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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1936
Page
7
Markets Chicago June 1 show hogs 18 000 head with gains up to 56 cents from Friday. Cattle and hogs listed with price ranges by weight, with calves and feeders noted. Estimated tomorrow receipts: cattle 7 000 hogs 16 000 sheep 4 900. Lambs and yearlings priced, cows and bulls listed.
Chicago June 1 Chicago market reports steady to soft trends across produce eggs butter and poultry. Receipts include 88 984 cases of produce extra firsts 20 firsts 19 percent current receipts 18 percent dirties 17 percent. Butter market easy with 15 752 tub items and high special 271 percent ex tras 26 percent extra firsts 26 percent firsts 2549 standards 26 percent. Poultry market steady to weak with varied receipts across cars trucks fowls springers broilers leghorns ducks geese turkeys roosters and leghorn broilers. Potatoes on track shipments and market stronger.
The Chicago cash grain market reports mixed corn prices across grades from No 2 yellow 61 to 77 percent and No 4 mixed 58 to 59 percent. Other yellow corn ranges quoted include No 3 59 to 60 and No 5 mixed 58 percent.
In 1789 Bishop Berkeley during a visit to America observed Narragansett Indians using tar in medicinal nostrums. He, facing illness in Cloyne, promoted tar water as a universal remedy, drawing sharp criticism from medical men and ridicule from newspapers in both America and Britain.
Readable items show weekly yard sale events at City Feed Yard by Midway Sale Co with Wednesday June 2 listings including Mrs Ve Matlock at 620 North 4th Ave and Snyder Hayes closing out sale at 630 West 612 Street in Washington Iowa.
Isobel Venn returns to Barrett after college and becomes the belle of the town. She dates Ben Hutchins and Ted Carroll, who both court her while Barrett residents resent her engagement to Ted, a city man with refined manners, altering local loyalties.
Scientists report a fossilized crab dating millions of years found near Longhead proves western Queensland was once submerged under seawater. This discovery confirms a historic marine environment in the region and highlights geological history.
Isobel pressures Ted about rumors of cowardice and a planned test at Wayland crossroads. An anonymous letter prompts Ted to confront Isobel but he realizes their worlds differ, admitting a mistake about their future. He leaves, and Isobel remains astonished at the confrontation.
Dr. G W C Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory New York Times reports on noise reduction ideas for England. He chairs the ministry of transport noise committee and envisions sound absorbing materials in steel frame flats, doubled walls, sound absorbing ceilings, and air conditioned streets with sealed openings to reduce tram, car, and truck noise.
The passage describes Liechtenstein as a small European principality with no army and no poor. Parliament acts locally while the prince resides abroad yet communicates with citizens by telephone. Vaduz is a quiet capital where residents produce bread cheese milk honey wool wine and contentment.
The article discusses bride price customs and how payment of wealth for a woman affects her psychology. It cites a Kaffir bride who feels proud of the price she brings and would scorn herself if she cost nothing.
About 55 percent of the diamond crop each year is purchased for use in various manufacturing processes. The statistic highlights the diamond market's role in industrial applications and production workflows.
A fragment mentions bees and worker lifespans from one to nine months and notes the queen bee’s life is rarely more than to see you. The text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or entities.
Decoration day Saturday drew praise as one of the best parades with horses ridden by L A Jones and Martin Whittaker delighting spectators in a dayslong display of old style pageantry amid modern cars. The letter from Pearson at Ainsworth notes community pride and local names like Laycock of Caterpillar Tractor Co. in Peoria and relatives in Ada Oklahoma Austin Minnesota and Dublin.
At 1 30 P M Decoration day services drew a large crowd with music and singing. Dean Mead of Wadghington spoke. Many came from nearby to visit friends in their old hometown. Dc W Lins and family attended and he will go to the Angus cattle sale near Iowa City next Saturday.
Mrs. W. R. Gamon of Pleasant Hill came home last Tuesday from the hospital at Oskaloosa in improved health. Mrs. Ellan Sr. Wallace asks the Evening Journal be sent to her daughters Mrs. Della Young of Mt. Pleasant and Mrs. B. W Cole of Edgewater, Colorado. Also notes thanks to Mrs. Wallace. Clint Shulls attended Decoration Day along with Joe Conrads from Crawfordsville.
A noted visit from Mr and Mrs Boyd Foster and Mrs Marion Denison of San Diego accompanies social greetings. S W Augustines of Ainsworth attended Decoration Day services. W J Brinnings of near Valley on Keota R3 died Saturday, with many locals. A BR Macreadie of Daytona Beach sends regards and plans to visit July first. F H Lavcock and family from Peoria NL visited during Decoration Day events.
The Portuguese explorer John Goncalves Zarco founded a colony on Madeira and became its first governor. Porto Santo’s governor Peres Trello held his office there, and his daughter married Christopher Columbus, linking Madeira to the Americas.
Armour Griggs of Washington R F our renewed their home daily subscription during their visit. Many thanks to Mr and Mrs Griggs for stopping by.
A large Park crowd gathered Saturday as Pierce Knox performed on the program leaving many attendees eager to hear him. The event highlights a festive Decoration Day atmosphere with music drawing a full audience.
Mr and Mrs Roy Sowagh of Moline Illinois visited Saturday at the Ross Van Nostrand home and other relatives.
The Crawfordsville Imprint reports Roth and Walery of Wayland and Washington win the contract to erect a new bank building. The structure must be finished in sixty days and should be ready for business by early October. North and west fronts will feature St. Louis pressed brick.
A letter from A J Johnson of San Benito comments on the Journal delivery time and reader habits. He complains about insufficient rain hurting crops and praises the G O P while noting he voted absentee for Hoover, and adds a remark about Brighton’s ex mayor being a Democrat.
The passage notes beads formed from teeth shell bone ivory and especially chamois teeth with two formations. By the Aurignacian period the bends are no longer rare, indicating widespread use of fossil dentition for ornament and tool work in early human sites.
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