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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
2
Chicago market notes show hogs receipts 19 000 with 5 600 direct demand and varied gains to 7 60 top for 166 to 250 lb hogs. Cattle receipts 7 500 with calves and yearlings active, beef cattle mixed gains and steady to firm, top 8 80 for fed yearlings. Sheep receipts 10 000 with steady to higher market, best native lambs 7 76 to 8 25 and fat ewes 1 00 to 1 75.
Chicago reports mixed gains and declines across produce, poultry, dairy, and potatoes. Butter receipts rise with high extras. poultry shows weakness with limited imports. cheese holds steady. potatoes track 264 cars with steady market for Bliss varieties across several southern states and North Carolina Irish abductions.
The data shows open high low and close figures for Wheat Corn Oats and Rye across multiple delivery months including June July September December and Mee with various percentage values and a separate LAIRD line listing price figures for July and Sept.
Cash grain report from Chicago shows mixed wheat and corn values with multiple grade color codes and several feedgrain items listed. Oats barley timothy and clover prices also appear with ranges across grades and mixes.
Toledo market notes list seed and hay prices as of June 18 with Clover farm seed in prime and old categories, October and December futures, and Timothy hay priced per cent. Alsike hay cash price also shown.
Travers Lorrimer mistakes Mary Lou Thurston for Delight Harford and forces her to play the role. Mary Lou grows to care for him, while Delight, watching, considers the consequences and the mother Mrs. Lorrimer hopes to avoid tragedy. A reporter uncovers the real Delight as tensions rise.
Mary Lou parts from Delight Harford and plans to leave her current life behind in New York. She rides to Oakdale then returns home tired and exhausted by the strain of keeping the truth from Lorrimer and the others. Delight schemes to protect her position while navigating a complex web of affection and deceit.
The passage recalls Travers Lorrimer as a substantial figure amid concerns of safety and freedom from financial worries. The narrator contemplates youth fading and hopes for Travers to have met a valiant end, only to reveal that he lives, with the scene ending on a To Be Continued Tomorrow.
Grain receipts show wheat at 183 cars with Corn at 57 cars and oats at 18 cars. The data lists shipments by commodity and car count, indicating ongoing rail deliveries.
Xenia correspondent reports numerous visits and social calls. Families from Northwellman Dunlap Ainsworth Marshall and Waterloo are cited, with several Mrs. Stephens Cook Coltirth Stewart and Frame households hosting or visiting. A note adds Dick Stephens harvesting alfalfa hay yielding 4.14 tons per acre.
Numerous guests from Noble and Wayland Mennonite churches attend a get together in Pulaski on Tuesday, June 16. Local families host visitors and relatives including Swartzendrubers, Eicher, Basinger, and Wittmer kin while births and summer visits color community life.
The queen bee lays fertilized and unfertilized eggs. Unfertilized eggs hatch into drones, so drones have no father. Some say the queen bee is both father and mother of drones.
Records of duels in Virginia before the Revolution note Edward Stallings and Capt. William Eppes clashing in 1419 at Dancing Point on the James River, with Stallings killed in the encounter.
Keota residents report a planned sale of foods arranged by administrator KE Blieher for Saturday June 27 at 6 o’clock. The notice, to appear in the Keota Mail and Rivining Journal, outlines items for sale as the community notes a pickup in activity and local agricultural offers.
The report visits J. B. Hanley in the area near Wellman and highlights Penningroth Bros cattle near Waltman. It mentions Clegg Bros. sale at Ainsworth, introduces Arnold Oral and Donald, and notes Rev. Dewey and the Wellman band drawing crowds. Concludes with postmaster convention chatter and a Des Moines lawyers meeting.
President Hoover greets wounded World War I veterans at a White House Lawn party in Washington D C. The event honors disabled veterans cared for in government hospitals with nurses guiding them along the lawn.
Fragmented timetable listing limited morning and evening trains for Apache Knoxville Branch and Western lines. Includes local passenger services daily except Sunday, freight trains, mixed trains, and California passenger connections with stops and times. Notes agents L Goodlander and W. C. Bell listed with train numbers and service windows.
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