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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1928
Page
2
hog receipts 35,000 with prices mostly 10 to 15 lower than Friday. top 12.65 for 180 to 219 lb hogs. cattle receipts 17,000 with steady demand on shippers for steers and yearlings. calves 3,000 with mixed movement. slaughter classes show varied ranges for steers heifers cows bulls vealers stockers. sheep receipts 20,000 with fat lambs slow and prices down. feeder lambs steady and ewes mixed.
Prices listed for dairy and poultry items including butterfat per pound and per dozen weights for eggs, various poultry breeds with per pound rates, ducks, geese, and beef and horse hides. Note adds an extra cent per pound for poultry delivered and a statement about marketing for sick or crippled birds.
Market summary shows wheat and corn futures with varied gains and losses across Sept, Dec and Mar positions. Wheat ranges from 1.09 to 1.16 in Sept and Dec, while corn and oats display modest shifts with several quotes around fractions and percentages.
Chicago cash grain markets show mixed bid ranges across wheat corn oats rye barley and timothy with various classes and grades recorded. Notable figures include hard wheat 111 112 percent and 109 111 percent for several lots, corn mixes and yellows around 95 105 percent, oats white and mixed ranges, rye No 3 964 and barley 59 9 with timothy 420 490 and clover 2050 2900.
Dr Frank Boller dentist at 76 208% W Washington St. Dr T J Pease at 602-508 Washington National Bank Building, phone 264 Blue. Dr W J Masson at Over Corbin & Barrett Shoe Store with office 187 residence 307 Blue.
A wartime election overview shows Lincoln facing Democratic calls for peace and radicals pressing for harsher measures. Fremont’s third party challenge, Vallandingham’s peace plank, and McClellan’s bid split the field. Civil-war victories swung momentum back to Lincoln with 212 electoral votes to McClellan’s 21.
The August 20 Saturday event drew hearty laughs from Norman and Faubel entertainers. Readers praise the program as well chosen and entertaining. The visit notes Ainsworth Iowa, its need for a doctor, and ongoing threshing with weather hoped to stay favorable for completion.
The Albright family of Haskins is relocating to Oxford Iowa. Wilfore Albright is ill but the family hopes to begin their move this week to the new home.
A small boy pleads with his mother to speak to baby who sits on fly paper as many flies swarm nearby. The scene captures a family moment with a touch of humor and concern.
Dan Griffith of Ainsworth rests after hot weather threshing and plans a brief break. The Wellston area reports hog sale results with prices near 16 1/2 cents and A. M. Bales sale near Wellsiton totaling 2537 dollars, about six hundred over expectations.
RS Alvin T Hert of Ken Mucky vice chair of the Republican National Committee heads the Hoover Curtis campaign among women nationwide. A renowned political figure, she also manages a thirteen hundred acre farm.
Lodges Washington chapter No 98 O EB 3 holds regular meeting second Thursday. Alice Meek WM Della McBride secretary. Damascus Shrine No 10 holds regular meeting third Tuesday. Mrs L A Jones WHP Sara E Walker secret. Washington Lodge No 26 AF and AM holds regular meeting first Friday. D L Carbauh WM A W Yard secretary.
Rail timetable data lists eastbound and westbound train numbers with arrival and departure times. It includes local freight and passenger trains for the Knoxville branch and mentions agents H W Russel and J C McKay with daily or limited schedules.
A man buys a bureau that closely matches his boyhood piece and discovers a concealed drawer. Inside are papers from his father and a five pound note, recalled through a remembered family link to his childhood home.
Chicago on August 20 reports tomorrow’s estimated receipts with cattle at 000 heads hogs 17 000 and sheep 19 000 as cattlemen forecast supplies for the market.
A carved Babylonian Venus figurine, linked to the biblical Mizpah where Samuel judged and Judah later centralized after Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B C., was uncovered. The deer goddess is described with bobbed hair and bangs and was worshipped by Israelites as the Queen of Heaven.
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