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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1946
Page
7
Community Sale every Friday at Whittaker sale barn. Livestock sales every Wednesday at Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Iowa. April 12 Hog Sale by Penningroth Bros at P M Swartzendruber Sale Barn Wellmantown beginning at 7 30 PM.
Hogs 5 000 active and steady to ceiling 14.85 Sows 14.10. cattle 11 000 with top steers 18.00 and 15.50 to 17.90 bulk. heifers 17.10. cows and bulls strong. calves light demand. Sheep 4 000 good and choice fed at 15.35 with wooled lands higher. wool quotes around 8.75 down. Market tone steady to firm across species with selective shortages in higher grades.
Chicago April 10 receipts show 2 cars 138 trucks for poultry with hens and chickens firm turkeys weak young tom turkeys over 20 lbs 28 20 lbs and under 36 37 for hens. Eggs receipts 34923 cases market steady prices for various grades listed.
Grain table from Chicago shows futures in wheat corn and oats for May July and September contracts. Prices listed include open high low and close figures with figures like wheat July 183 and corn May 121 percent entries and oats May 83 and July 82 percent.
Weekend visitors at the Ralph Beauchamp home include Mr and Mrs Laurence Morrissey and children from Materloo. A cancer clinic convened in Washington Iowa. Lyle Lowe resumes plumbing upgrades while awaiting bath fixtures. Ward McCuterin and Lewis Blanchard families visit in Washington and Marsh. Charley Bolon’s 86th birthday celebrated with family. Maurice Wirrabill bought turkey poults from Don Stutsman. Lyle Lowe buys a new Ford. Mary Tannain has been ill but improving.
Crop reports from Des Moines show over 4 million acres of small grain sown last week in Iowa. By week end central and southwest regions near completion while northeast lags at about half done. Hay growth is ahead of normal and plowing progress sits at 38 percent amid tight labor but overall field work continues on schedule.
Mrs. Mary Krabill and Murray Nen along with Jill Nen and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beauchamp visited the Maurice Krabill home last Sunday at the Ford Motor Co site. Albert Smith Hart hosted guests in Mt. Pleasant on the same day.
In four Back Bay apartment blazes, begun around 5 15 am, up to eight people perished and more than 75 fled in night clothes. The dead were found mainly in third and fourth floor bedrooms of the Colonial Chambers on Belvidere street. Patrolman Robert Mahar died after entering to rouse occupants and becoming trapped, leaping from a third floor window.
Serbs originally came from marshy plains between the Pruth and Dastr rivers and began to settle in the Balkan peninsula after the death of Maurichios, Byzantine emperor, in AD 602.
A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association states ulcer patients retain more gastric juice and acid at night. Feeding at night is essential to prevent acid irritation and aid healing.
Many people reach age 45 and struggle to read names in a telephone directory. The eye lens loses focus on near objects with age, making reading difficult and causing most adults to need reading glasses in middle age.
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