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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1925
Page
2
Hogs receipts 49 000 and cattle 18 000 with varied quotes for weights and grades. Wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds listed with bid ranges and notable shifts from prior levels.
Amusing stage and film notes preview Constance Talmadge in Learning to Love at the Fox theater tonight and Tuesday. The plot follows a debutante engaged to three college beaux who encounters a guardian Antonio Moreno and Paris divorce schemes before a happy ending. Cast includes Emily Fitzroy Edythe Chapman Johnny Harron Ray Haller Alf Goulding Wallace MacDonald Byron Munson Edgar Norton. Written by John Emerson Anita Loos and directed by Sidney Franklin. Joseph M Schenck production released by First National.
East St Louis market notes July 27 show hog receipts 11 000 live weights 150 to 180 pounds 14 50 to 14 35 per hundredweight and 190 pounds up 14 00 to 14 25. Cattle receipts 5 500 steer values steady to higher top at 13 75. Sheep receipts 4 500 fat lambs steady with top at 14 50 and culls 9 00.
In Surville France the mayoralty has been held by the Petel family for 117 years. Honore Petel was elected in 1808 and five successors have continued the line. The latest is Alfred Petel who was re elected for a four year term after first taking office in 1908.
Denatured alcohol dissolves shellac and allows it to be wiped away easily. Varnish remover and similar liquids do not dissolve shellac, making the alcohol the effective solvent for removal.
Market prices for butterfat eggs and various poultry and meat items are listed. Butterfat 40¢ per lb. eggs per dozen. hens by weight. springs by weight. leghorn varieties. old roosters. ducks geese and swan geese by the pound. beef and horse hides. no market for cull sick or crippled stock.
A London Daily News item notes a newly found ancient Greek shield described as resembling an orchestra with an eccentric band around a central bass, sparking reader intrigue about its design.
An advertisement urges parents to give children cod liver oil tablets rather than liquid oil. It touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a tasty, effective flesh builder, claiming a thin boy aged nine gained 12 pounds in seven months and recommending J. E. Lemmon or any druggist for the 60 tab bottle at 60 cents.
The article calls Thomas Campion the perfect minstrel among English poets for his beautiful love songs including When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue and Where the Bee Sucks.
The piece reviews post prohibition efforts in enforcement and regulation. It cites reduced bootlegging and denatured alcohol problems, strengthened Coast Guard and Customs roles, and calls for tighter control while warning of ongoing issues in moonshine, theatre decency, and gambling. It ends with a temperance bulletin from Council Bluffs noting a fatal car crash near Underwood and injuries to a child.
The timetable lists various trains including Golden State Limited No 3 and No 11 Express with arrival and departure times. It details Knoxville Branch services with Local Pass and Freight trains and notes daily and semiweekly schedules.
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