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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1934
Page
2
Hogs 19 000 total including 6 000 directs. Slow steer and hog trade with declines 10 15 cents. Cattle 7 000 head plus calves 3 500. Slaughter cattle and feeders include varied weight ranges with top around 7 75 and 5 60 7 65. Sheep 8 000 head with undertone weak to 25 cents lower on top fat lambs.
Chicago market notes unsettled for eggs and butter with varied receipts and price ranges. Poultry market described as easy with diverse stock including fowls springers broilers and turkeys. potatoes noted as weak. Riverside obituary items list Edward Hartman death in Clearfield and multiple local social notices and school board actions.
No. 2 yellow old 48 No. 8 yellow 42% to 46% No. 3 white 48% Receipts list 46 cars.
Des Moines investment broker Louis Wheelock's conviction for driving while intoxicated was upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. The sentence of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine stands. The 1981 crash near Prairie City killed Mrs. Telfer and two children.
Hudson Wisconsin April 3 three members of a Chicago Northwestern freight train crew were killed when the engine and twelve cars derailed and plunged down a steep grade.
George Kubick of Iowa City died when his car struck a bridge over the Cedar River near Muscatine and plunged into about three feet of water.
Prices for wheat corn soy and oats posted varied futures across May July and Sept contracts on the Chicago market. Wheat traded around mid eighty five to eighty six and a half cents, corn near forty eight cents, soy near fifty nine to sixty cents, oats around eighty two to eighty four cents.
Community notes record visits and farm life across Washington and Crawfordsville areas. Names include H C Wieran, Owen, N & West, Homer Kephart, Don Rabenold, Woody Dawson, Nick Tines, M J Orr, Marl Ferguson, Frank Embree, Silas Caldwell, Earl Salterberg, William Salterberg, Mrs Ramee, Mrs Geo Klett, and Frank Embree's subscription request. A story fragment mentions a walking recovery and a train mishap near Ainsworth and Crawfordsville.
Miss Velma Tobin will finish the year at Yatton school replacing Miss Gladys Pare who married at semester end and has been offered a contract for next year. Cos Grove’s Miss Coletta Meade will head Oak Grove school succeeding Miss Magdalen Walsh who will teach at Watton. Supt and Mrs Holt and family return from Waverly after vacation week. Edith Heitzman returns to Valley Junction from visiting her parents. Inez Mannion visits Clarence friend Ina Kammeyver. Classes resume at Riverside public school after a week’s vacation. Attorney and Mrs Swift and family of Manchester visited Riverside relatives over Easter.
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