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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1929
Page
2
The Chicago livestock house reports a broad drop in prices with the early top at 1140, many cuts down 25 to 400, cattle and calves showing softer demand. Pigs and sheep also move unevenly as buyers pull back on higher grades while smaller lots meet moderate interest.
Pricing terms for various farm products include cream butter fat tests per tp jens and per 1 Leeborn hens, old roosters per pound duck heavy breeds and Gide pre 15 ccs Heep hides per pound or hundredweight. No market for steak observed in this fragment.
Wheat and corn futures show mixed gains and losses with May and Sept contracts. Rods of percentages mark price changes while oats and hay prices drift, and a Toledo grain market note lists various forage and Clover figures.
The Cotter column reports on a speeding arraignment of L. J. Speed in Davenport, a local case in which a judge and attorney Swift are mentioned. It also describes a lively Cotter town picnic with several out-of-town visitors, police actions, and local road funding debates across surrounding counties, including Norman and Richmond updates and farm activity.
Ernest A. Bailey, 46, died from injuries after being struck by a hit and run driver a week earlier. He suffered a fractured skull and investigators have not found the car's disc. In another item, authorities discussed reducing rail paths for export wheat to relieve docked western elevators at an Interstate Commerce Commission informal hearing.
Auction advertisement lists rocks reds wyandottes and leghorns chicks booking orders. Also notes gilts five yearling Guernsey bulls and a contact at R. H. Tracy Brighton. Mentions Hancock County Illinois and a coroner sentence of sixty days for a drunken driving case in Arthouse by Judge Warren Orr.
In Minneapolis on May 10 Charley Paddock the famed sprinter announced his retirement from competition to accept the vice presidency of a Minneapolis printing firm. The athlete long known as the world’s greatest sprinter held multiple records and Olympic titles.
In Elizabethton Tennessee on May 18 violence erupted at the textile strike site. Mack Elliott a former mechanic at the American Glansstoff plant saw his home damaged as troops guarded the plant at Stony Creek. Elliott his wife and baby were inside during the attack.
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