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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1924
Page
2
Cattle receipts 17 000 with weighty steers mostly steady or unevenly lower. hogs slow with prices 9.60 to 10.40 for various weights. sheep slow but fat lambs around steady. Grains: Wheat No 8 red 1.32 No 2 hard 1.30. corn mixed 1.16 to 1.20. oats 0.47 0.50. rye 1.03. barley 0.72 0.85. Timothy seed 6.00–7.00. clover seed 11.56–21.50.
New York stocks opened higher as Crucible Steel climbed after its quarterly dividend. Rubber issues and industrials like Baldwin gained a point. Advancing leaders included General Electric, American Tobacco, General Baking and American Can with several up more than a point.
Official estimates from Chicago list tomorrow's totals: hogs 22 000, cattle 9 000, and sheep 22 000.
A bitter man believes all women are unfaithful and tests a young girl with a secret locked temple and a powder charge. The blaze proves her innocence. John Gilbert stars in St Elmo with Barbara La Marr Bessie Love and Warner Baxter at the Fox Theatre.
According to this morning's Burlington Hawkeye a license was issued in Burlington yesterday to Raymond Yocum and Mrs Margaret Thornberg who listed Washington as their home. Mr George Tooman and Mrs A G Gault are mentioned as visiting relatives and friends in Muscatine and Ainsworth respectively.
In Chicago the wheat market opened with small gains on active buying by sea board houses, trading about 2,000,000 bushels. Prices ranged and closed unsettled, with December around 1.31. May contracts slipped, while corn showed stronger declines and provisions edged up slightly amid easier data.
Chicago reports a weak market for white stock with receipts totaling 31 cars and United States shipments at 899. Early Ohio stocks show steady to higher values with sacks around 1.25 to 1.35 for Mind whites and Wiscon sin bulk round whites at 1.00 to 1.25. Idaho rurals quoted at 1.50 to 1.60 with other regional varieties seen mixed.
Mr and Mrs V P McCaulley will leave tomorrow morning for Lebanon Kansas to visit for a week or two at the F M Gatlin home. They will travel by auto.
Moderator Clarence Edward Macartney told Coe College students that true power comes from being under right authority. He warned against chasing worldly prizes, stressing the authority of love and the supreme authority of faith as essential for usefulness and leadership in life and crisis.
A man credits Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy with curing stomach and liver troubles that caused daily quarrels with his wife since marriage. He reports improvement and harmony returned after taking the preparation, which claims to remove mucus and inflammation. One dose supposedly proves efficacy with a money back guarantee. Lemmon's Pharmacy and Drugists advertise.
A historical price column lists butter fat per pound eggs per dozen and various poultry and livestock rates. It also notes the shop does not buy cull sick thin or crippled poultry and remarks on duck goose and swan values along with horse hides.
John Jenkins of Carroll Nebraska visits sister Mrs R L Richards while neighbors make rounds on Thursday. The Thompson family leaves for a new home in Nebraska after a farewell party at the church.
Amherst Mass September 17 President Coolidges son John has pledged himself to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Amherst College where he enrolled this year.
A list of upcoming sales with dates and locations includes Edward R. Rees Apple Sale in Crawfordsville on Sept 23, H W Gaksel sale east of Ainsworth on Sept 24, Knotek Bros sale on Sept 26 at Riverside, Duroc Jersey purebreds sale 8 miles northeast of Washington on Sept 26, Walter A Mayer sale 3 1/2 miles northeast Keota on Sept 25, a canning milk cow sale in Washington on Sept 27, and Warner Welsh and W R Gamon & Sons combined sale of purebred Poland Chinas in Washington Iowa on Oct 21. Closing out ease.
Washington Do Farm Bureau urges timely seed corn selection by stage, warns of mould and dry rot, notes disease impact and benefits of disease-free seed. Advises waiting for the Hessian fly fly-free date around Oct 1 to reduce losses in winter wheat. Also lists explosive orders and calls for quality cockerels from high-producing Washington County flocks and named producers.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association will certify and register soybeans this fall. A trial inspection may be possible without field inspection. Growers interested should request blanks and affidavits to accompany peck samples for lab inspection, by writing Joe L. Robinson at Iowa State College in Ames.
County Attorney Northrup announced an immediate investigation into the death of Ruth Stuart, 20, after doctors at an inquest stated the death resulted from an illegal operation. Coroner Henry Butler and hospital doctors testified at the inquiry in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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