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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1930
Page
2
The report shows mixed cattle and hog values with weight classes from 170 to 260 pounds and premiums for choice lots. Cattle demand remains active with top weights near 15.10 and light steers around 14.20, while sheep trading is nominal at 12,000 head noted and fat lambs mainly 9.25 to 9.70 with tops to 10.10. Overall seasonally small supply and firm to stronger prices for lighter weight cattle and high quality hogs are indicated.
Chicago grain futures show mixed moves with wheat and corn varying across contracts. May and July wheat rise slightly while corn drifts. oats and rye display modest gains and fats and fats slip in select months.
Grain close reports Clover domestic cash at 11.75 with prime choice 12.00 for 1200 and October and December at 12.60. Alsike cash 11.00 and Timothy cash new 3.70.
Chicago cash grain roundup lists oats and corn bids with mixed colors and quality grades, sample grade 69, rye and barley bids reported, tim ethyl and clover figures showing price ranges. The report notes various lots and price quotes for oats corn rye barley and related commodities.
Market notes list produce and poultry prices with Leghorn hens and geese pricing. Entries show per pound and bulk costs with a small collection of bird names and rates. The fragment reads like a marketplace listing from a period trade page.
Dayton Grove reports visits from Mr and Mrs Earl Wymore and Mrs Ott and Cardona of Keota. A. E. Knotts hosted Mrs J B Moore and shopped in Washington while Bruce Moore completed a cement lily pond for Mrs Embree. Measles illness affects several neighbors with patients in Statler Carr McCall and Lyall Moore homes.
Rachel Bunker of Nantucket fell ill on the 7th and died on the 9th with burial on the 11th of the 11th month 17 aged 50 years 7 months 28 days. She bore 12 children 118 grandchildren and 90 great grandchildren. About 70 years of public service she helped bring 2 994 children into the world with 31 sets of twins.
A young woman writes to her former fiancé that she will marry Mr Bendleby next month and asks him to burn her notes. Eric replies that he will burn his notes and asks that his new fiancée’s notes in turn be burned as well.
Francis Bacon known as Baron Verulam and England’s lord chancellor lies in a small church near St. Albans. He reportedly caught a fatal chill while stuffing a fowl with snow to test preservation, illustrating his daring willingness to seek knowledge firsthand.
The text lists variations of the proverb Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones from English and Spanish traditions. It cites forms like Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at an other and Who hath glass windows of his own must take heed how he throws stones.
A reflection that experience teaches unavoidable lessons like basic arithmetic and resilience. It argues life adapts schooling lessons into practical profits, stressing grit as essential for turning adversity into gain.
An excerpt from Napoleon the Third by lV Auvergne recounts the moment after Sedan when the defeated emperor met Wilhelm I. The king offered a grave handshake then guided Napoleon into an inner room where they discussed the war’s origins. The exchange closes with a note that Wilhelm claimed to have cheered him up.
A fragmentary diary style update recounts Homer Kepharts losing a horse and planting fifty acres of corn, Tia Caldwell hauling wood with his father near drained lake land, C. A. Reeves plowing sod and humor about voices and a request for a reader’s Journal, plus a playful exchange about a boy named James Fredrick Marsh and Tony Kauffman building a chicken house.
Ar i examines fruit resilience after freeze while stopping at L B Donaldson's for a long dinner. The narrative covers farmyard scenes near Shiloh church, a fifteen ton tractor carrying water and gasoline, cattle at Ward Essley’s, and visits by many residents including Dick Hutus, Walter Romine, and C C Hotle.
In Washington County Iowa a will and codicil claimed as the last will of Edna Blanche Gordon, dated 1920 and 1920 respectively, has been filed. A hearing to prove and probate the will is set for the end of May 1930 at 9:00 A.M. at the Washington Court House before the District Court or clerk.
The Journalistic class of the University of Iowa City will edit the Washington Democrat Independent next week. We observed two young ladies speaking with an uncle who resides in Washington though he is not handsome.
Sioux City area bandits racked up 18 filling station stick ups since April 1, totaling over 1600 dollars in losses. Sunday movies shown at Fantale Monday by a vote of 231 to 10. owner to install talking pictures if allowed to show Sunday evenings.
Major Frank Lund, in West Bend Iowa, criticizes Governor John Hammill and Congressman L J Dickinson for not answering his twelve questions on the Republican nomination for the U S Senate. He labels their careers as twelve years of petty diplomacy with no achievements except endorsing their paychecks and urges focus on agricultural interests.
Alvin C Hastey writes of homestead life with cattle on thousand hills and calves seen from afar. Fred Skola visits from Kalora to buy an Easter bonnet. The piece ends with a tribute to Sam Sands M E City and a civic nudge for Chas Ragan to attend Sunday school and help beat Havre in church effort.
Miss Hester Hise daughter of Geo Hise editor of the West Liberty Index and Mr Rolan White Iowa City appear in the Journalistic class from Iowa City who edit the Democrat Independent next week. Miss Hise is a niece of C J Dougherty.
More than 1 000 date varieties exist among Arabs yet only a small number have commercial value in the United States. Currently only a few varieties are grown at scale. In the United States more than half the date palms originate from North Africa.
The passage defines tolerance as reverence for all Truth possibilities and recognition of diversity in beliefs. It praises freedom of conscience against rigid conventions and social force, and champions universal charity beyond faith.
Chris Leichty visited to discuss a cross rowed corn field near Wayland. A field south of Crawfordsville began planting corn on Friday. Rex Smith was planting corn just north of the Shrader farm. The Shrader barn is torn down and a new barn will be built north of the old site, marked as a good improvement.
Robi Patterson arrives home with his wife and baby after a brief drive from Florida, accompanied by his mother Mrs. D. J. Patterson. The swift return was reported as a family reunion event.
The article notes that the exact origin of the doctrine of the immortality of the soul cannot be pinpointed, but asserts that early Assyrians and Egyptians, among the oldest recorded peoples, were steadfast believers in immortality.
Santa Maria dell Arena in Padua was built in 1308 by a wealthy local and stands on the site of a Roman amphitheater, giving the chapel its distinctive name.
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