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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1924
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 29 000 steady with best rates 7 50 for top 225 to 300 lb hogs. Cattle receipts 9 000 demand unevenly higher with fed steers strong, top matured steers around 12 00, slaughter values 9 40 to 10 50. Sheep receipts 10 000 very slow with lambs steady to weak and ewes around 9 75 to 10 00.
East St. Louis March 6 hogs receipts 18 600. Prices 6 to 110 below prior. Bulk 7.00 to 7.15. Packers sow prices unchanged. Cattle receipts 2 500 steers active steady top vealers 16 50 one load yearlings 10 00 bulk vealers 8 25 to 8 75 cows 4 50 to 56 75 bolognas 4 50 to 6 00. Sheep receipts 1 000 choice lambs 16 06 packers few 14 00 to 15 50 culls 11 56 to 12 00 fat ewes 10 00 down. Tone steady.
Cattle receipts 2 500 steady with late arrivals and mixed quality. Fat stock and feeders active with values largely firm to higher. best yearlings to 8.00. canners and bulls active. calves 3 500 strong with lights up to 9.00. Hogs receipts 20 000 steady to strong with lights and butchers averaging 170 to 250 pounds around 7.00. heavier weights 6.00 to 6.25. Sheep receipts 1 000 fat lambs down 25c. natives 14.00 to 14.50. ewes 9.25 to 9.50.
Cattle receipts 5,000 and calves 1,000 with steady to strong demand for fed steers yearlings and weighty steers. Beef cows and fed heifers steady to strong, calves slow with top vealers around 9.00. Hog receipts 12,006 slow and lower with packer bids near 7.25 and 6.80 to 7.26 for bulk sales.
Chicago March 5 Grain prices showed weakness after the opening as reports of a potential White House nod to the McNary Haugen bill unsettled traders. Wheat moved from unchanged to slight declines, corn fell broadly then steadied, oats and provisions followed the trend with mixed moves.
Chicago cash grain quotes list wheat and corn prices by grade with a variety of numbers. Oats rye barley and seed and meat products are shown with bid and ask tones and recent trade values.
Potatoes trading slow and market weak in Chicago with 23 cars received and 988 total shipments nationwide. Wisconsin sacked round whites sold around 1.15 to 1.30, Idaho sacked russets 2.20 to 2.30, Minnesota sacked red rivers Ohios 1.50 to 1.60, bulk and fancy grades listed.
Hog prices show various ranges from 6.80 to 7.10 for lighter weights, bulk hogs 130 to 160 lb at 6.15 to 6.65, packing sows around 6.25 to 6.40 with some at 6.50, and stock pigs steady to 10c higher from 5.00 to 5.50. Sheep receipts total 3,000 with lambs generally steady, a few heavy lots 10 to 15c lower, top at 15.65, others largely 15.20 to 15.50. practically no sheep offered.
Livestock estimates indicate tomorrow's counts include 35 000 hogs 9 000 cattle and 9 000 sheep with no further details.
Brighton March items report visits and health, with Mrs. C. S. Stearns and Mrs. J. W. Parrow visiting Ainsworth and Coppock to see ill sister Mrs. Nichols. A birth records a son Feb 29 at Fairfield hospital. Deacon Minear preached at the Methodist church with a basket lunch. Visitors include Mr. W. J. Thomas from Bloomfield and Harry Dunbars moving, plus relatives of the Hicks, Stein, McGuire, and Combs families. A high school declamatory contest in Wayland features Brighton entrants, with two judges from Wayland after Mt. Pleasant cancellation. New scarlet fever cases raise quarantine alarms.
Closing out sale announced for March 6 at five and a half miles northeast of Crawfordsville. Joe Jones to conduct proceedings with typical sale items.
Frank Stanley of Detroit, a Fisher Body Co employee, reports Tanlac cured his stomach trouble, restored appetite, improved sleep, and helped him gain ten pounds. He says the medicine made him stronger and healthier, urging others to try Tanlac and its pills, with over 40 million bottles sold.
A brief notice states mutual agreement to pay 66 cents per pound for poultry delivered and to provide 106 pounds at 66 cents, indicating higher compensation for farmers under delivery terms.
The account notes a yearlong battle with a persistent disease in Brighton, with renewed outbreaks after seeming improvements. It mentions William and an older child affected, and visits by Mrs. Anna Day and her son Gilbert from Kirksville Missouri staying at J. W. Swisher home over the weekend.
Crawfordsville reports W H McCall and Miss Mary spent the day in Washington. R C McCleary traveled to Des Moines as a Republican delegate. N L Long of Washington visited with relatives and marked his 81st birthday. George Anderson, candidate for county sheriff, toured Crawfordsville. Mrs Rosina White returned from Washington weekend visit. Mrs Arthur Yard also visited.
Washington yesterday to visit her mother Mrs Nicholson. Co H Fishburn has been very ill for days. His daughter Frankie Bill was expected from Illinois yesterday. The next lecture on the course will be given Friday night March 7 with Virginia Shade, a reader of great ability.
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