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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1910
Page
6
Chicago reports a general market softening with a bearish government forecast and large northern receipts weighing on wheat. Corn remains dull yet steadier with cautious buyers and hedges shifting, while oats and pork/lard show mixed strength as prices and cash demand adjust amid heavy carrying charges and rising elevator activity.
Cattle demand for high priced beef weakened as more prime finished steers arrived, prompting packers to push values down 10 to 15 cents. Receipts 60,174. shipments 25,041. Hogs rose, with prices near 10 dollars and a 35 cent weekly gain amid expected hog shortages. Sheep and lambs showed stability with slight declines in feeding lambs.
A Minnesota led address argues for federal control of waterways against railroad and corporate monopolies. It emphasizes conservation, forest protection, national forests benefits, and the need for cooperative railways, with calls to defend public access and oppose state-only control.
The Department of Agriculture backs a Broussard bill to import and domesticate 100 nonnative mammals to stave off a potential meat famine. Proposals include hippopotamus steak, Manchurian porkers, yak, llama, African buffalo, white rhinoceros, and more, with Louisiana hay crops suggested to feed hippos.
Market prices listed for apples bananas pears dates lemons limes oranges and various produce items in Des Moines. Prices shown per box per crate per basket per pound and per bag from standard regional suppliers.
The record lists Flour Best patents and various flour and meal items with per cwt and per ewt pricing. It shows car lots prices from $4.80 to $6.00, rye flour and meal costs, cracked corn, chops, meal, bran, shorts, and screenings with multiple itemized costs.
Butter Creamery offers 30¢ per pound, other butter grades 27 4c and 4c. Eggs No 1 at 22¢, No 2 at 18¢, cracked at 16¢. Live poultry lists hens, old cocks, springs at 11 4c and ducks at Se.
Advertisement lists prices for ground linseed cake from an old process. Des Moines car lot offers 12 ton or more at 35 dollars per ton, ton lots 36, 1 000 pound lots 18 50, 500 pound lots 9 50, and smaller quantities 1 95 per 100 pounds.
A compact market brief lists hides and horsehide prices: No 1 salted 8c and No 2 galted Tuc at unspecified rates, No 1 green Tlge, No 2 green 644c, plus No 1 horsehide at 2.50 to 2.75 and No 2 horsehide at 1.50 to 1.76.
The notice lists wild hay at 11.00 and 12.00 per unit and timothy at 18.00 and 14.00, with wheat straw priced at 4.50.
Superintendent Ella Flagg Young announces an innovative sanitary science course for the new term. Girls will study how water and gas are distributed, how connections are made, and how waste water is carried away to keep kitchens sanitary and save money by avoiding plumber calls.
In Hongkong American flour remained dominant with 2 700 649 dollars value for 002 barrels in the 1910 fiscal year. Direct shipments to the Chinese empire totaled 21 248 barrels worth 03 104 dollars. Shanghai mills captured a share of the market.
An old advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. It claims sufferers with signs from irregularities to nervous prostration can gain health, citing a testimonial of relief after a non surgical operation, and invites letters to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice.
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