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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1932
Page
2
Receipts hogs 14 000 with direct to buyers 3 000. Hogs steady with top 4.30 and bulk 3.75 4.25. light weights 4.00 4.30. Cattle receipts 9 900 bids weaker for steers but steady for cows and heifers. calves down. Sheep 12 000 steady. lambs 6.50 7.50, spring lambs 8.10 9.00. yearlings 5.00 5.75. feeders noted.
Combined hog receipts in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ended 8:00 A M reported 16 206 head, up from last week. Prices ranged from 3.00 to 3.85 for various weight classes, with heavy and large pigs also listed. Shipping point weight adjustments excluded from quotations.
Grain receipts listed include Wheat 12 cars Corn 81 cars Oats 7 cars. The entry records transit by commodity and car counts, indicating shipments received.
The Journal reports brief items from nearby towns via its subscription representative. Updates cover local happenings, community happenings, and brief notices gathered from readers and partner papers. Each snippet highlights small events, meetings, and community milestones in concise form.
April 13 entries describe ice conditions and a 30 degree reading, new potato covering device by Leo Shelangoski and brother Frank, visitors from Ainsworth and Coppock, a dangerous road west of Coppock, a sale of household goods near the gas plant at 1 30, illness of Rev John Nicholson of Des Moines, thanks to Elmer Barham and Charley Robertson, George Morrison farm observations, and farm life details including hens eggs oats and alfalfa on the Kauffman farm Route twoWashington.
Chicago INS Produce notes butter 8077 tubs and creamery extras 1814 with firsts 1714 and packing stock 12. Eggs total 18219 cases with fresh graded extra firsts 1244 and dirties 1914. Cheese varieties list young Americas longhorns brick and daisies with multiple 12 to 14 figures. Poultry shows turkeys hens and toms with No 2 and leghorn data. Potatoes reach 76 cars with assorted U S shipments 73 and regional lots from Wisconsin Minnesota and Idaho priced per hundredweight.
Readable seed price ranges for clover and timothy plus a turbulent Chicago grain board showing May July and Sept wheat corn oats and rye quotes with fluctuating high low and close figures. The text lists seed grades and price ranges alongside erratic percentage based grain numbers for the Chicago market.
Chicago cash grain postings show wheat mostly steady to mixed with slight declines and advances. Corn and oats show modest gains in some categories, while rye and barley futures appear flat to lower amid fluctuating bids.
Mrs RE W Spessard reports Rev Frank McAllister’s father in critical illness in Parnassus Pa. Parish activities include United Presbyterian and M & M merging for Sunday services. Des Moines visitor Mr C C Chambers returns home with his mother. Everette Simpkins and wife welcome a baby girl at University hospital Town City.
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