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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1938
Page
7
Classified brief listing promo for Phoenix Hosiery gift sets with Personality Colors option. Includes contact via Roth schild's and a price note.
Subscriptions for neighboring communities are reported by D F Macon. The column highlights local happenings, events, and small notices from nearby towns, offering readers quick updates and community linkage through the Journal.
Hugh Morris 81 head of cattle sold at tap price with Herefords at 12.25 and Angus at 12.75 boosting yard records. Cattle shipped to New York for kosher butchers within an hour. Local farms and residents noted with crop yields and upcoming farm moves.
A railroad shopman, called for federal grand jury service, asks to be excused claiming shop duties keep him busy. The judge taunts him about whether his presence is essential, while the man admits he wants the public to think the shop can survive without him.
Northeast Washington items include Wells subscribing both home and Gail at college, a bank visit by a Negro maid with a miswritten check, Linda’s joke about marriage, and remarks on Evening Journal subscriptions. Also noted are visits from J P Parks and Lester Stone, and A B Macreadie planning winters in Daytona Beach with the Journal.
Chicago market notes show hogs totaling 17 000 with 6 500 direct sales, prices mostly 7.30 to 7.60 for good weights early, later bids 7.25 for select cuts. Cattle at 9 000 steady with beef steers 10.00 to 13.50, calves 5.00 to 10.50, cows 5.90 to 7.25. Sheep 9 000 steady with lambs 9.25 to 9.65 and feeders 7.50 to 8.60.
Chicago market reports a steady bees market with 2,119 cases received. Extra firsts and firsts show mixed shipment levels as current requests and prices are reviewed.
Market data show butter receipts 6594 tubs with 29 percent specials and 28 percent extras. Poultry markets steady with broilers 16 17 percent and turkeys 15 21 percent. Grain table reports wheat corn oats rye with mixed open high low close figures for December May July and December contracts in Chicago trading.
Chicago dispatch notes sample percentages for mixed yellow white and other grades across numbers two three five and eight. It lists ranges for mixed yellow white and other categories with figures like 49 to 51 percent for No 2 mixed and 52 to 53 percent for No 2 white, plus additional sample grade 46 to 47 percent.
Des Moines reports soybean price activity with bids at 76% and 77% for May and July contracts. Prices shown include 654 for the dash of market data, indicating ongoing grain trading figures.
A stone coffin unearthed at Coombe Down near Bath is believed to be over 1,000 years old and a relic of the Roman occupation of England. Local archaeologists say the find could shed light on early Roman presence in the region.
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