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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
7
A historical note states that one fifth of the continental United States is owned by the federal government. It highlights federal land ownership across multiple western regions and implies extensive public domain.
Iowa insurers reported selling 2160 farms since 1939 totaling acreage equal to an average county and priced near 79 dollars per acre. Dirt farmers bought over half, with the rest going to businessmen and investors as land sales look strong into next year barring a national slump.
Chicago markets report for January 4 lists hogs at 5.85 top for 150 to 220 lb, with many weight ranges down 10 to 15 cents. Cattle numbers midweek include 5,000 head with yearlings steady and steers easing, cows strong to 15 cents higher, vealers down 25 to 60 cents, and beef cows at 6.00 to 7.00. Sheep 12,000 head. fat lambs 10 to 15 cents lower with some bids 25 cents off, natives steady, and tomorrow’s receipts forecast at cattle 1,000 hogs 12,000 sheep 6,000.
Journal sale date column lists Midway Sale Co in Columbus Junction every Wednesday and a Community Sale every Friday at City Feed Yard. Closing out sales include Jan 10 near Washington, Jan 18 by Milt Sejka, and H D Wentworth near Brighton and Washington on highway No. 4.
DES MOINES Jan 4 The six representative citizens named to the national youth administration advisory committee for Washington include O K Sebmitt Albert Simpson Dr O F Boller Harvey K Wilson A E Atchison and Rev C W Klein They will aid NYA efforts to train and place unemployed youths 18 to 24 in work projects in Washington County NYA projects currently employ 45 youths with 32 more to start Information and applications are available from NYA supervisor Robert T McKay Fairfield district manager Arthur L Kirby and county welfare official Martha Foster
Don Rooks drives a Model H from Lincoln to Grand Junction posting from Exeter on Tuesday. He notes average speeds around sixteen to twenty miles per hour, favorable handling, and growing attention as he navigates stop signs and traffic. The report was sent to Smart & Parrish, local implement dealers.
Open high low and close prices listed for wheat corn oats and rye with May July and September contracts. Wheat gains hover around 1.05 to 1.06, corn steady near 59 to 60, oats around 35 to 40 percent, rye near 74 to 76 percent in early trading.
Cash grain bids listing corn with mixed lots from 60 to 65 price range and 58 to 60 for yellow varieties, oats showing mixed white quotations, and soybeans at 1.19 with a yellow lot noted. The report preserves multiple color coded grade notes and percentages.
Chicago produce notes unsettled market with receipts of 9 894 cases and mixed firsts and gilded lots while current receipts total 17 crates and poultry market shows weakness. Poultry receipts include 41 trucks with varied counts for ducks geese hens leghorn hens spring chickens young turkeys and capons in wide ranges.
The word chess derives from the Persian term shah meaning king and entered English via medieval routes. This linguistic note traces the game's roots to ancient Persia and its spread through Silk Road cultures influencing modern play.
A professor, his wife, and daughter Pat navigate a comic scene as the father signs up with a dubious suit club. A sharp-eyed visitor exposes the scam, confirming the professor’s cautious judgment and restoring Pat’s faith in their father.
The smallest state in the Union is described as having the longest official name, officially titled the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Dr. R. H. Porter of Iowa State College urges farmers and dealers to send seed samples early for testing ahead of February and March rush. The seed lab offers purity, weed seed, germination, disease, variety identification, weed and crop disease identifications free of charge, with a 25 cent service fee for analyses. samples should be 4 ounces for small seeds and up to 1 pound for large crops, mailed to Botany Hall Ames Iowa or via county farm bureau.
In Waterloo motorists and pedestrians joined in a hog chase after a stock truck and a beverage truck collided. Thirty percent of the hogs escaped into a residential area before all were captured. Duane Lumley of Hampton drove the stock truck and M L Lockhart drove the beverage truck which police say double parked during delivery.
Sioux City Arthur Muther 39, an A F L union trucker, paid a $10 fine after conviction for assault and battery linked to a violence strike against coal merchants. Witness Walter Leach testified Muther hurled a rock through a truck cab window and dumped coal into the street.
Sonny Boy the two month old Boston terrier belonging to Mrs Roy Hansing and her daughter Dorothy damaged a floor lamp cord. The dog bit the cord and created a live 110 volt connection, causing an anguished wail in the Hansing home.
Nicholas Dozenberg alleged No. 2 Communist in the U S waived extradition after arrest in Bend Oregon. He was brought to the federal building in Portland and now faces remand to New York federal authorities.
The text notes AAA grant effects with 1940 program rate changes enabling soil-building practices and tree planting. It mentions lime usage in 1929 and large 1930s outputs, plus marketing quotas adoption by cotton growers and government loan implications for corn 1937 1938. It highlights world wheat supply in 1929 and large corn reserves tied to loans.
Sac City and eight neighboring counties approved a program to equalize personal property valuations for 1940. Officials cited wide variances in valuations and set a uniform livestock value scale. They also addressed tractors, adopting a depreciation of 20 percent annually and assessing at 60 percent of price.
Details of Washington Lodge No. 26 regular meeting times with officers, and a long list of daily train stops and schedules from several lines including Golden State Limited and California trains. Bus routes from Washington to Chicago are noted with ticket purchase points.
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