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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1925
Page
2
Daily Market Reports from Chicago dated May 1 show hog receipts at 16 000 with prices steady to Thursday's best. Cattle receipts 4 000 with steer trade weakening. sheep slow with lambs bid lower. Grain quotes include wheat No 2 red at 1 84 and corn No 2 mixed at 1 02 percent.
Official live stock estimates issued for the week show hogs at 4000 head, cattle at 1000 head, and sheep at 5000 head. Authorities released the figures from Chicago with no regional variance noted.
The note urges readers to use advertisements as guides to good merchandise and to inform merchants about responses. It frames ads as practical tools for evaluating products and improving buyer merchant communication.
An advertising-style medical claim promotes HY-PEP-SEN a tonic from Hydrastis Pepsin Senna and other ingredients. It asserts improved digestion liver activity and vitality after a tablespoon after meals and at night with no nausea or distress. The ad notes Lemmon's Drug Store carries and guarantees the product.
Open high low close figures for WHEAT CROP CORN OATS RYE and meats at Chicago markets on May 1. Futures show mixed gains across wheat corn rye and livestock with May and July contracts listed for each commodity and ending near similar levels.
Fragmentary items note a New York minister opposing marble games for boys while boys retort with humor about him talking. Other clippings mention a family with 15 boys, a promise of cigars for work, malaria concerns and June brides leaving jobs due to time constraints.
A fragment from Washington produce markets lists per pound prices and unit tags with small figures such as 38 cents and 16 cents, plus abbreviations awd sl and other coded markers. The legible items indicate a catalog snippet rather than a full market roundup.
The text advocates stricter prohibition enforcement and universal abstinence, linking Daniel’s example to personal liberty and societal progress. It argues prohibition fosters self restraint, cites Daniel and his companions as models, and claims abstinence improves athletics, families, schools, churches, and government.
A removal of the drink evil rests with the younger generation. A single young person who commits to total abstinence can inspire others and shape the future for millions across generations.
Petition filed in September Term 1925 district court in Washington County Iowa by Lemmon Plymtt seeking to quiet title in fee simple to the north twenty two feet of Lot 7 Block 12 Original Town of Washington Iowa against named defendants and unknown claimants alleging adverse claims and requesting quieting of title.
The court warns all defendants and unknown claimants of the real estate to appear before noon on the second day of the next term starting September 1 1925 at the Washington Court House. If no appearance is made a default will be entered and judgment given as prayed in the plaintiff's petition. Bailey Baldrige represent the plaintiff. April 24 May 1 8
Wayne Mann, former Nebraska star and once a claimant to the heavyweight crown, was defeated by Stub Barron Hawkeye wrestling champion in an intercollegiate meet at Iowa City. Barron won 191% victory over Mann.
A fragmented rail timetable lists Golden State and Knoxville branch trains with numbers for express, local, and freight services. Includes arrival and departure windows such as 11:45 a.m., 6:25 p.m., and 2:40 a.m., noting daily service exceptions and agent H. W. Russel.
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