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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1932
Page
2
Hog receipts numbered about 25 000 with bids weak and top weights around five dollars. Cattle offerings near 16 900 with steadiness across beef and veal, calves and feeders varied by class. Sheep totals about 12 908 with lambs priced from five to six and feeder types from two to four dollars.
Combined hogs receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ended 8:00 AM show 16,400 head, up from last week. Reported prices vary by weight class with light to good quality hogs ranging from 3.75 to 4.59 per cwt and sows from 3.10 to 3.65.
Chicago grain price table shows Wheat and new crop futures with open high low and close values for July September December contracts. Data include July at 45% to 47% and December around 51% to 62% with bids for ATM and AT% notes.
Fragmentary OCR of corn oats and rye price quotes with months and percentages. No coherent event or headline. Contains garbled data and stray characters making precise values and entities uncertain.
Chicago grain prices for July 26 show Wheat varied from 47% to 49% across red yellow and mixed classes with 1 hard grain at 49% to 49%. Corn lists 32% to 33% for yellow and white varieties. Oats display mixed and white grades from 15% to 18% with sample grade at 14% and Rye absent. Barley quoted 29 to 35.
Chicago market report lists butter tubs 10 652 packed creamery extras 1814 standards 18 percent extras 17 to 174 firsts 15 to 16 percent packing stock 10 specials 18 to 19 percent. Peas 8 368 cases fresh firsts 12 percent dirties 11 checks 9 percent. Cheese various grades including young Americas 11 14 longhorns 11 to 11 percent. Live poultry items with percentages for turkeys hens toms and leghorn varieties. Potatoes 33 cars on track 132 US shipments 214 Virginia cobblers slightly decayed 190 to 225 Idaho sacked triumphs 175 to 185.
Seed market reports clover fair to good with prices 7.50 to 13.00 per unit and sweet clover around 3.42. Timothy ranges from 2.60 for good seed to 2.85 for fancy quality with choices 2.70 and 2.85. Alsike listed at 6.00 to 7.54 per unit.
Grain receipts recorded 8 and 9 cars of wheat, 105 cars of corn, and 99 cars of oats according to the latest yard tally.
Iowans will hunt wild ducks and geese from October 1 to November 36 this season under an open season announced by Federal Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. Daily bag is 15 ducks with five elder ducks and 10 of specified species including redhead ringneck canvasback scaup gadwall shoveler and blue winged green winged or cinnamon teal.
Review lauds Arrowsmith as Sinclair Lewis’s masterpiece, starring Ronald Colman. It notes Lewis as the first American Nobel Prize winner and highlights Main Street, Babbitt, Dodsworth, and The Man Who Knew as his influential works shaping American literature and Europe’s interest.
Crawfordsville reports two local accidents with injuries after a barrel mishap and scalding incident. In Bedford, Elza Jones confesses to killing Thomas J. Allen with an axe, a coroner's jury brings murder charges, and Jones reenacts the crime for authorities.
Ed R. Brown secretary of the legislative committee on the reduction of governmental expenditures resumes duties in Des Moines after five weeks of confinement due to an eye injury.
Between four and five hundred people attended Ed Kos’s funeral with many moving to Riverside for the burial. The piece records improvements in Riverside, visits to local farms, and harvest details including strawberries and berries, noting crops and farm life with named locals and places like Duffy farm, Merle Steele, Wilbur Chalupa, and references to Havel and Wells households.
The letter column describes daily chores and local events. Mrs Chalupa and Miss Livingston’s reading skills are praised while a farm scene unfolds with Orval Moberly cutting corn and neighbors sharing meals. The writer mentions farm conditions, a home destroyed by fire months ago, and distant kinship notes.
Pleasant Hill July 2 Karl Kephart reports several visits including Viola Anderson with the Will is Brennan family Howard Caldwell family at Frank Scranton home Edens near Ainsworth. Mrs Will Stafford hears of Donald Tucker illness in Washington county hospital.
Des Moines reports last week in Iowa shows 16 tuberculosis cases and 11 whooping cough cases, the state health department said. The figures mark the most prevalent communicable diseases for the period.
Miss Lulu Tregonning held meetings with county demonstration teams to prepare exhibits for achievement day on August 12 1922. The 41 clubs are crafting bread making demonstrations and aim for a strong display at the Iowa State Fair representing Washington County.
Morning visit to Pat Tobin farm for horse judging tryouts by 4H club boys. The top three judges will represent the group in upcoming events.
Miss Peterson outlines quotas for a family of five or six: 300 quarts of fruit or juice for eight months, providing juice ten times weekly. Families should also can 110 quarts of tomatoes or tomato juice.
The 4H club boys interested in pig clubs are invited to a field day at Acheson and Dunsmore Farm in Ainsworth Iowa on Saturday July 30 1932. The event features a judging contest with a Duroe Jersey gift for the winner and runs from 10:00 AM with a noon picnic lunch and afternoon sports. Participants from Henry Louisa Johnson Muscatine and Washington counties are expected. Acheson and Dunsmore plan a Duroc Jersey sale and show for the fair circuit this year, offering a valuable learning opportunity for county 4H members to view quality hogs.
Merle Warner leads the group with a score of 768 in livestock judging. Everett Hayes Richard Wirney and Stanley Poster follow closely with strong scores in dairy cows beef calves and breeding swine. Monday.
Miss Annette Peterson of Iowa State College outlines essential fruit canning rules including using sound fruit not overripe and thorough sterilization of jars lids and rubbers. She notes techniques for peaches plums apples tomatoes with hot water bath processing and standards for sealing and processing times.
Records from 53 Iowa trymen show feed cost per hen in June at 11 cents while returns per hen from all sources ran about 23 cents. The rise came from selling many young birds, not a big egg yield increase, with hens laying 15.3 eggs on average.
Calendar of farm events lists Cattle Feeders Day at Ames on July 9 and 411 Wield Day at Dunsmore and Acheson Farm on July 29. It also notes 4H Livestock Show on August 10–11, 4H Girls Achievement Day on August 12, Davenport Fair on August 14–20, CC. T. A. Pienle on August 24, and Iowa State Pair as a listed item.
Des Moines reports from July 26 say Iowa has seen five bank robberies since January 1. Two robbers are dead, six are serving life terms at Fort Madison, and no arrests have been made yet for the Davenport Home Savings Bank or Jesup Farmers State Bank jobs.
Natalie Talmadge Keaton sues Joseph Francis Buster Keaton for divorce citing extreme mental cruelty and humiliation. The couple separated after her wife left the home ten days earlier.
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