold by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY, 50 cent price.
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