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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1940
Page
7
Chicago markets show light early hog trading with steady to firm asking prices and a weak undertone. Cattle and calves range with yearlings and steers hitting 12.15 while heavy long fed steers run 10.50 to 11.50. vealers rise to 12.50 to 13.58. Sheep are nominal with lambs firm and feeder lambs around 8.40 to 8.50. Iowa fairs report record crowds.
Edith Manning laboring with love and fantasies faces a seaside hotel dilemma. Arthur, favoring Toots Brown and his hot dog adventures, reveals he sold the famed Moaning Lizzie for thirty five dollars. Edith forgives, choosing a swim and breakfast together to salvage their day.
Dr Walter F Rogers reports to the American Chemical Society on corrosion of buried steel pipelines in oil and gas transport. He notes soil volume water content as the key factor, with oil admixed soils becoming highly corrosive. Controlling soil moisture can prevent or promote corrosion in various soils.
Open high low and close values for wheat corn and oats appear with May, July, September contracts. The data includes percent quotes and irregular OCR artifacts but indicates price movements across the grains market in Chicago.
The report lists corn at 59 to 69 percent yellow with three lots and oats showing a mixed 38 and white 41. Soybeans show no sales.
Chicago market note reports firm prices with 6,557 cases receipts. Fresh graded firsts and extra firsts each 21 percent, current receipts 20 percent, dirties 18 percent.
Anna Reany of Cleveland has sent over 1,200 book matches to the Soldiers and Sailors orphanage in Xenia Ohio aiding a growing collection that now includes more than 6,000 varieties.
A compact notice lists numerous weekly and upcoming public sales in Iowa towns. Dates span January to February with bidders and locations such as Kalona Riverside Wellman Wellman Washington and Kalona. Multiple consignors include W Hasglist Carlson Lowe Duroe Knotek Jack Caldwell and Martin Gingerich.
The ad lists dairy and poultry prices with sweet cream at 31 cents per pound for No 1 sour cream 29 cents, No 2 sour cream 24 cents, brown eggs 16 cents, white leghorn eggs 8 cents per dozen, and pullet eggs at 8 cents per dozen.
The United States airmail service began on May 15, 1918, operating along a 215 mile route from Washington to New York.
Tourists K. Domville and G. Skinner woke to a swarm in their Mato pos hotel room in Bulawayo. Bees settled in wardrobes and trunks, hindering the night smoke-out attempt. The pair retrieved some clothing, learned bees were also in their car, and resumed travel after the hotel manager promised to ship remaining clothes once the swarm checked out.
The familiar song of a tiny cricket less than an inch long carries a mile and is produced by the male rubbing his rough wings together over his head rather than by stridulation of legs. The females stay silent as they hear with ears in their forelegs.
After a volcanic eruption in the Rabaul district, an island rose 16 feet above sea level and syringed by pumice ash. Heavy rains later washed ash into the soil, boosting plant growth to higher levels than ever before.
When the moon is full the sun earth and moon align closely producing the highest tides known as spring tides.
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