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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
7
Classified items urge readers to move, rent vacancies, and advertise plumbing heating services. The page lists grain prices and market figures for Wheat Corn Oats Rye Soybeans and eggs, with small ads for roofing shingles from Eclipse Lumber Co and Johns Manville branding.
During August cows on test averaged 17 pounds of milk and 0.6 pounds of fat. Of 360 on test, a Registered Holstein led by Bush and Swartzendruber produced 2161 pounds of milk and 66.7 pounds of fat. Ray Apple was second with 659 pounds of milk and 64.7 pounds of fat. The top herd was 12 Grade Holsteins owned by Louis Eckhardt Wellman averaging 1133 pounds of milk and 38.4 fat with one dry. Other herds posted strong averages across Holstein Guernsey and mixed herds, with several members showing at All-Iowa and Iowa State Fairs. Maplecrest Farms and Gingerich & W Bush exhibited Holsteins, Clarence Wolcott Brown Swiss, and Marvin Matthes Guernseys.
Hogs 106000 mostly 15 to 25 cents lower with mixed weights. early top 12.25 and typical 180 to 240 pounds. Cattle 4000 calves 700 weak to 25 cents lower, most 11.00 to 12.00, beef cows down 25 cents, vealers 14.00 to 14.50. Sheep 4000 bids on natives and westerns 11.50 to 11.55, fat yearlings down about 25 cents, native ewes 4.00 to 5.00. Estimated tomorrow hogs 5000 cattle 2000 sheep 1000.
Chicago cash grain quotations list mixed corn and oats grades with percentages and quality notes. Soybeans show a single yellow lot at 1.94. The report reflects market activity and quality distinctions for several lots in Chicago.
Market unsettled for produce with receipts totaling 7 165 cases and 30 extra firsts. Firsts 28 percent, dirties 251 percent, checks 2449. Poultry market steady with 45 trucks received, heavy hens 20 percent and broilers 15 percent.
Margot Harris of Netarts Oregon a coast resort town created a full moleskin coat from foxlike moles she trapped cured and prepared herself. She designed and sewed the coat based on government pamphlet guidance. Fur experts estimate the value at 500 dollars.
Russell Wayne Andrews confessed to cattle theft and eluded authorities with a Davis county posse of about 150 farmers after an all day pursuit south of Bloomfield. Judge Edward Simmons sentenced him to five years at Anamosa. Silk hosiery in Canada is a big business. It is produced at the rate of $35 per minute.
In the Swiss canton of Glarus a suitor offers a single rose in a flowerpot on the window sill. If the beloved accepts, an immediate marriage is arranged. if the rose withers, the suitor learns of rejection without a word spoken.
Auction listings show Midway Sale Co in Columbus holding weekly Wednesdays sales and Community Sale every Friday at City Feed Yard. Audley Gault closing out household goods sale on Sept 9 postponed to Sept 18 one mile east of Lexington. Berkshire hog sale on Oct 2 by Harold J Horak, Ka lona. Knotek Bros hog sale on Oct 8 in Riverside. Penning roth Brothers hog sale on Oct 11 in Wellman Poland China.
C. C. Alfred, 56, arrested in Iowa City by an FBI agent, pleaded not guilty to impersonating a federal officer. He was ordered held to the federal grand jury under a $1500 bond after allegedly taking $100 from Charles Louch as an advance on oil drilling machinery. The unusual note was that the alleged victim signed the defendant’s bond.
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