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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1930
Page
2
Hogs receipts 21 000 with 4 000 direct and prices unevenly lower. Light weights 140 to 160 lbs good and choice 9.15 to 9.45. Cattle receipts 19 000. steers 600 to 900 lb 9.25 to 11.00, 900 to 1100 8.75 to 11.00, vealers 12.00 to 13.50. Sheep receipts 17 000. lambs 10.25 to 11.40, ewes 2.25 to 4.00, feeding lambs 7.25 to 9.00.
Chicago July 16 cash grain close shows wheat bids around 1 red 90% and 2 red 90% to 90 plus. Market peers note modest demand and steady prices across grain supplies.
Grain close report shows corn mixed up to 90 percent, oats with white and yellow grades at various percentages and dollars, barley and timothy ranges, clover prices rising, with Toledo on July 16 listing cash and futures for clover hay and alsike and timothy demand.
Two men faced execution by electric chair at the state prison in McAlester Oklahoma and a third condemned to die clung to a last hope for gubernatorial intercession. Tom Guest, a Texan, was convicted of murdering a druggist at Asher Oklahoma and James Forrest was convicted of attacking a white woman.
The fragment mentions Marion Dennison and his wife visiting Washington and growing younger with age. It notes activity in Wayland with the Weyland News described as friendly yet busy. A caller seeks a copy of last week's issue about The City Without Crime for possible publication in Mlinosis.
The Aldrich restaurant changes hands to L. B. Hollingsworth of Winfield and will stop operating as the Way Cafe. In a dental office scene Mrs. John E. Widmer brings her son Rex for a tooth extraction, Rex humorously claims the ice cream afterward did not hurt. The couple seeks the Way and News and the Washington Evening Journal daily, plus other newspapers as they desire.
Heat stroke in horses amid extreme heat caused hundreds of losses among workhorses and swine. The report lists outbreaks of hog cholera and other diseases across eastern Iowa towns including Watkins New London West Liberty Mediapolis Hud son Dysart Lyons Bryant Washington and more with Rabies in cows goats and fowl cholera in chickens noted among the week’s findings.
Noah Wyse harvested eight acres of wheat at thirty one bushels per acre. Wayland residents Ezra Wittmer and Magdefrau Brothers are active readers of the Evening Journal, while Fred Klopfenstein runs a filling station and follows local news. W.F. Leeper family plans Mt Pleasant fair travel around July 28 as sons in law F.G. Hixson operate a Wevline meat market. The community notes widespread farm activity and belief that labor yields reward as times may improve.
Disease outbreak of coccidiosis detected in chickens reported in Hudson Norway Mt. Vernon Preston Maquegeta Iowa City Vinton Clinton Waterloo Independence Central City Ryan Sigourney Manchester and nearby areas. Authorities urge farmers to monitor flocks and apply recommended poultry health measures.
An Los Angeles plane stood ready to fly Frankie Foster to Chicago to face charges linked to the subway murder of Alfred J Lingle. Superior Judge Marshall F. McComb refused a habeas corpus writ, keeping Foster in custody while George Davis, his bodyguard, was also arrested and slated to depart for Detroit but delayed as authorities pursued narcotics and assault connections.
Senator McKellar Democrat Tennessee charged that five power naval treaty talks nearly sparked war between France and Italy. He urged rejection and decried secrecy over related documents. He linked the London talks to bad blood and attacked the Washington arms conference under Harding and Hughes.
Fire officials in Rockford claim a sunlit fire extinguisher caused a blaze. The glass globe reportedly focused sunlight to burn woodwork and wall, with Fire Chief Bike ordering the incident recorded.
Four year old Darlene MicMaster slipped while playing and fell into a well near Essex. Fire department rescue saved her as she clung to a pipe with head and arms above water.
In Cedar Falls on July 16 the Iowa Presbyterian young people's conference votes for student council and recreation committee members. More than 100 delegates registered by yesterday's close with 75 more expected. named delegates include Dorothy Colby, Earl Clark, Marion Gould, Neuman Kerant, Blavehe Kirkwood, Marcia Griggs, Caroline Green, Eleanor Galloway, and Jeanor Kitiih.
A coroner's inquest will be held at 7 p m today into the deaths of four Burlington residents killed yesterday when their car stalled on a railroad crossing and was struck by a Burlington train. Dr E W Kirkendall president of West Burlington Savings Bank and John Boesch bank staffer died instantly. A A Kese and OFE Wark died last night from injuries.
A portrait of the late President Warren G Harding by Luis Mora has been installed in the White House entrance hall opposite President Coolidge. Ordered by President Hoover, the painting completes seven years of delay after Harding's death and is based on Mora’s composite model from photographs.
A damaged OCR fragment from Washington Produce Markets lists prices for poultry and hides. Items include broilers by weight with varied prices, geese, beef and horse hides, and pony hides, showing unit costs and occasional illegible notes.
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