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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
2
Market totals 506000 hogs with 4000 direct. cattle calves 2000. steady to higher across weights. Steers 550 to 900 lb 5.25 to 7.00. heifers 550 to 750 lb 5.00 to 6.25. cows 3.50 to 4.50. Lambs 90 lb down 6.25 to 7.40. feeding lambs 5.85 to 6.40.
Chicago notes a steady market across eggs butter poultry and produce. Egg receipts 5974 cases with varied quality grades. butter receipts 106251 pounds with multiple standards and prices. poultry receipts include 32 trucks with various fowl and duck pricing. potatoes on track with 233 arrivals and 45 shipments.
Chicago grain table lists wheat corn oats and rye with various contract months and prices. It shows mixed movements for September December and May contracts across wheat corn oats and rye. The data reflects open high low and close figures for the trading day.
Chicago August 31 market notes show mixed corn grades No 2 No 3 No 6 with moisture around 46 to 56 percent and yellow corn ranges from 50 to 60 percent. white and other samples listed with varying grades. Receipts total 158 cars.
Saturday sale at City Feed Yard features Heisdorffer and Dawson purebred Herefords. Sale located 6 miles north and 1 mile east of Riebland. Buyers, local ranchers, and cattlemen expected to attend.
R L Gibson Produce advertises cash buyers for GG8 cream poultry with contact at 41e N Marion and phone 167 Washington Iowa.
Women workers from the NRA campaign will fan out in town Friday with blue eagle badges posting bulletins and collecting signed consumer statements. Local organizers include Mrs. Harry Doe, Miss Clara Huber, and others, with Mrs. Ernest Lemmon and Miss Clara Faulkner directing information.
Burlington Iowa officials negotiate with NAT and United Airlines to make Burlington a regular stop between Chicago and Kansas City. The airport recently got hard surfaced runways and Braniff already serves as a flag stop with adequate facilities on the ground.
The American Pearls have two games scheduled. They play the Elks of Muscatine at Junkinfield Friday night at eight replacing an earlier booking with Olds who withdrew. The Muscatine team is among eastern Iowa’s best and recently faced Troop here. A Labor Day game is set for Monday at eight against Maidrite of Iowa City. Maidrite and the Pearls have split their prior two meetings. The Pearls also play in the Crawfordsville tournament Friday at five.
Major league scores show Chicago, Brooklyn, New York and others with results listed. Open date and today games include Houston at New York Cleveland at Chicago Detroit at St Louis and more with several matchups scheduled.
The film stars Ginger Rogers Norman Foster and others in a satire of commercial broadcasting. A radio idol bound by a strict contract is pushed toward an arranged marriage to a naive fan as a publicity stunt. William Seiter directed this comedy drawn from Maurine Watkins screenplay.
The state highway commission let contracts totaling over $600,000 for highway work across several counties. Notably 21 miles of paving in three counties cost $481,858.61, with additional $114,841.25 for bridges and culverts in seven counties and $10,386 for maintenance gravel and crushed stone in five counties. Nolan Bros. of Minneapolis won $204,889.07 for 1069 miles of paving in Clayton county, part of the Mississippi river road No. 45 from Guttenberg south, while Central Engineering Co. of Davenport received $202,263.78 for a 9.124 mile project on road No 9 from Muscatine north.
The article notes weakening demand in pawn broking money lending and domestic service for men in Mogland as part of broader economic changes in England.
A compact column from the Journal's subscription rep highlights local items from nearby towns. Quick updates cover community happenings, upcoming events, and brief notices across the region.
Journal readers share local tidbits from Ainsworth to West Chester. buyers, farms, cattle, and farm improvements surface as residents plan visits and subscriptions while relatives travel between Kansas and Iowa. The Ferguson family reunion details conclude with officers elected and next year’s location noted.
Kalona reports visitors and residents with Iowa City business visits Cedar Falls summer school attendees return after twelve weeks at Iowa State Teachers College Red Yoder's Giants defeat Lone Tree 16 to 3 at Bayertown Whrenfelt strong in pitching Solon visitor T. F. P. Moore plans teaching nearby Ferdinand Skola and Jack Fry attend the Chicago World's Fair Ellen Grady funeral at Christian church Dora Randall back from two weeks away Pleasant Hill school opens with Lydia Hereghberger as instructor
STRINGTOWN Aug.1 The Stringtown school started Monday Aug 28 with an enrollment of 21 students. Miss Vera Harvey is the teacher. Calls by Clarence Weinhalg Mrs John Wenger and daughter Rotewary of Illinois. Visitors from California at L 4H Runner home. State fair attendance noted for Des Moines.
The Washington Star quotes Hi Ho of Chinatown saying it is sometimes wise to pretend ignorance to gain the right to ask significant questions. The remark frames a cautious approach to inquiry in political discourse.
Fifty one trout fishing streams in northeastern Iowa are closed to all fishing for the season. Minnow seines are barred from the streams until further notice. Affected counties include Clayton Allamakee Delaware Dubuque Fayette Howard Jackson Jones and Winneshiek. The trout season closes at midnight September 1 after opening April 1. The department plans further improvement work on the streams.
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