This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1940
Page
5
Tickets may be bought at the Bus Depot Candy Kitchen North Side Square for travel to any point in the country from the local depot. Canton i Agent.
Funeral home located at 116 118 East Main Street adjacent to the library. For service inquiries call the listed local phone number 95.
Chicago markets show hogs steady with weekly gains 15 to 25 cents and packers sows up 10 to 15 cents. Cattle week results: steers and yearlings steady, heavier weights weaker, bulls up, calves mixed. heifers steady, best yearlings around 11.50. Sheep week: spring lambs 40 to 75 cents lower, best opening 10.65, closing at 10.00, native ewes 2.00 to 3.50 lower.
Chicago cash grain page lists corn with mixed lots around 64 percent and yellow 64, oats mixed quotations from 24 to 33 percent white, and soybeans noted as yellow around the 82 mark. The entries use shorthand lots and color codes to indicate quality and pricing.
Chicago July grain prices show little change with July wheat at 73.8 cents and Sept at 78.5 cents. Corn July at 81.5 cents with Sept around 48.5 cents. Oats July at 50.0 cents and Sept near 28.5 cents, reflecting mixed near term futures activity.
A clipped market note lists July rye at 48 percent, with .43 percent figures and September readings near 44 percent. The fragment mentions Dee, AT, and other letters, suggesting commodity futures or interest figures without a clear event or date.
Lester Tschantz of Wayland leaves Friday for Rochester Minnesota to undergo Mayo Clinic procedures. The notice also mentions a new baby girl Nancy Ann born July 7 to Ira Werner and wife. Several local families take vacations to the Ozarks Black Hills and surrounding areas while J Boller learns of his brother Sam Roller’s Iowa City death.
Mr and Mrs Albert Claussen and Dale and William Claussen of Newton Kansas visited from Tuesday to Saturday with the Rev and Mrs Penner family.
Judge James Bacigalupi admitted nerves during his first marriage ceremony at Alviso California. He began with an oath asking the couple to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, by force of habit more than necessity.
Ebenezer Butterick of Sterling Massachusetts conceived a set of graded shirt patterns in 1853, introducing the first standardized patterns for clothing.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.