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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1929
Page
2
Market reports show receipts around 1,000 cattle and calves, with steers and yearlings scarce and nominally steady. Yearlings 1440 to 1550, light vealers 1490 to 1550, shippers up to 1650. Slaughter classes 1200 to 1500 pounds 1350 to 1498, 950 to 1100 pounds 1360 to 1400. Heifers good and choice around 1300 to 1485, common and medium 950 to 1000. Fed yearlings to 950 pounds around 1275.
The market shows varied bids across cattle vealers medium to good, bulls, cutters and cull stock with prices ranging from 80 to 1650. Sheep receipts around 7000 with fat lambs weak and best wooled lambs around 250, with multiple grades and weights listed.
Chicago reports April 26 cattle at 108 thousand head hogs 4000 sheep 6000. Grain quotes show Wheat May 1.12 to 1.16 percent, Oats 46 to 49 percent, Corn around 90 percent, with various futures. A stray note mentions Clover grain and a historical clock built by a German in the seventh century description referencing Charles V and Henry De Vlek.
In Elmwood area pages the report covers weather affecting Crawfordsville roads, neighborly talk, and social tidbits. Ainsworth notes a spring program at Lincoln school with praise for H. Rademaker and Parent-Teachers. Readers include ads, local humor, and community greetings from April happenings and upcoming events.
A fragment from an old trade notice shows Washington markets listing unusual pricing terms for livestock and produce. It mentions heavy breeds per thousand, one per fifteen for beet hides and horse hides, with payments per peal and a note that no market exists for lame or crippled poultry.
A fragment discusses vanity in titles and self-fashioning by urban figures and a foreign title as a satire. It notes a street sweeper once calling himself a Haute Tribunal man-about-town, reflecting on point of view and human speech imitation.
France tightens coast defense with a tentative project for twenty two radiobe and radio fog signal stations to better protect the coast. The proposal aims to improve navigation safety and warning systems along the shoreline.
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