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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1929
Page
2
Market mixed with light weights under 200 pounds mostly steady while heavy weights drop 19 to 10 cents. Friday’s average 960 top on a 194 pound load. Cattle receipts about 200 calves 200. steers and yearlings 25 to 75 higher, bulk fat steers 1,150 to 1,225 with season’s new low prices. heavy weights and heifers down 25 to 40 cents and dealers down 100 to 160.
The report bundles farm market data with weather notes for early January 1929 in California. It cites sheep fat lambs and fat ewes prices, feeding lambs, yearlings, and bulk prices for fat lambs and yearlings, then shifts to Jan weather temperatures and a cold snap with drifting snow. It also mentions seed market prices for clover and timothy, a sale at the Freshwaters and Gates farm near Kingston, and ancillary local anecdotes about horses, cattle, and a courthouse quip about a Pennsylvania inmate.
Market report lists prices for hens and pallets per pound, leghorn roosters from 1928 hatch, and heavy ducks per pound. Mentions no market for stock hides or pantry delivered, and notes reet horse hides per pound with higher pay for pantry. Some garbled text remains.
Columbus Junction high school basketball teams defeated Wapello on Friday. First teams won 34 to 17 and second teams 22 to 20. Junction expects games at Letts Tuesday evening. Funeral services announced for Isaiah Gipple, 58, Civil War veteran of Grandview community. Also services for Christian Blauer, 86, planned for Saturday at Grandview church.
A mixture of farm and public sale notices shows December through February closing out sales. Entries include Clarence Rathmel near Washington, Dale M Darbyshire southwest of Havre, Joe Wolfe near Letts, Nickerson & son near West Chester, Earnest Carlson northwest of Washington, Mrs. Frank Smith near Wellston, Pete Bordo farm sale, Robert Sheetz versus James Edmonson near Kenta, L Tobin Ammsworthy, and W H Buckler northwest of Washington.
For sale wood posts and anchors braces and hardware. New Buerkens pobsleds priced at 25 dollars. Telephone 264 blue. Nearby note mentions Mrs. Jacob Lieberknecht sister of the deceased after extended illness near the junction Tuesday.
Quote by G. D. Eaton in Main Talk Magazine contrasts science as solving for X from A and B with religion as expressing the unknown in terms of itself. It frames science as an algebraic problem and religion as a moral approach.
A reflective editorial extols the local home newspaper as a town’s best ally promoting progress, public improvements, and community unity. It defends editors as community leaders delivering responsible coverage without pandering for dollars, and questions honoring the paper with a statue.
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