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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1943
Page
4
A scattered crossword style list of clues and partial phrases including references to animals plants anatomy and objects, with many garbled or overlapping entries. The page seems to present a mixed set of across clues and stray letters or captions, inviting a fill in from a crossword like grid.
Hogs 14 000 traded with varied grades from good to choice 180 to 550 pounds selling around 14 to 14.25 per cwt and 14.40 top for lighter lots. sows at 9.14 to 14.15. Cattle receipts 17 000 calves and 700 head fed steer and yearlings steady to 25 cents lower with most weight grades showing declines. yearling steers 962 pounds average at 14.00 to 16.25. cows scarce with cutters at 10.50 down, beef cows 11.00 to 14.00. bulls steady up to 14.00. Sheep 2 500 fat lambs fairly active with native spring lambs at 16.00 to 16.15, bucks to 15.00, wooled offerings quiet, clipped ewes around 7.50 to 8.00.
Market notes list egg prices with No 1 eggs at 33 cents and No 2 eggs at 28 cents. Heavy fowls above four pounds and Leghorns priced at 21 and 18 cents respectively for lighter weights.
Chicago poultry receipts show one car and nine trucks with mixed prices for hens broilers and turkeys across weight classes. Cheese butter eggs and potatoes also listed with varied market quotes and firm demand, including Longwhites and Triumphs grades across regions.
Grain market notes a firm tone with oats unchanged to higher and other grains steady to easy. Wheat, rye, oats, and corn show mixed moves as traders stay on the sidelines awaiting Washington developments. Milling demand appears in wheat while commission houses trade oats and rye slips from intraday highs.
United Press market brief reports stocks lower bonds lower with irregular declines. Chicago stocks vary, often steady. Commodities mostly lower with wheat down 4 to 5/8, oats down 1/8 to 2/8, rye down ½ to ¾. Livestock in Chicago mostly steady to easier for hogs and cattle, sheep near steady.
The Register summarizes an explanation from Herb Plagman, executive secretary for Iowa salvage, detailing why scrap metal is essential to wartime steel production. He notes steel can be made from pig iron or scrap, with one ton of scrap replacing one ton of ore, and outlines the immense ore and coal needs avoided by using scrap thus filling capacity gaps.
The governor urges a June scrap drive to gather heavy steel and iron for war needs. The plan, named Towns Scrap Rally, calls on residents to collect every pound during the 30 day period to support 1943 steel production for tractors farm machinery and critical household use.
Agatha and Clemantine debate freeing Willard Eaton and concealing their own roles. They craft a decoy letter to a reporter using clipped newspaper words to mislead investigators, suggesting Willard was innocent and that the two students were framed. A stranger shadows Agatha as they finish the plan.
The article details scrap and pig iron goals to forge steel for farming and war needs, urging turn-in of old machinery and waste fats. It cites Iowa quotas, the role of women in salvage, and cooperation with meat dealers and renderers. It also includes obituary and local notices about Ostwein resident Oswin and travel to Chicago, with funeral details.
Chris Anton Jensen born December 18 1876 in Ulm Denmark died June 1943 at his home aged 66 years 5 months 15 days. obituary notes full life span and place of death.
Collier's notes that eruptions can eject material at near cold temperatures. Mount Lassen in California reportedly produced several such eruptions in 1914, with ejecta that did not melt the snow on which it landed.
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