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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1930
Page
2
The document lists live cattle and hog quotations with weight ranges and conditions, including choice grades and packing sows. Prices vary by weight class and quality, noting truck deliveries versus rail deliveries and destination weighing practices for shipments originating over 50 miles away.
Receipts show cattle and sheep trading with mixed quality. Cattle ranges include 600 to 1200 pound common and medium cows 5.59 to 10.25. feeders 550 to 850 pounds 10.00 to 12.75. steers 500 to 1050 pounds 5.25 to 9.00. Sheep receipts 45,000 with market 25 to 50 cents lower. fat lambs 7.50 to 8.00, a few 8.25. bucks 6.50 to 7.20. ewes 90 to 150 pounds 2.00 to 3.76. feeding lambs 60 to 75 pounds 6.50 to 7.25.
Iowa brief items report a missing editor returning with memory gaps after an Oklahoma City trip, a 14 year old girl wounded by a gunshot in Des Moines with a Shurtz accusation, a University of Town sorority grades lead over non sorority groups, and a fatal automobile accident near Waverly injuring Mrs Harry J Twinings on a trip home to Lagrange Indiana.
OcTOBER 13 items report Mrs. Marrs in California improving after a Saturday visit to the Marr home found no one there. J. M. Stewart seen in Washington. Local news details busyness at Brownstown and in town, with visitors from Ainsworth and Kalona. AMES air show draws 4,000, plus local reports of farm life, shop visits, and agricultural notes.
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