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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1931
Page
2
Receipts: hogs 4 006 including 2 500 direct. Demand active, weights under 240 lb strong, 170 to 220 lb pigs 8.00 to 8.25, heavier hogs steady. Cattle receipts 700 with grain fed steers up 25-50c, grass fat cattle weak, top steers 9.10 for 1288 lb, cows mixed. Sheep receipts 4 000 with fat lambs around 8.00, ewes 7.60 to 7.76, range lambs 7.65 to 7.75, feeders 5.76 to 6.75.
Combined hog receipts for 24 hours ending 8:00 a m show 15 600 head across 22 yards and 7 plants in Iowa and southern Minnesota. Prices range from 4 15 to 7 35 per cwt for various weight classes with light weights holding higher values and heavy weights lower. sows steady to weak and marketing light.
Chicago today notes steady egg receipts at 7 456 cases with varied grade prices and a stable butter dairy index. Poultry and cheese quotations show mixed ranges among fowls broilers leghorns and twins while potatoes track 491 car arrivals and 262 car shipments with regional Irish cobbler prices quoted.
Commodity prices are listed for WHEAT CORN OATS RYE and LARD with July Sept and Dec futures. Figures show multiple bids offers and percentages including yields and price levels across months, indicating fluctuations in markets and contracts.
U P Chicago reports mixed grain prices with Wheat at about 51 to 62 cents. Corn prices showing varied bids near 41 to 74 cents. Rye and oats listed with scattered figures. Hay and feed items like Timothy and Clover range in the mid tens to low hundreds.
Toledo notes show Clover prices at prime 13.50 for July trades along with Oct 13.50 and Dec 13.75. Alsike cash bids listed at 8.56 for August, 8.65 for August, and 8.90 for December. Timothy hay per cwt stands at 1.5 for early August deliveries.
Grain receipts list wheat totaling 754 ears, corn 348 ears, and oats 43 cars. The report records supply figures by grain type and unit measurements for the period.
The text notes early wood block printing in China around 400 BC and a turning point in the fifteenth century AD in Germany, with Gutenberg likely introducing movable type and the form printing press. Britannica questions Gutenberg as inventor but credits him with popularizing the idea.
Miss Muriel Tempie of Davy enpore is visiting Miss Josephine Bailey over the weekend.
Jones Funeral Home located next to the Library at 116 118 East Main Street with phone 96. Sherman s Funeral Home at 306 West Main 81 opposite Court House offers ambulance service and phone 253.
A W Clown and D O advertise general osteopathic work including colon irrigation and alo-rectal diseases on the second floor of the Journal building.
June 23 diary entry from CAMIP Wapste y Central City Iowa details camp life with honors at table meals visitors from Washington and staff, bunk stretcher jokes, devotional song Building Daily Building, campfire, and talks by Mr Soule and John Coulter. It notes aquarium turtles activity and ongoing games of tennis and ping pong.
Lodges Washington Chapter No 98 regular meetings second Thursday monthly Ida McDaniel WM Ernestine Denison secretary Visiting members welcome Damascus Shrine No 10 regular meetings fourth Tuesday monthly Masonic Temple Mrs Chica Spies WP Hazel Haven Worthy Scribe Washington Lodge No 26 regular meeting first Friday month Harry C Ward WM A W Yard secretary Cyrus Chapter No 18 regular meeting second Friday monthly J W Enslin HP A W Yard secretary
Train schedule shows eastbound and westbound departures and arrivals. Lists Golden State Limited Apache Local Passenger and freight trains with daily or Sunday exceptions, times for morning and evening runs, and agent names. Includes California passenger stop notes and mixed trains.
At Camp Waysidey Central City Iowa July 24 Ideal weather and a pleasant visit from Mr and Mrs Pearson to see their son David Local leaders including Homer White Handicraft instructor discusses leather work wood items and the sign YE WORKSHOPPE Don Welch earns table honors and Washington boys in his cabin participate in camp activities including a free night and group games Camp life emphasizes cooperation discipline and devotional participation leading to a final campfire and Sunday night campfire event
A summarized list from Albert E Wiggam in the American Magazine outlines six rules for effective argument. Do not monopolize talk time, let opponents speak, avoid interrupting, avoid dogmatic attitudes, ask friendly questions early, and restate rivals' points briefly. Stay focused on the core issue when replying and make habit of using these principles consciously.
Bible scholars explain the horns in Moses depictions arise from a mistranslation of Exodus 34:29 80 where the skin of the face shone The Hebrews used qar an meaning rays of light rather than horns The Rowe church Michelangelo masterpiece shows Moses with horns as a symbol of strength.
Mr and Mrs Ernie Norton and daughter Margaret returned home from Lansing Iowa where Norton was employed this summer. Mr and Mrs Nick Tinnes of Keota R3 visited the city Friday. Mr M C Smylie of Washington R1 completed threshing with oats measuring 68 by and a 16 acre tract yielding 65 bushels per acre. The Palmers grandchildren Eugene and Charlotte Young won prizes at fairs last year for seed displays and plan to compete again this year hoping to win through hustle.
The farm threshing is finished and cattle graze in the pasture. Beside the Brinton farm Tom Mickle road crew and a team of mules improve a road toward Richland. Locals Victor Oswald, John Daerings, Keith Barns, Cy Dickerson, Dickinson Brees, Wesley Hendricks, and Charley Scranton note the area’s progress and Havre’s growing presence. Sam Wirtmer, a local merchant, builds a modern home with Peter Wittrig as boss contractor and Howard Wittrig assisting.
Report from near No 11 Fridaye describes threshing at Mr Wilcox and Melo Kallous with oats yield near acre at 68 bushels. Nearby Brighton visit mentions Homer Brinton’s new barn covering the old foundation with a large elevator and ample hay and grain storage. The basement holds about 120 cattle could feed at once, plus room for 8 to 10 work horses and two water tanks with a shed along the full length.
Betty Compson stars in Three Who Loved at the Fox with Conrad Nagel and Robert Ames in a drama about a Swedish immigrant torn between fiancée and another man. Jeanette MacDonald appears in Annabelie’s Affairs with Victor McLaglen. Men Without Law, Buck Jones leads a western at the Fox Friday and Saturday with Carmelita Geraghty in support.
A fragment notes a linguistic myth that early Latin translators confused horn and geren, shaping the horn tradition in biblical scripture. It discusses how this ambiguity may have influenced currency of horn imagery in religious texts.
Farmers report a flood of threshing machines arriving nationwide. With favorable weather, work will stretch into next week though many crews only began this week. Some early runs have finished while others await favorable conditions.
In Honolulu hibiscus blooms fill streets and offices, with a daily floral arrangement of 900 blooms crafted by a long term prisoner for the governor. Red hibiscus are used as danger signals along highways and even on trucks to alert pedestrians to danger.
The Lebanese population includes 214,313 Maronites, with 20,448 emigrants in the United States paying taxes to the homeland. Other groups include 6,421 Protestants, 17,000 Syriac Jacobite and Assyro-Chaldean adherents, Sunnite Muslims at 186,040, and Shiites at 113,546.
The State theater presents Take This Woman with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard Monday and Tuesday, a mix of a Western romance and wealth contrasts. Also Confessions of a Co-Ed debuts Wednesday and Thursday with Phillips Holmes Sylvia Sidney Norman Foster in a youthful Paramount drama. The Girl Habit with Charlie Ruggles opens next Friday and Saturday featuring a comic bachelor tangled with scheming women, plus Tamara Geva and Margaret Dumont in supporting roles.
The article notes that wives of reigning kings do not inherit the throne upon the king's death and that succession follows the male or female line without crossing between lines. It cites examples such as a queen's husband not becoming sovereign and Catherine the Great's succession of Peter II as a revolutionary exception.
A Kiel firm has developed a new diving apparatus resembling a submarine conning tower. The steel trunk with glass windows contains measuring and respiratory gear, a telephone, and buoyant tanks to control depth. It enables descents to 500 feet for recoveries from sunken wrecks on the ocean floor within reach of the surface.
Graice Rhys describes Burns as a musician born who lived shared ballads and Celtic melodies. A field plowman by day, he whistled and chanted to weave wandering lines into entrancing songs that made the world love him forever.
A playful tale recalls Mark Twain busy at work in his study when his daughter answers a caller seeking Mr. Clemens. She proudly explains he is in upstairs riding a nannygoat, keeping him from being seen.
Bill Tormaine, president of the Spit and Argy club, sits on a downtown curbstone during a sunny parade. He muses that his fondness for parades stems from imagining what would occur if a fire alarm interrupts the march.
Detroit News traces Philadelphia medical beginnings to John Goodson the London surgeon aboard the Welcome with William Penn, Griffith Owen’s amputation, and Dr Thomas Bond linked to the first lithotomy and the earliest clinic, preceding the College of Philadelphia medical school founded in 1765.
The Sugar House in Charleston South Carolina served as a workhouse detaining fugitive slaves and punishing enslaved and free Black people. A five member citizen commission oversaw it with a master keeper, charging for inmate care. It stood at Logan and Magazine streets and was destroyed in 1861.
The article notes Quebec preserves old French customs while modern European cities charm with romance. It cites Quebec’s citadel views and Montreal as the Dominion’s largest city and a major French-speaking center, ranking among the world’s largest French-speaking cities.
A fragment notes Montreal as the largest city with a clerious view from the citadel, hinting at a European city comparison. The phrasing reflects a historic or travelogue tone emphasizing skyline and vantage.
Article notes Maronites form Lebanon’s largest confession among seven present in the country. It references Biblical Lebanon as Asia’s only Christian state and mentions a figure of 26.618 dollars or units related to a monetary amount.
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