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Journal item by D. F. Macon highlights items from nearby towns. Brief notices cover community happenings, local events, and small updates affecting residents.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1939
Page
5
Journal item by D. F. Macon highlights items from nearby towns. Brief notices cover community happenings, local events, and small updates affecting residents.
On July 18 observers noted distant heavy clouds but avoided storms. The journal lists subscriptions, local residents like Leta Glen, Everette R. Palmer, Hugh Haglett, and others noting weather, farming, plowing, harvesting yields, and community stops at Telford’s barber shop and Wheelers Hotel cafe.
The blurb recalls Paderewski joking that a polo playing society man is no poor polo who plays solo. It mentions Lewis Ebner finishing hay before rain, Joe Podaril on the Chicago market, Mrs. Podaril’s subscription to the Journal, and other local notes about farm life and readers.
Market report from Chicago shows hogs at 14,000 head with prices 10 to 15 cents lower. calves 1.5 percent gains. cattle 4,500 head with fat cattle 6.50 to 9.75 and top near 19.59. sheep 3,000 head barely steady. Estimated tomorrow receipts list cattle 8,000 plus hogs 900 and sheep 4,000.
Chicago cash grain figures show corn mixed around the mid forties with several lots at 46 percent and 46fraction. oats range near 28 to 29 percent with multiple white oats at 27 to 29 percent. Receipts list forty cargos in the corn category and related grain activity in the market.
Market steady with receipts of 12,000 cases of fresh graded firsts. Chicago produce scene notes steady demand and stable pricing as suppliers report adequate supply.
Market notes show poultry receipts with mixed percentages for ducks geese hens and broilers while turkeys rise modestly. Grain quotes from Chicago cite July wheat and corn futures with open high low and close ranges in a brief commodities update.
A fragmented OCR excerpt shows unusual percentages and codes like OATS and ABM with scattered figures. The readable elements include month references such as July and partial financial abbreviations, but no coherent story or outcome is present.
The conservation commission recruits 44 clubs and Future Farmers to plant food species of trees and plants such as frost grape fox grape hawthorn crabapple greenbrier wild rose and wild plum as part of a wildlife enhancement program supported by the National Wildlife Federation.
When migrating birds fly three and a half miles above the earth they are aided by constant winds blowing up to 100 miles an hour, increasing their travel speed.
The tale centers on Kalyb known as The Lady of the Woods who steals St George and raises him as her own. St George later traps her in a rock where spirits destroy her.
Heart worms are parasitic worms living in the heart of infected animals. They spread through bites from specific mosquitoes.
Weekly journal sale notices list Midway Sale eCo Columbus Junction on Wednesdays and Community Sale every Friday with event dates and locations. Text also mentions Mty Peed Vere.
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