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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1933
Page
2
Markets show large hog and cattle offerings with mixed demand in Chicago. Hog sales include direct trades and bids mostly 16 to 15 cents off. top around 4.70 for heavy weights. Cattle and calves listed with price ranges across weights. feeders and stockers active. sheep steady with lambs trading from 6.75 to 8.35 per hundredweight for good and choice lambs.
Chicago reports weak eggs and butter markets with receipts for eggs at 4 732 cases and butter at 13 882 whs. Firsts and specials show varied price ranges while poultry remains steady with mixed gains across fowls ducks and geese.
The Chicago market notes commodity prices with entries for mixed grain and yellow and white varieties. Values include No 2 mixed at 46, 6 mixed at 29, No 2 yellow around 45 to 46, 3 yellow 45 to 45 percent, 4 yellow 44, 5 yellow 41 percent, and 1 white 47 percent, among other figures and percentages.
A temporary committee on wheat acreage at the Farm Bureau office appointed township directors to mobilize 135 county growers for a 20 percent acreage reduction next year. County Agent W J Roudabush led the meeting with R E Brown elected chairman, listing directors from Brighton through Seventy-Six townships to administer the plan.
Mrs Rhua Helmick of Lingnton won the Washington butter slogan contest with a nine word line and a prize of 25 pounds of butter. Edwin Horn Riverside and Mrs Lee Holland Washington finished close runners up.
Chicago grain table shows wheat, corn and oats figures with July and September contracts. Entries list price ranges, highs and lows with percent changes and irregular OCR fragments reflect partial values for May and Dec positions.
China’s railway network totals 12 165 miles extending through China proper Manchuria Kwantung territory and Kowloon reflecting a vast transport expansion in the era.
Iowa entomologist Carl J. French warns chinch bug damage will be unusually severe across the state though flight has limited earlier control. Officials plan a winter eradicaiton program from November to December to target dormant larvae while a false chinch bug also damages truck gardens but is less destructive to corn.
Des Moines Iowa July 21 the Iowa Beef Producers Association has released a beef cookbook with instructions on cuts and uses of beef.
United Press dispatch reports a calf with bulldog head and shoulders born on John Bascom’s farm near Vinton. In CoIesburg, Mrs. Livingston owns a near white colt with no coat discoloration, while Britt residents hear of a clever intercropping by John Husinga that yields beans around corn for a bountiful late crop.
The text describes several striking insects such as the dogbane heetla and the Cecropia moth. It notes the Cecropia is large and colorful, part of the giant sick worm group whose adults live brief lives and do not eat after mating.
The burial of pottery and statuary from ancient cities results from age decay and collapse, war destruction, and natural events like earthquakes and storms, which have played important parts in burying artifacts.
Organized baseball united the American League, National League, and the National Association of Pro?essional Baseball Leagues to resolve friction among teams and leagues. The move created a formal structure for professional play and competition.
D F Macon reports brief items from nearby towns including local events, notable meetings, and community updates. Short notices cover upcoming services, school activities, and civic happenings with emphasis on local figures and institutions.
On Saturday many residents and neighbors gathered with families from Crawfordsville and nearby towns. The note lists numerous locals and visitors including Bob Ferguson and family, Chas Marek, M Hollingers, Fred Foriash, Coffey and Holt families, and others. Threshing activity waned locally but continued near Iowa City, with a machine threshing near the airplane field on Sunday.
On a hot Sunday after Sunday school eleven visitors from Washington joined locals at the Quality Cafe in Brighton for dinner. Mrs. Edmond's son served a chicken dinner at a price cheaper than home, with others in attendance not yet known.
Lay Me Down to Steep Dorothy visits an Episcopal church for the first time and is startled by kneeling worshippers. She asks her mother what they are about to do and learns they will say their prayers.
Ode Ferguson states more personnel are needed as only limited hours for pet activities in the park are possible. He argues to expand staffing to allow extended access and supervision.
Mrs. Gilbert PF Hayes achieved a rare ace on the 120 yard hole at Nibley Park Salt Lake City with five witnesses present marking a notable addition to local golf history.
Publication fragment cites John Barrymore and a claim about his left eyebrow guiding a career path. Context unclear, but text implies a notable discovery or self insight linked to his appearance and acting trajectory. No verifiable events or dates available.
A pair of tramps debate the idea of winning first prize in a big sweep and how they would spend the windfall. One imagines upgrading basic needs like park benches while the other suggests freedom to travel and fish if wealth were gained.
Four year old Jeanne suggests her father turn his hat so the fish can see his license. Police dogs are noted to resemble wolves and sometimes act like them.
A witty dialogue plays on wealth and danger as a husband laments losses on Wall Street and a wife jokes about a police dog at their door. A guide asserts an Egyptian mummy is over 5000 years old and hints Moses may have seen it, prompting a tourist question about Moses in Paris.
Cc L Brown of Brighton visited our town Saturday thanking for an Evening Journal subscription. buyers discuss a hound at a bin sale priced thirty eight dollars. Meto Kallaus praised for weather remarks. Win McBride of Maore, recently recovering, was in town. Miss Esther McCreedy visiting Cedar Falls. Ainsworth keeps his Journal coming. Frank signs.
The reminiscence traces Barrymore family theater lineage led by John Drew and the uncle’s career. It notes Arthur Brisbane’s firing and a moment of self realization about being “Drew enough” to pursue acting. The piece mentions Reunion in Vienna opening Tuesday at the State theater and Barrymore’s continuing artistic ambitions.
Classified notice seeking a good house for rent with a small view. Contact via phone number 564 blue.
The bullfinch, beloved as a cage bird for its song and charm, is less favored in the wild in Britain where it is blamed for damaging fruit tree flower buds during winter and spring.
A Johns Hopkins scientist says future evolution cannot be foretold but likely leads to a race of supermen with feelings and ideas totally different from today. He cautions against relying on current trends to predict the path of human development.
Boulder Canyon dam sits a few miles east of Las Vegas New Mexico where the Colorado River marks the border between Arizona and Nevada.
Four states in the Union have laws allowing courts to award maintenance to divorced husbands as well as to wives. The states named are California, Maine, New Hampshire, and Ohio.
An entry notes a journal sale on August 3 offering household goods and carpenter tools at 321 West Washington, with Mrs. J F Simpson listed.
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