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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1927
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 29 000 with mixed bids and top at 10 90. Cattle receipts 10 000 with fed steers and yearlings holding gains and vealers steady. Sheep receipts 17 000 with strong fat lamb demand and feeding lambs unchanged.
Chicago August 11 grain figures open high low and close values listed for corn wheat and oats. trade data show price movements and market activity across futures contracts in a standard daily summary.
Chicago wheat and corn price ranges shown for August trading with numbers across grain types. Visitors noted include Bob Crump in Pierre visiting Henry Campbell, and Mary Frances Tripp visiting Sioux City grandparents, plus Crawfordsville pair shopping and Lupton family returning from Minnesota vacation.
Local items record family visits and departures across Wayland. Dr and Mrs J R McKiahan and sons Billie and Robert plan a Colorado outing. An Eastern Star committee schedules the annual picnic at the city park on August 23. Numerous visitors travel to Decatur Iowa Chicago Washington and Havre.
Mrs Lissa Timmins and her two daughters Phy lis and Virginia have come down from Des Moines to visit friends and relatives. Mr and Mrs George Amlong and Ransom Amlong and wife are expected from Des Moines to visit awhile. Mrs Milo Patterson is spending a few days at her son's Walter. C M Keck and Grandma Keck visited Don Haber and returned home with him for a few days.
August 11 diary recounts Art Ewing losing two barns to a slick fire after a hail damaged year. He saved a third building though his arm burned. Neighbors aided, two threshing crews saved other structures. The piece also notes farm sizes, crops, and local social visits including Mrs. Otto Sheetz praise and station stops.
J F Smith purchased the Daniel Worley estate on Second street for $550 and will move his shoe shop there next month. Numerous local residents and visitors are noted, including travels, visits, and family events in Columbus Junction and surrounding towns.
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