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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1924
Page
2
Hog receipts 27 000 fairly active on desirable grades with gains 15 to 25 cents top 10 30. Cattle receipts 20000 best yearlings and better grades active with higher prices. fat lambs and sheep steady to strong. Wheat corn oats and fats shown with late day price quotes across contracts and months.
Official estimates for tomorrow in Chicago list livestock receipts totaling 16 000 hogs 9 000 cattle and 27 000 sheep. The figures indicate market volumes to expect for the next trading day.
In Tsingtao Shantung China on September 18 a crowd of about 5000 watched the execution of four pirates for a failed plot to seize the flagship of Admiral Wen. Vendors thrived as the procession to the firing squad drew a festive crowd.
A fragment from Akron reporting hints at an unresolved mystery centered on a “footwalker” clue. The brief note suggests a single complete mystery element remains to be found.
Chicago price report lists No 3 red wheat at 1 34 and No 1 hard at 1 32 per bushel with other wheat grades. Corn prices span No 2 mixed 1 124 to 1 14 and various yellow white mixed grades. Other items include oats timothy and clover seeds with lard ribs bellies lean pork prices.
Chicago Wheat gains earlier on unfavorable northwest weather and Liverpool demand, with export prospects at the seaboard but local demand weak. Prices opened up then slipped, corn leads to a broad market retreat, oats also ease, while provisions stay firm on firmer hog quotes.
Potatoes in Chicago on Sept 22 reported 177 car receipts on track 338 and total US shipments 676. Minnesota built early Ohios 90 to 1.00 plus sacked Red River Ohios 1.20 to 1.25, South Dakota Early Ohios 1.15 to 1.20, Wisconsin round whites 1.00 to 1.10, with no sales on Idahos.
A stream of brief items reports a prizefighter arrest in Los Angeles, a glacier melt on Mount Shaster, a kidnapping case in America, large coal strikes in Brussels, rebels in Piraja, a Ragland cement plant fire, a piano accident in Anniston, and other scattered notes.
The district attorney questions Gibbs Josselyn about a deadly family quarrel. Gibbs admits his complicated feelings for his father’s wife and the rift it caused. The interrogation traces alibis, a pistol in a drawer, and a late night murder in the house with a servant found at the scene.
Gibbs recounts a long walk after a quarrel with his father. He stops at the Wayside Inn porch around eight or nine, recalls two cocktails and a whisky drink, then hesitates about entering before finally deciding whether to go in.
London readers report a plan backed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to train Anglican theological students in voice production and elocution. A $10,000 fund covers instruction to ensure preachers read with clearness, sympathy and reverence.
The Trans Siberian Railway spans from Leningrad to Vladivostok across more than 5,500 miles. The Canadian National Railway operates the largest system under one management with over 22,000 miles. In the United States the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line is the largest with over 15,000 miles.
Victoria B C September reports say British Columbia rivers Fraser Skeena Naas yield the largest salmon run since 1919. Canneries run day and night to handle sockeye catch. Canada’s fishery output valued at 42 565 545 with 53 517 workers and 23 645 316 in fishing capital.
Public and farm sale dates announced for Crawfordville Keota Ainsworth Washington and surrounding areas. Edward R Kees Apple Sale Sept 24 H W Cassel Duroe sale Sept 24 Knotek Bros River Side Duroe Jersey sale Sept 26 Walter Mayer sale Sept 25 CannIng Milk cow sale Sept 27 and Oct 21 Wagner Welsh and Gamon combo sale of Poland Chinas in Washington Iowa.
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