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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1944
Page
6
Massena Lt Annabell Lewis writes her father that letter writing must wait due to more urgent affairs as the invasion unfolds. Chris Jensen also reports receiving a cablegram from Lt Aldon Jensen in England stating he is well.
Chicago hog market closes with steady to weak tone across classes. Top hogs fetch 13.75 for 180 to 210 pound offerings. overall receipts 5,500 with direct packer shipments at 5,000 and 7,000 carried over from Friday. Cattle and lambs show mixed movement, with steers and yearlings firm to higher and lambs strong, top hog price at 13.75 and cattle top near 16.85 for choice fed steers.
Chicago June 17 Ickey Wheat futures recovered and posted gains after an early decline profit-taking near the close trimmed some of the advances July futures rose to about 1.89 dollars from 1.58 dollars Rye rallied with early gains turning into modest strength July moved from about 1.08 to 1.10 Oats ended higher while barley was unchanged to a small advance
Des Moines reports combined hog weights and slaughter totals for 24 hours ending 6 a m show 20 300 head processed across 49 centers in interior and southern Minnesota with 32 800 last week and a year ago Moderate activity and steady trend noted Hog prices quoted for various weight classes sows and gilts with per hundred weight ranges and dollars per head across several categories
Six dead in a B 26 Marauder crash into Big Lake north of Council Bluffs after takeoff from Omaha. Witnesses cite striking a high tension wire. aircraft based in Great Bend Kansas had seven aboard from Lincoln Nebraska.
Pvt Fred Scarlett Jr. has been inducted and is at Camp Bland ing Florida. Cpl Marion Miller transfers from Fort Benning Georgia and visits his parents with his wife Lee Duff. Clyde Holland and Lee Duff, Anita high school graduates, enlist in ASTRP and are stationed at State College Station Fargo North Dakota. Cpl Paul Benson returns to Maryville Missouri after a furlough.
Anita residents note guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rodgers include Earl Rodgers wife and daughter from Washburn North Dakota and Melvin Rodgers wife and two children from Mattoon Illinois. Miss Miriam Jaasko of Chisholm Minnesota arrived for the weekend with Mrs. Ben Brodersen and daughter. Brodersen and Jaasko previously worked together at the Lafayette club on Lake Minnetonka Minnesota last summer. Jaasko is returning from a teachers institute in Wichita Kansas. Our want ad page offers property selling services.
Betty Arnold a 16 year old Hamburg girl drowned while wading in the swift Missouri River. Her body was recovered two hours later as flood conditions prompted officials to warn against swimming. Red Cross aid and flood relief efforts were underway amid a prolonged crest. Weather reports cited high river stages near Omaha and Des Moines with thundershowers possible.
Market closes with gains and losses across major letters. Allegh Steel, Am Locomotive, Am Tel and Tel, Bethlehem Steel and Bendix Aviation rise while General Electric and General Motors post moderate gains. Standard Oil subsidiaries show mixed moves with United Cigar and Westinghouse Electric also trading.
The listing shows prices for sweet cream 52c, No.1 cream unknown, No.2 cream 46c, eggs, Leghorn items, roosters 14c, heavy breed hens 18c, Leghorn springs 2c, No.3 akin 14, choico shorn ewes 6.50 to 7.25, good 48-58 tb, California new crop lambs Saeder lambs 11.75, California wool prices 13.00.
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