Market Report Chicago Hog and Cattle Receipts
Chicago market data shows estimated today receipts 28 000 hogs 11 000 cattle 15 000 sheep with holdovers and varied bid ranges. Fat light steers strong while other slaughter classes dull with calves up to 1.00, beef steers 13.00 to 17.00 for heavy weights, and hogs trading mostly 14.50 to 16.50 for bulk sales. Breeding ewes and feeder lambs appear with modest quotes. official yesterday totals list receipts by class.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Grain futures and wage award report
Beach Wickham grain prices show Dec cattle and corn mixed as wheat opens at 2.61 with gains and losses across futures. A wage board order raises rail workers’ pay, with specific increases for engineers, conductors, shop staff, and clerks, while overall market tone remains bearish for winter wheat belts as receipts rise and oats and corn drift.
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Railway Labor Board
United States
Railroad Administration
B. W. Wire
Journal's Farm Department Sale Dates and Poultry Culling
Poultry culling demonstrations announced for Washington County this week with a schedule listing times and locations across Brighton Cedar Lime Creek and Lime Creek townships. The notes mention a poultry calling plan and Farmers Bulletin guidance on equipment for handling sweet clover and seed districts.
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Washington County
Canadian farm products move rapidly to market in Canada
Dean C. F. Curtiss of Iowa State College reports from western Canada that farm products flow smoothly to market. Cars are provided promptly and dispatched quickly, enabling farmers to market most of the old crop and send fattened livestock to packing houses as soon as ready, with confidence that new crops will be handled efficiently.
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Canada
Dean C. F. Curtiss
Division of Agriculture
Iowa State College
Dispatch
Dean Curtiss
Wool surplus in Argentina threatens textile trade
Buenos Aires reports a large stock of coarse wool unsold due to weak demand for army uniform cloth. More than 200 million pounds remain, with increases expected in July and August as shearing season adds to the supply. Producers’ focus on meat over wool left wool poorly uniform and hard to market.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Inter
la Nacion
Sweet Clover Seed Harvest Practices and Challenges
The article discusses harvesting sweet clover seed with minimal loss due to shattering. It notes the crop’s irregular bloom keeps seeds at green and ripe stages simultaneously, advises cutting when 60 to 75 percent of pods are dry and black, and suggests dew or post rain harvesting to reduce shattering. It compares using a grain binder for field crops, while acknowledging seed loss from binding.
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Farm Crops Department
Iowa State College
Farmer Bellinger’s Richland farm yields seen as model
New Hampton reports W L Bellinger of Richland township four miles south and one mile east shows exceptional results from tiling and modern methods. He moved from LaPorte four years ago and cultivated oats corn and timothy on thirty to forty acres, with four to five tillings, three dozen Shorthorns and twenty five Poland China pigs.
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New Hampton
W. L. Bellinger
Richland Township
Bellinger
LaPorte
Black Hawk Bounty
Iowa
Ma’am
Timothy
Mixture of Civilizations in Key West Described
Harry A. Franck notes Key West Florida blends American and Latin American life with equal influence. The Spanish language features alongside English, and bilingual officials reflect a border town atmosphere.
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Key West
Fla
Harry A. Franck
Century Magazine
Ee Senate
Wet and Dry Fight Expected at Cedar Rapids Democratic Meet
Cedar Rapids expected to host a moist plank at the July 29 state convention with delegates from Clinton, Dubuque, Scott and Muscatine counties bound to support it. Redmond and Stewart law offices hosted preliminaries with Redmond noting plans for finances and future announcements while welcoming visiting Democrats.
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Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Dubuque
Scott
Muscatine
San Francisco
Redmond and Stewart
John M. Redmond
J. N. Hughes
John T. Hamilton
Redmond
Samuel Gompers
Figs yield rises in Alden vilayet amid climbing prices
The fig harvest in Alden, Turkey, has grown from about 9 000 tons on 10 000 acres eighty years ago to roughly 22 000 tons on 25 000 acres. Despite larger supply, demand keeps prices high. Major production areas lie along the Meander valley and are mainly tapped by the Ottoman Railway system. Orchards are chiefly Turkish owned.
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Alden
Turkey
Aiden
Small Twine, Big Impact On Transatlantic Ship
A tiny fragment of twine fouled the steering gear of a trans Atlantic liner, costing the company about 1,000,000 dollars in repairs and delays. A single careless word can trigger a lifetime of regrets.
Obituary of A T Rogers Prominent Beloit Citizen
Alexander Townsley Rogers born January 6 1848 near Fairfield Iowa died June 29 1920 at Beloit Kansas aged 72 5 23. He built the Merrimac mill and led grain banking lumber water works and telephone ventures. Survived by Anna O Donnell wife three grandchildren and three sisters. funeral June 30 at N Campbell Avenue with Masonic rites.
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W. D. Townsley
A. T. Rogers
Merrimac
Townsley
Will Clark
W. D. Weidner
Beloit
Kansas
Rogers
Alexander Townsley Rogers
Fairfield
Iowa
Elizabeth Noel
Trenton
Elizabeth Rodgers
Gertrude
R. W. Deckstader
Gertrude Deckstader
Noel Dockstader
Elizabeth
Doris Doeckstader
A. T. Rodgers
Anna O'Donnell
N. W. Lyons
W. M. Winn
A. DD. Blanchard
Manhattan
Rodgers
Second Ward
A. T
N. Campbell Avenue
J. M. Oliver
A. G. Mead
P.G. Chubbie
J. W. Bartleson
L. A. Mergen
C. P. Bartleson
Ralph McKinnie
How to Remove a Stubborn Bottle Stopper
Instructions outline a method to extract a stubborn bottle stopper. Apply a drop of oil at the stopper neck join, warm the bottle slightly from a distance, then tap gently to let the oil seep and loosen the stopper so it can be removed.
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Yard
Illnois
Clore OF Grain Futures
Beach Wickham Grain CO
Morrison
Washington, Iowa
Toledo
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Omaha
Special Railroad News
Journal’s Farm Department
Shaver
Fry & Freese
Washington
Poland
China
C. G. Pickens
Brighton Township
Joe Shalla
Cedar Township
Floyd Green
76 Township
W. E. Thing
Lime Creek Township
J. Bergers
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S & Gibson
Cash Buyers
Ile Bae
O. Carlson
Mutual
Call Central
Lemley Reduction CO
Frank Bandy
Mr. Bandy
Minnesota
The
White Way Garage Company
Cream
Colenso
W. S. Reister & Sons
Washington, Jaws
Ile Se
Atle He
Oildag
John Striegel Jr
Harper, Iowa
Eadache
Miakes
Jack Peps
Eatonic
Chichester
Bece
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Dradfelt Regulator Co. Dye. Fll
Atlanta. Ga
Holland
Property Owners Federation, Inc
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