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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1939
Page
7
For sale a 1929 Chevrolet sedan listed at Putman's Service Station. The ad also mentions 32 head of cattle for sale by Bob Wiley and notes a location on 26413 c.
Markets report Chicago on December 20 shows hogs at 5.60 to 6.85 for 160 to 240 lb, top 5.85, plus sows 4.50 to 4.75. cattle active with steers 10.00 to 11.40 and heifers up to 11.25, fat cattle 8.25 to 9.25, calves 11.00 to 11.35. sheep steady to strong with fat lambs 8.50 to 8.85 and yearlings 7.50. total receipts Cattle 8,000 Hogs 16,000 Sheep 4,000 with tomorrow’s expected cattle 4,500 hogs 15,000 sheep 8,000.
The Chicago Grain Table presents Wheat and Corn figures with May and July Wheat ranges from 1.02 to 1.06 percent and Corn around 59 to 69 percent. The garbled OCR adds uncertainty for several entries but highlights interday high and low values and closes.
Chicago markets report mixed corn and soybeans with various grades and moisture levels. Prices show ranges for corn from 57 to 69 cents and soybeans around 1.15 to 1.17 dollars a bushel. oats near 41 cents. receipts list 143 cars.
Chicago reports unsettled produce market with receipts totaling 10 116 cases for flourished firsts and extra firsts, current 17 percent, dirties 14 percent, checks 14 percent. Poultry market firm with 4 cars and 52 trucks received, ducks 10 to bargain, geese 12 to 14 percent, spring chickens 12 7 g, turkeys 12 to 14 ay. London advocates bathing suits in hot months affecting business.
Mrs LeMoine and her children travel to Kingsley and Harlan to visit both sets of grandparents. Morris heads to Bartlesville to stay with her brother and sister in law. Ruth Flood visits her mother in Greenville Ohio and Walter Lussky goes home near Chicago for the holidays. Several Washington teachers depart for vacation including Kammueller in Tomah Cedar Rapids Waterloo Olds and Lelia Anderson in Olds. Marian Cover and Katharine Kaney also head to Des Moines and Des Moines area for holidays. Marie Landau and Minnie Landau will be at home northwest of town and Iowa City respectively while Gertrude Landes returns from Cedar Rapids.
Flounder houses are single wall blank against a party line with a single pitched roof sloping toward the adjacent lower side. Built in the eighteenth century, these rear extensions exist in cities such as Alexandria and Philadelphia today.
Listings show dairy and poultry prices with cream sour cream and eggs. Sweet cream 36 to 36-1/2 cents per quart, No 1 sour cream 26 cents, No 2 sour cream 24 cents. Henhouse eggs various at local market, pullet eggs 5 cents per dozen.
Gideon Seymour, assisting managing editor of Look magazine, told the Des Moines Transportation Club that Germany could reverse course and join England and France against Russia. He cautioned the remark was not a prediction but advised not to be surprised.
Moscow reports Joseph Stalin is praised for giving personal guidance to the red army navy and air forces now fighting Finland on the eve of his 60th birthday.
The notice invites buyers and sellers to bring fat cows and heifers, hogs, sheep and lambs, ch ickens two dozen White Leghorn cockerels, hedge posts, beef hides, and furniture. It urges early market entry as conditions improve.
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