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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1940
Page
5
LP hogs tested conditions with weekly declines of 25 to 50 cents and a closing top of 9.40. Cattle saw mixed moves with prime steers and yearlings 2% to 40 cents higher, others down 25 to 50 cents. cows and bulls 25 cents lower. vealers weak. Sheep and lambs showed modest gains with week’s lamb top 9.50 and spring lambs 9.25 to 9.50 for good grades.
A Chicago grain table shows wheat figures with May and Sept contracts. The report lists open high low and close values though some OCR text is garbled.
A fragment lists items for sale including a hand bedspread a grape price and a double row mounted corn picker. The page notes grain and feed prices with futures quotes and mentions a house floor saturated with gasoline and heavy damage.
A. Montgomery Ward and George R. Thorne founded the first mail order house in Chicago creating a new retail model. The firm grew from a rented room, moved to the Tower Building in 1899, opened branch houses nationwide, and later added a retail store division. Today it runs 625 retail units alongside its mail order operation.
Market totals show steady receipts with 7,601 cases arriving. Extra fatrata 19 percent, fresh graded firsts 18 percent, current receipts 17 percent, dirties 14 percent, cheeks 14 percent, reflecting ongoing quality grades across the shipments.
Market notes show corn bids around 64 to 66 cents with 1 to 3 yellow grades cited. Oats figures include white sample readings of 29 with 1 white around 21 percent and heavier 32 for 2 white.
Henry Mc Hen ton Heuton near death from burns after a fire at his Glidden area home. Sheriff Finnegan says the blaze followed a muffled explosion as officers arrived to serve an insanity warrant. Fire department alerted. Heuton found in a water tank with most clothing burned.
Willard Lee Sands injured his right arm in a fall on cement at school on Tuesday. Dr. Lease set the arm and he was taken to Washington for two X ray photographs. He is reported to be recovering well.
Mrs. J. S. McCleary travels with her son Bruce and family to Keota on Monday then visits her daughter Mrs. J. B. Randolph before returning to Des Moines with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Griffith.
Farm Bureau notes indicate a 10 cent storage advance for resealing corn for 2 years and 6 cent for 1 year under a loan extension. The funds help cover storage facility costs and encourage more bins and cribs. County agents warn of mushroom poisoning risks amid rains and urge proper identification and disposal.
Readable timetable notes list regular meetings, station stops, and daily train services. Mentions Westbo and Arrive Me, local and Californian trains, Knox ville Branch, Davenport to Kansas City local, and Southwest Limited with various departure times and exceptions. Includes agent signatures GOODLANDER and BELL.
Washington county stockman F H Emondson of Ainsworth marketed 149 Hampshire hogs at Chicago, averaging 245 pounds, selling at 7.60 per cwt. They were December pigs finished on grass and grain. Roy Quinn sold 86 hogs at 7.70 per cwt. Cattle also rose to 13.65 per cwt., the highest in fifteen months.
We express appreciation for the kindness and words of sympathy shown to us during the illness and death of our husband and father. Mrs. Kk. W. Spessard Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Spessard Mr. and Mrs. Boice Kurt, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ornduff.
Five day forecast covers September 7 to 11 with generally fair warm conditions in Illinois. Minnesota and Iowa expect moderate rain with locally heavy rainfall in western and central Iowa later in the period. Cooler air moves in from Minnesota over the weekend and into Iowa and northern Illinois midweek.
Eight New Zealand mountaineers aim to climb Kinechinjunga, a 28176 foot Himalayan peak near the Nepal Sikkim frontier, in August 1940. Negotiations with the Indian government for permits are under way.
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