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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1930
Page
2
U S Department of Agriculture notes cattle and hog totals with bid ranges for multiple weights. Hog sales opened up 25 and moved 25 to 350 higher with top at 10.00, cattle and calves steady though heavy steers slow, vealers and stockers showing varied bids, sheep market steady to firm with fat lambs and feeder lambs priced.
The market shows wheat, corn, oats, rye and lard with varied front and deferred bids. Wheat ranges around 1.24 to 1.31 while corn hovers near 0.92 to 0.97. oats stay around 0.47 to 0.48. rye clips near 1.01 to 1.02. lard trades from 10.35 to 10.80 across January to May contracts.
Murray’s Oxford dictionary notes literature derives from Latin litteratura, via French litterature, from littera meaning a letter. The term appears as literatour in 1375 and in its current form first in the Wyntoun Cronicle in 1425.
A quotation attributed to Mile de Seuderi notes that virtue not attacked by temptation earns no monument, emphasizing a paradox about moral worth and public recognition.
A Keota couple recovers the Evening Journal after misplacing it on January 4 1939. They recount trips to Rubio for Mrs Scearceys sale with Ed Wells and L U B Luthly, noting brisk bidding on harness hay and equipment and local scenes of community support.
In a humorous column fragment readers encounter puns and name changes that sparked laughter, including misread words at a horse sale and a joke about a man seeking life insurance after his parents’ deaths. The piece mentions a closing sale date and places Ainsworth and Havre as reference points.
In Columbus Junction Iowa on January 13 officers for the Sunday school of the Methodist church were elected with Helmick as superintendent and S S Orris as assistant superintendent. The Louisa County National Bank holds its annual stockholders meeting Tuesday afternoon. Columbus Junction high school teams defeated Morning Sun 28 to 13 and 24 to 19. Local clergy and residents, including Richard Chambers and families, are noted for church services and new births. Ralph Utter reports 1929 creameries gain and Cotter shipping association to elect officers on January 24. Russell Reece recovering from surgery in Moline Illinois.
A Bronte quotation emphasizes that prejudice is hardest to remove when education has not been applied to the heart. The saying suggests soil prepared by education loosens and deters biases, likening prejudice to stubborn weeds.
The United States battleship Wyoming achieved 22 045 knots on a standardization trial on July 19 1912 making it the largest and fastest battleship afloat at the time armed with twelve inch guns and reflecting its status as a premier dreadnought in naval history.
A Boston Herald remark ponders why humans first adopted clothing and why tattooing emerged, suggesting future scientific explanations could illuminate these stylistic shifts in early society.
Prices for cream butter fat per pound 30 cents and various poultry items per dozen or pound including fresh Taid eggs and Leghorn hens. Leghorn hens under and over four pounds priced per pound with springs and old roosters listed. Hides for cattle horses ponies priced per unit with note no market for sick or crippled poultry.
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