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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1934
Page
2
Chicago market notes show mixed cattle and sheep activity with weak undertone. Feeder, yearling prices steady to lower while supply prospects weigh on near term demand. top cattle prices reach around 4.90 for 235 to 240 pound cattle, with 2,000 to 4,900 government cattle noted and overall late market lacking firm outlet for grain fed steers.
Chicago July 21 market notes show poultry receipts of 12 trucks with fowls, pringers, broilers, leghorn, ducks, geese, turkeys and roosters, plus leg horns and stag entries. Potatoes on track with 397 arrivals and 85 shipments, market slow overall.
Chicago cash corn quotes move through the day with mixed bids and offers. No. 3 yellow around 65 and 66, No. 2 white 64 to 67, No. 6 white near 62, with specific grades showing uneven gains and losses.
Mr and Mrs Ira Hadley were struck by a M and St. L freight train at a crossing south of the schoolhouse. He was 67 and she 64. A large funeral gathering followed in Richland for the couple, formerly residents, with many relatives attending.
Community news brief highlights local happenings gathered by the Journal's subscription representative D. Macon. Small items include civic events, brief meetings, and local courtesy notices from nearby towns.
John Heck from northeast of Washington visited town with an injured foot after stepping on a nail. Harve Wilson appeared in town without a coat amid warm weather. Emil Fink near Milwaukee's track at Titus End hosted visitors as a freight train passed with seven men aboard.
Walter Wilson travels to Jones county at the call of Mr. Furst a Wellston native to help with harvesting and operate his tractor and thresher. The move places Walter in Jones county for ongoing work.
Report chronicles threshing with a machine and tractor, mentions two men at work, and describes notable farms and families. Observations include Timothy seed prices, Angus cattle on the C R Sturgeon farm, Charley Brinning managing the Angus herd, modern improvements like a deep well and wind mill, and community praise for Joe Lambert and the Evening Journal. Everett Vincent and neighbors invest in a bean drill and stay busy over weeks.
Local notes describe a dentist visit with a collar button misidentified as metal flakes. Families and neighbors including Griffiths Daering Mayer Hott and Hayes are noted with farming tasks heat and a hot day at the Green dyke farm. A dog search and a fortune telling board are mentioned amid community chatter.
Grain table from Chicago dated July 21 shows open high low and close for wheat corn oats rye and other grains. Prices include July and Sept futures with figures for July 62 percent to 99 percent ranges and Dec contracts around 1.0 to 1.02 for wheat and 0.64 to 0.67 for corn.
An agitated caller requests relief for nerves while a lawyer clarifies he is not a doctor. The discussion touches on a divorce and a farmer named Paul Redeker facing harsh conditions. The piece notes heat on the Laubach farm and predicts another hot Saturday impacting residents.
Crawfordsville items report attending funerals and weddings including Mrs Teas and Max Anwyl wedding in Bloomfield. Also mentions Miss Talma Clark at Burlington and John Woods of Washington. Board of Directors Coppock School District in Iowa will meet August 4 1934 at 7 p m to hear taxpayers on expenditures and tax valuations and credits.
Dinner guest at Rev. A N Porter home. Cubs beat Foxes 21 to ? at softball park Thursday. East End defeated Stags 10 to 4. Joy Welch of Bedford visits M W Welch. Chester Cherryholmes and wife attend Iowa City commencement. Clarence Peters earns MA. Thomas McKee of Winterset visits W H Hagie home. relatives Ger Devinney and others from East Moline visit C W Martin home.
The article notes actor George Brent once sought by authorities as a Sinn Fein secret service agent with a price on his head in Ireland. It links this past to his film role in Stambou Quest at the State Theater, where he portrays a spy akin to his real life experiences.
Orphaned at eleven, Brent Beall educated in the United States returns to Ireland at eighteen to enroll in Dublin University. In Stamboul Quest he plays Beall a young American drawn into a spy plot directed by Sam Wood and produced by Bernard Hyman with familiar co stars.
The Iowa State District Court in Washington County announces the filing of Mary Swift’s will dated September 1920. A hearing for proof and probate is set for 9:00 a.m. on July 26, 1934 at the courthouse in Washington. Interested parties must appear to contest or support the will as Mary Swift’s last will. Edna C. Purvis, Clerk of District Court, Washington, Iowa.
Andrew McCormick of Charleston West Virginia, nearly blind, was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary for the murder of his estranged wife. The verdict stated the revolver was aimed by following the sound of her voice.
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