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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1944
Page
5
Gamble Stores promotes a tire sale offering seventy five to eighty white rock sets ready for lay. The notice lists CHAS R. FISCHER as Commissioner of Insurance with a reference to 660,949.20.
A crossword style list with clues and answers from a 1944 issue. Entries include ancient kings of Judah, architectural styles, animals, and common nouns, structured as a word puzzle page. The date August 7 1944 appears with the final answer section labeled Receptacle and SWEIN DAILY RAGISTER.
Cedar Rapids and Chicago hog and cattle quotes show steady to mixed trends. Hogs top around 14.45 at Cedar Rapids with weights 160 to 240 pounds, sows and bulls trading within 13.40 to 14.75. Cattle and calves report varied prices for steers, yearlings, heifers, and cows, with strong demand for good and choice grades and lambs maintaining higher values into mid teens.
Chicago poultry receipts and prices show steady demand with hens at 23 cents per pound and broilers at 27 cents. Turkey and goose listings noted with various weights, plus cheese and butter markets firm with large receipts.
Market notes show arrivals and shipments for Idahos and Washington Idaho varieties. Prices listed for U S and Texas cobblers with washed jobbed grades. Mixed quality noted with decay in mis-4 sour cobblers and several price points across multiple sizes and grades.
Favorable war news weighed on Chicago grain futures with wheat and rye sliding to season lows across deliveries before a mild rally. Wheat finished down 11 to 11 3 8 cents, rye off about 2 1 2 to 1 7 8, and corn easing as liquidation and stop loss selling pressured prices. Trade noted government support levels and loan prices, with mixed recoveries in rye and barley, and interstate buying by federal agencies described as storage space constrained.
United Press reports stocks move irregularly higher while bonds wobble and curb stocks show uneven activity. Chicago markets and cotton swing sharply with grains down modestly and livestock prices mixed. Puppet theatres of the 17th century are recalled as London entertainment evolved under Cromwell and Puritan restrictions.
Twenty years ago on August 7 1934 Rotary District Governor W P Blair visited the Oelwein Rotary Club for a noon luncheon. A new water supply well north of town reassured residents. Local trips included William Tait in Waterloo and Ray Brady at Kildental and Redgate dam work neared completion. The first golf breakfast at the Country Club was served by Mrs Knapp. Reports note a Minnesota vacation, Osage golf entries, and a humorous misremembered tale at the club house amid a round of poles and players.
An ambitious reporter chats with Farmer John Jamison about life in fields and a broken binder. He returns to bank work as the exchange of town chatter continues. Various locals visit relatives, travel to Des Moines, St Paul, Devils Lake, and Farley for fairs, family events, and dances.
Local notes recount Albert Schmidtke curling in Waterloo Alps and H R Martin spending a day with relatives in West Union. Entries mention Donald Day trips, Corrinne Wood visiting St Paul, and W G Algore's return from relatives in Great Falls. Real estate transfers reported by W J Rogers: Clem Moran to Perry Dewey, 750 dollars. Elizabeth Sullivan Began to Ruth Starkey, 32000. J C Asline to Lloyd M Bentsen, 100 dollars. various parcels in Clermont and Delwein areas. other transfers listed with WD filings.
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