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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1929
Page
2
U S Department of Agriculture reports 62 000 hogs with 32 000 direct sales. Prices top at 9 50 for 240 290 lb hogs while lighter weights fetch 8 50 to 9 35. Cattle about 17 000 with early yearling and fat cattle gains. steers 12 25 to 14 75 for heavy weights and cows 7 25 to 10 00. General market steady to higher, demand fairly active.
An advertisement urges readers to try Cystex for bladder irritation and backache with promises of fast relief. It claims money back if there is no improvement and invites purchase at drug stores, noting a price of 6 cents.
Prices for milk fed vealers and feeder cattle vary with good and choice grades quoted between 12.50 and 15.75 for vealers and 10.25 to 11.00 for stocker steers. Sheep show weakness with fat lambs at 12.50 to 12.85 and ewes around 4.50 to 6.00 for mid weights. Feeder lambs steady with good and choice at 11.75 to 12.75 and 92 pound down lambs 12.50 to 13.25.
The Chicago markets display fluctuating wheat corn oats rye and fats with December futures rising for wheat and mixed gains across corn oats and rye amid varied daily closes and contract moves. Key longs and shorts appear in Dec Mar May positions with notable percentage changes and price levels.
Grain market snapshot shows wheat at 2 hard 1.29, corn varying with old base 2 head 8114 to 82 percent, mixed lots at 95 cents. New corn 3 percent mixed 86, 4 mix minus 1 percent, oats listed at 2 white 47 to 48 and 4 white 45. Timothy and Gover prices noted around 580 to 675 and 1025 to 1775 respectively.
Toledo seed market reports cash bids for Clover and Timothy varieties with daily quotes in December February and March. Prices include domestic and imported cash quotes and losses noted for March.
Harold Lloyd headlines Welcome Danger at the Graham theatre a first all talking picture with Chinatown San Francisco as the backdrop. Barbara Kent stars alongside Lloyd in a thrills filled romance as gags keep the audience racing with rapid dialogue and perilous action.
Excerpted thoughts from New York critics on Wise Girls at the Fox theatre. Broun praises it as glorious and amusing built from everyday life. Woolcott and others call it a good play and well crafted comic fare with lively dialogue.
Report of Round Grove School No 7 Highland for the 2nd period with 11 pupils enrolled and 10.7 average attendance. Perfect attendance listed for Grace Houseal Helen Showalter Percy Sku bal Sam Houseal May Showalter Robert Houseal. Absences due to sickness noted for Mary Murphy Ruth Houseal Paul Hartsock Irene Murphy and Jane Showalter. Grades show several students in 90s including Grace Houseal 93 and Jane Showalter 99. FE Reecee, Teacher.
A doctor recommends Thoxine to soothe irritated throats and stop coughs. The remedy claims rapid relief within 15 minutes, is safe for the family, and comes in 35c 60c and $1.00 bottles sold by McDaniel Drug Store. Singers and speakers praise its benefits.
The text notes unusually cold start to the season with many people traveling from Crawfordsville Wayland and Washington. Mentions Eli Speidel and Henry R. Schantz, corn gathering plans, and a Me Laughlin Clark wedding attended by Lester Duke. Also references Jesse Riley, John Cannon, and the Attig family visiting the Booth home in West Chester.
The report notes that Saturday's conditions hindered corn harvesting, delaying progress for local farmers and prompting adjusted fieldwork plans.
An air of small town chatter runs through the column as residents note a motto in a chain store reply and a joking target practice jab. Ek O Babb finishes winter work and looks to try starting his car on nicer mornings. A division officer voices demand for liberty this afternoon while a rank voice calls for Patrick Henry. Tom Sterlings continues the Journal into the future and Geo Dodd returns to Washington R 1 with the publication for winter.
The community recounts a week of Thanksgiving meals and social visits. Families such as the Foster, Whetstine, Hartsock, and Murphy crews hosted relatives from Iowa City to Davenport while some traveled to Muscatine and Oklahoma City for gatherings.
A two year old Jersey Guernsey heifer brought 170 dollars at the John Greiner sale held Saturday. Other animals sold well and a good crowd attended the event.
Freeman Frost, 17, died late yesterday from gunshot wounds while rabbit hunting with his brother Lewis and uncles Frank and Worrie Frost near Des Moines. The group beat a brush pile to scare rabbits when the accident occurred.
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