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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
7
Classified listing offering a 1932 Chevrolet truck by IL L. W. B. with five new tires and all A-11 shape. Contact after 6 PM at 286t2eo0d.
January reports recall Bert Dickinson and county home assistant shoeing mules with sacks as they arrived in town. A dramatic incident near a water tank involved ashes causing a mule to slip. Ott Patterson funeral drew hundreds. Rev Klein delivered the sermon with services listed by Rev Atack. Town notes praise Sampsons, Juzelers, Witthoft, and local merchants. layer of community updates on roads, horses, and farm activity.
In Dublin on January 14 four Center school pupils are shown taking tests at New Haven School on Wednesday. Named students include Clarence Randall Jr Victor Mayer and Marian Hotle with H J Mangold Junior as well as other local families mentioned in a community report. Local residents, including Mrs D C Robertson and Mrs Jake Seethout, are noted at home visits and gatherings.
Soybean trading shows May and July contracts edging higher with small gains. May price opens at 1.61, July at 1.60, each up 1.58 percent from prior values.
Chicago markets report 16,000 hogs sold including 3,500 direct with overall steady tone from yesterday. Top price 10.50 for 180 to 300 pounds. 150 to 170 pound hogs priced 9.85 to 10.80 with lows 9.65 to 9.90. Estimated receipts for today noted.
Cattle 10 000 steady calves 500 steady beef steers 14 25 to 10 0 mediums 7.00 to 11.00 yearlings 9.00 to 14.40 butcher cattle heifers 5.00 to 12.00 cows 4.75 to 8.00 bulls 4.50 to 7.00 calves 5.00 to 13.00 feeder steers 5.00 to 9.25 stocker steers 5.00 to 9.00 stocker cows and heifers 4.75 to 7.25 Sheep 7 000 steady lambs 10.00 to 10.60 commons 8.00 to 10.00 yearlings 8.00 to 9.50 ewes 3.50 to 6.25 feeders 8.50 to 9.50.
Chicago markets show steady butter and produce with varied receipts. Poultry prices remain unsettled with ranges for springers broilers ducks geese and turkeys reported. Potatoes show on track arrivals and shipments against recent totals.
Chicago grain bulletin lists futures prices for wheat corn oats and rye with May July and Sept contracts. Prices include May wheat at 1.34 and 1.32 percent figures, corn May at 1.12, oats May around 54, rye May at 1.12 percent, reflecting mixed gains and losses across contracts.
A brief financial snippet lists July 1 data showing 1.03 percent, with 1.01 and 0.91 percent readings for September and related periods.
Chicago market notes show mixed and yellow corn across grades with No. 4 mixed at 109 and 114 percent, No. 3 yellow at 111 to 114, No. 4 yellow 108 to 112, No. 3 yellow 105 to 107, No. 3 white 114, No. 4 white 113, No. 5 white 108, sample grade 103 to 104 percent.
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