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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 01, 1938

Page

5

One-Room Lots Closeout and Beauty Services Ad

Classified brief offering bargain one-room lots for sale with measurements urged at Phillips and Hebner. Also includes Globe Beauty Shop advert for shampoo and finger wave services and Washington Oil winter lubricant note. Also lists a team of three-year-old mares with foal at Earl Red linger in Haskins.

Phillips & Hebner Globe Beauty Shop Earl Redlinger Haskins Midway Sale CO R. F. Smylie Met Phone Klotz Duncan Dunlap

Chicago Markets Hogs Lead With Mixed Prices and Declines

Markets Chicago Feb 1 hogs 28 000 with 5 000 direct uneven mostly 25 cents lower than Monday top 8 75 150 200 lbs 8 56 to 8 70 210 250 lbs 7 90 to 8 50 270 325 lbs 7 40 to 7 75 packing sows 15 cents or more lower estimated receipts tomorrow cattle 8 000 steady calves 2 000 steady beef steers 8 00 to 11 00 mediums 6 00 to 8 00 yearlings 6 50 to 11 00 butcher cattle steers 5 50 to 8 00 stocker steers 5 00 to 7 75 stocker cows and heifers 4 50 to 6 50 sheep 14 000 lambs 7 50 to 8 00 commons 6 59 7 50 yearlings 6 50 to 7 25 ewes 3 00 to 4 00 feeders 7 00 to 7 75 6

Chicago

Indians and Citizenship Rule for Native Voters

An Indian is not a citizen and cannot vote while he remains a member of his tribe. An Indian may take an oath of allegiance and become a citizen. The Fourteenth Amendment language is not seen as broad enough to include Indians.

Chicago Produce Prices and Receipts Report

Chicago markets report steady to easy prices across eggs butter and poultry. Egg receipts total 11 278 cases with extra firsts around 18 19 percent and dirties at 17 percent. Butter market steady with extras at 33 percent and firsts at 20 percent. Poultry markets show broilers ducks geese and turkeys with varied percent ranges and roosters at 14 to 15 percent.

Chicago

Coal Varieties Mined in the United States

The article lists coal types from graphite to true anthracite and varieties like bituminous lignites and peat deposits. It notes that almost all anthracite is found in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania

Weekly Farm Auction Dates In Washington Area

The Journal lists sales and auctions around Washington with events at Negus Livestock Auction Mil waukee yards Midway Sale for Columbus Junction and Community Sale on Fridays at City Feed Yard. Closing out sales occur Feb 8 Feb 7 Feb 10 with sellers including Jon McGraw Mrs Fred Havel Maurice Willson and others near Washington Riverside Havel Homestead Ainsworth Motley Gale and state theatre Farm show and John Deere Day listed.

Negus Livestock Washington Milwaukee Yards Columbu Junction City Washington Riverside Walter Reed Jon McGraw Riverside Havel Fred Havel Negus Brothers Maurice Willson Gale Y Mile North Ainsworth Motley McCormick Deering Store State Theatre Farmers Implement John Deere

Surprising traffic woes hit Washington early Monday

Reports from Wash ington describe bad dangerous roads all morning and into the day. Amos Stout of Brighton R. 2 notes the poor conditions widely. Cars are often on chains. A note from Christian Union Herald shares light humor amid the travel disruption. Joe Schlatter, son Max, Harry Jones, and P. P. Graber came to Washington for various needs, with Graber there for jury duty and Jones returning by Burlington train.

Washington Joe Schlatter Max Harry Jones P. P. Graber Crawfordsville Mr. Graber Burlington

Magnolia closes petals under artificial light experiment

Investigators found that the magnolia cannot be kept awake by artificial light. The flower in a lit room closed its petals at darkness and opened again with daylight. Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd of Ainsworth, C. W. Soukup R.1.

James Boyd Ainsworth C. W

Grain table highlights sharp moves on Chicago exchanges

Chicago grain prices show May and July wheat trading around 93 to 89 percent, with September at 88 to 89. Corn ranges from 58 to 60 percent across May July and September contracts. Oats hover near 31 to 33 percent, rye from 69 to 74 percent, reflecting mixed gains and dips across contracts.

Chicago

Weather and grain sample readouts from Chicago market report

A Chicago market summary shows mixed quality grain readings from Feb 1 to 4 with quantities running from No 5 mixed to No 34 yellow and No 4 yellow. Prices range from 52 to 56 percent across colors and grades with a sample grade around 11 to 52 percent and estimated car lots at 94.

Chicago

SOYBHAN MARKET May Update

Market note shows soy futures trading between 1.04 and 1.06 with limited variation. Data point includes May figures at 1.0444, 1.06, and 1.04 percent indicators.

Island of Trinidad Seen as Part of South American Prehistory

The island of Trinidad is believed to have formed part of the South American continent in prehistoric times, suggesting a shared geological origin with the continent.

Island of Trinidad

Czech Post Marks Letters as Strictly Personal

The Czech post office uses a triangular stamp to designate love letters as strictly personal. Stamped letters may be handed only to the addressee, ensuring privacy for private correspondence.

Poultry and Egg Prices From W. B. Reister & Sons Catalog

The notice lists prices for sour cream eggs and poultry grades from W. B. Reister & Sons. It covers No. 1 and No. 2 sour cream, several egg types by size, hens and pullets by weight, roosters and leghorn varieties, and ducks geese. A delivery rate to the planting site is noted with culling policies for faulty poultry.

Reister & Sons Leghorn

Keota and Verdi Residents Report Poor Roads

Mr and Mrs Curtis Snider of Keota R 2 traveled here and reported pavement and other roads were not good. Mr and Mrs Ralph Chorpening near Verdi arrived without chains and Jim Baird said sanding the road helped reach town.

Curtis Snider Keota R. 2 Ralph Chorpening Near Verdi Jim Baird

Vanity mare stalls at puddles and vanity

A humorous quip notes a rider praising a new mare while lamenting a wish to own a horse. The joke hinges on the horse stopping to admire itself in puddles, highlighting comic vanity.

Gillette Go Barber Quips About Razor Slump

A vaudeville style exchange lampoons a barber and razor sales, with the victim noting the razor is taking hold but won't let go, highlighting a humorous contusion of stubborn blade sales.

Gillette Barber Razor Holt

Funeral for Mrs. J. A. Jones Draws Relatives Far and Wide

Relatives and friends from Cotter Columbus Junction and nearby communities travel to Jones funeral home for Mrs. J. A. Jones. Rev Eastwood delivers a sermon as pallbearers recall a dangerous pavement on the way to Washington amid a sunny cold day. A schoolteacher’s goldfish joke lights a brief classroom moment.

Cotter Columbus Junction Chicago J. A. Jones Jones Funeral Eastwood R. L. Richard Washington

Harvard Finds 60 Million Year Old Amber Insects

Harvard scientists date the prehistoric insects trapped in amber at sixty million years, placing them among the oldest known life forms on Earth.

Harvard

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