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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1929
Page
2
Hog sales total 21 000 with 7 000 directs and top at 11 50 as the market stayed firm to 10 cents higher. Cattle volume 6 500 calves 2 500 with better fed steers and yearlings up to 25 cents. slaughter steers priced 1350 to 1615 for various weights. Sheep market active 10 000 with native lambs 1475 to 1515 and fat ewes at 600 to 675, feeder lambs and cull ranges noted.
A nineteenth century advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for constipation and related ailments. It touts plant laxatives like senna, pepsin, and mild herbs as safe for all ages, including babies, and claims the remedy is gentle, non narcotic, and long lasting for family use.
The bulletin lists outbreaks and notices from Grace Hill, Titus, Keystone and numerous Iowa towns. It details act of sheep infestation from nose fly affecting sheep and preventative tar-based treatments, plus other animal diseases across several counties and farms.
Grain quotations from Toledo and Chicago show varied shifts in old and new prices across forage and cereal categories. Wheat, oats, rye, timothy, barley, and clover list minor adjustments with ranges reflecting grade and quality, while old and new values appear for several items.
Readable notes describe The Dummy at Graham Theatre two days starting today with Chatt Thang stage stars and an emphasis on a kidnapping plot told through talkie format. Dolores Costello leads The Glad Rag Doll at Fox Theatre for three days with Vitaphone dialogue and a mix of comedy and drama.
A note on July 1 marks Joe McCormick stepping down as state secretary of the Knights of Columns after eleven years of service. He reportedly attends the banquet table weekly since 1918, with plans to possibly return to newspaper work. A separate line reports a 30-year-old boilermaker killed after being brushed from a locomotive beneath a trestle near Reaver and Andre, Albert.
July 3 UP Delaware County voters approved a 500000 road bond to supplement a prior 850000 issue and 18000 remaining from the first bond, to fund paving on Way 13 Breaks Neck Pall Ames. Robert McGee, 24, died after a fall at his home in Ames.
Seventeen year old Colburn ran away from near Marshall Michigan to ride the trains to Chicago to see his mother, a divorcee. He was saved from a red grave when caring brothers in the Boy Scouts intervened. The youth had been buried by time and the Grand Trunk right of way near his mother’s home, 21 days after his death.
Des Moines reports a shortly after close of business June 2 a statement from LALA, the state superintendent, concerning all state banking and savings conditions. The note mentions ink and condition of all state affairs in town as of June 2.
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