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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
2
Chicago market reports hogs receipts 48 000 with prices 8 30 top and 7 00 to 8 75 for various weights. Cattle receipts 7 000 with feeders and fat cattle showing gains to 25 cents, vealers steady, best fed steers around 17.00. Sheep receipts 10 000 with better weights up to 13.50 for choice, lambs 12.76 to 13.25 for good and choice, lighter weights around 12.90 to 12.75.
Local correspondent reports James Fitzgerald Jr returned home from a two week teaching break in Tole Iowa. Wm Marston, brother in law of Mina West, dies in Muscatine with services at Gladwin and burial in Columbus City. Grand View teacher Charles Mullen visits family. Hilda Olds helps at Carson store during illness. Jr play earns near sixty dollars. Christmas programs planned by United Presbyterian and Sunday schools at M E church. Funeral of Oscar Duncan conducted by Rev W B McCrory. George Carson attends Cotter service. Lee Norris arrives from San Antonio to spend holidays with family.
Wheat steady at 1.30 percent. Corn at 88 cents. Oats quoted from 57 to 65 cents depending on grade. Rye No 2 at 1.08 dollars. Barley 90 to 94 cents. Timothy 2.00 to 3.75 dollars. Clover 22.00 to 29.25 dollars.
Seed prices listed for Clover Timothy and Alsike at Toledo market on December 22 show cash and future prices. Clover cash 18.20, Dec imp 16.75, Jan imp 16.75, Feb imp 16.80, March 18.25, March imp 16.0. Timothy cash 2.00, Dec 2.00, March 2.15. Alsike cash 16.00, Dec 16.00, Jan 16.25, Feb 16.45, March 16.40.
Mexico City December 22 Col Charles A Lindbergh waited for his mother during a Christmas visit as the chamber of deputies debated ways to grant him honorary Mexican citizenship the highest honor possible.
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, designates Des Moines as the hub from which she will disseminate her four square gospel across the Midwest. Rev. John Goben, former Des Moines pastor, says Vancouver headquarts the northwest, Dallas the south, and New York the east.
Y G Carlson 5 chief engineer of the Atlantic municipal light and power plant was instantly killed when his automobile was struck by a Rock Island passenger train in Atlantic Indiana. His body was thrown about five feet and badly mangled. Funeral services were expected to be held tomorrow.
Milton Kirdendall of Oskaloosa is to be returned today by Sheriff W J Gochee after arrest in Chicago on a murder charge. He is accused of fatally shooting Cyrus Crisman during a dispute over a small robbery proceeds near Oskaloosa in August 1926 and escaped from the Mahaska county jail following the indictment.
Miss Alice Rodgers of Mediapolis visits Rodger Colthurst home with Dee. Mrs T H Will on sick list. Everett Stewart welcomes baby William Ray born at county hospital last Sunday. Mrs R G Pratt of Waterloo to spend Christmas at Colthurst home. Philip Gerdes and associates shop in Washington. James Porter sale attended. Gerdes visits John Anderson in Washington. Mrs H R Baker returns from West Chester.
In San Francisco on December 22 Capt Charles Kingsford Smith and Lieut George Pond said four failures to break the world sustained flight record would not deter them. They planned a fresh attempt, vowing, We'll do it next time.
A recent calculation suggests that humanity has existed for only about one half-millionth of the Earth’s allotted lifespan, underscoring the vast antiquity of our planet.
Local brief from The Journal's subscription rep highlights updates from nearby towns. Notes cover civic changes, upcoming events, and community announcements affecting residents and regional commerce.
A reflective dispatch from Waterloo County recounts the 18th sale for the local Leacox family with detailed prices for calves and cows and notes on hay, hogs, chickens, andCream coconut pie. The writer mentions visitors, Christmas cards, and local figures like Ed Flander and D A Peterson, plus holiday charity by the Good Fellows club and plans for future sales and letters.
Four Iowa college girls, studying out of state, arrived in Iowa City by air from Chicago as they headed home for Christmas.
D J Metzner national organizer for the National Liberty League says Iowa headquarters for anti prohibition forces may be kept at Sioux City indicating organized efforts in the state.
Henry Coker, jailed for freight robbery, returned to the county chain gang in Johnson City Tennessee after two months on the run. He said he escaped to earn Christmas money for his wife and baby and surrendered willingly to finish the sentence.
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