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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1935
Page
7
Readable market summary shows bids and top prices for cattle calves and yearlings, with gains vs last Friday. Prices span choicest lots to light feeds, including feeder grades and vealers, plus sheep and lamb figures and week’s top values.
Chicago market report details unsettled prices and varied receipts across poultry categories. Notes include totals like 20,723 cases with a 23 percent firsts, 238 curtails, and dirties at 20 percent, plus 19,222 tubs and 24 extras in another market segment. A third segment shows a weak market with dozens of trucks and mixed poultry weights and percentages across fowls, geese, and ducks.
The notice lists prices for Brown Eggs at 2 per dozen, White Eggs at 2 per dozen, hens at 4 cents per pound and over, under 4 percent, and broilers priced at 12 cents per pound for large hens and 14 cents per pound for smaller broilers.
Irving N. Lewis brings five top vaudeville acts to the State Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday. Chelm st Orr & Co headline with feats praised by Robert Ripley. Acts include Billy and Betty Starr, The Two Kays, The Radium Girls, Ralph Delre and Andrew Mack, and Jack Del Rio's Synacopators.
Potatoes on track 209, rivals 146. Shipments 1,018 with a slightly weaker market. Turkeys reach 17 and roosters 14 in the latest market update.
In Chicago on June 8 the cash corn market shows No 1 yellow at 861/2 cents, No 2 yellow at 85 cents, No 3 yellow at 85 14, and No 5 yellow at 85 cents in a brief bulletin from United Press.
United States postage stamps are produced at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.
Article notes community news from nearby towns as part of the Journal’s subscription series. Highlights include brief items on local events, school activities, and civic announcements affecting residents.
The report describes many workers in fields as ground dries, Edward Stout from Brighton R.2 remarks no farmer has cause for complaint yet. Grass and water are plentiful this year and the hay crop should be good, with corn fields being plowed and planting ground ready to respond to warm weather.
The exchange shows a wife complaining the husband insulted her by phone yesterday and a patient husband insisting he is nearly ready. The light domestic vignette captures a stalled morning routine and a tense yet humorous back and forth.
The Evening Journal reporter plans a Washington visit and hopes to spotlight the Midwest and Iowa towns. Readers are urged to attend Catherine Linnenkamp’s household goods sale on Monday June 10 at 314 South Marion before her move to Ohio.
A collage of rural chatter with names like Frank Sickels Silas Finke and Geo Heitz. Mentions Farming activity in Crawfordsville Elmer’s graduation and local kinship stories plus light social vignettes from Travordyke’s in Ainsworth and a playful exchange about hats between a Hollywood correspondent and his wife.
Frank Priebe urges egg producers to keep hens on clean feed and away from odors to preserve flavor. He explains shells offer little protection against odors and emphasizes controlling odor exposure in feed, handling, and storage to prevent market losses.
The 20th Century production of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables stars Fredric Merch and Charles Laughton under Richard Boleslawski. March gives Valjean a stellar performance while Laughton excels as Javert. Rochelle Hudson and John Beal add romance to the tale.
Grundy Center item reports Ferd Henze Jr. whose parents farm north of town. A 2 year old boy ran with a stick in his mouth and fell on his face. The stick pierced the top of his right tonsil causing a serious painful wound with profuse bleeding.
Governor Her ring accepted an invitation to attend the Lang O' Smiles jubilee in Sioux City on June 12 13 and 14. He will be present on June 13.
Sheriff Keeling solved a staged crime after discovering excessive blood at the scene. Friday Fleming Jr confessed to spilling chicken blood and faking a robbery at his home, with $120 unaccounted for under a rug.
The skull of a woman found in London in 1925 and nicknamed the Lady of Lloyds has been nominated as the oldest known example of modern man. A British anthropologist concludes she lived in the early Neanderthal period.
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