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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1924
Page
2
Hogs receipts 20 000 moderate activity and price gains across weights. Best butchers 7 35 to 7 40 with top 7 46 and prime 6 00 to 6 35 for light weights. Cattle slow with best steers steady to weak. veal steady to 25 cents off. sheep slow with native lambs 15 00 to 15 50.
Sioux City market report shows cattle receipts 3,700 with varied quotes for fat cattle, cows, feeders, and stockers. hogs receipts 12,000 with top at 7.05 and most sales 6.50 to 7.05. sheep receipts 200 with prices about 25 cents lower. Wealers noted at 12.00, natives pigs 5.25 to 6.50.
Kansas City livestock receipts total 12 000 cattle 2 500 best steers 8.00 9.75 weaker bids. Hogs receipts 14 000 with ships top 7.05 and packers top 7.06, bulk 6.70 6.95. Sheep receipts 6 000 lambs 25 to 50 cents lower with natives top 14.75 and 14.60 common grades.
Hogs receipts 16 000. Prices 6.10 to 7.05 for 220 300 lb butchers. 160 220 lb 6.50 6.85. lights down to 6.25. Cattle receipts 9 800 slow. steers 7.50 9.00, top 9.75. cows 4.25 7.85. Sheep 15 600 very slow. natives 14.50, yearlings 12.75, lambs 12.25.
An archival line echoes Rudyard Kipling on youth facing loneliness in a warlike world. The quote laments the isolation felt by young people estranged from surrounding society and its apathy.
The Chicago market reports multiple grain futures and commodity prices with values for wheat corn oats rye barley and Selected fats and oils. Wheat ranges from 1.14 to 1.20 while corn futures show mixed and yellow varieties around 83 to 84. Timothy seed and clover seed fetch 5.00 to 18.60 per unit with lard ribs bellies trading near 10.50.
In Chicago wheat prices moved modestly higher after a week of gains as selling by commission houses aimed to take profits. July and September futures posted new highs for the season, with July around 1.15 and September near 1.17. Corn and oats followed the grain trend, while hog values improved prospects for provisions.
Braden and family hosted Sunday dinner at the Donald Smith residence. Several residents visited neighbors including John Hauenstein at Frank Hesseltine and Sam Witting households. A Friday ice cream social at Ode Ferguson drew locals after a storm that damaged trees sheds and light buildings as cleanup began.
Riverside residents attended a Flag Day celebration led by Estelle Cruz with a program including piano and vocal pieces, readings, and a flag history. A luncheon followed hosted by several ladies. Local families and visitors from Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown, Council Bluffs, Ottumwa, and Iowa City were noted for travel and visits.
The Chicago potato market shows slow trading and weakness in barrel lots while other forms stay steady. New 76 carloads and old 11 cars are listed, with U. S. shipments totaling 309 new and 76 old. Wisconsin Michigan Round Whites sell 1.20 to 1.35, some at 1.40. North South Carolina Cobblers 3.50 to 3.85. Alabama Louisiana sacked Bliss Triumphs 2.25 to 2.49, quality at 2.00 for sacked varieties.
Army worms reported in several corn fields over the past ten days, capable of destroying entire plants. Control options include poisoned bran bait, while natural predators like tachina flies help reduce the pest. A July calf and pig club tour is planned to educate boys, with judging teams to represent the county at the state fair. A Clay Township meeting drew 44 attendees and discussed upcoming outdoor exhibition plans. Johnson County hog disease trials study a necrotic enteritis treatment, weighing and evaluating hogs. Washington Democrat medals honor top club-work stories by boys in the Farm Bureau edition.
A federal court in Des Moines hears a case against the J I Cage Threshing Machine Co for alleged patent infringement by Garden City Threshing Machine Co of Pella Iowa. Rand cutters and feeders patented in 1905 by Arthur C Houweling were cited as supplying the suit materials.
In Bremen on May 27, prices for food and clothing soar 25 to 200 percent above prewar levels while farmers protest low prices and foreign competition. Merchants cite high taxes and expenses as cutting profits, rail fares and hotel rates rise 25 to 100 percent, luxury goods shrink and tailoring prices stay high. Business shows strain with uncertain interest rates and blurred future prospects.
In Ballintaggart a group holding an all night religious service at 3 A. M. was prosecuted in Portadown for praying in a private house without a permit. The court let them off on paying prosecution costs after they claimed nightly weekend prayers are customary.
The piece notes that even skilled metal workers paid 25 cents an hour cannot fathom why commodities have risen far beyond wage gains. Clerks and government employees share the concern as money buys only essentials amid price shifts.
A shopper urges regulars to tell merchants I saw your ad in the Journal as a targeted reminder of local promotions. The action cues merchants to credit the paper in conversations and solidifies reader awareness of current ads.
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