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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1937
Page
7
The advertisement promotes sham poo and finger wave services at 35 cents and a finger wave at 6 cents, with a permanent priced at 2.98. It includes a phone number 726 7411 and references a free clinic for car exhaust analysis at 7413, urging customers to check gasoline waste.
The report lists Walter Crawford building a double corn crib northeast of Washington near the Gordon farm, with Al Crone and Frank Soukup residents noted. It covers 86 acres of corn planted and a series of local residents visiting shops, chores, and family activities around Washington and Crawfordsville area, naming residents such as Hanan Richland McCall Bruegge Chalupa Schneider Shrader and others.
RKO Radio presents The Woman I Love a dramatic World War I romance about a French flying squadron. Paul Muni Miriam Hopkins Louis Hayward star with Colin Clive and others. Antoine Litvak directs produced for American release after success in France.
School will close here Friday for a picnic dinner hosted by Jake Witwillers. Sunday visitors from the Witwillers and Fairview Aid society will be entertained by Mrs. Forest Morrison on Thursday. Mrs. Mary Green of Keota is visiting relatives here. Elmer Karnes welcomed a new daughter born Saturday.
Published price list shows sweet cream sour cream and soup cream by the pound, various hen and egg items priced per dozen, and poultry like leghorn hens roosters heavy hens and ducks priced by the dozen or by head, reflecting a market catalog from the period.
This clipping records farmers in Crawfordsville and surrounding areas busy with horse plowing and silo work despite cold weather. It notes residents like Frank Gant W H Henss Clarence Moorehead Jose Pearson and W H Anderson receiving care advances and mentions a Memorial and Plaza card from Cedar Rapids plus a daughter traveling to California.
Market strength carried hogs to 10 cent higher with top hogs at 10.80 and typical 200 to 300 pounds 10.35 to 10.65. Cattle showed broad ranges with beef steers 13.05 to 16.00 and cows 3.50 to 9.50. calves 7.00 to 9.50. Sheep firm with lambs 11.25 to 12.50 and yearlings 9.50 to 11.00. Estimated receipts: hogs 11,000. cattle 7,000. sheep 6,000.
Grain table from Chicago shows wheat, corn, oats, rye with mixed May and Sept figures, open and close values across multiple months. Data includes slight percentage shifts, with oats and rye displaying notable fractional changes and several misreads in the OCR.
Chicago notices a steady produce market with eggs receipts around 26 000 cases and mixed firsts and specials. Poultry shows a mostly steady market with broilers quoted at 23 to 24, ducks at 12.
The note lists poultry counts with geese nine to eleven, turkeys fourteen to sixteen, and roosters eleven to twelve percent. Potato figures show arrivals ninety five and shipments eight hundred seventy six.
Chicago market brief shows mixed corn quotes with steady to higher bids. No. 3 mixed 127 percent, No. 2 yellow 127 percent, No. 4 yellow 125 to 126, No. 2 white 129, No. 3 white 127 to 128, No. 4 white 125 percent with estimated deliveries around 25.
May trading data shows Open 1.79, High 179, Low 78, Close 1.78 percent. July figures listed as 442, 7.77, 1,786, 1.76 without context.
Rev. Stoddard Lane of Des Moines told the Town Congregational Christian conference that criticism proves the church is active across economic, war, and democracy fronts. The moderator added most critique comes from within and signals the church’s ongoing life.
Local notice invites community buyers and sellers to Friday sale featuring springers cows hogs and boars plus hedge posts a two wheel trailer and various furniture. Sellers urged to bring cattle hogs veal calves and other goods for buyers.
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