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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1928
Page
2
The market shows mixed results with cattle and hogs priced across weights. Slaughter classes move in broad ranges, with cattle receipts around 20,000 and feeders steady as slaughter demand shifts. Lambs and feeders show modest activity, prices depending on weight and grade.
Weather over the past four days was mild with a cold snap to two below. Locals mention Clayton Nichol proving a garter snake to Mangold garage, jokes about garters, and social visits. News notes include A. Patten’s death in Green Castle Indiana, parish chatter, blackberry plans with Paul Gorham, and a serious injury to Jerry Simmering. Also reports on church plays, grain and market quotes, and a Greencastle Indiana death.
On Friday superstition and weekday beliefs surface in a quirky note. The passage mentions Finns avoiding business on Mondays and Fridays while claiming Friday as lucky for wearing green and recounts a Columbus episode tied to Friday. This odd fragment cites BES and Western Ne aper Union.
Thirteen "jail orphans" await mothers returned from Danbury on bad check charges while ten children rejoice as a mother convicted of shoplifting gets a suspended sentence and returns to her ten kids Mrs Earl Heisler, 43, faces the bad check charge and Mrs G Vanderhuret of Le Mars receives the suspended sentence after shoplifting perfume. The stock market slumped as fears hit over 100 shares dropping three dollars to twenty two fifty.
Local market page lists poultry and livestock prices per pound and per head for hens, pullets, roosters, ducks, and hides. Multiple closing out sales scheduled around Washington area including Cyrus ush, L. D. Schilder, Karl Birney, Chas Ward, Frank Nemec, Ralph Hoxworth, Jesse Meek with distances from Washington and Riverside.
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