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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 23, 1928

Page

2

Market Report Hog and Cattle Prices External to Farm

Hog receipts 32 000 market slow mostly steady to higher with top hogs around 11 30 for 226 lb range. Cattle receipts 14 000 calves 2 000 market slow on weighty steers, steady on light yearlings and good to choice medium weights. Slaughter classes show varied ranges across steers heifers bulls and vealers with stockers and feeders continuing active demand for high grades. Sheep receipts 13 000 fat lambs slow and sheep firm with yearling demand noted.

Market Report Notes Feeder Lamb Prices and Ranges

The text lists lamb price ranges with feeder lambs described as good and choice. Prices shown include 4.25 to 7.25 for certain categories and 1.75 to 5.50 in common ranges, with feeder lambs at 13.25 to 15.75.

Chicago Cash Grain Prices For Wheat Corn Oats Barley

Reading shows Wheat hard prices at 124 to 125 and 123 to 124. Corn mixed values range 107 to 107 percent, with higher reads 144 to 104 and 10315 for other lots. Oats white readings show 63 to 69 and 52 to 61145, Barley listed 65 to 90, Timothy at 400 to 42h, Clover 2250 to 2600.

Toledo Seed Market Clover Prices and Dates

A terse market record lists Clover cash 1790 with Oct 1890 and Dec 1875, cash imp 1425. Timothy shows ash 2385 and Dec 280. Alsike notes cash 1656 and Oct 1675.

Timothy Alsike

Dayton Grove Visitor Notes July 21

Doc Newton his wife and children from Packwood Iowa visited the Walter Leet home in Dayton Grove on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Bruce Motre also spent time there.

Dayton Grove Doc Newton Packwood Walter Leet Bruce Motre

Sunday Socials and Family Visits Across the Nevin Home Area

Sunday activities clustered around the Nevin home with Harry Anderson and wife Lye Moore and families, Walter and Willard Leet with kin, Roy Gardner’s family, and others visiting. Lola Dayton wed Charles Thatcher at Rock Island on July 16, noted in a recent Journal. Oats cutting nears finish as threshing gears may soon sound if weather holds.

Elmer Nevin Harry Anderson Lye Moore Clarence Johnson Charley Thrapp Lucy Leet West Chester Walter Willard Leet Walter Bauer Merle Gardner Roy Gardner Tad Plumier Dayton ‘Rove Waukegan James Walker Belle Crossett Wellman Herman Schultz Walter Leet’s Lola Dayton Milt Dayton Chas. Thatcher Rock Island Journal Otto Schwenker Moline Maskill East Moline Til Henry Bowe Schwenker Bowes Tom Porter

Local Mennonite Sunday School Conventioned in Pulaska Iowa

The Emanuel Mennonite Sunday school held its third four church convention in Town July 14 15 with participation by young people and visitors including Mr and Mrs Gustavson of Canada. Community notes mention family visits and local social events around Riverside and Kalona Elevator matters pending in the District Court.

Noble -Pourteen Emanuel Mennonite Vern Simpson Colorado Philathia Girs Emmanuel Sunday Schiel Helen Grader Edith Wenger Edith

Keeper of the Bees at New Ithram Theatre Two Day Run

Gene Stratton Porter's Keeper of the Bees comes to the New Ithram theatre for a two day run. Lara Bow stars in a dramatic romance as Lolly supported by Robert Frazer Alyce Mills Joseph Swickard and Gene Stratton with Leo Meehan directing. Margaret Lillie offers a musical revue on the stack.

California Gene Stratton Porter Itraham Theatre Ciara Bow FAO Get Your Man Lara Bow Lolly Robert Frazer Alyce Mills Joseph Swickard Gene Stratton Leo Meehan Milions Margaret Lillie

Chicago murders cost fifty dollars each says crime chief

Chicago crime commission president Frank J. Loesch told Kiwanis members that murder costs run to fifty dollars per hit with gunmen hired to kill and no punishment for killers, reflecting a city under gunman rule. Newtorm Kansas residents Mr and Mrs Franklin Wittmer returned from their wedding trip and visited the Colrey home Sunday evening.

Newtorm Kansas Washingto Franklin Wittmer Col Rey Chicago Frank J. Loesch Chicago Crime Commission Kiwanis Club Loesch

Telephone Directory versus Encyclopedia Debate

A reader argues the telephone is a German invention and credits American telephone directories with value, noting costs and delays of calls from Great Neck to New York City. The letter touches on war guilt, German tech, and praises the telephone directory as a lasting American contribution with humorous asides about operator rest rooms.

United States Germany Louvain Louisiana Great Neck Harvard College N. Y Quan N. Y. City America P. S The Bell Syndicate, Inc

Beau Sabreur at Fox Theatre Brings Desert Adventure

Paramount's Beau Sabreur opens at the Fox Theatre with Gary Cooper as Major Henri de Beaujolais and Evelyn Brent as Mary Vanbrugh. The cast also includes Noah Beery, William Powell, Mitchell Lewis, Roscoe Karns, Joan Standing, Arnold Kent, Frank Reicher, Raoul Paolo and Oscar Smith in a desert Foreign Legion tale from Percival Christopher Wren.

Sahara Fox Theatre Paramount Beau Sabreur Percival Christopher Wren Desert Foreign Legion Gary Cooper Henri de Beaujolais Cooper Evelyn Brent Mary Vanbrugh Noah Beery William Powell Mitchell Lewis Roscoe Karns Joan Standing Arnold Kent Frank Reicher Raoul Paolo Oscar Smith

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