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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1930
Page
2
The market lists fat cows and butcher heifers steady to higher with demand from Hulls and dealers. Best heavy steers reach 14.25 while slaughter classes show 11.25 to 14.26 for 1100 to 1500 lb steers and 850 to 950 lb fed yearlings. Sheep volume 11,000 with lambs up to 40¢ higher and spring lambs around 11.75. ewes and cull categories show broad ranges.
Wheat markets in Chicago show opening values and intraday highs and lows for May 20. Data appears incomplete but indicates price movements with percent indicators and closing activity noted as 103 and 102 percent alongside high and low levels.
Grain estimates and cash prices from Toledo and Chicago sources dated May 20 show alfalfa, timothy, and clover values, with cash grain bids for wheat, corn, oats, rye, and barley. Market notes reference December, October, and other futures terms, reflecting mixed pricing across multiple feed crops.
Prof H D Munroe argues culling should begin at hatch and continue through production. Start in spring as egg output falls, selling males after hatching ends and broody hens when spring roosters appear. Cull heavy breeds gradually, keep one third for second year, and remove birds with poor combs or signs of weakness.
Pawhuska Oklahoma Osage tribe observers conducted a symbolical naming ceremony for a newborn at a grand home. The full blooded community gathered as the medicine man and helpers performed rites with cedar fronds, sacred paint, and a sun ritual. The event, rare and deeply religious, marks a passing of traditions among a shrinking population.
The account details an appeal to grant health and longevity for a child through six medicine chiefs. The infant is touched by each chief with pounded corn, a rite ensuring food security, while the mother selects a sacred name from willow sticks. Washtage emerges as a notable clansman and potential future chieftain.
Vatican city. Great curiosity spread among papal court officials after Sig. Turad of the Fascist party visited. The long conversation lasted over an hour and a quarter, provoking various comments. A Vatican prelate asked the subject. Pius XI replied that they talked about the fine weather and the bad weather.
Mrs Lillian Summers widow of Betty Summers built a rug manufacturing business in East St Louis from discarded socks. She worked years in a tiny cottage loom and has produced about 300 rugs annually despite poverty and harsh conditions.
Vienna researchers demonstrate a device by Prof Stephen Jellinek and Theodore Scheiber that lets sounds be transmitted as amplified electric currents directly to the ear, enabling some deaf persons to hear speech and music without a conventional microphone. The system amplifies and conveys sound via nerves to the brain, suggesting nerves transmit sensations as electrical phenomena.
A fragmentary note cites Edward He Purin of Wisconsin Agricultural College asserting butter may have begun with a camel during ancient trials. The piece argues progress comes not only from human drive but chance and patient labor, referencing a camel carrying milk in skin bottles across the Sahara.
In Strasbourg bitter nationalists complained after General Mittelhauser, a militant proconsul of France’s northeast, inflamed Alsatian independence sentiment at a Selestat mayoral welcome. Doctor Bronher praised independence, while the general declared he was French without restoration, urging guests to drink champagne.
The Western Returned Students' club reports 1929 membership fell to 39 from 244 in Peiping as educated Chinese abroad fled to Nanking and Shanghai while the club remains active in its quarters as a meeting place for members and foreign friends.
In Washington County District Court case No. 7020 James J. Ross last will dated August 20 1926 filed for probate. Hearing set for May 20 1930 at 9 o clock in Court House Washington Town ward County. Interested parties warned to appear and show cause why probate should not be granted. Clerk Edna C. Purvis issues seal and date May 1930.
The altars of early Christian churches faced east while the main entrance faced west, a setup tied to tradition that the altar was placed so the priest could face the direction from which Christianity arrived.
Market list for Washington produce shows prices for Pegs hens heavy broilers under two pounds and various poultry weights. Includes leghorns ducks roosters and hides with some entries incomplete or unclear. No market for sick or crippled animals.
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