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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1935
Page
4
The Washington Tennis Association formed with Nic McCleery as president and a goal to fund two good courts. A bake sale fundraiser at Washington Cleaners starts Saturday, with plans for intercity matches in Muscatine and a possible city tournament within a month.
The Giants play the American Pearls at 7 20 this evening and the Little Demons meet Troop F at 8 30 at the Troop field in city league softball action.
Yesterday St Louis beat Boston 8 to 5 while Brooklyn defeated Pittsburgh 3 to 7 and New York topped Cincinnati 10 to 4. Games today Cincinnati at New York Chicago at Philadelphia St Louis at Boston Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. American Association standings show Indianapolis 29 19 .614 leaders with St Paul 38 30 . . Kansas City 25 20 .556 and Milwaukee 24 22 . . Toledo visits Indianapolis and other night games include Kansas City at Minneapolis Columbus at Louisville Milwaukee at St Paul.
In Boston on June 13 prices for shoes advance by grade style and construction. Sole leather climbs several cents per pound since March and calf leather leads with four cents or more per foot above April. Side leather up three cents and kid leather much higher. Hides rise a dime per pound for light native hides and 13 cents for heavy hides. Tanners pause on some lines awaiting bids from manufacturers. Calfskins are mentioned in the market notes.
Readable text notes an abnormal situation with scarce skins and strong demand for calf leather TM, signaling tension in the leather trade amid supply constraints and rising prices.
A record 84 boys and girls from 32 Iowa communities and ten other states join the University of Iowa all state orchestra and chorus. Prof. Charles B. Righter directs the orchestra with Herald Stark conducting the chorus as WSUI airs group programs Fridays at 5 p.m.
The Iowa state planning board urged extensive reconstruction of main railway lines for high speed passenger and freight traffic and elimination of all grade crossings. It recommended abandoning many minor branch lines unless replaced by better highway transport, noting railroads remain essential.
The Pan American clipper ship landed at Pearl Harbor at 8 57 after a flight from Alameda California. The flight time was hours and 50 minutes, 42 minutes shorter than the previous record.
The world’s first horse powered street railway began operation in November 1832 on a route from Prince Street to Fourteenth Street in New York. The line would later become the New York and Harlem Railroad.
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