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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1931
Page
2
Receipts hogs 19 000 including 2 500 direct hog prices unevenly lower than Monday. Prices range from 5 35 to 7 90 per cwt with various weight classes. Cattle receipts 5 000 including calves 2 500. slaughter steer prices 6 50 to 8 90. cows 3 50 to 6 00. vealers 4 50 to 8 75. bulls steady. Overall market mixed with demand varying by weight and grade.
Receipts show 10 000 head for sheep and lambs with bids mixed. cattle prices range for bulls calves stockers and feeders from 4.00 to 8.25 per hundredweight, with vealers milk fed at 5.75 to 8.25 and slaughter sheep and lambs at 4.00 to 8.00, feeding lambs 5.00 to 5.75.
Combined hog receipts at 22 yards and 7 packing plants in interior Minnesota were 9,400 for the 24 hours ending 8:00 a.m. Prices varied by weight with light lights at 6.20 to 6.80 for 140 to 160 lb hogs and heavier weights from 5.50 to 7.00 for 250 to 290 lb hogs. sows ranged from 3.65 to 4.75 at higher weights. Market quiet with mostly steady to lower bids amid light trade and weight shrinkage concerns on long hauls.
Police stake out a deserted house after the murder of Geraldine Foster. Thatcher Colt and Neil McMahon discover a nude, buried body with a pillowcase, a bloody axe, and a wet grave amid a dry spell as investigators gather at the scene and prepare for formal inquiries.
Under Colt orders detectives search the surrounding land with flashlights in sections while others reopen the house investigation. Two patrolmen lift the body from the grave and place it on a kitchen table for a preliminary exam by the Assistant Medical Examiner. The expert estimates death within thirty six hours, shocking Thatcher Colt. To Be Continued Tomorrow.
A fragment notes that prices quoted are influenced by shipping point weights and that blogs discussing these quotes are excluded from quotations. The passage emphasizes weighting and exclusions in price discussions without full context.
Cash grain prices in Chicago show mixed moves with wheat varying across grades from 53% to 64% and corn across yellow and mixed lots around mid to high 50s. Oats and barley bid/offer levels move modestly while Timothy hay hits about 450 to 575 per unit.
Toledo dealers quote close Clover prime 138.50 for July, with October 13.50 and December 13.75. Alfie cash listed at 8.75 and August 8.75, December 9.0. Timothy hay timothy per cent ent 1.25.
WHEAT and CORN futures show July contracts around mid range with Sept and Dec actions noted. OIL, OATS, RYE, LARD and other commodities listed with scattered highs and lows. Grain receipts report 59 Wheat cars 115 Corn cars 17 Oats cars.
Local notes report soaking rains around Washington and surrounding towns including Wellston Wellman Kalona and Oxford. Visitors from Ainsworth Globe Port Byron and Mis souri share weather updates and farming remarks. A retired farmer in Ainsworth discusses a 50 year old watch while others mention corn planting and threshing delays.
Farmers note corn plowed 24 times faster with modern tractors and three bottom plows compared with old 12 inch plows pulled by horses. Several oats yields reach 50 bushels per acre after good rains. Ainsworth and Crawfordsville residents mentioned. Local reports include stock shipments, birthdays, and community remarks from Bert Marsh’s surprise family visit.
Margaret Livingston, born in Salt Lake City, stars in Smart Money as the district attorney's operative in the First National feature with Edward G. Robinson, showing at the State theater Wednesday and Thursday. Marie Prevost enjoys canine roles in The Good Bad Girl, a Columbia picture at the Fox theater, with a hairless dog playing Trixie Barnes.
Audubon residents go to the polls next Thursday to decide whether the Iowa Public Service Company may erect a natural gas distribution plant in the city. The neighboring town of Extra will submit the same issue to its voters.
Glenn Sands reports a hail incident where an adjuster attended and completed a settlement satisfactory to him. He mentions the insurance company is responsible for the damage, asserting the company settles promptly and fairly.
Mate A C Bostwick's great colt caused the year's turf upset by winning the Arlington Classic at Arlington Park Illinois in record time before about 60 000 fans. The race carried $86200 gross with $76256 to Bostwick. Mate finished 1 1 4 miles in 2 02 2 5 breaking the Arlington track record. Photo shows Mate leading Spanish Play and Twenty Grand.
Des Moines July 21 The town board of railroad commissioners changed fixed rates for fresh meat packing house products and green wall meats for 250 to 500 miles to align with ICC rules. The 260 mile rate is 27 cents rising to 36 cents at 500 miles, matching the Chicago Omaha interstate rate.
“De best use yuh kin make of yoh spare time,” said Uncle Eben, “is workin’ on de house an’ in de garden foh yohse’s regardless of de fact dat maybe you hasn’t much money and ain’ got de name of bein’ very good pay. It’s yoh only chance of doin’ business on credit.”
A filing claims the August 9 1917 will of Frank Lape deceased. The hearing is set for 9 00 AM Monday July 27 1931 at the Washington County Court House before the District Court or Clerk. All interested persons must appear and show cause why the will should not be probated. By order of Hd na C Purvis Clerk.
The electorate will vote on franchise renewals on the same day, with the company pledging to supply natural gas to Audubon county cities before December 1. Gas would be drawn from the Missouri Valley Pipe Line main trunk.
The Iowa board of railroad commissioners will hold hearings on six proposed transmission lines in Des Moines on August 4. The projects include 1.1 miles of 6600 volt line in Mills county by Iowa Nebraska Light and Power of Lincoln and a second 6600 volt line of about one mile in Mills county, plus a line of less than one mile in Fremont county. Other routes include one mile in Pottawattamie county by Citizens Power and Light, 14 miles in Cedar and Clinton counties by Iowa Electric of Cedar Rapids, and a line of 1.5 miles by a Council Bluffs company.
A brief note from Woman's Home Companion asserts that while self development in children is a splendid goal it cannot begin without the mother first mastering self discipline as the foundation.
EF Jennings of Columbus Junction was fined 200 and costs after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested Sunday night near the airport on primary road 61 after sideswiping Henry Lieberknecht of Muscatine. The judge sentenced a four month license suspension and a 30 day jail term for violations. Jennings waived preliminary hearing and was brought to district court on county information. Bond set at 1400.
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