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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1938
Page
7
A shredded fragment lists various unit prices and weights for produce items such as pounds, dozen quantities, and per dozen pricing. The text includes decimals and symbols but no clear product names or dates.
In Richland on August 6 Fred Doyle a veteran printer and linotypist works in the Clarion office while Mr and Mrs Liverette Redlinger travel with Mr and Mrs Kermit Oswalt on a western vacation visiting Yellowstone and other sites. The piece notes visitors including Mr and Mrs Jesse Kent of Nuntsville Missouri and Rev A C Roach learning of his nephew's Kansas death. A Centennial pageant draws large crowds with speakers Robert Burlingame and W A Haunt, good weather and hard working committees.
Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association advertises building and modernization loans with small monthly payments for retired borrowers. Ad emphasizes conservative plan and easy repayment terms. A. B. Schmoeller referenced with dry cleaning offer.
Riverside reports William O Loughlin president of Peoples Trust and Savings Bank and Mrs O Loughlin with daughter Maxine plus Leona Brammele of Iowa City returned home after a motor trip to California Oregon and Washington. The party stayed with Roy G Miller Arlington and with the Hunter McClelland and Wubert Bauer families in Riverside. They noted extensive home and store building and PWA projects in the three states.
Local brief track highlights include subscription representative updates from neighboring towns. Short items cover small civic events and community notices with names and places referenced in concise summaries.
A Pleasant Hill trip reports on the John Baer home with views of travel through Washington and a nearby Kennedy wheat harvest described as good. The article lists local residents and farmland activity in Washington Friday including John Hindahl and a Riverside brother in law, Lewis Schwab Wellman, Lee Colton Columbus Junction, Ed Turnipseed Washington R. 4, and Jos J Kern Kaiona R. 8.
The National Safety Council reports a 22 percent drop in automobile fatalities for the first six months of the year despite a five percent rise in traffic. May and June show the strongest reductions, with only a few states and cities failing to report decreases. The notice also notes local harvest activities and farmer barter on straw and cook preparations.
A rustic verse extols threshing season with twenty one workers arriving to eat. The poem urges washing, combing, and towels to prepare the men for a neat meal and busy work.
The article recounts the O Loughlin party's entertaining stops at Prosser Washington with Mr and Mrs F H Sommers and at Arnold Falk's ranch in Plains Montana along with visits to Yellowstone National Park and the Black.
Mrs L V Emry of Bighton renewed their Journal and prefers the fast afternoon train to read it before officials in Washington. Mr and Mrs H O Banks of KR 4 south of New Haven were in town Friday noting crops and livestock look good for another year.
The speaker praises Dong Corrigan as sensible and good reading, signaling strong approval of the figure’s character and approach. Observers note the emphasis on practicality and steadiness in the discussion.
Grinning Douglas Corrigan lands in the United States to a hero’s parade in New York City joining in the excitement over his non stop flight to Ireland. He voices ambition for a job in movies radio or newspapers and hints at continuing flying while dismissing long trips. A freighter haul brings his plane back as St. Louis and other cities show interest in exhibition use.
Judge James Gaffney, newly chosen Democrat candidate for the First Congressional District, will speak at the St. Josephs parish Hills summer picnic held Sunday after a month away.
Hogs total 38000 with 2900 direct as markets stay nominally steady. Cattle steady with beef steers 11.00 to 12.75, yearlings 7.50 to 12.35, cows 5.50 to 8.00, calves 56.00 to 10.50, feeders 6.50 to 9.50. Sheep 3000 with lambs 8.25 to 8.60 and feeders 7.00 to 8.00.
Chicago market notes steady on eggs with receipts 6372 cases and 21 percent extras, current receipts 18 dirties 16. Butter market steady with receipts 19 697 pounds and specials 25 to 26 percent, extras 25 percent, extra firsts 25 to 25 percent, firsts 221 percent to 24, standards 25.
The report lists mixed and color grade percentages for various samples including No 1 mixed No 2 mixed and No 1 yellow across multiple entries. It notes estimated carrot quantities and a sample grade range around 50 to 53.
On August 7 the parish ladies host a five o clock chicken supper with evening entertainment. Mr and Mrs John Clark of Pontusie Illinois visited the William F Scott home in Iowa City and with Mrs Scott who is recovering from surgery at the university hospital. Also present was Mrs William Cooper of Ft Madison, sister of Mrs Scott. Mrs Scott hopes to return home soon.
Evelyn Newell a student at Antioch college Yellow Springs Ohio is assigned to clerical work at a Detroit Michigan hospital for ten weeks alternating with college study. She works 8 a m to 4 p m and lives in Harper nurses home housing 10 nurses and students.
Ten modernistic homes on Woolf Avenue Court near completion in Iowa City by Dr. and Mrs. C. O'Brien. The 10 homes arranged in five buildings of two, with an irregular building line for maximum light and privacy, will be open for public inspection on Sunday August 7.
The shortest distance across the United States lies between San Diego California and Charleston South Carolina, totaling 2 152 miles.
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