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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
2
Chicago livestock market notes cows and hogs advancing with top hogs around 16.0 to 16.5 per cwt. Packers show demand steady to higher for sows and heavier weights. Receipts totaled about 2,300 with best lambs near 20. Hogs close firm as buyers stay active.
Time and week to week comparison show yearlings stronger than last week amid good clearance and active general trade. Steers and heifers across weight ranges posted varied prices from good and choice to common and medium, with beef cows and bulls weaker. Lamb receipts steady with active trade and higher bids on good and choice natives.
Grain prices show mixed moves with wheat futures in Sept and Dec contracts trading around 89 1 2 to 101 1 2 cents per bushel. Corn and oats quotes appear varied with multiple delivery months listed and spot receipts noted, reflecting active trading conditions at Chicago.
The executive board schedules the 17th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Town Veterinary Association for October 7 and 8 at Hotel Montrose Cedar Rapids. Reports list numerous outbreaks in hogs cattle sheep and poultry across many Iowa towns plus rabies in dogs and livestock. The bulletin includes grain prices and stocks like oats rye and wheat with regional commodity figures.
Brighton notes describe a busy Chautauqua day with city folks and farmers attending. The piece mentions baptisms, a playful elderly man, local visits to doctors, a hog vaccination drive, and a humorous request for perfume. It also covers cinema listings, travel plans, and an account of a Civil War veteran’s death in Arnolds Park, plus a brief Des Moines municipal court entry.
A Columbia all talking drama explores maternal instinct and romance as a strong or weak suitor vies for a city girl’s affection. Lois Wilson and Lawrence Gray star, with the plot centering on a girl who keeps straight amid metropolitan temptations in a Saturday showing.
Joan Crawford stars in Our Flushing Brides at the Box theatre this afternoon. The film is described as a near flawless talking pretty spectacle and marks Crawford’s latest vehicle in a bustling screen era.
Classified item reads For sale oak posts hardwood lumber and wagon posts with contact Frank Gray in Illinois. Tel 264 Blue after 6 p.m. Includes other sale offers for apples at $1.00 per bushel and farm items. Also reports a Des Moines court note about an ancient statute related to tampering with parked vehicles and a separate fire incident at Sherman Paper Stock company destroying a building, baled paper, and three trucks.
A list of market prices for dairy and poultry items including cream eggs hens under and over two pounds leghorn broilers roosters ducks and beef hides and horse hides with per pound and per dozen rates noted for the Washington area.
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