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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1929
Page
2
Hogs 6600 head with 3000 directs at mostly lower prices. Cattle 300 with steady to higher fed steers and lower bulls and wearers. Sheep 3000 week totals with weaker dressed lamb trade and fat ewes lower. Top prices include hogs around 1100 1200 lb range and cattle futures near 1625 region.
Market update lists grain and livestock future prices with reading for July wheat and rye contracts, along with associated percentage changes and nearby quotes from futures markets. Tracking includes oat and lard values, showing scattered percent moves and dealer notes.
Market brief shows wheat quotations with grades and futures tones. Entries indicate bid ranges from 141 to 143 for 2 red, 141 for 3 red, 140 for 1 hard, and 139–140 levels for 3–5 hard with fragmented figures.
A compact catalog of feed ingredients with percentages and weights. It lists yellow corn, oats, barley, timothy, and clover with varying percentages and batch counts, including mixed and white grain notes and numeric ranges.
A fragmented clipping mentions Toledo, grain, and Clover with dates and names such as Lea Jingp, Timothy, Alsike, and Dee. The readable items include numbers like 1276, 26, 1200, and 1240, suggesting a ledger or record fragment without a clear event.
Ed Wells of the New York Giants pitched a shutout 9 0 against St Louis with Bill Dickey homering twice. Philadelphia beat Chicago 3 1 to extend its lead as Howard Ehmke and Ted Lyons dueled. Detroit beat Boston 4 1 while Chicago clubs rallied to top Philadelphia 13 10. Chuck Klein hit his 21st homer as Pittsburgh edged Boston 9 8. Cincinnati beat Brooklyn 4 1 behind strong hitting in the third.
New York lost its fourth straight on the western swing as St Louis beat the Giants 8 to 4. The Giants led 2 to 1 in the fifth before St Louis tied it in the sixth and scored the decisive run in the seventh.
Mrs S W Livingston and her daughter Mrs Jerry Voorhis entertained at a tea Wednesday afternoon at the Livingston home on North Iowa avenue in San Diemas California.
Bids for remodeling and painting the Living Lake schoolhouse will be received until noon August 3 by board president P. F Whisler. Interested parties may contact any board member for information. 18313 sat-wed-sat.
The NEMS Methodist churches announce preaching services in the morning and evening. Music includes preludes, anthems such as Adoration and O Savior of the World, vocal solos, and postludes by Torlussen Mendelssohn Foss and Handel. Minister W. Bowers, organizer Miss Mary Hunter, and director N. N. Sehuster lead the program.
Warner Brothers presents The Desert Song as a major screen operetta with John Boles and Myrna Lov starring in an all star cast. The epic production by Roy De Ruth features lavish sets from a Moroccan post to Red Shadow camps and sweeping African deserts. Harvey H. Gates adapted the operetta for the screen. The Desert Song opens at Fox Theatre Monday.
The Broadway hit Abie's Irish Rose has been translated to film and opens Monday at the Graham theatre with talking pictures and sound. Anne Nichols wrote and supervised the adaptation, pairing a Jewish lad with an Irish girl amid themes of tolerance and love overcoming family prejudice. The cast features Jean Hersholt, Charles Rogers, Nancy Carroll, J Ferrel MacDonald, Bernard Gorcey, Ida Kramer, Camillus Pretal, Nick Cogley, and Rosa Rosanova with music by J S Zamecnik including the title song Rosemary.
A wandering stranger arrives by train asking for a criminal lawyer. The native replies that they think they have one but cannot prove it. The vignette unfolds with local humor as townsfolk interact during a day trip and casual comments on life in Brighton and surrounding areas.
The narrator praises a country area with large barns suitable for daily plane flights and a cool well water home of Miss Susie Johnson. They note farms belonging to Rob Stewart and Mrs Davison near Indian Creek School House, and report a Wednesday morning fire burning the Homer Brinton farm barn leaving only ashes and scrap.
Over the past year a dealer sold 5 tokage cars, 6 salt cars, and 35 other feeds. At a whoopee show we mistook his permanent store sign for part of the program as it glows nightly. The shop employs four clerks to handle trade.
Walter Hagins, a clerk who fell ill with spinal disease, spent seven weeks in county hospital and has returned home slowly recovering. Mrs. W. E. Barber and her mother enjoy a hot spell in California, while Justice of the Peace W. E. Barber faces a hot time in town with others.
The pupil notes the famous quip that Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned, a sharp critique of leadership and responsibility during a crisis. The joke contrasts idle entertainment with urgent action.
A new church roof is underway and the Ladies Aid Society quilted at the monthly church meeting. Cheyenne reports the July 20 birth of Ruth Elane to Mr. and Mrs. BE Johnson. Mrs Johnson formerly Ira Jones. Various locals attend visits, threshing begins soon, and electricity is coming to Rubio.
Kelloggs Donovan Stapp earns a four year scholarship at Boulder University for scholastic merit. Stapp-Klotz families plan their annual reunion at Chautauqua park Aug. 11. Various residents visit family or attend events including Dr. O W McGrew’s Rochester medical trip and Miss Louise Reaney at Iowa State University. Junction doubles tennis winners were Robert Moore and Donald Powell over Paul Smith and Archie Norris 0 6 6 3 6 4. Priscilla club to meet Friday evening with Mrs C J Penean.
A telegram from Curtis flying service president Charles S. Jones to Forest Brine and Dale Jackson congratulates them for finishing a distance equal to circling the globe in a nonstop flight. The feat marks a major milestone for endurance aviation as the pilots near St. Louis.
Market list shows cream butter at 40 cents per pound, fresh laid eggs 28 cents per dozen, various chicken weights and prices, ducks at 14 cents per pound, reef hides at 10 cents per pound, horse hides at 4 dollars each, pony or colt hides at 1 dollar 50 cents each. An extra one cent per pound is paid for poultry delivered. no market for sick or crippled poultry.
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