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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1941
Page
5
Mrs John Fanning, 20, and her husband 27, are jailed on child abandonment charges after she left a nine day old baby on a Des Moines lawn. She said she had slept little since the act and only slept after arrest in Maryville, Missouri.
The article states the ocean’s average depth below sea level is 12 450 feet. It notes this figure as a global measure used for scientific and navigational references.
Chicago markets show hogs mostly steady with top 8.80 and 8.75 for 180 to 380 pounds, heavier weights to 8.40, sows 7.75 to 8.00, and lightweights to 8.25. Cattle 13,000 with calves, steers and yearlings slow, best weighty steers 9.00 to 11.25, top yearlings 11.50, cows 6.25 to 7.00, bulls up to 8.40, stock cattle slow. Sheep 11,000 with lamb trade slow but steady, some bids at 11.00 or below for top western lambs, natives around 11.50 for springers, ewes around 7.00. Estimated tomorrow: cattle 7,000 hogs 12,000 sheep 6,000.
Open high low close data for wheat corn oats and soybeans in Chicago May 65. Wheat May 4a 95 Jam and July 23% 94% 22% 92% Sep 24% 04% 99% 9545. Corn May AY tg TOM .6% 69% July 694 .70 94g 164% sep 69% .70%6 9% .69%. Oats May 8% 384 .37 on new August 64 7% on 4% 34 sep aa 344y 835 24%. Soybeans May 1.26 1.26 1.23% 1.24% July 2.34 1.24 1.25 1.22% et) tia 1.36 1.25 1.13 44.
Cash grain report lists corn moistures and prices from several lots including yellow and white kernels with percentages and numbers, oats showing mixed, white and heavy varieties with rates, and soybeans across yellow lots with moisture percentages and price equivalents.
Chicago market report shows eggs firm with receipts of 42 843 cases including extra firsts 21 percent and firsts 2144 plus dirties 1814 and checks 18 percent. Poultry prices trend easy with heavy white and colored ducks, hens and broilers variably priced.
Albert W. Hawkes of Kearny New Jersey was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at the close of the 29th annual meeting in Washington. The board of directors announced the selection after the final business session.
Jimmy Cosgrove, a deaf aspiring journalist, pens a story after overhearing two girls at a concert. He sends a check to Cora Cooke using a nom de plume, creating a comic revelation when Cora discovers the ruse at the Talebearer editor.
Iowa traffic shows Nine principal north south routes carry 11 038 daily and east west 10 829 with one death per 290 or 291 cars. Heaviest use runs on No 6 and No 30 east west and No 69 north south. No 92 and 59 report no fatalities signaling construction progress. The Ames to Indianola stretch records 3470 cars daily with No 92 averaging 8993 and zero fatalities.
Huston, noted as collector of $175,000,000, and his successor Frank Bh. Wilson entered the shoe business in Boone with a brother and retired recently. A Presbyterian and Mason, he outlived his wife by two years and an adopted daughter by three. Surviving are an adopted son in San Bernardino, California, and a step daughter in New York City.
Funeral services are held in Boone for Walter H. Canter 78 former Washington resident who died in a Boone hospital after a week as a patient and two years of poor health. Nephews Earl and Walter Smith attended. sister Hzra Smith of South Marion Avenue could not attend. He was born on the Canier homestead north of town and began work as a clerk in J Albert Williams shoe store at sixteen, remaining there several years.
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