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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1925
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts at 37 000 with slow activity and range shifts from light to heavy weights. Cattle receipts around 9 000 with mixed demand. fat steers and yearlings show gains, vealers slow and stockers weak. Sheep receipts 14 000 with dull bidding and modest lamb prices for lightweights.
March 17 sale near Wellston lists Livingston and Dougherty southwest of town. Med. 19 opening bid by J. O. Crawford closing out sale located 2 miles northeast of Washington.
Mrs Walter E Anderson of Rangeley Maine says two years of suffering with bearing down pains and fatigue ended after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She works on a farm with five in the family and now reports she can sew wash iron and sweep. Over 200000 women have responded yes to benefit claims and the product is sold by druggists everywhere.
Chicago markets show mixed activity for May July and Sept contracts across wheat corn oats rye and livestock. Prices move with gains and losses reflecting typical trading among crops with notable shifts in corn rye and pork bellies futures.
Chicago market summary lists wheat and corn prices with mixed grades from No 2 to No 6 and yellow, white, and mixed cultivars. Oats rye barley timothy and clover seeds shown with prices, lard and bellies also noted.
Chicago officials release livestock estimates for tomorrow with hogs at 4 000, cattle 4 000, sheep 11 000. The figures indicate active market demand and supply expectations.
Detroit Free Press prepares to occupy a 14 story building on a block between Cass Avenue and Wayne Street in downtown Detroit. The structure rises six floors with an eight story tower and includes two basement sub floors for machinery as the paper moves from its former Fort Shelby site. Production of the daily issue is expected to begin soon after occupancy.
Readers are urged to mail name address and five cents with the slip to Des Moines Iowa for a trial package. The kit includes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs colds and throat irritation Chamberlain's Tablets for stomach issues and Chamberlain's Salve for burns wounds and skin problems.
Various community groups list rescheduled or upcoming meetings including the Susan Coffey Auxiliary on March 20 at 2:00 PM at Mrs Nettie Skipton’s home. Rebekahs Regular meeting with initiation and a surprise, and Wee Men’s Relief Corps at the Court House 2:30 PM Saturday. Moose Lodge social Thursday and W O R C dues. The Walton League meets Friday at the Y M C A with officer elections. Presbyterian Ladies Missionary Society meets Friday 2:30 PM at Mrs Will Matucha’s home. D of A March 19 postponed. Pythian Sisters of West Chester hold regular meeting March 24.
Riverside mourns the death of Nicholas Sueppel aged just shy of 80. Born in Alsace France in 1845, he immigrated to America at nine, lived in Pennsylvania and Iowa, and married Elizabeth Schnoebelen in 1875. He leaves fourteen children and seventeen grandchildren. funeral Friday at St Marys church.
The article describes a new Detroit Free Press Building planned to house the editorial staff amid anticipated long term expansion. It notes the company’s founding by Sheldon MacKnight on May 5 1881 at Woodbridge and Bates near the water.
Washington markets publish a price sheet listing butterfat at 45 cents per pound and fresh eggs by the dozen. Poultry prices include hens under and over four pounds at various rates and old roosters, ducks, geese, swan geese, and hides priced per pound or each. No market for cull poultry noted.
An advertisement promotes ALLENRHU as a guaranteed cure for rheumatic pain and uric acid deposits. Lemmon's Pharmacy and all local druggists are authorized to offer a money back guarantee if ALLENRHU fails to stop agony, reduce swollen joints, or relieve twinges. Jamies H. Allen, Rochester native and discoverer of ALLENRAY, endorses the claim and urges sufferers to try it with the stated guarantee.
David McCullough aged 76 dies at his Conesville home after a lingering illness. Funeral held at Grace Reformed Church with burial in Conesville cemetery. Surviving widow Ella Lewis and children Harold Arthur Lewis, and others. Also funeral for Mrs Sidda Norris, widow of Richard Norris, age 81, from Grace Reformed Church with interment in Conesville cemetery. Both natives of Coshocton county born before 1850 and long-time Iowa residents.
The private Woodburn bank in Creston Woodburn Clarke county suspends operations awaiting reorganization with deposits of about 150000. In Des Moines Jerome H Sharp from Midland Bank of Minneapolis serves as clearing house manager and examiner for the new clearing house. Court action seeks to stop picketing of F H Dietz drug store by liquor officials and Dietz seeks a restraining order. A township election tie is decided by coin flip with Mrs S E Hough winning the director seat over Leland Wooters. Drake University debate team defeats Washburn University on a supreme court question. Mrs Anthony Wayne
Cook, president of the National Society of the D A R, urged the convention that women must keep the nation sound by practicing old fashioned virtues.
New York health board lifts embargo on live poultry shipments from North Dakota South Dakota Missouri Kansas Iowa Nebraska to New York. Embargo remains in effect against Illinois Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania. In Berlin fascists nominate General Ludendorff for president and Lord Curzon remains in poor condition in London.
Red McCarthy former baseball star and scout for Joe Burns of the Blue Sox erupts in anger during a Pullman ride. He flees with his daughter Joan at a desert stop after shouting at Burns and threatening further travel. A whiskered local remarks on the park sight as the party heads toward an unlikely field on the sage plain.
Mike Donlin the famed Giants star plays a leading role in Hoot Gibson's Hit and Run directed by Edward Sedgwick. The comedy western features a cowboy who tracks a pill in a lively chase as the plot unfolds with a strong supporting cast arriving next Saturday.
Mune Mc Laughlin left for Washington Monday morning after visiting in the neighborhood. The Highland Center Sewing Circle met with Mrs. Pearl Co on Friday with twelve members and three visitors. June Steele weekended with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Steele. Several neighbors remain on the sick list. Mrs. Orrie O Connor visited Tuesday with her parents. Mrs. Florence Steele spent Tuesday at T. C. Steels. Helen Endicott returned home Wednesday after a brief Davenport visit.
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