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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1939
Page
7
Elie Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, spent much of his patent years defending rights. He then left gin manufacturing and opened a firearms factory at Whitneyville, Connecticut, which achieved notable success. He later profited from the cotton gin affair.
Journal subscription representative D F Macon reports quick notes from nearby towns. updates include brief arrivals, local meetings, and small events shaping community activities.
January reports a busy Crawfordsville sale by J. T. Stewart with broad participation from locals and visitors. Ted Herr bought heavily, Kennedy McCoats clerked for Crawfordsville bank, Legion crew served lunch, and Mrs. Stewart led a fine sale dinner. Subscriptions and mail activity noted as readers renew for the county daily Evening Journal.
Washington resident J Pauly of R 2 near Walnut shops in town. I K McCleland of Wellman changes Journal route to Tipton Iowa. J H Thompson of Kepta R 3 visits mall in Journal. M N White of Columbus congratulates the county on its only daily and thanks readers.
Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama oversees the annual end of holiday furloughs with several hundred convicts resuming duties after returning by train and foot. Final checks on good behavior parolees will take days. A Wheeling West Virginia police plan to form boy scout units from juvenile delinquents aims to reduce juvenile crime.
A column lists multiple closing out sales and public auctions across Iowa towns from January to February, detailing dates, approximate locations, and selling agents such as Beauchamp Son, Huston, Matthess, Rotenberger, Brenneman, Caldwell, and Hotle. Locations include Kalona, Wyman, Winfield, Crawfordsville, Wellman, Washington, Richmond, Riverside, Dublin, and Columbus with times around mornings.
Chicago markets report 13 000 hogs mostly 10 to 20 cents higher with top at 7.80 and good hogs 160 to 210 pounds at 7 60 to 7 80. Cattle strong with steers and yearlings up about 20 cents and tops at 12 65 with several loads 13 00 to 13 60. Sheep weak to steady as lambs hold above 9 26 while ewes sell around 4 0. Estimated tomorrow receipts: cattle 5 000 hogs 26 000 sheep 16 000.
Chicago January market report shows butter steady with 720 875 receipts crossing auction floors. Eggs unsettled amid 12 491 receipts while poultry holdings stay steady with varied quotes for ducks geese hens leghorn hens spring chicks and turkeys. Potatoes see 369 on track and 637 shipments.
The Chicago grain table lists Wheat and Corn quotes with May July and Sept contracts. Open high low and close values appear for May wheat around mid 60s with July and Sept showing 69 to 70 ranges. Corn shows mixed fractions and similar ranges across months with scarcity of clear consistency in the OCR data.
Report lists moisture and grade notes for wheat, corn, oats, and soybeans with various color codes and percentages. Highlights include wheat red and hard percentages, corn yellow ranges, oats mixed and white samples, and a soybeans yellow indication. Also notes corn receipts at 68 care.
The article recounts Anne Hutchinson's 1637 trial for heresy in Massachusetts Bay and banishment for challenging Puritan authority. It portrays her as a pioneering defender of religious liberty and feminism, linking her meetings to early women’s clubs and noting her life in Rhode Island and New York.
Europe centers on aromatic crops as Bulgaria expands rose fields, southern France grows violets, and England increasingly markets lavender. The shift reflects perfumery demand and regional specialization shaping agricultural patterns.
The British battleship Re puls e in Portsmouth England is being prepared to carry the king and queen across the Atlantic in May for a royal visit to the United States and Canada.
Travelers label a perilous route over the Himalaya and Karakoram between Turkestan and India as the world’s worst. The road climbs to 3000 feet, traverses rocky edges and precipices, and is barely a yard wide. Caravans from Mi, capital of Takestan, fear losing about 40 animals per trip.
Whittaker and Son announce an early sale featuring 700 head of stock including heavy springers Guernsey and Brown Swiss cows, fat cows and heifers, stock cows and calves, bulls, hogs of various kinds, 125 bred ewes with lambs, horses, pine lumber and other farm goods. Bring cheap calves for a strong market and be here early.
A writer in Pearson's London Weekly argues the forked tongue is harmless and used for sensing vibrations. It explains the tongue can shoot out even with the mouth closed through grooves, debunking fears of stings or poison.
Florence A. Cowles notes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Clinton is a Teutonic origin surname linked to both sides of the American Revolution. Sir Henry Clinton, son of Admiral George Clinton, was a British general and Gibraltar governor. George Clinton led colonial resistance, became New York governor and U.S. vice president, with James Clinton commanding Fort Clinton. DeWitt Clinton, James’s son, later became New York governor.
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