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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1925
Page
2
Chicago market notes show hog and cattle receipts around 25 000 to 16 000 with slow demand and variable bids. Beef, pork, and lamb values quoted with mixed futures for oats and corn. grain prices list No 1 hard wheat at 1.55 to 1.62 and various corn and yellow grain grades. Seed and lard values recorded for livestock and fats.
Officials in Chicago issued official live stock estimates for tomorrow noting 18 000 hogs 4 000 cattle and 9 000 sheep expected.
Market notes show Clover seed cash bids and asks for October November December and February with values 18.00 16.00 15.75 15.50. Timothy seed cash and October 3.56 asked December 5.60 asked March 3.70 asked.
Iowa State College dairy cattle and dairy products judging teams each took first place at the National Dairy Exposition in Indianapolis and Waterloo, marking a historic double victory. Individual Iowa State members Dwight Seath, Roland Ferguson, and Floyd Arnold placed high among 72 competitors from 12 states.
Auction listing reports hog sales at multiple Iowa locations with dates and sellers. Includes Purebred Curos and Hereford sales at Kenta Ainsworth Wood Brighton and other towns with names such as Wolcott Rob't Sheetz J M Lord & Son.
Trading data from Chicago shows Dec wheat at 141 1/4 and May at 149 1/2, with Dec corn at 73 1/2 and May near 79 1/2. Oats and lard figures appear incomplete but indicate modest gains amid mixed grain trading.
Carl T. Peterson of Missouri Valley and Fordyce Fly led Iowa State to a national victory in the intercollegiate dairy products contest. The team ranked first in all products and cheese judging, with Walter L. Olson of Dallas, Wis., the top butter judge. Snowden R. Clary of Sigourney and Ralph P. Wilson of Toledo placed first and second in cheese and second and third in all products. Coaches were M. Mortensen butter E. F. Goss cheese and B. W. Hammer market milk.
Ed Howe will headline the University of Iowa journalism conference this Friday. He travels with Nellie B. Webb, praised as the world’s greatest copyreader, who held the Atchison Globe job for 20 years.
Market prices for butter fat eggs hens springs and ducks per pound with varying weights and classifications. Includes horse hides old roosters geese and beets hides and notes no market for sick poultry and specific prices per item.
The case of Winfield Smouse versus Benjamin W. Cole and Minerva B Cole along with others warns that by November 9 1926 if no defense is filed a default will be entered in the Washington County Iowa district court. The petition seeks foreclosure on mortgages covering Out Lots 22 23 in the Town of Haskins with additional claims for sums varying from 186 to 2100 dollars plus interest and costs. The notice lists multiple aliases for defendants and notes taxes and abstract costs to be added to mortgage debt. Attorneys Bailey and Baldidge of Iowa City represent the plaintiff.
A Chicago report cites a young man who rose from office boy to general manager earning ten thousand dollars a year. The piece notes the typewriter as a key ladder, requiring little education, and mentions a Chicago mail order firm that lends typewriters on tiny installments and teaches users in about three weeks. It directs readers to the International Typewriter Exchange at 184 W Lake St.
Mrs J A Jones of 817 Colley Avenue Norfolk Virginia praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after relief from health issues during the Change of Life. She credits the remedy with her recovery from a near operation and urges other sick women to try it.
Jyet 48 Gus Hill of Strasburg was fined in a Virginia justices court for possessing a pistol on the Sabbath amid an ancient unm repealed law. The attorney cited the statute to uphold the conviction. Des Moines reports the ongoing truck licensing dispute between Iowa and Minnesota shifting to cross state license purchases.
Eastbound and westbound railway schedules list express local freight and passenger trains with daily and Sunday details. Separate notices announce Cyrus Chapter 13 R A M meetings on the second Friday, Zeredatha Council 21 R S M meetings on the fourth Friday, Bethlehem Commandery 45 KK T meetings on the third Friday, and Damascus Shrine 10 W S of J meetings on the third Tuesday at Masonic Temple rooms.
An advertising item promotes Dave's Mentha-Pepsin as a fast remedy for indigestion gas heartburn and gastritis. It cites Calvin Dilks of Alloway New Jersey and offers money back if no relief, available at Lemmon's Pharmacy and druggists.
The Salvation Army launches a campaign to win back about 500000 Iowa youths under 21 not connected with church groups. Adjutant Norman S. Marshall says the drive will stress involving public school children in church work.
An ad touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as the fastest flesh producer, claiming 60 tablets cost 60 cents and promising a five pound gain in 30 days or a money back guarantee. It urges readers to ask J E Lemmon or a druggist for the product.
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