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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1931
Page
2
Chicago market recap notes hog receipts at 17000 with direct hogs 1000 and prices generally lower by 10 to 15 cents across weight classes. Cattle receipts 8000 with grain fed steers and yearlings steady to higher. slaughter cattle and bulls show mixed ranges. Sheep receipts 16000 with better lambs unevenly higher and natives selling 7.00 to 8.00 for top lots.
Des Moines dispatch states combined hog receipts at 22 concentration yards on August 11. Industry sources note market activity amid cattle and grain price shifts, with buyers tallying weights and grades for next week’s auctions.
Seven packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota reported 8 500 head for the 24 hours to 8:00 A M, up from 7 800 a week earlier. Prices ranged by weight from 6 10 to 7 15 for various good and choice hogs, with heavier weights generally weaker. Pigs and sows priced, bulk transactions basis, with shrinkage and shipping weights affecting quotes.
Chicago open high and low ranges for wheat corn oats and rye reveal mixed futures. Sept wheat trades around 50 to 51 percent, corn around 50 percent, and rye around mid thirties to fifty percent on various contracts.
Thatcher Colt uses scopulamin to test Doctor Maskell, a suspect in Geraldine Foster's disappearance. Maskell confesses a motive linked to a wife and a threatened reputation. The dramatic session reveals personal secrets as Colt probes whose betrayal Geraldine feared.
Thatcher Colt and Dougherty press the feverish powerful man for a confession about a possible trap and a call to a mysterious lady. The doctor reveals Geraldine's blackmail note as a key thread, with a continuation promised tomorrow.
OCR text shows scattered numbers and month year notations such as Dec May Aug Sept Oct and values like 38 39 37 42 2 and 7.32 7.00 6.35 6.85 6.32 6.32 tied to unclear items. Lacking clear entities, this reads as a damaged financial snippet with inconsistent ledger data.
The Chicago cash grain market shows Wheat trading from 49 to 52 percent, with various grades listed, Corn at 56 to 65 percent, Oats from 22 to 28 percent, Rye No 2 at 39 percent, Barley 36 to 52, Timothy 300 to 350, and Clover 1950 to 1700, reflecting price ranges by grade. Notes include mixed and yellow hard varieties with multiple bid levels.
Chicago markets show firm tone in eggs butter and cheese with receipts and current stocks listed. Poultry and potatoes display varied grades and regional prices with track arrivals shipments and steady market signaling ongoing demand.
The Toledo market reports prices for Clover prime at 12.00 with Oct 12 and Dec 12 dates, Alsike cash at 8.25 Aug and 8.50 Dec, plus hay timothy at 1.25 per unit.
A local column notes Washington and nearby towns show many people shopping on Mondays as in Saturdays. It lists residents visiting Washington from Keota Muscatine Has kins and other areas, mentions school openings in Columbus Junction, Col. Brookhart’s visit, and various social notes from August.
The report shows 288 cars of wheat and 74 cars of oats along with a single unit of corn totaling one ear per car, indicating mixed commodities in transit.
Robert Montgomery delivers his best part yet in the State theater screening of The Man in Possession a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stage farce. Irene Purcell navigates the servant puzzle as Montgomery revels in a wildly funny role that keeps the audience laughing from start to finish with spicy but harmless dialogue.
Iowa reports cool weather with temperatures near 76 degrees and early August lows of 44 in Inwood. Des Moines sees scattered light rains while forecasting modest temperature increases. John A. Thompson sues FEE Butler for 100000 in district court over alleged malicious statements. Black Hawk county cuts 2000 dairy congress funding. Des Moines man pleads not guilty in Ames court after a collision injures Ernest Hooker, requiring amputation of Hooker’s left foot.
Mary Carr famed as the mother of "Four Sons" appears in Honeymoon Lane at the Fox theater on Wednesday and Thursday. She plays Mother Murphy proprietor of a summer resort hotel facing bankruptcy due to a local gambling house threat. Eddie Dowling acts as her manager and love interest with June Collyer as Noah Beery’s niece and hotel rival.
McGregor reports the excursion steamer Capitol returns to Mississippi river service despite low water after a temporary suspension in upper river sections. In Council Bluffs a court hears a petition to halt water works funds from being used for a city hall. Des Moines mourns Le Bard S. White, 57, who died from burns after his plane caught fire at the municipal airport during a test flight.
Police in Sioux City arrested four men and three women as alleged gang members after a raid. Officers seized six shotguns three rifles three revolvers and ammunition along with concealed jewelry valued at several hundred dollars found in the house.
Authorities issued a description of Carl Johnson a 14 year old Gowrie resident who vanished Thursday near Farnhamville Iowa. Police in Iowa and neighboring states coordinated a cross state search for the missing boy.
Injuries from a fall down stairs yesterday proved fatal to Amos Ingalls age 69 publisher of the Iowa Recorder a weekly newspaper in Greene Iowa. The incident occurred here with Ingalls succumbing to his wounds.
Aug 11 Des Moines report details a growing anthrax crisis with over 200 deaths and 17 cow herds under quarantine. Moorhouse Hansen ranch losses reach 115 cows. veterinarians led by Asst State Vet TB Copeland vaccinate infected farms. Disease also seen in horses and hogs. dogs and cattle in quarantines across Clay and Cincinnati townships with strict measures. Dr Peter Malcom states disease under control. Keokuk dam valuation study by state board considers reassessment and cross state boundary issues between Illinois and Iowa.
Mrs. Bernhard Duthbert of Cedar Falls state president opened the annual American Legion auxiliary convention in Marshalltown. Delegates held business meetings and district caucuses as the gathering continued through Thursday with officer elections to close the event. A movement formed to support Mrs. George V. Pritchard of...
Harrison county witnessed a large scale pesticide campaign as airplanes spread poison mash over several hundred acres to combat grasshoppers. State Entomologist Carl J. Drake oversaw aerial distribution while highway trucks dispersed poison on roads and farmers bent to fight the infestation on their own land.
Police say burglars broke a transom to flee with a small cash and merchandise haul from Casey drug store last night but left no clear trace of how entry was gained.
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