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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1924
Page
2
Hogs receipts 24,000 with most quotes 10c higher. Lightweights up 10 to 16c. top hogs 7.50. Cattle receipts 1,000 with killing classes mostly 25c higher. beef steers and better grades up 15 to 25c. top matured steers 12.00. Sheep receipts 12,000. fat lambs steady to strong. clipped lambs 14.00 to 14.25. fat ewes 8.50.
Cattle receipts 4,500 with native beef steers strong up to 15c higher and Texas offerings scarce. Hogs receipts 7,000 with prices 5 to 10c higher, shipper top 7.20 and packer top 7.15. Sheep receipts 4,000 steady to higher with no choice woolled lambs. Texas wethers 8.00 to 8.15.
Cattle receipts 1900 with steady classes and light beef steer supply and bids up to 8 50. Hog receipts 1500 with higher averages and 7 00 to 7 10 bid for common weights. Sheep receipts 1500 steady with a top 13 49 for shorn lambs and ewes to 7 00. Local market notes from South St Paul Minnesota.
Cattle receipts 1 200, market active with killers steady up to 15 cents higher. Fat steers and yearlings 7.00 to 11.60, bulk 8.00 to 10.00. fat cows and heifers 6.90 to 9.00. Hogs receipts 12 000, top 7.05, bulk 6.85 to 7.00, lights 6.60 to 6.96. Sheep receipts 1 000, market steady 25 cents higher, wool lambs 16.25.
Chicago cash grain prices list a range of values for wheat corn oats rye barley timothy seed clover seed and meat products with No 1 hard wheat at 111 to 114 and lard at 16 57 while other grain types show mixed and numbered grade ranges across corn oats rye and fats and oils.
May wheat deliveries totaled 3,851,000 bushels with the market turning higher after an initially mixed start. Bullish private crop estimates, clearer Canadian and Argentine offerings, and stronger demand from mills supported gains, while corn drifted lower and oats moved higher. Hog values rose lifting provisions and lambs to modest gains.
Omaha May 1 hogs receipts 15 500 market strong mostly higher bulk 210 to 3006 lb butchers 7 00 to 7 10 top 7 15 desirable 180 to 210 lb weight 6 75 to 7 00 packing sows largely 6 40 to 6 50 average cost yesterday 6 92 average weight 251 pounds cattle receipts 2 500 beef steers and yearlings moderately active generally steady spots strong to higher killing qualities largely medium top steers 11 10 bulk steers and yearlings 7 66 to %.75 fed heifers fairly active fully steady
An advertisement features O. E. Voiles praising Adler-i-ka for curing indigestion and constipation in two days after using three bottles. The ad claims the product flushes both upper and lower bowels, relieves gas, and prevents appendicitis, with ingredients listed as buckthorn and other simple items.
House meets at noon while the Senate convenes at 11 a m The Senate air committee meets and the agriculture committee continues the Muscle Shoals hearing The Women s International League for Peace and Freedom begins sessions Reconferees on immigration bills resume talks A Senate committee probes Senator Wheeler s indictment and a House committee resumes with the shipping board WOTA The House post office panel advances the pay increase measure
Town residents share visits and caregiving details as relatives travel from Burlington Kansas to Iowa.
Omaha May 1 Former U S Senator Gilbert Hitchcock told the Democratic convention he heads that national policy has harmed western interests and prosperity. He cited tariff, currency and isolation as causes of higher prices for western farmers and lower spirits, contrasting with eastern gains and urging balanced policies. He warned of bankruptcies in the Midwest and declining factory activity as tariffs and misdirected policy bite. In Nottingham England a new domestic servant problem solution arose with destitute boys hired by housewives. The Journal notes advertising has value when done intelligently.
In Dallas a roster of leading U S legal minds will speak at the American Bar Association meeting in Philadelphia July 8 to 10 President Robert B E Saner will discuss his goals for the year as president and citizenship committee chair He will be joined by F Dumont Smith of Hutchinson Kansas to present the committee report Roscoe Pound dean of Harvard Law School will discuss parallels from legal history on opening day
James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago will deliver the annual address on Our New Era in International Government. Chief Justice Tafft will report as chairman of the committee on judicial ethics. Many prominent attorneys and jurists will speak. Richard B. Cochran of York will preside at the joint meeting of the association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association in Philadelphia for the first time. A simple want ad may suffice.
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