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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1935
Page
7
Markets report Chicago May 2 hogs totaled 11 000 with 5 000 directs. Prices range from 5. to 9 1/4 for various weights. Cattle and calves receipts about 4 000 and 2 000 respectively with steer market steady and varied ranges for slaughter cattle and feeders. Sheep volume 16 000 with lamb and ewe prices shown and Friday estimates listed.
Prices for local produce markets provided courtesy of W. S. Reister & Sons. Delivered price listings cover fresh fruits and vegetables with daily market quotes and regional assortment details.
Chicago reports unsettled egg receipts 26 381 cases with extras and firsts around 24 percent while current receipts 23 percent dirties 22 percent Butter market weak with receipts 7 604 halves specials 28 extras 27 extra firsts 26 firsts 25 seconds 25 Standards 27 Poultry market steady with receipts 19 trucks fowls springers broilers leg horns ducks geese turkeys roosters leghorn broilers 19 Potatoes on track arrivals 101 shipments 652 market weak.
Chicago May 2. No. 2 mixed 89 percent No. 3 mixed 87 to 91 No. 2 yellow 89 to 90 No. 3 yellow 89 to 90 No. 3 white 93. Receipts 60 cars.
A Capper's Weekly writer notes about 60 million Canadian dollars in worn paper money leave circulation yearly from Ottawa's parliament building. Bills of all denominations are worn out after under ten months and are chemically treated to erase print before being flushed away.
Journal notes a community sale every Saturday at City Feed Yard with a sale date column for scheduling.
A brief column from the Journal's subscription representative in Macon highlights nearby communities. It notes readership, service, and community ties, urging residents to support local journalism and subscribe for continued coverage.
May 2 in Keota drew a large turnout as Reed and Ferguson auctioneers conducted the Trier sale. The note extends thanks for the courtesy shown by all involved in the neighboring town event.
In a hotel conversation with George Zimmerman at Hotel Kenty the speakers discuss times and prices during peak periods and their inability to help. They mention Red Cross sales at Welliston Washington Crawfordsville and other locations and Art Stoutner planning to send in Evening Journal funds. Mrs Stoutner to read headlines for him.
Mrs. W. H. Pardum announces a closing out sale of her blacksmith shop and equipment on Tuesday at 1:30. The notice appears in the Kecta Buegle and the Evening Journal.
In a note from the Eagle office residents of Keota are praised as boosters for their home paper. Joe Lambert returns from his nephew's wedding and remarks on a fine celebration with plenty of food, expressing thanks for the county's daily newspaper support.
Lester Laubach of west of West Chester on Keota Road attended the sale and paid his father C. I. Laubach’s Evening Journal subscription. Lester says it’s the only way of knowing what’s going on at home and about neighbors and friends.
Wilbur Long, formerly of Washington, now clerking at Berry Grocery in Keota, reflects on budgeting. The entry recounts local events including a rainy day at the store, a serious illness of Mrs. Leo Craig near West Chester, a well attended Christian church supper, and a mothers and daughters banquet at the Methodist church.
Bill Fox sits on his roof as floodwaters pass by. Neighbor Sam rows over and asks about the missing fowls and orange trees. Fox replies the ducks can swim and the river reached above the windows, adding the wash needed anyway.
Coal tar colors have many important uses beyond dyeing cloth. They color inks rib bons and carbon papers and serve as artificial food colors. They also act as coloring agents for cheaper American liquors and as photographic sensitizers expanding camera vision to capture the invisible.
A note explains homographs are words that share spelling but differ in meaning such as bark the tree covering and bark the sound a dog makes and bark a boat term.
A sale Saturday May 4 features ten full blood whiteface cattle with calves, Hereford bulls, Black Angus bull, yearling steers and heifers, ten brood sows, calves, posts, a boat, furniture, and machinery. Buyers and sellers meet to fetch goods.
In Khand India women wood-cutters confront a maneater attacking one of their group. They rally with fearless pluck and attack using only sticks, a scene described as remarkable by observers.
Wellman residents hear Ward Miller and Mrs. A N Gardner plan a WSUI Iowa City broadcast Friday May 24 at 9 PM possibly extending a half hour. Helen Strieker contralto sings from WASUI. she and accompanist Mrs. Miller join a June set as she enters the state high school music contest. Other local notes include medical meeting attendance, a perforated ulcer operation for Charles Thrapp, and Lutheran clergy events at Blairstown and Millersburg.
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