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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
5
Poll, a performer in a traveling show, confronts Jim about love and belonging as she recalls a past life with Barker and questions the pastor Parsons. The tense night unfolds near a church steeple while a thrilling act looms and Poll faces an irreversible choice about her future.
E. T. Richards of Owens bottom farm northeast of O Kan used moonlight for field work to avoid daytime heat. He slept through the hottest hours and cultivated corn at night, missing the extreme heat.
Washington dispatch details tariff debates centering on hides with a free list conflict and Taft’s push for free raw materials. It covers census supervisor appointments, Alabama Senate speculation involving Governor Comer, and Bankhead’s challenge while noting enrollment risks for the big bill.
Wheat prices reversed weeklong declines with gains near 1.2 percent, while corn closed strong and oats were weak except for July delivery. Provisions fell by $1.30 to $1.40 from prior close. Chicago cash prices show No. 2 hard wheat at 1.05 to 1.15, No. 2 corn 66 to 68 cents, No. 2 white oats at 5 to 6 cents. In South Omaha trading, cattle receipts reached 4,000 with steady to lower values. hogs at 7.30 to 7.60, and sheep at 4.46 to 5.60 with lambs 6.00 to 7.26.
Chicago cattle receipts 16 500 with steady to weak demand. Steers 5 60 to 7 65, cows 3 50 to 5 50, heifers 3 50 to 6 00, bulls 3 40 to 4 85, calves 3 00 to 7 75, stockers 3 75 to 5 15. Hoogs receipts 40 000 with packing and hogs at 7 40 to 7 60, pigs 5 60 to 7 50, bulk 7 50 to 7 85. Sheep receipts 18 000 lambs strong, sheep 4 00 to 5 25, lambs 6 00 to 8 00.
Taft and Diaz will visit each other across the border in El Paso with Taft crossing into Mexico and Diaz entering the United States. The plan follows a mutual courtesy visit after Diaz leaves Mexican congress. Ciudad Juarez stands opposite El Paso as the meeting site.
The Missouri Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, organized May 15, aims to promote saddle horse interests. The first annual meeting is August 25 in Mexico Audrain county during the county fair. The group has 115 members from Boone Howard and Audrain counties with officers Dr. R. B. Graham president Judge Alexander Carter vice president Rufus Jackson secretary and W. J. Hawkins treasurer. The association plans a bimonthly magazine and Missouri seeks to rival Kentucky in saddle horse prestige as it has more bluegrass and settlers from Kentucky origin.
Washington grower C BE Parrish of North Yakima uses wooden troughs to grow cantaloupes in cube shapes. Cantaloupes are placed in four inch partitions and covered to keep their shape as they mature, selling in Seattle for high prices. Read more on his other fruit experiments and a separate report of a large asphaltum discovery on the Shoshone Reservation sparking land rushes.
A mother reassures a frightened child about noises from the roof, blaming it on the father’s aeroplane returns from a club session rather than burglars. The exchange hints at late work and excuses to avoid a “row” when the father arrives.
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