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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1929
Page
2
A price table outlines bulk meat grades and weights. It lists early bulk good to choice beef ranges 1125 to 1160 for 160 to 210 Tbs, pork and packing items with weights from 1000 to 1165 for various pork cuts, and cattle data noting 2,000 total cattle and 1,000 calves.
The item notes heavy hog shipments from Washington area via the Burlington railroad with five loads linked to Davis Bros and others heading to Chicago for sale. It mentions strong fair and reunion attendance, a large picnic crowd at Dutch Creek, and a pastor’s legal case in Bedford Indiana tied to a liquor cleanup campaign.
Readable fragments show students urging a start date of next Monday and referencing a plea from boys and girls. The terse note implies concern about classroom access and enrollment timing.
Market price data for poultry and livestock appears with hogs and hides noted. Local names and dates describe visits, picnics, shipments, and hunting trespass warnings across Washington and surrounding towns with scattered family references and business postings.
At the Lews county fair Hope Hadley a 17 year old farm girl from Eagle Grove scored 98 percent on health tests and won first place as Iowa s most perfect girl earning a trip to Chicago to compete for national honors at the international exposition.
In Toledo Ohio a young husband demanded a divorce in domestic relations court before Judge James Austin after his wife paid 25 dollars for a summer outfit. The judge teased the couple noting four decades of marriage and that permission was not asked, then advised going home to thank modest spending.
August 29 report says fifteen Jews and two police were killed in a confrontation near the British consulate as a large group of young Zionists demonstrated in sympathy with Arabs killed in Palestine riots.
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