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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1929
Page
2
Hogs market slow to strong with Friday averages, receipts around 4,000 head. Top price 1155 for 210 lb hogs. 170 to 380 lb hogs 3135 to 1150. choice heavy butchers 1135 to 1140. light lots 85 lb pigs 915. Shippers bought 500. estimated holdovers 5.000
Market reports show lighter yearlings and light steers fluctuating 50 to 100c lower while stockers and choice light to medium weight steers stay near steady. Cows and butcher heifers drop 50 to 100c. bulls ease 25c. Sheep receipts 4,000 with steady tone. clipped lambs and fat lambs command 1575 to 1740. heavy woolskins and lambs traded around 1665 to 2000 for various classes.
Chicago futures show Wheat March at 1.18 to 1.26 in later months with steady posting across contracts. Corn May around 92 to 94, July near 96 to 97, oats tracking mid 40s, and lard futures trading around 12.05 to 12.90 with normal margins noted.
The city council of Washington Iowa passes Ordinance 181 to appropriate funds for the 1929 fiscal year starting April 1. It details consolidated fund allocations for salaries police street work grading and contingencies and names funds from library water electric bond cemetery fire sewer and more with tax levies approved August 6 1928.
City ordinance sets City Clerk salary at 125 dollars per month and repeals conflicting prior ordinances including Ordinance 168 from 1926. It takes effect after passage and publication, approved March 1929 by Mayor J. W. Applegate with City Clerk W. H. Fulton attesting.
A peculiar figure characterized as a large irrational creature searches for a homey hotel atmosphere and attentive hotel service around the house.
A list of market prices for dairy fat test butter and various poultry items including leghorn hens roosters ducks and horsehides. The document notes higher pay for delivered poultry and states no market for sick thin or crippled poultry.
Report notes a well attended Roy Wilcox sale with active bidders. Clerk Chas Lemley settled the proceedings quickly. Neighbors report Dodder twins remain hard to tell apart, as one resembles mother and one father, easing future mix ups. Ode Ferguson recalls twins who copy each other in squalls. Department of eCommerce cites 336 million frozen eggs imported last year. A lecturer links eye color to diet while Deep Sea eyes glare when spinach is forced on him. Husbands roast cooking that isn’t done well.
Rex Smith and his Crawfordsville party visited yesterday near Keota and discussed two top selling food sows from Col R. L. Keyser in north Washington. Each sow has about ten pigs two weeks old. Another farmer reported three sons farrowed 46 pigs and saved thirty. We fear more may die.
A collection of quirky local items notes and anecdotes including gardening plans farmers sowing oats and March timing. Mentions of people like Mr Sebe Welsh Charley Schmoeller and stories about taxis wildcat stock and new homes give a snapshot of small town life and upcoming projects.
Three young calves offered for sale by Sanitary Dairy. Phone contact listed as 769 Black.
A gippy parade of social quips and stray facts recounts ten years of Henri Asphalt turning hat ideas into wealth, Rockefeller gifts to Yale, weather control predictions, gossip about actors and sports figures, and scattered remarks about barbecues and travel.
Ruth, four, asks a neighbor how old she is and learns twelve. The girl quips she must grow younger next year, prompting Ruth to exclaim a surprising math lapse. The brief cartoonish exchange highlights a child’s literal view of numbers.
A French biologist used intense artificial light rivaling sunshine to grow three beet generations in a year. The strong illumination sped flowering and seed germination compared with normal growth.
The archipelago of Japan comprises six main islands and hundreds of smaller ones. This overview notes the primary landmasses and the extensive number of surrounding islets forming the nation’s geography.
Toledo grain market bulletin lists Clover and Timothy bids with cash and futures values. Clover shows cash old 17.50 and new 17.50 with March and related figures. Timothy quotes cash 2.90 and May 3.90. Allike at 20.00 cash new.
Chicago Cask Gea in CHICAGO Ma 0 UP reports mixed advance and bid figures for wheat corn oats barley and timothy with various No 4 No 5 and No 6 grade ranges and sample grades across grains. Includes soy and timothy price ranges and notes on percentages and pounds.
A woman laments losing her can opener while a man jokes the missing item is away on a rest cure in Capper's Weekly style. The living room scene captures a light domestic moment with period humor.
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