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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1925
Page
2
Chicago market notes show forward demand for hogs steady to higher with mixed weights. cattle receipts 12 000 markets slow for finished yearlings and heavy steers while veal and sheep show modest gains. Grain quotes list wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds with rounded ranges across standard grades.
Chicago reports livestock estimates for tomorrow with hogs at 22,000 head, cattle 10,000, and sheep 7,000, outlining expected supply levels for the trading day.
Open high low close data for wheat corn oats rye lard ribs and bellies in Chicago trade on May 27 with figures for May July and September contracts. Highlights include wheat near 1.71 for May and corn around 1.15 for May with soybeans not listed. Prices show minor daily percentage changes across grains and fats.
Des Moines reports the state railroad commission suspended pending a hearing the Burlington railroad plans to withdraw from service two trains on the Humeston Shenandoah branch. Fort Madison R W Dunlop will speak at the Donnellson county pig picnic June 17. Adjutant General Lasher asked Governor Hammill to approve state funds for a guard officers school June 23 to 6. Des Moines vacancies and elections noted for Knights of Columbus and Shriners. Dubuque senior high mass meeting protests the discharge of O P Fowler, board says to eliminate sectarianism.
A fragmentary market list from Washington shows prices for fruits and livestock including butterfat test, eyes per dot, various hen weights, leghorn and springs age figures, old roosters, ducks and geese per pound, and hides by the pound. No market for crippled poultry noted.
Lesson analyzes Acts 9 31 to 43 focusing on growth in peace and grace, Peter’s healing of Aeneas and the raising of Dorcas. It highlights outward church expansion, stronger faith, and the gospel’s continued power as believers persevere in prayer, service, and preaching.
Henry Churchill King argues that human dignity rests on divine purpose for each person, and this intrinsic worth remains constant regardless of how a person fulfills that purpose. The text emphasizes theological determinism over origin or method.
The saying compares self-reliance and self-conceit to the North and South poles, highlighting a vast gap in meaning and value. It emphasizes that true independence differs greatly from inflated ego.
A new estimate from the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome reports a slight decrease in wheat acreage across 21 European countries to 127,946,000 acres from 129,075,000 last year. France shows a large shift with 13,766,000 acres sown, rye and oats remain above last year in most nations, and overall European cereals conditions are generally better than in 1924.
Clive and Everette Huson return to Quincy work after a week at home. Hazel Anwyl arrives from Fremont after teaching there. Mr and Mrs Eli White and daughter Alice travel to Tipton to visit the Jones family. The Sipe sisters Lucile and Miriam go to Fairfield to stay with parents. Methodist Standard Bearers meet with guests. Ladies Aid plans waffle supper May 30 in church basement. Church ladies to meet W R C Friday to make decorative wreaths at Legion rooms.
Ainsworth residents visit family in Aller ton Muscatine and Detroit while Dr Alcorn moves household goods to Washington. Mrs Jean Neville and her children stay with the Richards family in town. A surprise birthday party honors Mrs S B Thompson with twenty guests. Mrs Lee Norris reports a trip to El Paso and New Mexico. Maynard Hites returns home after closing school at Cambridge Iowa. Mrs Maud Bronson arrives from an unspecified location.
In Rome on May 6 a rare high relief wax portrait of Prince Francesco dei Medici by Benvenuto Cellini was presented to the San Marco museum by Florentine collector Giuseppe Vaiseppi. The piece, dated between 1568 and 1570, shows the prince in adolescence and remains well preserved.
A California company installs pigeon lofts in Stockton Santa Cruz San Jose Santa Rosa Fresno and Marysville to use homing pigeons as message bearers. Salesmen based in those cities will release pigeons to transmit customer orders back to headquarters.
The document lists arrival and departure times for Golden State Limited and Express trains, local Knoxville branch trains and freight services. It shows daily and Sunday patterns with agents H W Russel and J C McKay, noting passenger and freight trains with specific times.
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