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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1929
Page
2
Hog offerings total 42 000 with 20 000 direct active selling to shippers and prices uneven 1 to 25 cents above Saturday averages. Cattle receipts 8 000 with calves 2 500 and steers 1300 to 1500 lbs up to 1690, 1100 to 1300 lbs to 1840, cows 675 to 875, vealers 1300 to 1550. Sheep 19 000 ready to rise 25 cents, lambs 1359 to 1375 with tops to 1385, ewes 475 to 675.
Chicago reports estimates for tomorrow with cattle to 6 000 head hogs to 18 000 and sheep to 16 900.
Wheat, corn, oats, rye and lard prices show varying open values and daily changes for September December and March contracts. The report lists bid and ask figures, percentages, and slight upticks or downticks for each commodity across multiple delivery months.
Wheat quotes show multiple grades with varying bids. Prices range from 124% to 138% for different classes including hard, yellow hard, and mixed categories. Trading activity appears compact with several listed percentages and notes on quality classifications.
The report lists mixed corn grades from 97 to 98 percent and 9414 to 9214 readings, yellow corn around 97 to 98 percent, white corn about 97 to 98 percent, with SG 91 to 92. Oats show white contents from 37 to 48 percent with SG 41s. Rye entries include 11142 and 109 percent readings, barley ranges 52 to 68, and timothy from 385 to 460 with a lower range 1500 to 2350.
Domestic old seed for clover listed at 1600 in October with 1475 value. Old timothy priced 250 for December 255. Alsike is new at 1130 in October 1150 and December 1175.
Explains callable bonds how issuers may redeem before maturity with a premium to investors. Advises investors to identify callable securities and use investment houses to receive timely notices, avoiding missed interest and reinvestment risk amid declining rates.
Ten bodies were recovered today after a collision of two launches off Ostend seawall near the watering place crowded with vacationists. Twelve people remained missing and 29 were in hospitals. among the dead were a Charleroi father mother and daughter.
Dispatches from Peipin report hundreds dead in floods across Henan and Hiapeh provinces with hundreds more missing as heavy rains continue. Rivers overflow and areas remain inundated after days of downpour.
A tree on the Walter Fox farm near Wameta Nebraska set blossoms of white and pink this spring. Now the fruit appears with half the tree bearing peaches and the other half cherries in a unique dual harvest.
Donald Lean five year old son of Carl Voorhees of near West Chester was injured Saturday afternoon. He arrived home with a bloody face and a circular cut on the forehead and eye area. He was taken to Washington hospital for observation by a nurse and kept a day or two. His condition was described as serious by family who suspected a kick from a horse. He is nephew of Mr and Mrs Clinde Holmes of Keota.
The Rock Island official party from Des Moines met with Oskaloosa Chamber leaders at Canary Cottage and agreed to move the eastbound mixed train No 430 from 1 20 to 2 30 pm tomorrow. The conference protests the curtailment of service between Oskaloosa and Washington and Chamber officials plan continued effort for restored and improved through service.
At Ainsworth Saturday morning Pat Tobin and Jesse Pearson planned to ship out hogs and two loads of stock cattle. The town reports a bustling livestock movement every few days as farmers push oats harvest with 43 to 58 bushels per acre.
The writeup covers community events in Columbus Junction with mentions of the fair riders and crowds, racing horses and harness events, and a funeral procession. It notes local church visits in Pennsylvania with recurring Bible texts about Peter’s family and a sick mother in law. It also lists residents and their activities including Fred Skola and Elmer Guenther.
James Henderson exhibits a potato plant on his Albany county farm where the tubers grow on top of the soil, suggesting a hill of potatoes that may not need digging.
The Churchman quotes a Roman Catholic priest delivering a two sentence sermon on a hot Sunday in Toronto. He urges obedience to God’s commandments to avoid eternal discomfort and ends with a peaceful instruction to govern one’s life.
Peace reigns at Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas after a 26 to 36 hour inmate rebellion ended. Guards opened fire to quell the riot that confined prisoners to cells since Thursday, and inmates were led to meals as water service was restored to cell houses.
In Florence two men entered the office of Solicitor Murphy and asked to swear out a warrant after claiming a man took a 30 cent change on a bottle of home brew they paid five dollars for. The warrant was not issued. The note mentions a John from Moreres Alabama with Evening Journal delivery and a past residence in Washington Iowa.
Ho ward Gibson and E N Greevey both Ottumwa residents were killed when their plane crashed near Dewitt Iowa. The crash was witnessed by William McManus who found Greenvey strapped in his seat and Gibson’s body lying over 100 feet from the wreckage. Gibson was piloting and both men held pilot licenses.
Join Rath lives on a Redball farm north of Ainsworth where he sustains the place by farming crops and his wife raises a brood of poultry. She says there is no use in running over a chicken just to have a moment of convenience.
Prices listed for cream butterfat per pound, fresh laid eggs per dozen, and various poultry products including hens, roosters, spring chickens, and pigeons with per pound or per item rates. Note adds one cent more per pound for poultry delivered and states no market for sick or crippled poultry.
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