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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1934
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hogs at 39 000 head with slow trade and lower values. cattle and calves listing mixed gains across weight classes. Slaughter sheep and lambs provide fat lambs in solid demand with undertone strong. eggs butter poultry and potatoes in stable or routine movements at Chicago Produce.
Bargain crowd expected as 60 yearling calves and 200 shoats go on sale with an order for 300 vaccinated shoats weighing 100 pounds. Also 150 lambs and ewes, black club calves, Model T truck with grain, antique dishes, walnut chairs, oak duofold, stoves, desk, beds, kitchen chairs, garden tools, carpentry books, and more. Sale starts at 12:30.
Chicago market notes show futures for No 2 yellow at 94 cents No 3 yellow 92 No 4 yellow 99 and fraction No 5 yellow 86 No 4 large 87 to 99. Old corn receipts tally 63 cars.
Anne Shirley, the sixteen year old star formerly Dawn O Day, leads the film from RKO Radio adapting the best selling Anne of Green Gables. The story follows a spirited orphan girl who changes the bachelor and spinster siblings who adopt her and her romance with a schoolboy.
An instrument purporting to be the last will of Henry J. Cuddeback, dated 1920 with codicils in 1923 and 1932, was filed and read. A hearing to prove and probate the will is set for December 19, 1934 at 9:90 a.m. at the Washington County Court House before the District Court or clerk.
The Chicago market shows wheat slipping to around 1.01 percent and corn hovering near mid 80s while oats and rye move in tight ranges. Trading closes mixed with May and July contracts showing small changes as traders assess supply demands.
D F Macon, the Journal’s subscription representative, reports steady mail orders and renewed renewals for the newspaper. He notes subscriber interest in local news, sports results, and community notices, with several inquiries about weekend editions.
A long Hastings Nebraska era notice recalls James Donn who died in Colorado at 93, an uncle to Mrs. Hay of Washington and Knox Dunn of Wyman. The piece catalogs a Lambert sale 11 miles northeast of Washington, with drivers Ode Ferguson James Morrow and others, noting high prices and wide attendance. It also recounts Christmas shopping mishaps, family movements, and local anecdotes about roads and community life.
An advertisement in the Evening Journal invites good attendance at a sale Friday located 14 miles south of Wellman on a gravel road. The notice provides sparse directions and timing details for the event.
About twenty members of the Standard Bearers of the Methodist church held a Christmas party in the church parlors. The event featured a decorated room with a Christmas tree a pot luck supper at 6 30 and Santa Claus gifts with exchanges limited to 10 cents. Guests included Rev A N Porter and Mrs Porter with visiting relatives from Abilene Kansas Washington DC and Mayo Clinic patients. The Tri T s met for a business gathering at Mrs Hildred Coats home with thirteen members present.
Public sale announcements list sale dates for Dee on December 14 and December 18 near Wellman and Washington. Entries mention horses, stock, and closing out sales by local auctioneers PP Finch & Son and Mae Sturgeon. The notices place sale sites on gravel roads and at City Feed Yard in Dee, with references to nearby towns West Chester Keo and Washington.
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