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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1929
Page
2
Hog sale 6900 head including 4000 directs. Top 1175 for a heavy load around 200 lbs. Cattle receipts 100 steady to strong for good fed steers and yearlings, light yearlings higher. Sheep receipts 6000 with a generally lower market after opening uptrend, fat lambs around 1635 and woolskin ranges.
Trading text notes feeding lambs steady with prices from 1100 to 1660. Market tone lists price ranges and times without broader context.
The fragment lists Chicago grain prices for May and July futures with figures for wheat corn oats and fats, showing percentages and changes. Prices appear as May 1.72 1.11 percent and July 1.16 percent, with corn, oats, and fat futures noted alongside.
Fragmentary OCR lists prices for Wheat Corn Oats Barley Timothy and Clover with mixed and yellow color tags. Values appear irregular with fractions and symbols, indicating a rusted ledger or catalog entry for commodity quotes.
Domestic market notes show Clover with old car and cash values 1725. 1500 for old cash and 1350 for new cash. Timothy lists old cash 280 and new cash 290 plus May 300. Alskie mentions cash for Zan but details are unclear.
A Mon newspaper report notes Stevenson advising readers to live dangerously from Saturday to Monday, suggesting many will heed the controversial guidance as a bold lifestyle tip.
A concise musing urges resisting any disappointment that clouds or sours life and drains energy, hope, or ambition. It emphasizes maintaining focus and perseverance despite setbacks.
Prices for butter fat at 45e per pound and various poultry bids are listed for Washington markets. Hens and Leghorns offered per pound with small cents figures, roosters and heavy breed ducks adjust per pound, horsehides and hides priced by the pound, with an extra penny per pound for sick or crippled poultry delivered to market.
The note promises a quick field demonstration to prove every point of the Farmall story. It invites interest in a practical, hands on explanation rather than extended narrative, implying a demonstration will clarify key claims about the equipment.
At the post office a gleaming car drew attention as Mr. Keck noted it and a passerby called it businesslike. Claud Pierce, an engineer in Burlington, bought and drove a car 2,500 miles in 49 days in California and sold it for $1.92 profit. In Havre, Iowa, Sam Widmer raises pork for his town, while Lloyd Deharper Bob Mitchell and Claude Borders add to Home Lumber Co. in Crawfordsville, financing a three thousand dollar elevator and feed mill that serves farmers with breakfast foods and more.
A rambling account from Crawfordsville describes Arthur Jeubsam and his mother traveling to Peoria for a neighbor's funeral, Mayor Graham greeting train arrivals, Bud Lease and Joe Lease in town, and several locals including David Jonas, Rev Tool, Bob Shaffer, Harry Paschal, Edward R. Reese, Pete Christner, Verle McKune, Dayton McNeill, Miss Irene DeLong, and others mentioned with brief anecdotes about daily life and small-town scenes.
A tower admirer writes that one advantage of the flivver over the airplane is that when the flivver's engine stops, 30. The fragment hints at a comparison but provides limited context and lacks complete details or events.
A fragmented legal note from Forester County Virginia cites a 1662 will of Eptaphraius Pawson in Rappahannock and claims the courthouse records have persisted since August 6 1402, highlighting historic archival continuity and ownership.
A full grown male ostrich stands tall and weighs about 300 pounds. When running all out its speed reaches 26 miles per hour. It is believed to gain assist from its wings, apparently used as sails during sprinting.
Bristol university notes that soil affects fruit keeping qualities. Certain apple varieties grown in specific regions develop storage disorders like Jonathan spot and bitter pit when stored, while apples stored under identical conditions but from other soils fare better.
A German researcher named Dumarchas, in Natur and Kultur, claims impregnating violin wood with rubber latex before varnishing keeps the wood permanently elastic, potentially letting modern violins rival the old masters.
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