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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1940
Page
7
Part of the Devil Drivers show arrives in Washington to perform near Berdo grounds Sunday at 3 pm. Fans will see a motorcycle rider crash through a solid fire barrier and a car crack through a narrow barrier with minimal clearance, risking injury. More stunt personnel and equipment are en route this week as preparations continue.
An exhibit on the Iowa Writers Program at the courthouse outlines the seven steps to produce a page of the Iowa Guides. The program began in 1936 as Federal Writers of Iowa and now operates as a state program with 58 workers in Iowa.
Market notes show hogs 12 000 head down 25 cents with tops around 5.70 for 180 270 lb and several weight bands. Cattle receipts 8 000 with fed steers and yearlings strength to 10 15 cents higher, top 11 65 with several loads 11 15 to 11 40. heifers steady, cutters 5 5 to 6 0. calves 1 000. fat sheep scarce while red lambs bid 9 00 to 9 50 and springers steady near 12 00. Estimated tomorrow Cattle 5 000 hogs 11 000 sheep 4 000.
Chicago market report shows mixed grain prices with corn around 47 to 6 percent, yellow and white varieties listing prices and percentages, sample erade values noted, and vats with mixed results including a 64 price.
Chicago price desk shows wheat soy corn and oats with mixed moves May and July futures. Wheat May and July hold around mid 80s with small gains or losses, corn May around 60s to 63, oats May near 37 to 38, rye near mid 40s and July around mid 40s.
Market notes show eggs steady with receipts of 41 031 cases and mixed quality grades. Poultry prices also steady with receipts including 1 car and 34 trucks. leghorn hens and broilers priced with small shifts.
In the Jura mountains 24 French villages with a combined population around 10,000 do not pay taxes and instead receive yearly dividends of 100 to 200 francs. The villages own a large forest whose lumber is exploited in a business-like manner.
The Freeport Sulphur company offers workers a half hour ride in streamlined power boats each morning. From the model community at Port Sulphur Louisiana on the Mississippi to mines ten miles distant.
Iowa City saw a Republican district rally with about 1000 expected attendees as Governor Wilson prepares for a June primary bid. Knudson will attend to share time, while Gross indicated he will not attend.
Adel M F Gravender a New York jewelry salesman told Sheriff E B Burger that four masked armed men halted him and robbed him of diamonds valued about five thousand near Redfield Gravender was accompanied by his wife
Homeowners modernize by enlarging glass areas to flood interiors with sunlight and air. Corner windows, glassed dining alcoves, French doors, and even room-length glass walls transform attic to basement spaces.
Over 30 years the number of college attendees grows by 325 percent and high school students by 800 percent, signaling major expansion in secondary and higher education access.
Martha Raye appears in a Los Angeles court to testify in her divorce from her second husband David Rose composer arranger. She is granted freedom after about three minutes on the stand as reports say the charge was cruelty.
Mr and Mrs C D Cooper came back Saturday night after a month with relatives in San Benito Tex Other items note Mrs C G Marshall met with Trips Mrs Mae Kern and grandmother Mrs Julia Parks visited Washington and Dublin relatives and others visited relatives in Richland Linby and Thlinols noted Haskins Shaffer and Boyd appearances marked by family visits in Brighton
A method to render a tree rotproof and insectproof involves notch cutting around the trunk, adding a rubber collar, and filling with a solution of copper sulphate or zinc chloride in water. Sap carries preservative upward in about two weeks, with thorough saturation when cut. Treat cenfers any time except freezing weather, best during active growth.
The state health department reports that home falls caused more deaths in 11 months than automobile crashes. Officials urge safer living environments and fall-prevention measures to reduce fatalities.
A $250000 Cen tralia Washington fire destroyed an ornate parade float. With no time to rebuild officials rented a goat to carry a banner declaring The fire got our float but it didn't get our goat along the route, turning misfortune into a civic joke.
DES MOINES Gov George A Wilson yields the gubernatorial chair to Republican presidential hopeful Wendell L Willkie who jokes about staying in the chair Willkie notes others may want it. The visit marks Willkie the third GOP aspirant to call on the governor this month following Dewey and Gannett.
The United States holds about half of global communications facilities and electric energy and more than a third of the world’s railways, highlighting its major infrastructure dominance.
Railways promise free return travel if visitors spend a week in Yugoslavia, allowing a free ticket to the entry point country. The offer covers return fares as a bonus for extended stays on vacation.
An upcoming community sale advertises an abundance of livestock including 15 white face cows with calves by side, various Guernsey and Shorthorn cattle, steers and cows, hogs from sows to boars, a full blood Berkshire boar, cheap horses, hedge and burr oak posts, and a Brig ton household furniture set plus a 9 by 12 rug with pad and 50 bushels of apples. Buyers urged to bring real calves for market and to consign livestock.
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