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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1930
Page
2
Market notes from DES MOINE AP summarize cattle and hog trading at Towa Livestock Market. Prices include various weights and grades with mixed demand as buyers adjust after recent promotions. Ends with range figures and per hundredweight quotes across good and choice categories.
Receipts are listed for cattle, calves, sheep and hogs with varied bids. Prices show best jodaib bulls at 12.50 and steers from 9. Ash to 13.75, vealers 9.00 to 11.50, cows 5.25 to 5.50, heifers 5.00 to 7.09, sheep reaching 8.75 and hogs around 8.50 to 9.60.
Grain report from Chicago shows oats and wheat futures with mixed moves as old crop prices rise and new crop contracts shift. Traders monitor March and May positions amid market volatility and regional supply concerns.
Washington produces one pound and over eight percent in beet hides per one pound, horse hides, pony and comparable hides. The notice lists pricing and grade details for livestock hides and related tanning materials.
Article notes Wisconsin and Minnesota experiments show lime and calcium chloride improve dairy cattle health. Claims dairy rations lacking lime lead to premature calving and milk fever. calcium chloride injections allegedly restore health quickly, with cases reported as rapid as six minutes. Funeral notices follow for Cunningham and Deuel with standard tributes.
Grain prices and bids appear with mixed quotes for wheat and corn across No 2 red and yellow grades. Prices show declines and gains with forward dates and reference to Toledo clover and hay markets. several prime and old/new crop notes mention bids around 14.89 to 16.00 for various clover and alfalfa types.
A drama at the Graham Theatre today features a fashionably ambitious modiste whose bold slogan Wear Your Brain On Your Back stirs vanity. The plot centers on social climbers and the costs of greed as she builds the citys most profitable shop on Fifth Avenue.
Journal notes from Ainsworth recounts visits to the Marr home, local hunting and farming lore, and the family links to land grants signed by President Franklin Pierce. The piece mentions Jesse Marr and Miss Marr, the old Livingston farm, and a 40-car caravan to a funeral in Washington.
Plea sant Hill town notes record a string of Sunday visits and meals at local homes. Drake University field secretary Kynar attends a church event at Pleasant Hill. Mrs Rephart's neuritis improves with treatment while Mable Telford recovers from mastoid trouble in Washington county hospital.
The record notes that Saw the Light refers to the adoption of Christianity in Abyssinia during the fourth century, marking a pivotal religious shift and lasting cultural influence in the region.
A Brighton group including Prody and Clara Borkosk with Miss Kate Snider and Edith Kech attended the Washington County Rural Letter Carriers meeting in Kalona. Other locals Carla and Gowey families visited relatives and reported on farm work, corn planting, and shopfront changes in Chester and nearby areas.
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