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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1931
Page
2
Receipts show 1 500 cattle 10 000 sheep and 7 000 calves with dull demand across all categories. Prices range for steers 600 to 1500 pounds from 3.00 to 11.50 with mix of good and choice quality, heifers and cows varying, vealers milk fed 5.00 to 6.50, feeding lambs 4.25 to 4.75, lambs 4.75 to 5.36 to packers and city buyers.
Chicago wholesale market reports mixed movement with eggs steady on 1 861 cases receipts and butter unsettled with 11 667 tubs received. Poultry supplies near steady though no cars in. cheese prices show mixed gains. potatoes on track with Wisconsin round whites at 75 to 85 cents and Idaho russets 1.45 to 1.55 per cwt.
U S D A reports 42 200 hogs received at 22 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hour period ending at 1 00 A M. Strong to 10 cents higher with most grades up 5 to 15 cents. Good to choice 180 to 280 lb. hogs averaged 3 50 to 3 75 with lighter weights 3 00 to 3 60 and 3 35 to 3 70 for 166 to 180 lb. groups.
Brief items from nearby towns compiled by the Journal's subscription representative. Highlights include local events, engagements, and small-town happenings reflecting regional life and community ties.
December 18 features huge crowd traveling miles to the Miksch sale amid terrible roads. Grace Hill ladies served a full dinner while Ralph Dougherty and others attended, Charley McKinstry regaining glasses from Charley Wiley, and quirky local anecdotes from residents and vendors mark the event.
The document lists bid ranges for hogs by weight categories from 200 to 425 pounds with quality grades good and choice. It notes bulk-transaction basis for quotes and warns long haul shipments with high shrinkage or hogs overfilled may deviate above or below quoted prices.
Chicago grain prices show mixed openings with wheat and corn moving within narrow ranges. Dec futures for wheat edge higher while March and May contracts wobble. corn and oats post modest gains amid unsettled trading.
The pastor laments a promised salary paid in poultry after two months of preaching. A deacon explains the church method, offering a lantern and sacks to collect his own chicken wages, reflecting a rural misunderstanding of compensation.
Fragmentary data appears as mixed percentages and commodity codes including rye, lard, dates, and prices. No coherent events or entities to confirm a specific report or outcome.
The Chicago cash grain close shows Wheat with no sales reported. Corn and other grains mixed with varying price ranges across multiple yellow and white categories, including oats and barley. Timothy and clover prices listed in lower ranges.
Clover prime fifty cents. February 8 at 75 cents. March nine dollars. Alsike eight dollars fifty. Pebble and eighty five cents. March eight eighty five. May timothy per cwt one dollar.
The notice lists closing out sales including F Pineh 41 miles south of Washington on Dec 2 Earl Galloway 4 miles north of Washington on Dec 22 Pp R Senat stock sale in West Chester on Dec 29 and Mrs Rose Moorhead household goods in Crawfordsville.
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