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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
7
A series of small ads include a yearling Western Ohio steer for sale by R. L. Orr and an inspection offer on life insurance. Also advertised are baby chicks from Ram Seier's Hatchery. In Des Moines a stormy session featured lobbyists clashing with lawmakers over truck tax reform as Representative William Judd threatens to resign.
Journal Subscription Representative D. F. Macon compiles brief notes from nearby towns. Short items cover local events, business updates, and community notices with names and places mentioned in passing.
A rural note describes Harry Macon visiting his parents near Springville north east of Cedar Rapids. The writer mentions colder weather around Cedar Rapids and snow remnants, plus agricultural activity with pigs calves cows and abundant shock corn and beans. Local visits include Cornell College at Mt. Vernon and thanks to subscribers in Des Moines and New Haven area.
For eleven years Frea Giffoniello, a Newark high school teacher, has gathered excuses from students after absences. The samples show quirky, failing, and even odd parent notes and a troubling anecdote about a nearby teacher sniffing pupils to judge cleanliness.
Paton, 46, editor of the Audubon County Journal, was found dead in his wrecked car that plunged 40 feet from a bridge into a creek bed. Louis Culver spotted the car near weeds. coroner cited a bridge railing impact. The Decameron note appears unrelated to the incident.
Chicago market update shows hogs 9 000 head with steady to strong tones and top at 7.50. Cattle at 9 000 with calves 1 600 and limited steady to lower prices for light weight cattle and yearlings. Sheep 7 000 with very slow trade and undertone weak with arrivals estimated tomorrow.
Open high low and close figures for wheat corn soy oats and rye futures in May July and Sept contracts. The table shows percent changes and bid figures with May July and Sept maturities across HRW GRY CORN OATS RYE and additional corn and soy data.
Chicago March 29 report shows produce unsettled with overall receipts about 900 180 gross lbs and extras around 23 24 percent while market remains steady at 50 869 cases with unchanged quotations. Poultry shows steady market with receipts 45 trucks and varying ranges for ducks geese hens Jeghorn hens spring chickens roosters broilers and turkeys quoted in mixed percent moves.
Chicago market notes show mixed corn prices from 48% to 50% with several yellow and white lots. Oats range from 22% to 38% for white grains, with multiple white lots around 30 to 32%. Corn receipts total 62 cars.
A Chicaro psychologist asserts there is no virtue in waking early. Sufficient sleep is what starts the day right.
Notice lists weekly journal sale dates at Midway Sale Co Columbue Junction every Wednesday and Friday. It references Bethel church two miles south of Dublin and a person Wilbur Millera with address 826 West Jefferson.
Whittaker & Son MGs announces a community sale featuring 75 hogs and pigs, cattle including dairy and springer stock, sheep and lambs, horses, 25 hedge and white oak posts, 5000 feet of 1x12 lumber, and ventral items. Buyers welcomed. lunch room available.
An informative note explains the copperhead's lethality and behavior. It warns it strikes when disturbed, rarely bites, and favors dying under logs and in woodpiles. The reptile hunts by night, rests by day, and inhabits thick forests, appearing like a copper-red brown leaf pile when coiled.
The lower Saguenay from Chi countimi to the St Lawrence junction forms a sea level fjord. Indigenous peoples called it deep and mysterious while Jacques Cartier reportedly marveled at Tadoussac’s dark floor as he passed the narrow gorge.
Advertisement from Reister's Markets lists prices for sweet cream sour cream and eggs, with 4 values. It notes discounts on No 2 poultry including crooked breasts and water blisters and says all no 2 poultry will be bought at value. It mentions delivery payment to the plant and an unspecified note about poultry restocking.
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