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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1920
Page
2
Chicago prices show steady to firm tones for hogs with top at 16.75 and most sales 14.40 to 16.50 while heavy weights and sows trade unevenly. Cattle and calves begin dull with mixed offerings and lighter bids as sheep market slows 75 to 1.00 off with lambs 13.00 to 16.75 and ewes 3.00 to 8.00. Official yesterday receipts list hogs 31,680 cattle 14,043 sheep 10,187 calves 4,486.
Grain quotes from Beach Wickham Grain Co list corn prices for No 1 mixed No 2 mixed and yellow grades with per bushel ranges and car counts. Rye No 2 at 1.86 and white corn metrics followed by cash Clover and futures for October December. Estimated live stock receipts for Thursday show hogs 33 000 cattle 9 000 and sheep 12 000.
Report says thousands of bogus tickets were printed and sold to the public for 50 to 100 dollars each for admittance to a Frisco convention auditorium, with a national committee receiving the information.
Forty percent of cotton used in Japan comes from American manufacture, signaling strong U S supply influence on Japanese textile production and markets.
Farm department notes Samson and Hart-Parr tractors arriving at Mason's as harvest nears. August is the time to plow under stubble and kill weeds. orders should be placed now for delivery. Also covers hog shipping care to reduce losses in heat and advice on bedding, water use, and handling.
A Brisbane dispatch reports Australia faces a sharp drop in beef for export next year due to severe droughts in New South Wales and Queensland. While some regions fared better, the droughts threaten cattle supplies, though mutton exports have remained stronger in the south.
Robert A. Brown of Des Moines, star Hawkeye swimmer, will study under skilled South Sea divers this summer as part of a University of Iowa expedition planned to collect more than 400 fish species, including sharks, from the South Pacific for mounting and display. The trip departs San Francisco July 13 under Prof. Homer R. Dill with eight members funded by Brown’s father E. W. Brown. Upon return, Brown will join a joint Iowa Washington University expedition to northern Washington for big game specimens used in university taxidermy classes and museum displays.
In 1094 a Portuguese bark from Madagascar, driven off course by tempests, sheltered in Charleston harbor. The captain, grateful for courtesies, gave Gov. Landgrave Smith a bag of seed. Smith planted it that year, and the seed led to the rise of the present rice industry in the southern United States.
Wool growers may pool their 1920 clip with the Fleece Wool Growers Association to ship to the National Wool Workers and Storage Company in Chicago. The plan includes storage grading and sale with specific charges and optional advances, with detailed terms for multiple lots and representative oversight.
Notice states the shop will be closed all day Monday July 5 for national legal holiday. J. B. Crail signs the notice.
Marguerite Clark stars in the Fox Theatre engagement of A Girl Named Mary a Paramount Artcraft feature based on Juliet Wilbur Thompkins story The plot follows a wealthy widow Mrs Jaffrey searching for her missing daughter after a railroad wreck Mary resides with a foster mother and is found by Henry Martin Mary the missing girl learns to adapt to a luxurious life but returns to love with Henry as Kathryn Williams leads the supporting cast directed by Walter Edwards
A bohemian artist explains why he has never painted a sunrise. A visitor notes many sunsets but asks why no sunrise. He blushes and admits he is never up at that hour, a quiet truth that hints at his lifestyle. The remark ends with a wry lesson on truth and exaggeration.
One breaker box cap knocked off by a corn stalk and one cylinder head gasket finished the repairs ordered for 13 Samson tractors sold in seven townships around Washington since last October. Authorized agency at Mason's Washington Towa.
An advertisement touts Oildag as the World’s best automotive lubricant using Acheson Graphite in high grade neutral oils. It claims engine power increase, wear prevention, reduced carbon deposits, lower fuel use, valve protection, spark plug cleanliness, and doubled service intervals before overhaul.
Sal Tonik combines salt and red pepper with herbs minerals and worm treatments in 60 medicated blocks. Animals lick the blocks to receive essential minerals and prevent disease, keeping stock healthy and profitable. Produced by Guarantee Veterinary Co Sioux City Iowa.
The notice claims skin irritations and boils stem from a disordered blood condition caused by germs entering the bloodstream. It argues topical lotions cannot reach the root cause and implies a blood remedy exists, urging readers to seek this treatment.
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