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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1928
Page
2
Hogs receipts at 6,000 with market mostly steady. Shorts weak to 10 lower, top 11.50 for around 200 lb choice. shipping demand very narrow with bulk 180 to 300 lbs 11.20 to 11.49. medium to good grades down 10 to 11.00 and 10.85. few better grade pigs 9.25 to 18.00. Packing sows 9.75 to 10.25. shippers 5.00. Holdovers 3,000. Cattle receipts 500 versus a week ago, grain fed steers and year- (truncated)
Cattle trade reports mixed gains for vealers and some heavy steers while grass cattle and cutters retreat. Yearlings show gains to around 16.90 with several weight classes fluctuating. fat lambs rise 50 to 75 cents, while range feeding lambs bring 11.78 to 13.28. Sheep receipts estimated at 6,000 with 76 doubles from feeding stations and 11,000 direct.
Grain market snapshot shows July wheat at 1.23 percent gain with open highs near 1.35 and close around 1.53 percent for July. September wheat trades at 1.2652 with mixed session data and 1.36 percent close. Corn futures show July up 1.67 percent with 1.07 opening and 1.051 close. Sept and Dec levels also noted. Oats activity lists July gains around 62 with Sept around 0.43 percent and Dec near 45 percent.
Grain prices for Wheat Corn and other feeds listed in Chicago cash markets. Entries show grades such as yellow white mixed and numbers indicating prices and ranges including 2 yellow 10714 to 108 and 5 yellow 105% to 106 with oats barley timothy and clover also priced.
A brief ledger style item lists Clover and Timothy cash amounts across months with totals, plus Alsike figures and small Butter and Dee values. It closes noting there are over 1.3 million people named Smith in the United States.
Amelia Earhart, Boston social worker turned aviator, completes a 2020 mile Atlantic crossing with Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon aboard the Friendship. After 20 hours 40 minutes, fogs and fuel limits force a landing near Barryport Wales before reaching Southampton and London to a euphoric welcome. Earhart deflects credit to her male crew, insisting she was a passenger and that Stultz and Gordon earned the fame. The trio planned to return by steamer. Earhart planned a European visit before resuming aviation duties.
Major Maddalena, flying the seaplane Savoia, located Umberto Norist and five crew members. Parachutes with food, boats, gear were dropped in hopes they reach land. Ten others remain lost: three who set out on foot and seven who were aboard the airship when it rose and drifted east.
Charles A. Lindbergh may now be addressed as Doctor Lindbergh after the University of Wisconsin conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws. Uburt Work became Republican National Committee chairman and Hoover Curtis campaign head with Rep. Franklin Fert as secretary. Joseph R. Nutt of Cleveland named treasurer. main HQ in Washington with branches in Chicago and New York. Democrats from across the country gathered in Houston for their national convention amid expectations of a decisive event.
Secretary of State Keiwog UO invites all Latin American republics to a conciliation and arbitration conference in Washington on December 10. Mr. Kellogg and Charles Evans Hughes will represent the United States. The meeting follows a Havana Pan American conference resolution, with conventions to be sent to governments for ratification.
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