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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
2
Prices for live poultry and livestock markets show heavy birds, ducks, geese, hogs, cows, steers, and sheep with mixed demand and slow trade. Receipts around 12,000, early indicators suggest steady to firm fat lamb and stocker values, while a Jerky note promotes Dave's Mentha Pep Sin remedy from Lemmon's Pharmacy for indigestion.
The report lists a tangle of grain prices and bids across corn wheat barley timothy clover and alders. Notable figures include corn ranges from 92 to 99 and wheat around 88 to 89 percent test white at 47 to 48. Barley shows 66 pimothy and 500 to Clover 250 with Toledo Grain Market Clover at 1750 cash and March cash at 1295. Timothy values around 280.00 and Alsike at 20.00 cash new.
Chicago March 21 Estimators project tomorrow's receipts of cattle 00, hogs 21,000 and sheep 14,000.
Crawfordsville March 20. Reed, visiting Davenport, joins grandmother Mrs C H Fishburn and family for an extended stay. High school juniors beat the senior boys in a Tuesday basketball game by several points. Funeral services for Mr 6 were held yesterday at 10 am in the Metropolis Church, Rev G W Pool officiating. Pallbearers named Yeager Stites Anwyl Amey Tina. Interment at Mt Pleasant Cemetery, one mile southeast.
Glasgow traces its beginnings to a little wooden church along Molendinar Burn in 360 A.D. Kentigern, the Scots apostle, is linked to the site though little is known for centuries. King David I revived the see of Glasgow and rebuilt its church in 116.
A rambling collection of remarks, anecdotes, and notices from town life. The item references Geo. Eglin in Washington, shoe shops, a local inventor, humor about hats and socks, churchgoing, stray comments on politics, social mores, and a parade of residents visiting town. It includes names like Lindbergh and various locals and visitors.
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