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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1939
Page
7
The listing shows prices paid for Shatetag Sweet Cream No 1 Sour Cream and No 2 Sour Cream per 1l7e, Hennery Brown Eggs, Hennery White Eggs per dozen, and No 2 Eggs per dozen. It notes payment per pound for delivered poultry to the plant and excludes poultry with defects such as crooked breasts barebacks water blisters and extreme thinness from payment.
May reports from small towns share daily life updates as residents like Frank Kallaus Ainsworth R2 and A D Rathmell R3 send greetings to The Evening Journal. Newsmen note station signals at Don Maxwell’s filling station and local farming activity including corn planting and new family member Wilma Jean at Virgil Krentz home.
Gus Roberts and his boys near Ainsworth expect about 225 acres of corn this year. Wilbur Been blossom, once bedfast, now cared for and reading the Evening Journal. Mrs. Durst’s home noted for neatness. Homer Pauls Grove funeral held in Washington. Rennie Schantz plans to prepare ground near Glen dale for planting.
Connecticut preacher turned inventor Prescott Ford Jernegan claims a gold accumulator produced real gold in Narragansett Bay and Lubec Maine. Jeweler Arthur W. Ryan joins, stock sells for 500000, fraud unravels as diver Charles Fisher hid gold. Directors repay profits. investors recover about 36 percent. Jernegan flees to Europe.
Chicago market report shows hogs steady to 5 cents higher with medium weight tops at 7.16 and 170 to 250 pound Good and Choice from 6.90 to 7.10. Cattle and calves mixed with calves up to 15 cents, best heifers around 10.60 and mixed yearlings to 11.60. wealers steady. Sheep and fat lambs firm to 25 cents higher with wooled offerings around 10.40 to 10.50 and ewes near 10.75. overall sheep steady.
The Chicago grain market shows corn bids with several mixed lots ranging from 50 to 62 cents per bushel for various quality grades. Mixed cargoes include two at 60 percent, four at 50, one at 62, and two at 61, reflecting fluctuating demand and supply conditions.
Journal Subscription Representative D. F. Macon reports on updates from nearby towns including local events, business news, and community notices affecting residents.
A fragment mentions Mrs. Frank Woodgale appearing in today’s Journal for Saturday at 1 30 west of Ainsworth. It also notes Ted Givans using a hose attached to his car and run under a chicken house to drive away rats, observed but not moving quickly.
Neighbors Mr and Mrs Em ery Irwin read the Journal on Ainsworth Road two, noting a fine flock of laying hens. A young adult on the farm arrived, though the mother hens shown no concern about strangers near the baby chick.
Mrs. Ben Fitzgerald discusses rats and colors, warning of nationwide complaints that may wipe out many small chickens. The article also notes good milk cows on a farm and mentions Sam and Homer Baird at Ainsworth Roo1 with Angus cows and promising calves.
A humorous exchange recalls Ray Lambert at Fitzgeraldy asking for a quarter of a Journal. The neighbor Vale Jones suggested keeping the quarter for a show while Lambert demanded his quarter back and paid two dollars.
On Davis Bros farm Charley Davis feeds pigs by the hundreds and more. Mrs Allison, formerly Ernestine Emery, enjoys farm life near Bethel Aims worth KR 2 keeps Shorthorn cows and raises good calves. A brown Swiss bull admired for good disposition. Also mentions C J Lease Journal at Crawfordville and readers John Hamilton and Bill Shannon at a banquet. Mary C White of Brighton reviewed the Evening Journal during a painting session.
An auction notice lists the F. W. Hagist sale to be held Friday northeast of Kenta at 1:00 PM. The brief notice provides location and time but few other details.
A reader comments on national saving every four years and global saving every twenty, then cites an Eastern professor teaching college girls to fall in love intelligently. The letter includes a check for 2 to the Journal from E Snider of Fairfield Iowa Route No. 4.
Series of percentages for various colors and categories with labeled CATS and CORN RECEIPTS mentioning 137 cars. Contains fragmented figures such as 41 percent 8 yellow 50 to 50 percent and 2 white 66 percent, without coherent context or complete sentences.
Chicago markets close with mixed grain futures. Wheat May around 74 and July 72 percent, corn May 49 and July 60 percent, oats May 31 percent, and rye/other contracts show varied quotes across May July and September maturities.
Long- running hoax about the first American bathtub, installed in 1842 by Adam Thompson in Cincinnati, spread as fact across cities like Boston and Philadelphia until Mencken exposed the spoof. Despite his 1926 confession, readers still cite it as history while other writers recycled the tale in reference works.
Westchester May 2 reports Mr and Mrs Fred Bauer hosted a large gathering at their home. Guests included Frank Yohe and son from Ottumwa Mrs Theodore Bauer and two children of Avery Mr and Mrs Loyd Bauer with children Harry Esther and Faith Mr and Mrs Walter Bauer Freddie and Mary Ann and Mr and Mrs David Bauer Also noted Ruth Bauer formerly Ruth Bauer has been ill but is improving Rev Theodore Bauer the couple's son serves as chaplain on a cruiser
Market stead receipt 29 710 cases with quotations unchanged. Poultry receipts include 33 trucks with ducks 10 to 12, geese 8, hens 13 to 18, leghorn hens 14 to 17, spring chickens 1844 to 21, roosters 1 to 12, broilers 17 to 18, and turkeys 14 to 20.
A terse line appears to debate who should make the choice, insisting the correct man should decide while implying a ritual or precondition favors that selection.
Come early for a broad sale offering 100 dead cattle including milk cows and springers plus stock steers and heifers. Including hogs shoats sows and boars. sheep lambs and a hedge and line post inventory. horses saddle horses and Shetland ponies. furniture bed frames dressers and more.
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