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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1939
Page
7
The page highlights job and service notices with eager language, urging readers to respond. It emphasizes helpful postings and trustworthy advertisers, inviting engagement from job seekers and local customers.
OCR fragment shows scattered pricing and delivery notes with numbers like dozes and delivery terms, lacking clear names or dates. Unable to determine full event. summarizes a brief notice about delivery quantities and pricing in incomplete form.
A Salem school reunion drew 97 attendees including four former teachers Mrs. Della Downs Mrs. Winnie Belter Mrs. Joe Te Bockhorst and Geneva Prebyl and many former students. After a basket dinner a program honored teachers with songs readings and a true or false contest. The next gathering is set for the second Sunday in June with thanks given for an oil stove donation.
Page features Pioneer Streamlox braces for new suits, Imperial Wallpaper touted as washable, 1936 Ford and 1934 Chevrolet cars for sale. Also listed are a 800 lb black bull, 1932 Chevrolet pickup, Vita Bloom stockings, a humidifier furnace, screen cleaning services, and a Lloyd baby buggy with range, all advertised with local business names and contact hints.
Market reports from Chicago show hogs up 10 cents on light supplies with top at 6.75 and 180 to 250 lb ranges 6.55 to 6.70. Cattle and calves steady to higher on meager killing grades, light yearlings and steers 8.50 to 9.40, best heifers 9.35, feeders 8.50 to 9.50. Sheep steady with old crop lambs 8.00 to 8.75 and wooled natives around 10.00. Saturday receipts expected cattle 200 hogs 200 sheep 500.
Journal Subscription Representative D. F. Macon reports brief items from nearby towns detailing civic events, library updates, school activities, and local business developments. The column highlights community progress and upcoming municipal happenings.
Keota, Harmony, and surrounding areas show thriving crops with oats and beans in fine condition. Farmers list improvements, cattle coming on, and good fences with wells and stock facilities. Market prices for corn oats soybeans and car counts are noted along with regional exchange activity.
Chicago grain table reports July wheat at 2% and 73% in early figures, July corn around 49% ADR and 49%, with September and December points listed for multiple grains. The data reflect open high low close movements and percentages across wheat corn rye and oats contracts.
Chicago reports steady markets for produce poultry and potatoes. Receipts include 23 924 units for produce 52 trucks for poultry and 142 arrivals with 256 on track plus 1012 shipments for potatoes. Prices shown with varied ranges across categories.
The clip contains local greetings from E Bambrick of Seymour Iowa and notes about Clair D Neff’s Titus farm improvements. It also records a June 10 1989 letter from D F Macon Washington Iowa thanking for a birth record and family photos with references to Decoration Day and a growing family. Ardelle Hasty in Chicago sends news of reading the Journal and home folks.
A motorist swerved and killed a chicken on the road. An nearby cottage resident, stern at first, accepts two dollars offered as settlement. The incident contrasts with a public quarrel between two moviegoers who argued over hearing a private conversation. A local hall event followed by a social hour featured Mrs. Glenn Kallaus and others. Several residents visited hospitalized Mr. Critz in Iowa City and shared meals with neighbors.
Mary of Iowa City and C W Walsh with Virgil Lintz family of Kalona plus Dave Leeney and Merle Leeney of Cosgrove visited here Saturday to meet longtime acquaintances and W C Leeney of the Ford Avarage.
Valley plans a strawberry and ice cream supper for Friday night June 16 after an all day church meeting. Mrs. Charles Churchill and daughters plus Cloyce Zieglowsky visited Washington last Thursday. Local residents hosted visitors and guests through the weekend with several family gatherings and calls.
Marjorie Sheetz spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks after a day afternoon at the Zero Times home, returning to her work in Washington again Monday. Several from here spent Saturday in Washington.
Collier's Weekly reports the moon reflects fourteen times more light to Earth than Earth sends to the moon, highlighting the asymmetric illumination between the two bodies.
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