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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1929
Page
2
Chicago livestock receipts run high with cattle and hogs facing mostly lower bids. Hogs top at 9.00 per cwt on specific loads while cattle show a general steady to slow tone with weights influencing prices. Sheep and other classes appear light with few buyers active in the market.
Iowa farmers show total livestock value of 493 million on January 1, up 75 percent from a year earlier, though animal numbers decreased 2.5 percent. Horses cows cattle and sheep are counted. hogs total around 10.246 million with value per head about 15 dollars. Milk cows and heifers stay near 1.914 million, while sheep numbers reach 1.096 million and total value 13 million.
A lively recap of Dale Darbyshire's sale near Havre with neighbors bidding strongly, plus notes on community gatherings, familiar faces like Charley Warren and Al Horsey, and a casual look at farm sales, horses, cattle, and local humor from the Cedar Falls college crowd. mentions of John Nickerson sale near West Chester and Hiram Coronel gun incident.
Announcement that Chas Marek postponed his public sale to Monday February 4 at 11 00. He is moving to a smaller farm and selling substantial farm machinery and feed ingredients with various price listings and seed market cash quotes for Timothy Alsike and other items.
Martin Jensen, attempting a safe endurance flight from Roosnest Field, was forced to land due to high winds at about 1,000 feet. He started near 10 a.m. and landed shortly before 1 p.m. at Roosnest Field. Eleanor Smith, aiming for a new solo flight record for women, was at Mitchell Field planning to start later this afternoon.
Leeon, who yesterday pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife, starts his first funeral day as a “user,” brought to the state prison after sentence by Fudge Smyth. The prison walls are not new to him.
A sequence of public sale notices across several towns including West Chester and Washington. Names include John Nickerson & son, Chas. Matek, Ernest Carlson, Frank Smith, Pete and Tom, Robert G. Sheets, C L Tobin, W H Buckler, the Herr farms, and Busby & Payne. Locations range from NE of Washing ton to near Keota and Ainsworth with dates in February and early March.
An old advertisement promotes Fletcher's Castoria as a safe vegetable remedy for colic, feverish babies, constipation, and upset stomachs. It asserts no harmful drugs and urges avoiding imitations while noting the Fletcher signature.
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