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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1926
Page
2
Chicago market report for June 30 shows cattle and hog receipts around 11 000 and 14 000 respectively with mixed price moves. Feeder cattle and light weight steers shimmer, hogs steady to higher on choice weights, sheep and western natives selling around 14.60 to 15.25 for fat lambs amid overall market firmness.
Livestock estimates from Chicago project 26 000 hogs 9 000 cattle and 10 000 sheep for tomorrow.
Chicago market reports list futures and cash values for wheat corn oats rye and barley with ranges for No 2 red No 4 mixed No 5 mixed and various yellow grades. Seed and meat quotes include Timothy seed Clover seed Lard ribs and bellies with unit prices noted.
Toledo market bulletin lists cash prices for Clover seed domestic 22.00 and imported 17.50 with October and December quotes. Timothy seed cash 3.65 asked with September and October quotes.
Farmers in the county are adopting farm accounting with guidance from a specialization team. About fifty farmers began keeping records last January, most reporting up to date and useful in analyzing machinery and livestock returns per acre and per animal. The program covers price trends, price-driven market swings, and expects to aid end-of-year analyses for farm profitability. Four 4H clothing clubs expand to Cedar and Washington townships under Mrs Mavrwell with leaders and members training for Rally Day and State Fair representation. Alfalfa seeding combined with summer fallow is advised to combat Canada thistle. A district meeting to be held at Mt Pleasant on July 15 features Chas Hearst and Miss Jessie Foster.
This 1926 Western Newspaper Union piece argues midlife fat is surplus, caused by overeating and under exercise. It links excess weight after forty to higher death risk and insurance costs, urging practical changes like reduced fattening foods and more exercise rather than pills or magic systems.
Listings show per pound and per dozen rates for butterfat cream, fresh sees, broilers split by weight, leghorn varieties, hens by size, old roosters, ducks, geese by breed, and horse hides. No market for cut sick or crippled poultry.
Pencil stone is a hydrous aluminum silicate resembling talc in color and luster. It is used ornamentally as a gem slate pencil material and in talcum powder. It is carved by the Chinese and found mainly in California and North Carolina in the United States.
The ancients used concealed stoves and portable braziers. In England warming relied on the snag oven grate, a common method still in use despite wasting fuel.
A lime or linden tree known as basswood was brought to England in the sixteenth century. A Swiss lime planted in 1410 persisted to 1720 with a trunk circumference of 86 feet.
A young bride pleads in a domestic column about failing to balance household accounts. She struggles with basic arithmetic adding up staples like steak and oranges. The item exposes financial strain and marital tension in a humorous domestic vignette.
A widow, grieving after her husband’s death, visits a village store to buy a burial shroud. The storekeeper quotes a price, she suggests buying elsewhere for half, and he retorts that the corpse would reach the knees in a week.
The smallest Catholic church in the world sits on the Old Palo Alto planta in Louisiana. The chapel holds a small altar and space for a priest. the congregation gathers on benches outside the chapel.
A terse lyric fragment describes a couple moving through stages from meeting to marriage with encounters and formal rites implied by a minister and lawyers, concluding with a symbol Blue Jug.
Practically all sessions of the Loyal Order of Moose convention will be broadcast by WJJD Mooseheart station at Mooseheart Illinois. The convention runs in Chicago from July 1 to 6 and broadcasts will be routed through WJJD's Chicago central from the Palmer House.
Radio Digest lists stations and times for July 4 1926 with programs featuring KHJ WRZ WGY WHAS KFAB KMA KMOX WCAP WHAZ WSBT WSM WTIC and many more across Chicago New York Des Moines Kansas City and more. Includes dinner concerts orchestras and vocal ensembles with station specifics and local times.
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