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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1927
Page
2
Cattle receipts 400, prices up to season highs across heavies and yearlings with grain fed cattle leading gains. Sheep receipts 4,000 with fat lambs and yearlings rising. hogs 5,000 with fair activity and declines in lighter weights. Prices listed for steers, cows, yearlings, sheep and hogs across ranges and top figures.
Chicago grain market report shows Wheat for July posting a 1.47 percent gain at open 1.48 percent high and close, with prices around 1 44 percent note.
Readable lines show percentages and figures for CORN OATS LARD RIBS RYE and related July and Sept values. The text appears as scattered OCR fragments with mixed punctuation and no clear report structure or full context.
Chicago markets list grain bids with Wheat at 1.37 percent gains for four red, Corn bids ranging from 93 to 95 for yellow and mixed colors, Oats from 42 to 51, Barley 89 to 96, Timothy 4.75 to 5.75, Clover 20.00 to 35.00. shows varied color grades and price ranges.
Arnold Bennett compares reading to an insurance policy and lifeboat that provide security amid world insecurities. He describes the reader’s inner life as an ideal refuge and eternal source of inspiration cultivated through books.
The domestic chicken likely descends from the red jungle fowl found in northern India and Southeast Asia. Domestication may have occurred in Burma or nearby regions. Chinese tradition claims poultry reached China from the West around 1400 B.C.
A brief notice states the journal seeks payment for advertisements and will conduct a trial to confirm the demand.
Washington Markets show butterfat and fresh eggs prices per dozen for amgheani el Hens and Leghorn varieties. Offers include Springs ducks geese beef hides and horse hides by the pound or each, with no market for thin sick or crippled poultry.
Bright on route work begins on the road between Brighton and Clay as the county road gang advances. The Meachem family hosts neighbors to meet Mr and Mrs Frank Meacrem. Local updates cover farming, school, court matters, obituaries, a will dispute, and road detours near Wellston and Hubert Kasosky’s.
Brighton notes list residents and visitors including Rev James and family attending a state Christian churches convention in Des Moines, Supt Woodruff and Miss Laura Bennett visiting Iowa City, Mrs Holden from Denver en route to Salt Lake City, and Crandall Motor Co. leaving town. Several illness updates and travel plans follow, with Edgar Wise planning a California road trip and the Painter sisters visiting Belknap. Blanche McCarty performs a whistling solo in Iowa City.
The Washington Iowa paper reports Democratic rifts amid state and national factions, noting discord between War Hypocrites and Byington allies, plus a disputed Chicago convention. It lists officers for the Washington Soldiers Aid society, wounded from Co F 11th, local marriage notices, a post office poetry note, horse theft arrest details, a July 6 1864 wedding, and a dead letters list.
The Nevins Tanner Stock Co. has performed at W. U. L. station this week and attracted strong attendance each evening coworking with Wednesday noon showings.
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