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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1930
Page
2
Receipts and price ranges for cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, and grains. Slaughter cattle top around 11.00 with steady demand. hogs 9.50 to 9.80 for lighter weights, cattle and vealers mix. sheep top near 14.10 for lambs. Chicago grain mixed with wheat around 90% red and corn around 78 to 79% for No 2 yellow.
A man in Noblesville bought a $1 Derby ticket that made him wealthy briefly before money troubles and legal issues followed. Court actions, a farm raid, and seized bottles marked misfortune as he faced charges and potential penalties while seeking a fresh start near an 8 acre Noblesville farm.
Governor John Hammill, who has been in Salt Lake City for the national council of state governors, is expected to return to Des Moines today after his Utah assignment.
A dense string of village vignettes from Crawfordsville and surrounding areas recalls a July 1930 scene. Farmers, merchants, and residents share tidbits about town life, weather, travel notices, and local humor, with mentions of Cr owe dsville shops, the Leas restaurant, the Cot Usage motel, and regional families visiting Quebec and London.
John D Rockefeller sent a birthday greeting to his mother on her ninety first birthday May 1. The aged father figure has been confined to bed for weeks, living mostly on milk, yet remains mentally engaged and insists newspapers be read to her daily.
Des Moines July 4 Attorney General John Fletcher ruled that written examinations of applicants for licenses as real estate salesmen may be required at the discretion of the state real estate board. The ruling by Assistant Attorney General B. F. Wisden was addressed to Don L Woods secretary of the real estate board.
In Muskogee Oklahoma a Federal court hears a suit over royalties for a missing 19 year old Seminole Freedman Raymond Jackson whose bones presented as evidence may prove identity. Experts from the world renown scientific community testify on whether the skeleton belongs to Jackson or is the frame of an older man. The Carter oil company seeks to refute the bone’s identity to deny royalties tied to the oil lands Jackson was allotted.
In Englewood New Jersey on July 9 the Lindberghs announced their son is named Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr born June 22 The baby is to stay at the Morrow home and later travel with his parents to the Morrow summer estate at North Haven Maine The announcement notes the 24th birthday of Mrs Lindbergh and that the couple were married in the same house in 1929 The child’s father is Colonel Charles A Lindbergh and his mother is Mrs Lindbergh
A. L. Peek manager of Arnold's Park files in district court a suit against Alfred Olson Construction Co and others to stop a proposed concrete and steel dock, 90 feet long, on Spirit Lake. The petition argues the project infringes on Peek's property rights as the state of Iowa plans the dock. The case will be heard this week.
Prices listed for poultry include broilers by weight with categories for over and under 2 pounds, Leghorns, harebacks, roosters, ducks, geese ranges per pound. The fragment references market terms and per pound rates without complete clarity on specific figures or dates.
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