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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1939
Page
7
Washington Lumber and Fuel Co urges readers to enjoy California or Florida like climates at home via Sahara Coal. They invite inquiries by phone at 21.
A National Geographic Society note recalls Victoria's long history with fire, from the 1851 great bush-fire near Melbourne to later fires around rabbit warrens, highlighting the region's dense settlement, timber wealth, and recurring embers that shaped local life.
The Philadelphia Record explains soap’s origins in ancient Rome. It outlines how soap cleans by emulsifying oils, notes the soap naming from Sappo hill, and describes fat and alkali as key ingredients with caustic potash for soft soap and caustic soda for hard soap.
George Fox began preaching at nineteen and helped found the Society of Friends the Quakers. He was jailed for disturbance and endured widespread persecution in England and the colonies. William Penn and many Quaker men faced imprisonment and punishment. Quaker women endured whipping as they challenged gender norms in religious practice.
The piece honors Robert Burns noting Scottish loyalty to homeland and memory of fallen and fighting men. It praises Burns as a descriptive poet and songwriter whose fame grows with time and who died at 37 after shaping enduring English speaking culture.
The article notes Alaska was held by Russia since Behring’s discovery in 1741, granted to the Russo-American Fur Company in 1799, charter renewed in 1830 and expired in 1863, with Alaska ceded to the United States in 1867 for 7 290,000.
Market data shows hogs 4000 head with slow demand and steady to lower prices. Cattle receipts 509 calves 300, market generally steady with downward drift on fed steers and beef cows soft. Sheep 3000 with spring lambs steady to stronger and slaughter ewes 3.00 to 4.00. Saturday receipts forecast hogs 200 cattle 300 sheep 500.
Chicago market report lists corn and oats details with color grades and percentages for mixed and white varieties. It notes corn receipts at 288 cars and includes September 22 market data from Archovan.
Open high and close figures for wheat corn oats rye appear in the Chicago grain table dated Sept 22. Notable entries show May and Sept futures for wheat and corn with mixed gains and losses, while oats and rye display varied percentages across May and Sept contracts.
Chicago market report shows steady prices across produce and poultry. Receipts include 6 693 cases for produce with 18 percent free graded firsts and 19 percent extra firsts, current receipts 164, dirties 14. poultry receipts total 47 trucks with ducks 414 geese 12 and leghorn hens 12. other prices unchanged.
Ed Wolfe of Washington, linked by some to a federal fraud probe over false weights at the Chicago stockyards, says a Des Moines radio report named him. The station later identified the weighmaster, not Wolfe, clearing his name in the matter.
The Farm Security Administration in Washington announces a program for farm owners interested in selling under the tenant purchase plan. Farms offered range from 0 to 200 acres and must be located in Washington county. Interested parties should submit a full farm description including buildings and the cash price asked to the local Farm Security Administration office in Washington.
Census figures list 776140 women employed as stenographers and typists in the United States with 36050 men. The data highlights gendered occupational distribution in clerical work during the era.
Iowa State College extension economists report Iowa farmers hold feed supplies on par with last year. Nationally feed grain per animal is about 8 percent lower but ample relative to livestock numbers, with corn marketing for 1939-40 seen amid large supplies and wartime demand.
Sept 28 closing out public sale at 1:00 pm led by Clayton B. Smith located 6 miles northwest of Fairfield. Sept 25 fall sale features 80 head Poland China boars and gilts from Robb farm 3 miles east of Morning Sun.
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