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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1952
Page
2
Market notes show steady wholesale buying prices with U S large white at 65, mixed large 63, mediums 485, standards 46-49 and current receipts 41 dirties 33 checks 32. Live poultry receipts total 1 084 coops with F O B paying prices unchanged heavy hens 21.5 27 light hens 17.5 20 roosters 28 30 fryers or broilers 31.5 34 old roosters 18 20 ducklings 32.
The Muscatine Big Harvest Festival plan awards totaling 113 in merchandise certificates across 12 divisions for vegetable and crop entries. Entries open Oct 15 at the Chamber of Commerce and must be grown in 1952. Winners announced Oct 29 with prizes 4 3 2 for top places and 4 for most unusual fruit or vegetable plus 10 6 and 3 for best market basket display.
Indianapolis hosts a clash between Barbara Ann Scott and Sonja Henie as their ice revues open tonight. Both shows tour eight of ten nights, with Scott's Holly wood revue and Henie bringing a portable link to Butler University Fieldhouse and Indiana State Fair Grounds Coliseum. Barbara Ann, 24, follows Sonja’s earlier success. Henie, 34, continued drawing large crowds since her Chicago premiere.
LeRoy W. Otto 72 a retired Union Pacific engineer died from injuries after his passenger car was struck broadside by a Chicago and North Western train at a residential crossing near downtown Council Bluffs. Traffic officers reported witness disagreement on signal status while a nearby railroad station operator testified the signal was on. Otto is the third traffic victim in Council Bluffs this year and the 13th in Pottawattamie county.
Joyce Conrad of Tipton was among 28 girls pledged to sororities at Buena Vista college. The column lists motor vehicle registrations, hospital admissions and discharges, El Rey Grotto ceremonial plans, square dance changes at Park Lane club, and community notices including homecoming planning and church activities.
USDA potato arrivals 172 on track 331 total 0. Eight shipments 897 indicate light supplies with demand good for limited trunk offerings. Market slightly stronger. Idaho russets 4.80 to 5.10, Minnesota North Dakotas reds 4.40 to 4.50, Washington russets 5.74, Wisconsin round whites 4.25.
A fragmented line lists percentages next to many names such as Am Can, Am Home, Am Rad, Am Sugar, T and T, Tob and Anaconda. It appears as a stock or market snapshot noting approximate holdings or performance figures for multiple corporations and brands.
L D Shaw 37 of Keithsburg is in a Galesburg hospital from injuries after his late model Ford left Route 150 eight miles north of Galesburg. Shock and exposure worsened by seven hours undiscovered, he crawled from the embankment with a dislocated hip and fractured jaw. He was found by a passing motorist at 5 am Tuesday and the hospital notified. Shaw, a Standard Oil employee, was returning from a business trip. his wife and four children learned of the mishap Tuesday morning.
Muscatine firemen answered three grass fire calls this week. Sparks from a trash fire at Ralph Stark lot 1503 Park avenue caused no damage. A second blaze at 1002 East Fifth street also did no damage. The third fire near Hershey hospital resulted in a summons at 9 29 a m.
The text advises clipping rug yarn sprouts with sharp scissors rather than pulling them. It then asserts that the Dutch, as a nation, are the best linguists among Europeans.
Bellevue records report a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis O'Brien at 645 Demorest avenue on Wednesday and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Daufeidt of route 2 today Former residents Candice Lynn Heiland born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Heiland of Norwalk California Wednesday Heiland formerly from Muscatine Her maiden name Betty Noret daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Noret 704 Cedar street
Chicago market report notes butter unsold with receipts totaling 517,623 and wholesale buying prices for the period starting October 9.
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