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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1952
Page
6
USDA estimates show Friday salable hogs at 12,000 with prices sliding to new lows since May. Hogs mostly 25-40 cents lower early, butchers down 36-35 cents, sows uneven. Cattle steady to strong with some gains in cows, vealers steady, bulls weaker. Sheep demand weak to moderate with limited bids and most ewes selling around 10 to 22 dollars.
Local poultry prices show heavies 17 cents and Leghorns 14 cents with variations for breed springs and egg quality. Local hog market lists truck hogs by weight with prices from 14 to 18 dollars per hundredweight and sows and larger hogs priced accordingly.
Voters see race names in a township contest with C. E. Gillespie for Little Sheriff and Doc Gillie for Constable supported by General Election tickets on November 4 in the district.
Classified snippet lists WANTED items including a farm to rent with good references, and WANTED riders to Alcoa for a 3:30 to 18 shift. Also requests WANTED washings by phone numbers 2471-1 and 2705-d.
Auction-style ad describes 100 acres 9 miles north of Muscatine with new buildings since 1948 and 84 acres of level farmland on a gravel road with good fences and a pressure system. Terms include 8 500 down and 4 percent balance. Contact D A Donohue Tipton. Also an adjacent 271 acre farm between Muscatine and Grandview on paved highway priced to sell with contact W J Knight and Dale Hamlett.
Multiple listings advertise sale items including a 5 HP Sea King outboard motor 1006 Cedar phone 5973 first $350, Frigidaire refrigerator, electric floor waxer $45, Japanese hulless popcorn 12 lb $81, farm produce and poultry, kitchen cabinet, dining room suite, piano, room house with utilities, electric stoves, Westinghouse and GE appliances, lard and fresh meat products from Jordan Sausage Farms Letts Iowa, and employment ads seeking factory workers and a clerical position in Muscatine Iowa. Numerous contact numbers and locations noted.
Classified notes show job openings in art goods stationery drapery pet shop and hosiery with training offered and benefits. Also listed are used cars a 1948 Nash 4 door for 250 down a 1941 Oldsmobile six two door and a 1937 Nash two door with overdrive plus a machinist wanted by Home-O rize Co at 115 Cedar open both hours.
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