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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1934
Page
2
Chicago market reports show hogs totaling 28 000 with slow demand and top at 4.75, cattle 21 000 with mixed quality, calves 2 000, and sheep 20 000 with lambs dull. Prices vary by weight class and grade across hogs cattle and sheep.
Chicago reports market activity with receipts across commodities. Produce shows 7 996 cases with 16 percent firsts and dirties 13 percent. butter remains firm with 72 020 items including specials 25 and extras 24 with various grades. Poultry market stays steady to easy with multiple truck and car shipments and assorted fowls springers broilers and ducks listed.
Rail timetable lists Westbound Train 3 and Southwest Limited schedules from Washington with departures at 9 42 a m and 2 06 a m respectively plus local trains 5 14 p m and 1 33 a m and notes agent C Belis as agent, with daily and Sunday exceptions.
The report lists turkeys 7, roosters 14, feg horn broilers 12, stags 9 and potatoes on track 380. Rival shipments 517 with market steady, signaling steady activity despite varied poultry counts.
Chicago July 23 40 market notes show mixed corn and yellow varieties trading around 65 to 67 percent in No 1 through No 6 grades. White corn ranges 68 percent with receipts totaling 735 cars.
Chicago grain prices show July contracts with varied highs and lows across Wheat Corn Oats Rye while Washington County Iowa plans to condemn land for the Haslkins Road project. The County Auditor Ethel Grecian invites owners Carl J Roberts Albert Webr and The Equitable Life Assurance Society to respond by August 10 1934 and outlines the three appraisers process for damages.
A compilation from old papers recalls extreme heat in 1894 and 1924 with dates August 8 1920 September 8 1924 and July 1 1894. reports describe 106 degrees in shade baked vegetables barren pastures and stock feed needs. local chatter mentions farm sales prices and harvest yields including oats threshed from 32 acres and water.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Zingg and Harlan Cummings of Wayland Paul Mast and family and Bethan Brooks and family were Sunday evening visitors at the Rex Swan home.
S P Lee a Story county farmer fined 100 dollars and costs for removing a seal on his crib and feeding corn before payment or concealment. He ignored warnings from the sealer state agriculture and the CCC, marking the first department action to enforce the Warehouse Law amid 132000 corn barrels on file.
Porkish general Ali Bey is suspected of selling military secrets to the enemy while fending off a persistent American suitor whose meddling complicates her mission in the Dardanelles. Beall and George Brent deliver standout performances, with Gordon, Atwill, and Jarboe rounding out the espionage drama.
Miss Geraldine Spratt of Iowa City visits with grandmother Mrs Mary Sylvester. Goshen Indiana couple Ed Herner and family visit relatives including CC Miller. Delegates Edith Maxwell Charles Evans Dale Teets and Fred Thatcher attend Iowa Baptist assembly in Iowa Falls.
The plot sheds fresh light on espionage and vividly illustrates a spy's unwritten code. It portrays covert operations, risk, and intrigue shaping intelligence work and personal choices within a tense political landscape.
Myrna Loy orchestrates a trap in a thriller set around Turkish general intrigue. A mysterious woman known to one man navigates danger, romance, and deception amid tense political plots.
Myrna Loy and George Brent star as a romantic team in an espionage melodrama opened yesterday at the State theatre. Loy carries the picture with strong performance while Brent supports in a swift moving tale of international intrigue.
Wellston residents share social visits with families Ed Stouther Wilbur McClelland and others. Omar Klett’s child and George Brinning die in a Keota area auto crash, prompting community sympathy.
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