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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1938
Page
7
Time to get those screens fixed. Call the Eclipse Lumber Company for service and repairs. They promote Goodrich Silver Town Life Saver tread tires for wet pavement grip and stopping power. Washington Oil Company joins the message with inspection or test offers.
Chicago markets report hogs totaling 16 000 with 7 000 direct sales and a general drop of 10 to 20 cents. Top hog price 8 60 for 160 to 240 pound stock, with varied bids for heavier weights. Cattle and sheep futures for tomorrow show steady to firm ranges across beef cattle veal and lamb categories with several weight classes listed.
Chicago reports mixed produce and poultry figures with steady to easy market tones. Receipts total 1 654 cases with extra firsts 20 percent and firsts 19 to 20 percent. butter shows steady prices with 15 774 receipts and various grade ranges. poultry market firming with broilers 21, ducks 10 to 14, geese 8 to 11, turkeys 15 to 19, roosters 13 to 14 and 22 percent noted.
Chicago May 14 no 8 mixed 68 no 4 mixed reported in a concise daily grain update. The note lists mixed class results and scores for the market roundup.
D F Macon reports on subscription trends and reader engagement for the Journal. The item highlights renewal numbers, new adoptions, and service changes affecting subscribers and sales staff.
May 19 notes residents from Washington Iowa report heavy rain and muddy roads. J W Meyer and daughter from R 3 visit town, Trier sale draws crowds and livestock trades. K M Jones builds a garage at Standard station while Art Stoutner praises business in wet times. School year ends with big lunch at the school house. F W Hagist, in his 70s, plants corn across many acres.
A meeting at the Y M C A drew about 65 delegates from 15 southeastern Iowa counties to study wheat crop problems and discuss federal crop insurance under the 1938 farm act. Leaders explained wheat insurance provisions and loan rewards, with market figures for 1927 wheat quality and a soybeans market showing May and July quotes.
Thant and a writer wagered one hundred thousand dollars on Seabiscuit and a Admiral horse race in New York on Decoration Day with a loser not paying. Witnesses Reed and a traveling salesman failed to gain pay. In West Chester several locals including Art Righenhagen Ferguson Miller and DeLong are busy men. George Freshwaters, Washington football coach, plans to farm in Keota R 2 on Iowa’s best farm. Mr and Mrs Glenn Green Washington R 2 shopped here Wednesday. Thanks to them Phillips and Hebners for Evening Journal subscriptions.
Buyers gather to examine a range of antiques, assessing condition and value before finalizing purchases. Dealers showcase pieces, answer questions, and provide provenance where available.
Mrs Mabel M Bowes of Toronto Ontario discovers an unclaimed express package containing nearly five thousand six hundred dollars tucked in the toe of a hiking boot bought at auction for one dollar. A date shows the parcel lay in the express office for two years. The find was revealed to the auction store manager by phone.
Washington county farmers reported 9 525 6 acres in wheat this year with an average of about 17 acres per farm, up from 2 883 8 acres the previous year, reflecting a dramatic expansion in wheat cultivation across the county.
The text notes many shotguns with bayonets were in American expeditionary forces during World War I but used sparingly, mainly by guards. It then shifts to a whimsical aside about frogs, rain, and frog choruses signaling wellbeing and climax in a southern swamp.
The county forms a pest control committee to fight grasshoppers with poison bait. The list names township representatives, bankers, mayors, editors, and the county board’s active heads, with E F Bauer Harve Wilson New Morrow overseeing. County Attorney Richard Stewart cited.
Hard wood refers to deciduous broad leaf trees that shed leaves such as maple oak birch hickory beech poplar gum chestnut mahogany walnut cherry and teak. Soft woods come from evergreen needle leaf trees including white pine yellow pine spruce cedar douglas fir hemlock and cypress.
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