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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1932
Page
2
Hog receipts reached 18 000 with light weights selling 4.75 to 4.95 dollars. Cattle and calves were steady with beef steers 7 to 8.50 dollars and yearlings up to 8.50. Sheep listings show 10 000 head with lambs 6.75 to 7.75 and feeders 4.75 to 5.50 dollars.
Combined hog receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8:00 a.m. rose to 31,200 from 19,410 a week ago and 22,100 a year ago. Prices ranged with light to heavy weights mostly steady or up, reflecting improved hauling and recent price gains. quotations given for various weight classes and sow categories.
Chicago March 11 A hopeful note on business from Charles E. Snyder editor of the Corn Belt Farm Dairies. Hog prices have risen about one dollar per hundredweight since last month with most gains in the past week. He says the upturn brings about two hundred dollars per car and restores confidence, calling hog production a basic factor in livestock farming and agriculture a keystone of the general economy.
The report notes hog prices vary with weight shrinkage and heavy hogs selling above quoted levels while lighter hogs fetch below. Hog buyers using shipping point weights are excluded from the current quotations.
Chicago March 11 prices for dairy and poultry items show butter in 9032 tubs creamery extras 2214 standards 2219 and packing stock 13 to 14 with specials 22 to 23. Eggs listed at 15409 cases current 11 extras 12 percent firsts 11 dirties 10 checks 9. Cheese categories include young Americas longhorns 13 brick fancy 12 15 daisies 13 14 doubles 12 prints 13 twins 12. Live poultry values cover turkeys young hens 22 young toms 17 old 15 No 2 13 hens 5 no 2 10 leghorn springs 15 No 2 11 roosters 11 ducks white 20 lbs and up geese 13. Potatoes 42 cars on track 225 US shipments 570 Wisconsin sarked round white 80 to 85 a few fancy dollars Idaho russets 130 to 140.
Grain receipts totaled 49 cars of wheat 78 cars of corn and 17 cars of oats reported in today’s market bulletin.
Chicago grain figures show wheat and corn values across contract months. Open high low and close figures appear with March May July and September for wheat and March May for corn, reflecting fluctuations in prices and percentage markers.
Lester Macon and associates traveled to Des Moines for an Iowa Royal Shorthorn show and sale on a cold windy day. The event drew 61 head, judged by Harry Hopley, with reports of lively bidding and comments from attendees on stock quality and lessons learned.
Classified note from Mrs. W. R. Gamon offering White Leghorn eggs for hatching at five cents above market price. Located at 23t3 end of day.
A garbled text snippet shows percentages and codes for oats and rye across months like Mar May July Sept. The fragment includes ratios, rates, and decimal figures with unclear context or units, making precise interpretation and naming difficult.
Chicago March 11 cash grain close showing mixed bids across Wheat futures and assorted corn prices. The noisy figures list several wheat varieties and corn colors with varying percentage bids, many ends cut midstream.
Charles Palmer was taken to Washington county hospital Sunday morning and had a successful appendicitis operation. He is reported as getting along as well as could be expected at this writing. Uncle Billie Wilson is on the sick list. William Bruty moved to his mother’s farm to farm there next year. Jake Ernest will be the farm hand for Sam Sigafoose this coming season. Mrs. John Caldwell returned to
The report mentions Bessie Wenger Hilsie Wagner and a Cedar Falls friend visiting parents in Centerville on Tuesday evening. David Neiswanger returns to school after illness. Howard Sayre assisted William Bruty with moving cattle from Vieasnant Plain on Thursday.
Mrs Thomas Gerdes reports Harold Anderson and family visiting in Glendale before returning to farm life on the Everett Stewart property. Ted Givens aided Orrie Rep hart s family move east of Ainsworth. Murray Smylie summoned to Crawfordsville by his mother's illness. Meint Koehler and Clark Hopping were victims of a Tuesday slaughter.
A Yale professor is cited claiming flowers appeared about 800 million years ago, while skepticism rises over the claim. The piece references using a chemical called Intion to deter dinosaurs from rose bushes, noting uncertainty about the spray’s effectiveness. The Spectator cites Hamilton.
Marion Davies stars in Polly of the Circus now playing at the State theater. The film showcases a thrilling circus and flying trapeze opening, a vibrant climax, and colorful romance directed by Alfred Santell with Clark Gable as the minister in love with the circus girl.
The united action for employment group reports 184,512 people placed in gainful work since the drive began. In the last 24 hours, bulletins show 7,495 jobs created for idle workers across various communities.
A discussion of evolution clarifies that modern theory does not claim humans descend from monkeys but posits that humans and anthropoid apes share a common ancestor.
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