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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1929
Page
2
Lights on sale and odd lots of packing 10 averaging 1150 per head. Medium quality 51 pigs at 975. Shinpers took 500 and 11,000 reported. Compared with yearlings and light steers, fewer week age fed calves. Feeder stock show stronger weight demand, heavy cattle hold higher prices. market mixed with grade declines in medium and light categories.
Inside market notes show weight cutters 23¢ higher with bulls firm after hitting March peaks, stockers and feeders up to 25¢, mixed yearlings at 1450, and steers 1346th at 1450. Sheep receipts 5,000, week down from highs, fat lambs 1700 to 1725, hides modest gains amid seasonal feed demand, plus local notices and tributes embedded in the page.
The University of Notre Dame traces its start to 1842 with a state charter two years afterward. Initiatives were driven by missionary Father Sorin. A bishop mandated building a college within two years on the property.
The text notes that wild rice is not a true rice and compares ice lager husk color and texture to true rice. It mentions wild red as a vegetable and highlights its pairing with game, though the phrasing is fragmentary.
A fragmented ad column lists seed oats at 45¢ per bushel, mule queries, and contact names in West Chester. It includes references to a Pekin duck eggs 60¢ for 12, mineral fees, and a stallion for breeding, with multiple farm and breeder names and phone hints.
Poultry prices listed by item include cream and butterfat test per pound and fresh laid eggs per dozen. Sold items include tens and pullets, leghorn roosters from 1928 hatch, old roosters, heavy duck breeds, geese, beets hides, and horses hides valued per pound with extra payment for poultry delivered. No market for sick or crippled poultry.
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