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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1940
Page
5
Hog prices show steady tone with 500 head, week loss for butcher hogs 10 to 40 cents, closing top 6.10. Cattle trade mixed with steers up to 25 cents, high crop cattle to 15.00, cows and bulls mixed, feeders up 50 to 75 cents. Sheep and lambs steady weekly, top fat lambs 9.70, yearlings 7.50 to 8.65.
Listings show multiple estate and closing out sales in central Indiana counties. Dates include December 3 to December 16 with locations near Washington Crawfordsville Brighton and Wayland. Participating heirs include J J Jones Hesseltine Bros Chas Casper Harry Stutzman Alvin Hahn and Joe Klopfenstein. Start times mostly 11:00 A M with gravel road and rural routes noted.
Open high low and close for wheat corn oats soybeans shown with May July and December contracts. Cash corn and produce figures list receipts, firsts, fresh graded, checks and dirties with market firm tone.
Marie Greiner wed Norbert Hammes at St Mary of the Immaculate Conception Keota on Thanksgiving morning. The ceremony featured family members as attendants and a three course turkey dinner for forty eight guests. The couple will honeymoon in Chicago and Milwaukee before starting spring farming. Doris Klepfer joined Pi Gamma Mu at Iowa State Teachers College. Thanksgiving guests gathered at the Griffith home in Des Moines and Grinnell.
A Thanksgiving Day gathering at Mrs. Anna Farrier's Brighton home brings together families including the Martins Lauderdales Farriers Leepers Deroys Longs and others. Separate notices mention Mrs Eva Wikoff's funeral and Miss Minnie Northcut's death in St Louis with regional relatives visiting.
In New York Marie schemes to get her son Pierre a violin for Christmas. After panhandling yields pennies and a police nudge toward charity, a kind seller and a gracious gentleman ensure Pierre wakes to a violin Santa Claus delivered, with Marie grateful.
A stray OCR snippet notes Manhattan Kansas long without a traffic fatality, mentioning 1,686 days and a near five year mark with no waffle fatality, including an unclear reference to Ingine age 40. The fragment implies record safety status despite garbled wording.
Thanksgiving dinners were held across the area with many families gathering at the Oldfield home. Guests included Rene Oldfield and Ola Knotts from near Lexington, plus relatives of Stransky, Campbell, Scott, Leeper, Mouser, and other families. A birthday piano gift to Olin Bishop was noted.
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