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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1940
Page
7
During a Fredonia Kansas municipal band concert Brice Pulghum blew a trumpet note that sparked a wasp into flight causing the performance to end unexpectedly. No injuries reported and the audience remained.
The notice promotes economical winter air conditioning and automatic heat systems from Green Colonial dealers Ey eready Plumbing & Heating. It offers customized installations, easy terms, and delivery services by Green Foundry & Furnace Works in Des Moines. Cal cium tests priced at $74. Hayes Bros. listed with contact numbers.
Advertising notices list various closing out sales and public auctions across Iowa towns led by dates from January to February. Entries name sellers such as F W Hagist H D Wentworth Herman Koenig Carlson Lowe Duroe Knotek Wells Coppock Martin Gingerich and Walter Duvall with locations near Kalona Washington Wellman Riverside Wellman and West Chester.
Prices paid Saturday for dairy and eggs at Reister's Markets include Sweet Cream No 1 Sour Cream 29 per pound No 2 Sour Cream 21/2 per pound and Brown Eggs 16 per dozen Hennery White Eggs the dozen 9 cents plus Henery Pullet Eggs and other items listed.
Adele a stenographer in the downtown district budgets seven dollars weekly to her mother and ten to clothes, then plunges on a gray dress. She attends a high class show with a mysterious admirer, Richard Benton Crowly of Crowly Steel, and pretends to be wealthy.
KRKO in Everett Washington operates at 50 watts making it likely the smallest licensed radio station in the United States. The modest power level reflects a compact facility serving the local area.
Adele recalls a late night with a bluffer who vanished into wealth and sport. A year later a Sunday photo links Richard Denton Crowly, polo expert and Crowly steel heir, to ongoing engagement rumors with Miss June Haviland.
Ancient Richland in Bucks County grew from The Great Swamp era with a dirt main street and limited books. By 1788 locals funded a library aiming to serve 21 subscribers, paying 20 shillings each, electing directors and a librarian to acquire volumes. The piece notes early education efforts and a long uninterrupted lineage.
The motion picture Birth of a Nation premiered at the Liberty Theater in New York City on March 3, 1915.
Markets report Chicago hogs with 7,000 head, prices 5.55 to 6.65 for various weights. Cattle activity with 5,600 head, steers 7.25 to 9.00, cows 4.25 to 6.50. Sheep 9,000 head, lambs 9.00 to 9.40, yearlings 8.40, ewes 4.25 to 4.75. Estimated tomorrow: cattle 100, hogs 200, sheep 1,000.
The Chicago grain table for January 19 shows Wheat May at 1.01 to 1.02 range, Corn May around 58 percent, and Oats May near 39 percent. Rye figures appear fluctuating with May around 0.71 to 0.72, reflecting market variations across futures contracts.
Chicago cash grain quotes show corn ranges with color notes and percentages in the 60s, oats with mixed and white entries around 42 to 43 percent, and soybeans quoted with two yellow levels near 1.12 and 1.11 to 1.12 percent. The report lists multiple lots and price bands across corn oats and soybeans.
Chicago markets show firm eggs with 6 817 cases received including fresh grade A extra firsts at 21 and current receipts 20 dirties 158. Poultry market steady with 10 truckloads received and no price changes noted.
Mrs. F A Jarrett of Sapulpa Oklahoma was thrown against a kitchen table when a lightning bolt struck her residence. In the moment a cabinet door tore free a stack of silver tarnished an electric clock burned from the wall and plumbing pipes were blackened.
Archaeologists uncover a treasure store at Delphi dating to the mid sixth century B C. Finds include votive offerings and a delicate ivory statue overlaid with gold, highlighting a remarkable ancient craft at the Oracle of Apollo site.
The Bolivar county seat shifted from its roots to a river flatboat that delivered justice to the people on the Mississippi during early county governance, highlighting frontier access to law outside formal courts and seats of justice.
The project in California estimates the relocation of railroad trackage to cost 17.5 million dollars due to flooding from the new Shasta dam. This amount covers rerouting tracks and related infrastructure to protect rail service after the dam's water rise.
Sleep-walking transient James Tyte, 21, roamed nearly seven blocks barefoot in 19 below cold. He ended up at the police station under guard after a polar bear remark by Police Chief Ray J Mahr. Tyte is recovering without ill effects from the barefoot trek starting at the Heliness Mission hotel.
In Des Moines Iowa state and federal office workers will be examples in paying income taxes with promptness. Officials say federal employees risk losing their jobs if they are negligent about paying taxes, marking a new experience for many workers.
Travelers place the German Riviera at Honnef near Bonn along the Rhine. They say Ah has the best climate in Germany and enjoys spring two weeks earlier than the rest of the country.
In Greece a visitor may buy a ticket costing less than a dollar to enter most national museums and also visit the Acropolis and archaeological sites of Athens Piraeus and Eleusis.
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