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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1926
Page
2
Chicago markets show cattle trade firm with fat steers and heifers bid higher while lighter weights and certain hog categories slipped. Open interest and demand remain steady to strong for top quality sheep and lambs as futures quotes edge lower on several grain and byproduct futures.
May 3 livestock estimates forecast large declines for hogs cattle and sheep for tomorrow. Hogs 19000 fewer cattle 13000 fewer and sheep 12000 fewer in the Chicago market report.
Prices listed for fresh poultry and livestock products in Washington markets. Butterfat test per pound at 87 percent, hens by weight and breed, old roosters, ducks, swan geese, and hides. Note excludes market for cut sick or crippled poultry.
William McSwiggin assistant State's attorney in Chicago was killed in a shooting. He was known as the hanging prose cutor for sending many men to the gallows.
Chicago market report lists grain and feed prices on May 2 with No. 2 red wheat at 1.681% to 1.6844, No. 1 hard 1.69, corn No. 2 mixed 73 cents, No. 2 yellow 73% to 72.34, oats and barley quoted, live cattle and pork products with lard 14.55 and ribs 16.26.
Toledo May 3 market report cites No 2 red wheat at 1.70 to 1.71. Domestic clover seed cash at 21.00 with imported 14.35 and October 16.50. Alsike cash 17.00 and Timothy seed cash 3.235 to 3.50 for September.
Attorney General Qec car Carlstrom takes charge of a special grand jury inquiry into Chicago gang activity and beer warfare. The probe, requested by state's Attorney Crowe, aims to uncover root causes and broad conditions behind the crimes. First witnesses slated include coroner Oscar Wolff and Henry Eugene Kelly, president of the Union League Club.
The text discusses deterents to crime among youth and mentions Devil's Island as a deterrent example. It argues Three elements for correct behavior: joy of doing right, an annoyer for wrong deeds, and a substitute for wrongful tendencies. It stresses environment over hereditary factors.
The writer laments how Americans tolerate minor law evasion and compares it to Japan. They argue that households allow loopholes and hidden disobedience, teaching a lax view of legality to youth, which could erode lawfulness when convenient.
A local report notes that many youths lack their parents liquor knowledge and that bootleggers are a small minority compared to the larger cadre of self described prohibitionists.
A housewife misstates quarts in a peck and a gallon during a canning episode. She vows it won’t recur and tested friends who also admitted tongue slips on the two questions in an Exchange.
Sparky, a one ton colt with star on face, born July 1 1928, is described as good natured with fine action. He will stand the 1926 season at the breeder's Riverside area barn seven miles southwest of Riverside and a half mile north of Fairview schoolhouse, contact Riv erside phone.
The Illinois Manufacturers' Association hires counsel to test the legality of Chicago Federation of Labor plans to erect broadcasting gear on the municipal pier after a city council vote allowed mast and aerials. The dispute centers over whether the ordinance is discretionary and subject to repeal.
Radio Digest lists Tuesday May 4 programs across networks KPO KTHS WHZ WHG WGN WCAP WHAZ WLIT WSBT WTAM WTIC KDKA KFNF KOA KYW WCCO WDAF WEA F and many others. Highlights include KDKA Pittsburgh dinner concert 6:30 PM 7:15 addresses 7:30 sacred songs 10:35 grand theater concert KFNF Page County Farm Bureau KOA Denver Brown Palace string orchestra and farm question box. WEAF New York 6 PM Grand Prize Eurekas Vincent Lopez orchestras and Ross Gorman musical hits. Uptown theater 10 11:30 Oriole show.
A weathered mule team driver and an automobilist share a short exchange as the driver questions the idea of a town. The automobilist asks for distance to the next town and the mule driver ponders the concept of a town in thoughtful terms.
England is increasing focus on child welfare with 2,112 maternity and child welfare centers currently. Thirty more centers are under consideration and the yearly rise runs at 25 centers per month, reflecting heightened postwar welfare efforts.
The description likens Earth to a steam boiler with an asbestos jacket and a rocky outer shell. It suggests the inner heat would take an enormous time, at least one hundred trillion years, to drop to half its original value.
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