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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1931
Page
2
Chicago June 15 market reports show hog receipts 52,000 with direct. demand steady to lower 10 to 15 cents on best hogs while plainer lots and packing sows fall 15 to 25 cents. Prices span 5.10 to 7.00 for various weights. cattle receipts 20,000 with calves 2,500 and steer and yearling values mostly steady to weak.
Cattle prices firm for some grades while grassier lots and dairy types drift. Slaughter cattle and vealers show mixed ranges from about 6 to 9 dollars for steers and 5 to 7 for common grades. cows 3.75 to 6.25. bulls 3.50 to 4.50. Sheep receipts 15 000 with native lambs at 8.25 to 9.50 and yearlings 6 to 7. Ewes range 1.00 to 2.50 for lighter weights.
Combined hog receipts at 22 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 48 hours ending 8 a.m. today total 423200 head, up from 44700 last week. Prices mostly weak to ten cents lower with very slow marketing and plainer weekend receipts. Light 140 to 160 lb hogs sold 5.50 to 6.25 while ready good to choice marketed lower.
Mary Lou struggles between loyalties as she plans to confront Delight Harford in New York. She weighs Mrs. Lorrimer’s manipulations, Larry Mitchell’s truth quest, and Lorrimer’s happiness as she travels to meet Delight and reveal the real stakes.
Travers Lorrimer, heir to wealth, mistakes Mary Lou Thurston for Delight Harford and they marry in England during the war. Mary Lou assumes the role to satisfy Mrs. Lorrimer, but she grows fond of Travers and cannot keep acting. Larry Mitchell uncovers the real Delight in a revue, changing the love triangle.
Mrs. Lorrimer presses her claim on Travers and challenges Mary Lou to vow to stay silent. Mary Lou promises to yield while plotting her own course and wondering if Travers’s happiness lies with Delight Harford or with the older woman’s designs. The tension mounts as loyalties collide at Westwood House.
Capt. Frank Hawks completed a non-stop 900 mile flight from Rome to London in 6 hours 28 minutes, beating his schedule by two minutes. The Rome to London record had not been officially set before. head winds along most of the route were reported.
The tenth annual reunion headed by Mrs Nellie Gerge Tomlinson collector of customs Des Moines will be held Sunday noon August 9 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds Des Moines A covered basket dinner will be provided music and a national speaker with ample time for visiting Descendants of the Tomlinson line are urged to attend and expected to set a record attendance in the capital city of Iowa Meat hog quotes follow with weights and price ranges from 160 to 350 pounds and packaging hogs with varying weights are included
Chicago markets show steady receipts across produce with totals at 413 008 cases and 21 percent extra firsts for butter amid unsettled pricing. Poultry and potatoes feature varied allocations with Idaho russets at 1.90 to 2.00 per sack and southern belled Irish cobblers around 2 65 per barrel, as market weakens on new stock and strengthens on select lines.
Chicago on June 15 reports Wheat Corn and Oats with varied closes. Wheat ranges from 57 to 71 cents while July futures show modest gains and declines. Corn shows July near 56 cents with Sept and Dec in the 60s. Oats trade around 25 to 29 cents with Rye in the 38 to 40 cent area. Prices for LAIRD futures appear around 7.95 to 8.07.
Market notes list cash grain bids with wheat at 3 dollars, corn bids around 57 to 58 percent for various quality grades, oats between 25 and 27 percent white varieties, and rye, barley, timothy, and clover price ranges including timothy from 75 to 804 and clover from 1125 to 1825. Specific lots show yellow and white corn varieties with percent readings and sample grades near 61.
Grain receipts show 207 cars of Wheat 115 cars of Corn and 19 cars of Qats recorded in the market tally.
Toledo market note lists Clover domestic prime old 12, prime new 13.75, prime choice new 14.00, prime choice old 12.75. October 13.75 and December 14.00 quoted. Alsike at 14.06 and Timothy hay per cwt 1.25.
Local readers report residents visiting Washington from Letts and Ainsworth R2. Families from Cole and Valley area shop here. A surprise birthday gathers neighbors at Milt Wolrabs farm. Keokuk County visitors enjoy the band concert and carnival praised as excellent. Twins seen at carnival. mothers spoken to at Sabbath School. A Crawfordsville contact confirms a promise made earlier.
Sunday afternoon a large funeral for J A Moorhead drew many locals including Mr and Mrs Ode Ferguson who drove guests from Crawfordsville. S S Smith directed. Ministers and a quartet performed while attendees exchanged news and shared ice cream and strawberries at the Ferguson home.
Brundage carnival enters its second week at the Berdo showgrounds under the American Legion Leon Beatty Post. The 30 attractions include Arthur Ray's Darktown Follies starring Hattie Noel the 207 pound comedienne. Performances run until midnight next Thursday with crowds packing shows nightly.
In Crawfordeville Ta a June 3 1931 communication to Mr Frank Macon of Detroit encloses details relevant to the correspondence. The fragment suggests a mailed letter or package with accompanying remarks.
The Maltese Falcon opens at the state this afternoon starring Bebo Daniely. Dashiell Hammett notes that temperament rules a detective, while criminals and especially women rely on sympathy to aid their schemes. The cast includes Ricardo Cortez and Robert Kiheit.
The cast includes Thelma Todd Una Merk el Otto Mattesen Dwight Frye Walter Long Agostino Borgato and J Farrell MacDonald in the ensemble.
Inherited talent marks Jackie Coopran's career as a leading child actor. He began at four and a half in The Kid with Charlie Kaplin, following his mother who played Little Lord Fauntleroy in San Francisco. At 15 he returns to film in Tom Sawyer at the Fox theater.
Cyrus Chapter No 28 of the R A M holds regular meetings on the second Friday of each month. J W Boslin serves as High Priest with A W Yard as secretary.
The table lists departures and arrivals for multiple rail lines and branches. It covers Golden State Limited Apache Local Freight and Mixed trains with daily and Sunday exclusions, plus westbound and eastbound services. It also notes California passenger restrictions and agent attributions for C B Q and other routes.
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