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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1932
Page
2
Hog prices rose 5 to 10 cents with light weights at 5.25 and 5.00 to 5.10. Cattle receipts 12,000 with higher asks for grain fed steers and cows. stockers and feeders slow. Lambs up 25 to 26 cents, best values 6.00 to 6.75. cattle and sheep totals listed with ranges for beef steers, cows, calves, and yearlings. Eastern shippers showed strong demand for hogs.
Combined hog receipts at interior Iowa and southern Minnesota yards and packing plants totaled 34 900 for the 72 hog period ending 8:00 A. M. today. Demand remained active with gains of up to 10 cents and prices quoted across weight classes from light to heavy, including packing sows and pigs.
Chicago market notes show butter prices at 15.987 tubs with extras and standards at 16, eggs at 17.155 cases and various gradings for creamery products, cheese types, live poultry and ducks, potatoes at 265 cars with new and old splits, and regional shipments including southern bliss and cobblers with prices listed for multiple grades and categories.
Grain receipts listed with Wheat 26 cars Corn 5 and 7 care Oats 6 cars at Chicago Cash Grain in Chicago dated July.
Baseball action on Independence Day features fights between Bill Dickey Carl Reynolds Marvin Gudat and Floyd Vaughan as Yankees Cubs Pirates Senators clash. Washington and Pittsburgh take wins to move teams in both leagues. Detroit and Philadelphia also impact standings amid rainouts and heat. Grain and feed prices accompany the sports notes.
Open high low and close figures for WHEAT CORN OATS and RYE appear with July and September positions. The report notes Empire State cow cat population estimates and a figure of about 7 000 in New York state.
Local digest from our subscription representative D F Macon covers brief items from nearby communities. It highlights notable happenings, arrivals, and community notices with concise, period-appropriate tone.
Local column records numerous visitors from nearby towns including Ainsworth Fairfield Keota West Chester Gary Ind and Chicago. It spots crop progress and unusually heavy rain with sunflowers and moss noted. The piece mentions Horace Whorley roasting ears and a trip by Harry Macon and Donald Goodin to California for the Olympic Games.
Fritz Minick of Cedar Rapids is visiting home folks as the creek west of town runs bank full this Tuesday morning.
Washington County announces 175 students who achieved perfect attendance in the rural schools for the year ending in May. Names are listed by township and include both boys and girls recognized by county superintendent Mrs. Winnie Palmer.
For sale cabbage for kraut at 1.00 per hundred. Call 476.12105. George Fitizmaurice responsible for cinema projects as Mad Hari Strangers May Kiss and Garbo film. William Daniels photographed the pictures.velar costumes by Gilbers Adien.
Irvin Mefford an 18 year old Bussey farm youth surrendered to police and was charged with murder in the death of his father Suel Mefford 52. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment and a July 8 preliminary hearing was set with bond at 2008 dollars. The suspect said his father drank and threatened the family and he shot him as he slept. A coroner's inquest was expected to be held Monday.
Greta Garbo heads the screen version of Ivgi Pirane stro play As You Desire Me, marking her seventeenth U S film and near end of six years on screen since 1926. State Theater opens the two day engagement amid a long list of local cast and township residents in the surrounding credits.
A filing in Washington Iowa seeks probate of the last will of Elizabeth Nottenfield, deceased, dated June 5 1911. The hearing is set for July 16 1932 at 9:00 AM in the Washington County District Court. Interested parties must appear to show cause why the instrument should not be probated.
A tornado ripped through Washington Kansas during the Independence Day celebration killing at least three people and injuring more than twenty. Doctors and volunteers rushed to aid as rescue crews dug through ruins of over 100 homes and businesses amid continuing fears of higher fatalities.
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