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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1932
Page
2
Chicago stock market notes weaker cattle and heifers as grassers dominate. Hog prices rise about ten cents with bids ranging 4.10 to 4.85 for various weights. Sheep receipts around 6,000 with steady to lower prices. lambs 5.26 to 6.25, feeders 3.50 to 4.50, yearlings 4.00 to 5.00.
U S D A interior Iowa and southern Minnesota hog markets show combined receipts at 21 yards and 7 packing plants for 24 hours ending 8:40. Market activity centers on hog movements across Des Moines region with varied prices and weight ranges reported by concentration yards and packing plants.
The report notes 18 200 head for A M today versus 17 500 last week and 51 200 a year ago. Prices cover light to heavy pigs, with weights from 140 to 350 lb and sows from 275 to 350 lb. Quotations show ranges by weight class and quality, based on bulk transactions.
Grain table notes Wheat values with open high low and close data. The fragment shows percentages and figures but lacks full context for a complete market summary.
Pamela Warren, famed as a beauty in Palm Beach, counsels her niece Patricia on marriage and money. She favors Harvey Blaine as a steady match to secure her husband Jimmie’s status and her family’s future, while Patricia seeks solitude after a morning on the crowded beach.
The notices show monthly price figures for corn oats and rye across September December and May. Percent values are listed with multiple figures for each month and commodity indicating varied market quotes.
The report lists butter, eggs, cheese, live poultry, potatoes, and grain prices with percentage changes and product grades. It covers creamery extras, firsts, packing stock, and various egg and cheese classifications, plus cash grain closes for wheat corn oats rye barley and seed market quotes for clover and timothy.
Burlington reports funeral plans for Billy Walker age 2 drowned in the Mississippi River as services are arranged.
Brief local notices compiled by D. F. Macon highlight happenings from nearby towns. Reports cover community events, public meetings, and local color, reflecting everyday life and civic interest across the region.
A letter from Mt Pleasant notes Acheson Dunsmore win at the fair with their purebred Durocs. Mention of Hoy McElhinney preaching next Sabbath and visits from H C Finney and daughter from Ainsworth. Also describes Melo Shalla and John Knotek at the Knotek Bros farm with hogs ready for the state fair.
The item reports on pencil shortages and guarded Dougherty supplies, visits by Mayor Johnson and Frank Bandy in Brighton, and observed threshing near Wellman. It mentions Peningrod brothers cattle, readers of the Journal, local figures like Frank Wilson and Joe McClelland, and a birthday cue for Co. F. Timmons.
Lowell Sherman appears as a sophisticated businessman in What Price Hollywood at the State theater with Constance Bennett. Tom Keene stars in Beyond the Tockies at the Foo theater in a fast paced outdoor Western with Rochelle Hudson and Black Jack amid range feuds and gunplay.
Des Moines Iowa August 5 call issued by Iowa chairman John R B Hammond for a state prohibition convention August 11 to select presidential electors and state candidates. All legally eligible Iowans may attend the convention to support the 18th amendment and oppose both major parties on prohibition. William Up shaw and William Blake expected to address. other details include a tribunal to hear a lease dispute in Allamakee county.
A partial directory snippet lists entries for D K W Dwyer Bailey Building at northeast square third floor T J Pease opposite Court House with a cross street, undetermined numbers and contact lines for F Boller at 219 West Main Street and 19 West Washington Street, with phone references.
Insurance offerings for Ralph W. Thompson and Lemley & Yard list bonds and abstracts on the first floor Bailey Ridge near the elevator with phone 17. Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia is represented by district agent Mr. W. Hyde at 800 Black Street.
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