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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1936
Page
7
OGS reports livestock market results with 3 000 head steady overall. Cattle and calves show varied quotes for beef steers 12.00 to 14.50, yearlings 6.50 to 18.60, cows 5.60 to 7.60, calves 6.00 to 12.00, feeders 6.00 to 8.50, stocker cows 4.00 to 7.00. Sheep totaling 3 000 head steady with lambs 16.00 to 10.75, yearlings 7.00 to 9.70, ewes 3.60 to .00.
Chicago on February 1 market news notes firmer egg prices with receipts of 6,379. Extra firsts and firsts each show 24 percent, reflecting shifts in current receipts and supply dynamics.
Prices paid Thursday for dairy and eggs include sweet cream at 86 per lb, sour cream at 88 and 31 cents per lb, Brennery brown eggs at 20 cents per dozen, white eggs at 19 cents per dozen, hen and spring chicken weights with rates per pound, and ducks priced per pound or per dozen as listed in the courtesy market column.
Butter markets firm with receipts 7 946 and varied specials from 35 to 36 percent. Poultry market unsettled with leghorns 14 to 18 percent and ducks 14 to 22 percent. Potatoes on track with 168 freight, arrivals 61 and shipments 724.
Chicago markets show mixed corn and yellow and white grain prices with No 4 yellow at 57 to 59 percent and No 4 white at 69 percent. Estimated receipts count 105 cars as of February 1 according to INS.
Richard Arlen leads a sparkling comedy drama opening Sunday at the Fox theater. The film follows three war returnees in London as they roam namelessly seeking identity, with Arlen as a wealthy American pursued by police, alongside Charles McNaughton and Manda Allister in supporting roles.
The Rank McAvoy sale, 2 km southwest of West Chester, has been postponed to Tuesday February 4, 1986.
The report lists bid and ask ranges for grains in Chicago markets on February 1. It covers wheat, corn, oats and rye with figures for May July and Sept contracts, showing minor percentage shifts and closing values.
February report from Noble and Crawfordsville highlights the Ellis Zook Sale near Noble with buyers like Wilbert Roe John D Jones and Ed Springer. Snowbound roads and a busy Fletcher Motor Co. repair scene accompany long journeys and lively bidding among neighbors and local officials.
Paramount star power shines as Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman headline Anything Goes at the State theater. Neither reportedly had formal vocal training before fame, with Crosby rising from a band to radio and film stardom and Merman from stenography to vaudeville and musical films. Both reportedly fear training might alter their distinctive voices.
Dear readers the incubators are full for the first hatch season and heavy breed chicks are favored on the grain belt. New Hampshire chickens are gaining popularity with reports of four pound birds from Iowa and stocks bred to endure harsh winters for large meat birds.
Sioux City teachers and maintenance staff will receive a 10 percent pay raise in their upcoming checks for 540 teachers and 70 maintenance workers. The increase restores most of a prior 25 percent cut, leaving a remaining 5 percent reduction.
Hereford and Angus calves 400 to 500 lbs lambing heifers fat cows and butchers cattle plus milk cows. Bulls included WMereford Shorthorn and Angus. Hogs and sheep include 86 feeding hogs 15 sows to farrow 35 ewes to lamb. Auction by R F Smylie manager with Klotz Duncan as auctioneers. Buyers and sellers urged to attend for a varied sale.
Odd clipping notes New Hampshire fowl hardy and low death rates with brown shelled eggs seen as profitable for midwestern farms. Also appears a period newsletter mix of lodge notices and railroad schedules listing various trains, stops, and agent names in a small town layout.
Solomon Rickner of St. Paul Nebraska celebrates his 115th birthday on February 18. He was too old to serve in the Civil War, highlighting a long life linked to the Townsend old age pension movement.
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