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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
7
Classified fragment lists sale items including cats and a mineralized tankage product with iodine. Mentions contact Wittmer in Havre and a 1938 date. Partial text. no clear price or complete seller details.
Sunday features a choral service with "Haililts Triumph" and "He Giveth Us the Victory" led by Mrs. D R Steninger, Mendelssohn and Gounod preludes, and an Easter offertory. Carol Nicholson visits family in Schaffer home. Hicks visit Thornburg and relatives in Cedar Rapids. Mr and Mrs Lindley Coon celebrate 35th anniversary. Karl Hoeter hospitalized in Long Beach. Ed Morrow visiting in Iowa City. George Foster discharged from Mercy with continued care. Charles and Mrs Green in Mercy hospital.
Hospital stays reported in Iowa City from Friday to Sunday for observation. Donald Durian of Chicago visiting relatives at the Durian home. Mrs Steninger served as bridesmaid for Martha Jones of Ainsworth at Grace Episcopal Church wedding to David L Armatrone of Minneapolis. Mrs Moffitt returned home after knee ligament injury recovery time with Dewey Hoefert family. Mrs Donald Bidwell traveled by train to Chicago then Detroit to visit brothers Frank Bower and another sibling. Mrs Neil Humble and Mrs Clarence Brown visited Washington for dinner with Humble’s son and family.
Mrs G M Humble relates that the tumble family moved from Washington to Wellman on Saturday. He is employed at the Wellman Produce.
Twelve members of the Friendly Social club plus two guests met at Mrs. Frank Mayhew's home for an all day quilting session. They worked on a crazy patch quilt top for charity, making substantial progress. A sack lunch was served at noon. S. W. Easter celebrates a birthday today.
Iowa reporters list social and travel items including visits in Washington and Iowa City. Residents Roy Wood Norman Wood and others are noted with activities from school absences to sales, shipping hogs, birthday celebrations, and relatives visiting kin in Kirksville and Davenport.
Mr and Mrs Everett Coffin were honored guests at a supper in the Albert Coffin home Washington. The event marked their 25th wedding anniversary with eighteen present. The couple received a silverware set from their children. Bruce Jones drove to Grinnell with Mrs Lincon his mother in law. Mildred Coffin from Oskaloosa spent the weekend with family. Mr and Mrs John Mason of
Chicago cash grain snapshot shows corn bids with mixed yellow varieties around 57 to 59 percent moisture, oats trading in the 40s, and soybeans showing a 110 percent reading with unclear grade details. The fragmentary data indicate price ranges and sample grades across corn oats and soybeans in the Chicago market.
Market steady for Mees with receipts 855 cases. Fresh graded first a 16 percent and extra first 164. Current receipts 5 percent, dirties 14 percent, we checks 14 percent. Poultry market steady with 44 teveks noted and prices unchanged.
Researchers study substitutes and the materials they replace noting odd properties. Kornseal balls resemble rubber but do not bounce and puzzle scientists as they explore underlying causes.
Xenia March 21 farmers debate Coralville lake project funding. The proposed money would finance roads to ease mud and field work as locals assess the impact. Lester Cook and Gene Stephenson voice concerns about water and drainage.
Chicago markets report hogs at 10 cents higher early with top 5.65 and various weights, cattle receipts around 6,500 with steers and yearlings weak, top 11.75 for calves and heavy steers up to 16.60, cows and heifers weaker, sheep lightly traded near steady at 10.00 to 10.15 for best wooled lambs, with tomorrow’s receipts forecast.
Grain table lists wheat futures May July and Sep with price levels and percentage changes. Corn futures May and July show values and shifts. Additional HTH and GATS entries include unclear figures and percentages for other commodities.
At the hospital Madonna Finke Crawfordsville was dismissed yesterday. James Pease and Maxine Watson of Washington underwent tonsillectomies this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Oral J. Gingerich of Wellman are parents of a daughter born this morning weighing seven pounds and twelve ounces. Lyle Duncan Cotter underwent a minor operation today. The rest appears as garbled figures and text.
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