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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1925
Page
2
Hogs receipts 49,000 with values lifting 10c to 13.40 for top lots. Cattle receipts 15,000 with beef steers 10 to 25c higher and hogs steady to strong. Sheep receipts 11,000 with fat lambs steady to higher and native ewes rising. Also Chicago cash grain: Wheat and corn prices mixed with oats and rye mostly unchanged.
East St Louis June 22 hogs receipts 9 000 best butcher hogs higher others little changed 13 50 bulk 13 45 to 13 50 160 to 200 pounds 13 25 to 13 40 light pigs 11 50 to 12 50 packer sows 12 00 to 12 10 Cattle receipts 4 500 fat native steers steady to strong other natives and western steers steady three loads choice 1 189 pound steers 11 25. beef sows 4 50 to 5 50 canners 2 50 to 2 00 Bologna bulls 25c higher bulk 450 to 475 good and choice light welers steady top 10 00 bulk 9 75 Sheep receipts 4 500 market steady to strong receipts mostly southwest Missouri lambs bulk sales 15 25 few natives and southern lambs 15 50 culls 8 50 fat ewes 4 50 to 5 50
Official live stock estimates issued in Chicago list hogs at 22 000 cattle 7 000 and sheep 12 000 for tomorrow.
Burmese women express belief they must be reborn as men to join the yellow robe order and attain full humanity in their community, reflecting gender roles and spiritual hierarchy.
Price list shows butterfat tests for cream per pound and eggs by dozen, plus weights for hens and leghorn types, Ducks and swans, and beef hides or horse hides. No market for cull sick or crippled poultry.
Des Moines June 22 In all twelve reporting counties farm land valuations were cut for 1925 according to State Auditor J C McClune. Largest drop in Van Buren from 55 05 to 38 97 per acre with others like Clinton Davis Decatur Dickinson Lucas Mahaska Mills Scott Shelby Story and more trimming values. Overall average fell from about 81 56 to 66 05 per acre signaling potential lower mill tax rates.
State Historical Society begins extended research into early highways after discovering old rock paths near Lake Arrowhead California. Investigators believe the routes may be remnants of the lost Mormon trails that connected Utah with the Southwest, with paths once crossing mountain streams and joining the Arrowhead desert trail near Victorville and Hesperia.
A Toronto scientist notes the age of a fish can be determined by inspecting its ear. The halibut’s left side is white while the opposite side is dark, with the uppermost brown area bearing two large eyes, offering an observation on age assessment.
The New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the nation’s first hospital for women, began in 1853 founded by sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell who were physicians.
Lincoln June 20 Attorney General Spillman filed two suits in Lancaster County Court demanding the return of excess payments totaling 84 153 dollars by road contractors. The suits allege falsified records by George B. Johnson former secretary of the state department of public works under Governor McKelvie and E H Morey chief of the roads bureau under Johnson.
Final arrangements are set for 600 boys to attend Camp Roosevelt at Fort Sheridan Illinois on June 29 for the first period of the encampment. Cadets will travel from Chicago aboard a special train departing 1 30 p m from Congress street stub of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad.
Davenport police arrested Mrs. Buck on murder charges after her husband John W. Buck died from burns suffered when she allegedly threw burning gasoline during a June 2 quarrel. Buck had filed for divorce a week earlier. she claimed hysteria from ill treatment.
A. S. Tailey, aged 90, veteran newspaperman now living in Galesburg Illinois, arrived in Shenandoah to visit his old haunts as a guest of local residents who contributed a love fund for him and he handed in a news story to the city editor.
J F Markley of Mason City was named president of the Iowa Bar Association at the convention closing session. Clyde H Doolittle of Manchester was secretary treasurer and A J Small of Des Moines was elected librarian. Davenport was chosen for the next convention city. The new executive board includes Pryor Muscatine Devitt Manchester Files Elkader Price Traer Beckley Montezuma Guthrie Des Moines Peters Clarinda Peterson Council Bluffs Stevenson Rockwell City Strubel Sioux City.
A advertising blurb touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a tastier, kinder alternative to cod liver oil for frail children. It claims rapid flesh gain within days, stresses suitability after sickness and suspected rickets, and offers a 30 day money back guarantee with 60 tablets for 60 cents.
Westbound and Knoxville area train departures listed with train numbers and times. Local freight services No 433 No 449 No 835 run daily except Sunday. Departs 2 26 a m 9 20 a m.
A plain write in offer from Chamberlain Medicine Co Des Moines Iowa invites readers to send name and address 10 cents and the order slip to receive a trial package of Chamberlain tablets for indigestion heartburn and biliousness Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and Chamberlains Salve for burns wounds and skin ailments all for 10 cents Don’t miss it
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