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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1930
Page
4
Receipts in Chicago show hogs at 15 000 with 6 000 direct. Prices rise for heavier weights and packing sows. Cattle receipts 5 000 with steer and heifer prices mostly steady to higher and vealers strong. Sheep receipts 8 000 with fat lambs active and lines for ewes and feeding lambs noted.
Combined hog quotations from 22 concentration yards and 5 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota through 10:00 am show total 22 500 head, down from 30 000 last week. Prices range 6.90 to 9.65 for heavy and light weights, with most weights around 7.25 to 7.70, packing sows 6.10 to 6.90, rail and truck deliveries affecting final bids.
Christmas brief items from across the country include a Santy family charge at a Chicago store, black and white carol singing at Lincoln’s grave in Springfield, a baby sister born after Santa’s query in Exeter, a tattered collar found in Des Moines, children stranded at sea awaiting Father Neptune, a Santa gift of oil wealth in Buffalo, a Roosevelt commutation for Christmas in Albany, and a blaze destroying a Salvation Army orphanage gym in Santa Rosa with appeals for replacement gifts.
An anonymous citizen delivered a large package containing 14 submachine guns to Columbus police today. The weapons were intended for use on the citys new radio cruisers and prompted an immediate police investigation.
Mrs Hornbrook and Mrs Emma Robinson plan a Christmas banquet for hungry horses in Kansas City. Hornbrook's lawn became a barnyard with oats stocked for the event as a festive aid.
Jefferson City dispatch reports seven year old Albert Mas on writes Santa Claus asking for his missing dog Rex. The dog returns home the morning after the letter is delivered, ending a brief Christmas mystery.
New York dispatch reports Father Neptune to take over Santa Claus duties aboard the grace liner while Santa Barbara approaches the equator tomorrow. Three children are mentioned in the context of the unfolding voyage.
Chicago board quotes reveal scattered shifts across wheat corn oats and rye with Old and New price lines. Wheat futures show modest gains in some months while corn holds near prior levels. oats display uneven results and rye shows small increases.
Chicago cash grain close shows wheat at 79 percent, corn mixed with values around 60s to mid 60s, oats and barley near 60s, timothy at 75, and clover rising to 22 74 with several small parcel notes across yellow and white varieties. Prices listed for multiple grain categories reflect minor shifts and mixed weeks.
Toledo market closes with Clover prime rates at 14.50 for old prime, 15.00 for new prime, 15.25 for prime choice, 14.80 for prime chores, December 15.00, February 15.35, March 15.60. Alsike cash 13.75. December 23.75, March 14.25. Timothy hay 1.75 per cwt.
The Salvation Army coin pot in the Danville post office building was stolen on December 23. It contained money intended for distribution to the needy at Christmas.
In Philadelphia two young brothers Billy Prophet aged six and Warren Prophet aged five will have no Christmas tree after their father was shot to death a month ago and their mother remains jailed in connection with the killing.
Howard Schwartz, after months without work, took a snow shoveling job in Denver. He quit time before, then fell from a truck sustaining a concussion of the brain.
Edith Dennis seven and Evelyn six sent Christmas presents to their father, who died in an automobile accident more than a week earlier. Edith said Daddy is sick in a hospital, and Mrs. Dennis will tell the children after Christmas.
In St. Louis on Christmas Day the black and white mongrel Bub again makes headlines as dog catchers seize him. His grim tally includes being run over by an automobile on Christmas 1927 and getting caught in a foundation hole on Christmas 1928.
Warner Bros Vitaphone film Sinners Holiday opens today at the Fox Theatre for a two day run. The plot follows a modern Coney Island story with Grant Withers as a barker with a shady past unjustly accused of murder. Evalyn Knapp makes her screen debut as the girl who sacrifices for love with other stage stars like James Cagney and Joan Blondell in the cast.
Cedar Rapids distributed over 62000 pounds of fish from the Cedar River for a holiday aid effort. Deputy game warden B F Alsop oversaw the distribution as officials estimated the fish value at about 5500.
Virgil Marshall faces a formal robbery charge after allegedly holding up his father’s bank at Brookville 15 miles west of Dayton. He fled with 7700 dollars to his home and shot himself in the side when authorities arrived to arrest him. The elder Marshall could not explain his son’s actions.
Dixie Willson, a New York author, said she could profitably wish a merry Christmas to the thief who took her purse in Mason City Iowa. The purse snatcher appeared to escape with the sum, prompting a later report on the incident.
In Globe Arizona on December 24 a man described as the world’s meanest reportedly visited the community Christmas tree display and stole the brightly colored electric light bulbs, prompting local concern and a quick police response.
Edward Szwed a 13 year old nonbeliever in Santa Claus and his unemployed father Michael Iswed were arrested in a Chicago department store toy department suspected of taking toys from counters and loading them into a sack. Witnesses said the boy said the theft was for his sisters who expected dolls and gifts from Santa Claus.
Miss Willson, visiting with her mother, chased a thief who grabbed her purse and caught him in an alley. The thief, tall and polite, agreed to a split but fled with five dollars after a brief conference as Miss Willson recovered the purse and found the stolen $500 still inside.
Molten lava from Merapi continued to devastate villages in the Stroemboeng district. The death toll exceeded 790 with many missing as lava flows extended over six miles since Monday. Refugees faced starvation while troops were deployed to assist survivors.
Des Moines December 24 Northwestern Bell Telephone company will spend about 4 million dollars in Iowa during 1931 to extend equipment. H G Conger company general manager notes the largest projects include major expansion work across the state.
December items recount a local sale netting 3200 plus dollars, with townsfolk in festive mood. Readers report encounters with colorful locals, weathered winter routines, and notes on subscriptions and arrivals from nearby communities.
Harry FE Montgomery once of Washington tours South America by air and writes for papers about the trip. Tom Wolfe visits family in Ainsworth after military training in Aledo. Harry Macon and wife of Valley Junction drive to Burlington Junction to bring Fred Fleming and his wife to Washington for Christmas, arriving Wednesday at 4:30 a.m.
A fragment from the London Telegraph features a humorous exchange about a lad described as fine with a magnificent head. A request for money is refused, tied to a claim about a wife’s child by her first husband.
Miss Aina Strain, a Drake University teacher, spends holidays with her parents C. M Strain. Mr and Mrs Newton Wilkins, who summered with Miss Olive Moore, visit Chicago to stay with son Ira Warren. Clarence Davis, Fairfield college attendee, returns for holidays. Bates Barnes returns from Monmouth Illinois and Max Anwyl from Northwestern in Chicago for the break.
Weekly bulletin reports outbreaks of hog cholera in DeWitt Petersville Low Moor Maquoketa Martelle Solon Brighton and necrotic enteritis in swine Blairstown. Flu in swine in Anamosa Ryan larstown Mt. Vernon. Coccidiosis in cattle Dunkerton Henmorrhagic septicemia in Veas Calamus. Blackleg in young cattle Princeton Durant. Roup in poultry Duankerton Center Point. Fowl cholera in poultry Dunkerton Town City Dubuque Cascade Rabies in cow Anamosa.
Cedar Rapids opens a new central office and Decorah plans a building, Shenandoah erects a new building and adds central office equipment. Burlington and Davenport expand existing structures and install extra equipment for long distance service.
By writ of special execution the sheriff offers at public sale in front of the Washington County Courthouse on Wednesday January 21 1931 between 2 and 4 pm the east half of the northeast quarter of section 27 and the west half of the northwest quarter except a 40 foot road strip in section 26 all in township 77 north range 8 west. The property is owned by S P Finch and Lulu Finch and is sold to satisfy the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa. Cash terms. December 23 1930. G M Struble Sheriff and G A Matlock Deputy.
East Highland residents anticipate Santa as Dec 30 edition notes. J. W. Coon delivered two truckloads of hogs at Lone Tree last week. C. Raymond shipped one truckload by the farmers union. Co. C. Raymond is about the
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