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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1930
Page
2
Chicago markets show hogs at 35 600 head with direct sales 13 000, prices up to 10 11 50 for 160 220 lb bulk and 240 300 lb at 10 06 10 30. Cattle and calves total 6 500 with 2 500 calves, market details summarized from U S Department of Agriculture data.
An advertisement touts Marmola tablets as a modern, gland targeted method to end excess fat without exercise or diet. Claiming 22 years of use and millions of boxes sold, it urges readers to try Marmola at a dollar a box and notes the formula and results on the box.
Better grade fed steers and yearlings hold steady on shipper accounts while other grades lag. Vealers fall, slaughter classes mixed with steers and heifers uneven. Cows and bulls show wide ranges, stocker and feeder entries hover near 10.50 to 11.60 for good and choice steers. Sheep market very slow with lambs 12.25 to 13.85 and ewes 3.06 to 7.50.
Market notes show clover seed at 10.95 in cash and 11.05 for new cash terms. Dates listed include January 11 and February entries as part of ongoing price records.
The fragment lists various cash figures labeled as Timothy Alsike and March values. Entries include imported cash, old and new cash amounts, with March and February references, but no clear transactions or entities beyond amounts and month markers.
Grain and corn markets show varied moves with wheat around 2 and 4 mixed readings, corn mixed in 78 to 81 range, and yellow corn noted in multiple 79 levels. Traders monitor futures as prices swing amid unsettled supply expectations.
Mr Proudfit and family of Manchester Iowa visited Washington and observed 93 miles of roads in fine shape. He says he sold over 8000 sandwiches last Saturday at his Hamburger Inn in his hometown.
Alabama authorizes about 73 million for hard road construction in the west and south west. The distribution lists several state allocations such as 1.6 to 3.5 million to various areas and states including Connecticut Michigan Minnesota Iowa Illinois West Virginia and more. Local remarks mention a car discovery date and residents Alvin C. Hasty and Ed Hotle arriving with a daughter from a Washington school.
The passage records neighbors and visitors in town, including Alvin Hasty, Carl Zieglowsky, Albert and his mother, Fred Zieglowsky, and Mrs. Jim Stewart, with notes on hospital visits and social rounds. It mentions Dan Griffith selling a horse, Eddie Bopp buying top stock at Whittaker Feed Yard, and Ray Perry arranging a sale next week. It also advertises dairy cattle sales Warner and Keyser and an upcoming sale ad.
The nation gears up for the 1930 census with 574 supervisors needed nationwide and 100000 enumerators to be employed. Each enumerator will visit households and ask personal questions as part of the count.
A musical instructor asks for the world's greatest composer and a student replies with a dark pun about chloroform revealing a macabre humor from a dated joke exchange.
A nurse informs a reviving patient that his appendix pancreas and spleen were removed while a speaker quips about seeking whiskey. The prose shifts to commentary on snow creating moisture noting ten inches of snow yield one inch of water.
The report lists commodity price ranges for corn white oats rye barley timothy and clover with sample grades. It shows yellow corn values 7714 to 7912 and 75 to 771 percent, white corn 8415 to 8216 and 77, oats white 45 to 4514 4414 to 45 and 43, rye none, barley 57 to 71, timothy 54 to 645, clover 1100 to 1850.
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