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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1925
Page
2
Chicago July 25 cattle and hog receipts and price moves show mixed trends with hogs largely steady to higher on light weights, cattle strong to higher on grain fed steers, and sheep receipts and prices indicating modest declines. Grain and feed prices extend through grain futures and rippling effects across livestock sectors.
Hogs receipts 3 300 market generally steady few desirable light hogs. 140 150 lb 14 50 190 250 lb 14 30 14 40 good weight pigs 14 00 14 15 packer sows 12 50. Cattle receipts 850. good and choice steers light yearlings heifers up 25c week over week western stock 25c higher grass cows 25c lower fat cows steady tops week 13 00 13 35 native steers 8 75 12 50 western steers 6 00 8 75 fat yearlings 11 00 12 10 cows 4 50 6 50.
Local market listing sets buy or sell prices for cream butterfat eggs hens springs and ducks with per pound rates and notes no market for cull sick or injured poultry. Prices shown include hens leghorn ducks geese beef hides and horse hides with a few misprints.
Toledo market reports cash wheat at 1.55 to 1.59 per bushel for No. 2 red. Clover seed asks 16.95, Ausilium? and futures 15.50 15.00. Alsike seed bids 12.75 for December. Timothy seed cash 3.80 with September 4.00 bid and October 3.95 bid.
Canners 2.50 to 3.00, bologna bulls 4.25 to 5.00. Sheep receipts 500, today’s trade nominal. For week lambs 0.75 to 1.00 higher, cull lambs up 0.50, aged sheep mostly 0.50 higher. Top lambs 14.75, bulk 13.50 to 14.50, culls 9.00. Top ewes 9.00, bulk light weights 7.00 to 8.50, heavies 5.00 to 6.00, canner and cutter ewes 3.00 to 3.50.
Unofficial figures for Monday show cattle at 16 000, sheep 17 000, hogs 38 000. Hog totals for the next week projected at 120 000 across markets.
Brighton notes a list of visits and travel including Mrs Joe Keegan Irene returning from Oskaloosa, Miss Mildred Wagner from Fairfield visiting Leona Davison, and Ray Conrad family vacationing in Brighton. Chautauqua runs Aug 10 to 15. Mr and Mrs Morrison welcomed a 4 lb 1 oz son born July 23. Trip plans include Joe Buzzard party to Minnesota and Porter handling land interests. Additional visits from Rev L R Burdock and Herman Donovan of Burlington.
Edinburgh dispatch notes World WCTU delegates from Egypt Burma India China and Japan say youths adopt Western social customs and drinks. Egyptian delegate Flora Hanna cites Cairo as 1922 temperance start and a 7 000 signature pro prohibition push. Burmese speaker Mae Butt links crime rise to alcohol. Miss Asa Matsuoka reports more Western drinks among Japanese youth and a counter temperance movement. Christine Tinling reports educated Chinese want Western beverages to show learning.
New York reports a National Safety Council study showing cities with well distributed playgrounds have far fewer child pedestrian fatalities. In Cleveland 72 playgrounds correlated with under 30 percent child victims, while Toledo's few grounds yielded higher risk. Across 231 cities 655 new playgrounds and 132 fields were created last year to boost safety.
Cambridge July 7 The Henry P.P. Davison Scholarship Fund committee named scholars for 1925 26 H H Thomas of Sidney Sussex to Yale W P N Edwards of Corpus Christi to Princeton and G C Rh Eley of Trinity to Harvard.
The Henry P Davison Scholarship Fund, founded in 1923 by Mrs. Davison widow of a Red Cross chairman and J P Morgan & Co partner, aims to send six English students to Harvard Yale or Princeton for at least a year to foster goodwill between the United States and Great Britain. Thomas won the Chancellor's medal for English verse, Eley earned a first in law tri pos, and Edwards played golf for the University.
A playful note from an English schoolboy renders the Latin phrase pay for war as Freedom from indigra tion, illustrating a student’s clever take on phrasing. The quoted line reflects a lighthearted mishearing or misspelling, attributed to Basten Troneerine.
Sunday visits to Verdi included James Corpening and family while James and Mrs Lockwood visited Howard Browns on Monday. Zeno Tinnes hosted Nick Tinnes Jr and family and Albert Tinnes with spouses. Lee Sanders drove to Ottumwa and back, meeting his mother Ollie Van Dyke for a D C Robertson party. Mrs. Virgil Butts had dental work in Washington. The Reighards and Dos Engle visited W C Robertson relations on Thursday.
Mrs. W. F. Haight of 450 S Eighth St credits Doan’s Pills with easing dull kidney ache, hip pain, dizziness, and morning fatigue. She reports repeated, reliable relief since first use and urges neighbors to obtain the same remedy priced at 60 cents at dealers. Milburn Co. promotes the product.
Tuesday events include Alvin Strume and Charley Myers in Washington with Mr and Mrs Walter Wolfe visiting. The Wellston Social Club hosts this afternoon. Little Twilla Mangold injures knee leaping from a car but is improving. The Littles and the Robertsons visited Brighton on Tuesday. Mrs Virgil Butts visited Cora Snyder on Sunday.
Train schedule page shows westbound and Knoxville Branch departures and arrivals with multiple numbers and times. Local passes freight and passenger services operate daily or daily except Sunday under agents Rue Co and McKay.
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