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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1930
Page
2
Chicago livestock market totals reach about 110 receipts with cattle and sheep included. Feeder and slaughter cattle show uneven declines with top prices around 9.65 for cattle and 9.15 for lighter weights, while heavier weights trend lower. Sheep run 9,000 with lambs and feeding lambs varied, top bids near 9.15 for lambs and 6.25 to 6.75 for feeding lambs.
A weekly bulletin warns livestock owners after multiple heat related horse losses. It cites veterinary counsel that horses working in the field that cease to sweat must be stopped to prevent heat stroke. Outbreaks are recorded in Grundy Center Dy Sart Blairstown and Washington West with warnings to farmers and practitioners.
The report lists numerous towns and regions including Tipton London Lost Nation Waterloo Traer and Dubuque noting diseases such as hemorrhagic septicemia in cats navel ill in colts coveldiosis in calves coccidiosis in chickens and rabies in sheep. It also records grain yields with percentages for oats rye barley and timothy.
Census preliminary figures show ten years of population shift from rural counties to urban areas across eastern and southern states. Of 295 counties in 12 states reporting, most lost population while city growth outpaced state totals, indicating continued urban migration. The piece notes Liverpool hosts the largest warehouse in the world capable of storing the city’s population.
The Wellston area buzzes with threshing and haying as good weather continues. Farmers juggle first and second crops while townsfolk like Kallous and Carlson run errands, weddings and sales listed in the Journal. A tree sitter near Brighton and a high perch near Strawberry Point are noted among local happenings.
July 20 report from KROTA states Ray Gawthrop, proprietor of the Gawthrop case, is hospitalized in Muscatine with cuts and bruises after a collision near Grandview early Sunday. His auto was driven by Floyd Holzworth of Harper. another car was driven by Melvin Jackson of Grandview with Floyd Werner as passenger. Jackson suffered a fractured third and severe cuts. Werner was cut and bruised. Holzworth sustained several fractured ribs.
Local report describes an unnamed man Wan badly cut on the fore and neck with teeth knocked out. He received first aid from Grandview and Wapello physicians before transport to a hospital in Muscatine. The piece notes visitors from Robstown Texas and Peabody Kansas visiting area families, and mentions other local social events and guests.
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