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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 16, 1931

Page

2

Chicago Livestock Market Report May 16

Hog offerings 6 000 including 5 000 direct with few fresh hogs. Light hogs 10 to 20 lower. packing sows 5 to 10 lower. Heifers and steers mostly lower week over week. best yearling steers around 9 25. Sheep market nominal. fat lambs 25 to 50 lower. week’s top old crop lambs 9 85 with natives 11 00 to 11 25 breaks. Direct shipments 29 600 for week. feeders tight, stocker trade narrow.

Chicago Livestock Chicago Dept. of Agri

Iowa Hog Prices Edge Lower Across Des Moines Market

Combined hog receipts at 23 concentrate yards and 7 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8:00 A M totaled 16 200, down from 16 500 last week. Prices ranged by weight from 140 to 350 pounds with light weights 6.00 to 6.50 and heavy weights 6.60 to 6.19, while sows and pigs showed mixed quotes and several factors noted as influencing final sales.

Iowa Des Moines Minnesota

Chicago Grain May 16 Market Quotes

Chicago May 16 open high low and close for WHEAT CORN OATS and RYE shown with old and new May July September and December futures. Prices appear as fractional percentages and may reflect futures trading activity at the Chicago market.

Chicago

Toledo Seed Prices and Feedstuff Values May 16

Market note from Toledo Ohio lists prices for Clover domestics and timothy hay. Prime and old Clover values range around 13.75 to 14.25 per unit, with October and December futures noted. Alsike cash and hay timothy priced at 14.00 and 1.25 per cwt respectively.

Toledo Urain Close Clover Prime New Prin Choice Prime Choice Alsike Cash Hay Timothy

Cash Grain market highlights from Chicago bidding session

May 16 price rundown shows corn down mixed with 46 percent to 57 percent, several yellow and white varieties quoted around 56 to 58. oats mix 28 to 29 percent, rye none, barley 39 to 64, timothy 82.5 to 87.5, clover 107.5 to 177.5. Wheat 58 cars listed, corn 91, oats 21.

Cash Grain Chicago

Chicago Produce Market Report May 16

Produce receipts and prices across eggs poultry and potatoes show mixed movement. Eggs receipts 26 902 cases with extras 1844 firsts 1744. butter market weak with 17 124 tubs. poultry about steady with no cars in and various live bird prices. Potatoes on track arrivals 50 shipments 16071 Wisconsin whites 1.25 1.35 Idaho russets 1.40 1.45 premium Bliss varieties noted in several states.

Leghorn Wisconsin Idaho Alabama Louisana Texas Bliss Florida Bliss

Inda Hyams Pound Wf Wasy to Vet Scared in This Sequence

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Inda Hyams

Funerals, farm notes, and film coming events in town

Weather boosts garden growth as residents attend funerals for Wm Gibson and Geo Stewart. Local readers send ads and subscriptions while Frank Sturgeon improves at home. Adolphe Menjou and Leilaine star in Men Call It Love at the State Theater, adaptation of Among the Married.

Wm. Gibson Geo. Stewart Miles Adolphe Menjou Leila Byains State Theater Vincent Lawrence

Community News Notes From Farmland Column

Mrs. Jay tends Mrs. Smith at the hospital after an auto crash injury to Mrs. Smith. Neighbors report Mrs. Smith is doing well. A Keota neighbor loses a horse to hydrophobia and shoots his dog. Pipe line work near Ainsworth progresses with many workers and rapid pipe placement. Messages of thanks arrive from Crawfordsville and farmers northeast of Ainsworth share updates and dinner inquiries remain.

Pierce Sturgeon Bros Keota Journal Frank Sturgeon Homie News Frank Mrs. Jay Sturgeon Home Walter Smith Mrs. Smith Sturgeons G. F. Baird

The Lion and the Lamb on Screen at Fox Theater

Phillips Oppenheim mystery tale The Lion and the Lamb becomes a widely read crookdom novel brought to the screen by Columbia. The Fox theater presents the film Monday and Tuesday with a cast led by Walter Byron Carmel Myers Miriam Seegar Raymond Hatton and Montagu Love. Also included is a probate notice from Washington Iowa regarding W A Gibson deceased with a May 1931 hearing date in the district court.

Louis Joseph Vance Say Rohmer Edgar Wallace Frank L. Packard Valenting Williams S. S. van Dine Phillips Oppenhein Lion and the Lamb Columbia Pox Walter Byron Carmel Myers Miriam Seegar Raymond Hatton Montagu Love W. A. Gibson Cour House Washington Iowa District Court Edna C. Purvis Washington, Iowa

Human Ear Limits Loudness Range in Hz Hearing

The human ear is formed to receive only certain sounds and the highest sounds we can hear reach about 70,000 air vibrations per second.

Brighton May 15 Senior Play at WOOW Clubhouse

Brighton items report visits by the LeCore and Lowvise families to Jefferson and relatives, and notice the death of Miss Mary Atkinson of Long View Texas after an operation. Also seniors at Brighton High School present play Who Wouldn’t Be Crazy on May 1Y and hold baccalaureate services at the Methodist church with mixed chorus and processional setting.

Roy LeCore Letha Clark Lois Lowvise Jefferson Irwin Don Hayes Wayland Hayes Ed Shepherd Theodore Vanerus Senator Kendrick Wyoming Gillette Washington B.c Mary Atkinson Long View Texas Aly Harry Mary Joan Atkinson Brighton Sebater I Kraemer Muscatine Dale Sehafer Mairfield Fred Wanerus Keda Wanerus Grace Wanerus Marjorie Wanerus Stine Birmingham Brighton High School Sylvester Mineart Clyo Hoskin Pluribus Geo, McClintie Peridic Viola Gertz Miss Lavelle Dorothy Sccharbaum Mr. Higgins Robert Guy Mr. Marshall Laurence Kessel Jack Marshall Earle Clarr Lois Meredith Gladys Kyle Reggie Mortimer Kermit Oswalt Beatrice Mildred Morgan Marjorie Nellie Gertz Janet Marjorie Moore Evelyn Winslow Rene Saund

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