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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1929
Page
2
Hog numbers 19 600 with 4 000 directs. hogs mostly higher with top 1045 and packers paying 170 to 240 pounds. Cattle runs 5 000 with calves 2 000. steers and fat stock down. Slaughter classes mix of good and poor quality, vealers and cows shown with mixed highs and lows. Sheep totals 17 000 with natives steady. spring lambs and feeder lambs listed with price ranges.
Chicago grain figures show wheat contracts with December at 1.35 1.36 and March around 1.41 1.42 as trading ranges. Corn prices for December hover near 677 07 percent, with March around 1.01 and May near 1.04 signaling steady activity.
Chicago prices for IP wheat report No 1 hard at 1.80 and 2 hard 1.20 to 1.30 percent. Corn shows No 2 mixed 98 percent and No 3 mixed 98 percent with several yellow and white grades listed. Oats quotes No 2 white 50 to 54 and 49 to 50, rye No 11.07, No 2 106 percent, barley 60 to 68, Timothy 4.65 to 5.40, clover 12.00 to 2.00.
Toledo market notes list various grain and commodity prices with dates and cash or old/new values. Clover Domestics and Timotity futures show mixed changes while Allike and December Pea indicate price movements and futures quotes dated October 3.
Emma Lafleur 28 admits she cut up her dead newborn daughter and gave the pieces to her brother Lawrence Lafleur to throw into the Missouri river. Detectives investigate after she is charged with abandoning a human body and the brother confesses to tossing a package into the river.
Washington Chapter No 98 QO Ss holds regular meetings on the second Thursday of each month with Pearl Kennedy W M and Irene Bickford Secretary. Visiting members are welcome. Damascus Shrine No 10 meets third Tuesday at the Masonic Temple with Edith Pulver W H P and Hazel Haven Worthy Scribe.
Schedule lists westbound and fastbound trains with numbers and times for the Golden State Limited and related services, including No. 3 local and express, No. 49 local passes, and mixed trains. Knoxville branch addenda show No. 30 mixed train and No. 49 local pass times.
October sale at Zickefoose yard yields ten young cows and heifers averaging about 120 dollars with two high lots near 157.50. Buyers paid up to 142.50 for most, while some smaller heifers sold around 60. Local Methodist women served a tying. Several locals attended including Lloyd Stout and family.
A fragmented local column recalls crop prospects and land improvements, noting poor corn yields nearby while beans and land recovery appear on a neighbor’s property. The piece references banker A. Coats in Wy nan, sale activities by Zickefoose, and community thanks. It mentions Scott Field Belleville as a major airport, Illinois Legion membership, Nauvoo history, and cream separators. The note ends with a social image of John Wagner’s Polands sale day and the 56th wedding anniversary of Dr. Tom Thompson and wife.
Eben Jones visits a life insurance office asking for a policy. The president says he is too old and asks his age. The old man replies Ninety seven comes next August and urges insurers to check statistics.
Mrs Warre Donaldson shopped in Washington with Joe Warner of Sandstone Minnesota. Joe and his wife’s first visit in 19 years reunites him with relatives including Mrs John Godlove as they plan trips to Clinton and local hosts. Other residents visit kin and return from Davenport and Chicago trips amid hospital stays and joint social calls.
Market notes list butterfat test per pound at 44 cents and fresh laid eggs per dozen. Prices shown for hens per pound, spring chickens per pound, old roosters, white and colored ducks, several hides priced per pound and per animal. Claim of no market for skinning or crinnied poultry.
Notice states hunting and trespassing on set properties north of town is prohibited. Signatories include J. F. Shalla, Geo. Shalla, and Ed Shalla.
A sequence of October farm sales and auctions listed for nearby towns including Washington Keota Columbus Junction and Duroc stock sales by Tobin Carlson Peterson and Peterson and others plus apple sales at Lytie orchard and other closing outs with locations described in simple notices.
Pirates capture the steam launch Tukiang near the Issenhan river. The captain is killed, crew drowned, and several passengers kidnapped. About $10,000 taken from the vessel. Details on the captain’s death unclear.
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