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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 27, 1931

Page

2

Chicago Livestock Prices and Market Report Summary

Chicago market notes receipts 35,000 hogs and 6,500 cattle with direct entries 4,000 hogs. Hogs ranged 4.25 to 5.25 with various weight classes and packers bidding up to 5.15. Cattle prices showed steers to 11.00 for heavy weights, vealers 6.50 to 7.75, and stockers 1.75 to 4.75. Fat lambs and sheep prices varied with feeders steady. overall market activity mixed and dull in parts.

Uicago Livestock Chicago Hoxs Nota

Tows Livestock Market Des Moines Iowa Oct 97-0

Combined hog receipts at interior yards and packing plants across the Midwest for the 24 hour period ended 8:00 a.m. today total 20,100, up from 11,200 a week ago. Prices slid to new yearly and 1908 lows as demand cooled.

Wil Minnesota

Poultry and Produce Market Receipts and Prices Report

Chicago market notes firm receipts for fowls and poultry items with ranges for extra firsts seconds and turkeys with prices for ducks geese and roosters. Leaning toward continued steady trade, potatoes on track with arrivals and shipments listed in March data.

Czarinas Rubus TM Chapter LV Icy News In Briefing

Jim and Bill discuss Isham's vague hint of a major move on Martell and Sant. They plan to inform Inspector Haste and monitor Monksilver while Webber reports a break in at Isham's cottage. The cottage shows disorder, overturned furniture, a smashed crutch, and opened drawers suggesting foul play or a hurried exit.

Jim Asham Martell Sant Frank Severn Bill Martin Ilsham Inspector Haste Marlin Monksilver Sisham Web + Der Trayne Isham T ‘Hey Beggar's Court Webber Mr. Lsham Fanny Ithans Jim Wynter Nisham London Scotland Yard

Mystery at Beggar's Court Deepens as Secret Door Revealed

Webber discovers a sealed envelope inside a hidden panel behind a desk at Beggar's Court. The note directs delivery to Assistant Commissioner Lentern at Scotland Yard if anything happens to Isham. Jim Wynter drives to London with Webber to inform authorities while plotting further action.

Tsham Webber Jim Bill Mr. Severn Martell Sant Coop Hsham Weber Lentern Scotland Yard Scotlate Yard London Till Webster Beggar's Court

Pay's Quest In Your Opt Est Liperta Leslie Richer

A garbled period piece urges careful braking and steering with emphasis on road safety. It warns against braking errors causing skids and urges proper distance, traffic rhythm, and avoiding bumper hooks. Regional grain and seed prices follow, listing various commodities and futures.

Mixed Grain Prices and Local Visitors Flood Washington

A garbled market report lists grain colors and percentages for Corn Wheat and Oats with assorted notes. Nearby, many out of town visitors including Evan Arthur and family from Columbus Junction Harry Bishop from Havre John Joh from Titus and others were in Washington on Monday amid a busy social scene.

Noton Evan Arthur Columbus Junction Harry Bishop Havre John 1 Joh Titus Doc Engels Dublin Parker Cotter Dawson Dawson Cate Keota James Daniels West Chester Washington

Big Willy House stars in Exsive Women at Fox Theater

HOUSE CREATES COMIBAL ROLE AN S EXPENSIVE, WOMEN Big Willy House appears in Ex sive Women at the Fox theater in Mankato Minnesota headline notes his vaudeville roots and later Broadway work. The anecdotal piece recalls his early 1920s stage career across Oklahoma Texas and Broadway with Shubert and other shows.

HOUSE Comibal Big Willy House Warner Bros de Costello The Fox Mankato Minnesota Oklahoma Texas Mecca Vera

Iowan Briefs on Plotting, Ejection at City Meeting

A self-styled communist organizer from the trades union, Pancun, was driven from Council Bluffs by twelve unidentified citizens and ordered to stay away. He had come from Kansas City and Dallas and attended the city council meeting where he denounced the council as hypocrites and challenged Mayor Brow. After ejection, Pancun was pursued, forced to move, and driven 12 miles out of town. In other notes, a boy named Herbert Kelgley was critically injured when a wagon crushed his feet after the team started while he climbed off. Dickinson, PA, Senator, addressed a businessmen’s function and planned a radio address to be broadcast from Shenandoah and abundas.

Gut Cou Nett Biet Rades Union Conneil Bluffs Papeun Kansas City Dallas C. Brow Brown Pancun Roone Herbert Kelgley Dickinson Council Bluffs Chamber Commerceight Shenandoah and Abunda Sons

Peterson & Son Sell Durocs Thursday

Peterson and Son host a Duroc sale in Mediapolis on Thursday featuring 20 spring boars, 2 yearling boars, and 15 sows all praised for quick feeding traits. The event draws buyers from surrounding towns via Columbus City, Wapello, and Newport to the well regarded herd.

Paul G. Peterson & Son Duroes Mediapolis Columbus City Wapelo Newport Peterson Petersons Poland Lester Macon Hartholow & Son 1 Washington J.C. Cannon Crawfordsville Ranger Roy Whiteman Orfordsville Askea

Warner as stage villain in Edward G. Robinson feature

A scrambled clipping mentions Warner portraying a state theater figure in Edward G. Robinson's film Star Final, highlighting the trope of unscrupulous misdeeds and a trained role. The text is garbled but centers on casting and a sensational portrayal.

Woo Warner EY Warner Edward G. Robinson

Dog Days and the Bright Star Myth of Summer

The passage explains the dog days of midsummer as the hot period in July and August tied to the rising of a bright star, the imus, seen in ravens, and notes that this association with heat and madness in dogs is a popular belief rooted in ancient superstition.

Journal's Sale Date Column

Get Son Med Duroes Oct 31. Household goods of the late Mrs. Margaret Hall Crawfordsville. Smylie & Sons Columbus Junction sell an annual sale of a boat and gilt sate at Polls. Fall sale.

Get, Son Med Duroes Margaret Hall Crawfordsville Smylie & Sons Columbus Junction al G._ Peterson

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