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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1935
Page
5
Markets show hogs mostly 15 to 25 cents lower with leaders at 11.50 to 11.75 for 180 to 240 lb hogs and early top 11.80. Cattle trend slow with good to choice steers at 12.85 and stockers around 6.75 to 8.00. Fat lambs rise up to 1.15, natives 9.25 to 9.50, ewes 2.50 to 3.60. Estimated receipts: hogs 10,000, cattle 9,000, calves 1,000, sheep 7,000.
Community sale announced for August 26 at Wesley Hendricks home located %% miles northwest of Brighton. Sale begins at one o clock with items from City Feed Yara featured.
Prices paid Wednesday for dairy and poultry. Sweet cream at 25 cents per pound, sour cream 23 cents, eggs 24 cents per dozen heavy hens 4% pounds and up 6? cents per pound, leghorn hens and heavy springs listed with weights and rates.
Chicago today reports steady markets in eggs butter and poultry with strong receipts across eggs at 6 269 cases butter 7 713 tins and poultry 36 trucks. Potatoes show track with arrivals 134 shipments 292 and a slightly stronger market.
At Rubio the funeral for Mrs. C. B. Morgan drew many visitors from distant towns. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan of Martinsburg and others from Brighton Richland OsKaloosa Washington Fairfield and Des Moines. Local residents also hosted callers from nearby communities.
The column notes Rev Fred Rick and wife visiting their old hometown, visits by Dave Brown, Ranald Canning, and others, praise for local parks and crops, cow sales in Iowa City, and a tidbit about Agua Caliente reopening casinos without gambling.
In Chicago on August 21黄 0P No 2 yellow and No 1 white prices are listed with a 79 cent figure. Receipts indicate 23 ears. The brief item notes market activity and yields without broader context.
The initials V D B on 1900 Lincoln cents mark designer Victor D Brenner. The Treasury soon withdrew that mark and many thousands circulated with the signature only on those bearing the date 1900.
German-born Aster agents founded a fur trading site at Fond du Lac now a Duluth suburb. The post established a vast wealth by shipping millions of furs from the woods of north central United States.
Mary A. Uteeht from Waterville Maine writes in Colliers Weekly about Africa's telegraphic drums. A massive wooden drum in Nigeria measures 12 feet long and 15 feet in circumference and can be heard across a territory exceeding 1,250 square miles.
Delegates from four major Bord er labor unions say Cardenas warned casinos would not reopen under a cooperative system. Agua Caliente Hotel officials say no formal reopening notice reached them despite word from labor groups in Tia Juana. Workers seek a year to secure alternative income as Rodriquez Dam looms, with agriculture and fishing viewed as future pillars. John Stephens and family of Ainsworth are early visitors.
Aug 21 report notes Charley Harrison of Oklahoma City visiting the Ben Harrison home in Highland Center. Several locals hosted threshers and attended picnics and reunions, including Standard Bearers at Ainsworth and visits to relatives in nearby towns.
Women are eligible for jury service in Alaska Arkansas California Delaware District of Columbia Illinois Iowa Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Utah Washington Wisconsin. In eleven states service is compulsory for women as it is for men. In eleven other states women may serve or not as they choose.
Early Christian artists assigned symbolic meanings to colors. Red signified love, blue truth, green hope, white purity, Innocence and faith, yellow sunlight, marriage, religious faith, and occasionally jealousy and deceit.
Jerome Crain and Linda quarrel over loyalties as their San Cristobal voyage nears a clamp on port entry. Aboard the large yacht the couple grow weary of luxury and forced proximity while a shore party dispute unfolds in the Cuba like dawn. The pair drift toward chance separation as tensions rise.
On a quarantined yacht off the coast, Jerome and Linda clash with the Quartermaster as liberty is denied and shore parties block both ashore and afloat. The scene tightens with threats of disease, political unrest, and a looming confrontation at sea.
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