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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1928
Page
2
Hog receipts around 19 000 with market less active than early and mostly steady. Top hog price 13.30 for 180 to 215 lb. varying butcher weights quoted from 11.40 to 13.35. sow and pig ranges noted. Cattle receipts about 8 000 with calves 3 000. market slow though steers and yearlings show gains. best steers near 18.10. other slaughter and feeder prices listed for various weight classes and grades.
October 17 Knotek Bros Duroc Jersey hogs. October 23 W R Gamon and Sons and H E Busby Poland China hogs offered. Auction notices specify breeders and breeds for upcoming sales.
Poultry and animal offerings with per pound rates for eggs hens springs and ducks shown alongside hides and butterfat tests. Note a one cent per pound premium for poultry delivered. Market advertises services for sick or crippled birds.
Market on natives 15 to 25 lower and active as runs increase. Cattle and vealers show mixed grades with good and choice peak values around 17.50 to 18.50 for milk-fed vealers and steers 12.00 to 14.15 for stockers. Sheep and lambs weaken with lambs 13.85 to 15.15 for good and choice, ewes 1.75 to 6.25 depending on weight.
Chicago cash grain values show futures style snippets for Wheat, Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley and Timothy. Various grades and percentages given for hard, mixed, yellow and white wheat, mixed corn, oats and barley ranges, with No 1 Rye and Timothy quoted for market reference.
Keota notes announce Pioneer creamery opening a franchise store in the Williams building East Broadway run by J L Junkin with years in produce trade. Reports of Ruben Tinder visiting from Chariton to see aunt Mrs William Mason in poor health and a Sunset Park Spalding reunion with Montreal trip details and a nephew injured in Brighton. Also updates on Jas Nelsons Michigan visit and George Hamilton health improving in Chadron Nebraska.
Monday morning saw Jake Simmering Jr and wife with four girls from Oklahoma visiting Jacob Simmering's family in Washington. Sam in Havre loaded hay while his son-in-law aided after. Pleasant Hill church folk gathered for Sunday dinner and reminiscences with many named locals and oldtimers recalling past days.
Monday in Ainsworth features distribution of late Charley Schneider sale cards across merchants and banks. Local figures Ralph Leffler, John Jones, Earl Frey, and Bill O Laughlin appear while Riverside Kalona roads and Columbia College plans surface amid community chatter and small town anecdotes.
Clarence Fulton continues his local journal along Route 6 detailing everyday life and hints of upcoming chicken dinner time for neighbors and readers.
A witty observation on diplomatic speech ends with a light quip about how a lady phrases agreement or refusal in social talk rather than formal diplomacy.
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