Local visitors and ailing child highlight weekend notes
Des Moines residents Mr. and Mrs. Tom Richards visiting here. Karen Morrison, 20 months, remains in favorable condition after a skull fracture from a fall at a story and a half house. Commander R. E. Winslow transfers to Pearl Harbor with wife and daughter sailing from San Francisco August 12. Various relatives travel, visit, and care for ill family members across Lenox and Canton areas.
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Tom Richards
Des Moines
Mrs. Payne Marshall
Karen Morrison
J. C. Morrison
Washington County Hospital
W. L. Powell
Columbus
Ohio
R. E. Winslow
Washington, D. C
E. D. Rayburn
Winslow
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
C. C. Niffenegger
West Chester
Lenox
Howard Stewart
Aleph Hites
L. S. Hewitt
Hewitt
Baby Joey Smokes a Pipe. Parents Seek Help
Chicago August 4 Anxious parents Nick and Mrs Schmitz report their two year old son Joey has taken to smoking a pipe. They say he began by sucking on unlit pipes and later lit ones, but despite repeated attempts he has shown no ill effects.
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Chicago
Nick Schmitz
Joey
Drowns in Mississippi Near Big Island
Arthur Wiesel of Burlington, 47, drowned when a wave toppled his motor boat on the Mississippi near Big Island. Robert Martin survived after being tossed into the river. Wiesel disappeared and body recovered by coast guardsmen and volunteers shortly before midnight.
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Mississippi
Burlington
Iowa
Arthur Wiesel
Big Island
Wiesel
Robert Martin
Martin
Hoat
Livestock Markets Report from Chicago Trade
Chicago market data for August 4 shows hogs at 7,000 head with slow sales, cattle at 12,000 and calves 1,000. price notes include hogs 170-240 lb at 27.25 to 28.25 top, 350-400 lb butchers 21.00 to 23.00, sows down to 17.00. cattle mostly 29.50 to 32.75 for good steers, two loads of 1,275 lb average 33.00, cows 14.00 to 16.50, 7.50 for ewes and lambs bid around 24.50 to 25.00 for spring lambs.
Chicago Produce Prices and Poultry Movement
Chicago August 4 report lists poultry trucks at 38 with varied classes from black chickens to tom turkeys and ducks, with white rock springs 32 and old roosters 16. Egg totals reach 17,682 cases with unsettled extras and current receipts 38-3884, dirties 36-3536, checks 34%-35.
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Colored Springs
Plymouth Rock Springs
White Rock Springs
Wheat and corn grain futures rise modestly in Chicago market
Wheat futures climb one to four cents with No 1 red around 237 to 240 and No 2 red near 236 to 238 as markets show slight gains. Corn futures gain two to five cents with No 1 yellow about 228 to 233 and No 5 yellow near 210 to 215. Oats remain steady to modestly higher with mixed grades firming for some lots.
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Chicago
Grain market table shows Chicago futures quotes
The Chicago Grain table lists Wheat and Oats futures with open high low and close values for Sept Dec Mar and May contracts. Prices range from 205 to 236 with percent changes noted, reflecting daily trading moves.
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Chicago
Razor blade mishap ends up in hospital for glass eater
Emil Petrick a 50 year old professional glass eater explains how a razor blade went down the wrong way during a between meals snack in Green Bay Wisconsin. He says he will not quit his trade despite the incident and notes he has eaten glass for 20 years earning up to 2100 daily.
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Green Bay
Wis
Emil Petrick
Petrick
Riverside residents push for Bee Line Bus franchise
Riverside residents plan a nine o clock Wednesday trip from Brenner's cafe to the Keokuk County Auditor in Sigourney to seek a franchise for Bee Line Bus Co. to run mail and passengers from Iowa City to Riverside and on to Kalona Wellman Kinross South English and Webster. The bus would run two round trips daily to satisfy a public need and attendance at the Sigourney meeting is urged to show support.
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Riverside
Brenner's
Keokuk County
Sigourney
Bee Line Bus Co
Iowa City
Kalona
Wellman
Kinross
South English
Webster
Bee Line Bus Company
Four Lane Dream Highways Planned Across U S
The Public Roads Administration announced a postwar program to build 37.7 thousand miles of four lane superhighways over 15 to 20 years. Costs total 3.006 billion dollars with half funded by states and the federal government.
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Washington
Public Roads Administration
PRA
Army Plans Underground Aircraft Factory Says Royall
Secretary of War Royall disclosed plans for an underground aircraft factory to test safety from atomic bombs. He released a four page report noting 71 indictments for fraud in war contracts out of 400 cases and described underground defense facilities including a chemical processing plant and a fire control instrument plant. He said industry may move underground with rights of way values rising, while infrastructure would largely follow the federal road pattern.
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Washington
Kenneth C Royall
Army
Robert P. Patterson
Justice Department
Royall
Hhe
Army-Navy Munitions Board
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Fioneer Drug Store
Leo Shelangoski
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Don Nicols
Theodore B. Bailey
Morrison & Morrison
Edmund D. Morrison
Edmund D. Morrison, Jr
Orrison Building
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Robert Day
W. Maip
George F. Morrison
Gifford Morrison
J. C. Penney Co
Paul V. Shearer
Lawyer Jet
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S. Lemmon
John W. Lemmon
East Side Square
Journal
P. L. Etter
F. G. Livesay
Spinal Distortion
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Pittsburgh
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Phone
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Cushman Motor
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Whittaker
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Columbus City
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Perlou
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Keota
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Nicola & Harmon
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Charles Bond
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Lee Shaffer
Corn Belt
Shaffer
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Highway 1
Clara TeBockhorst
Matilda Te- Bockhorst
Jay Brewer
Adtaker
Orleando
Florida
Sas
Spurgeon’s
Charles Godwin
Canton
John A. Godwin
Archie
Godwin
Guy Pederson
Bonnie Rae
Alberta
Dean
Cresco
Guy Cole
Chicago Livestock
Chicago Cash Grain
ChicaGo Grain Table
Trier Sale Co
Keota, Iowa
Dick’s Furniture Repair
Dick Baker
West Monroe
PHOND
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Midway Sales CO
KF. D. Smylie
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W. A. Harriman
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America
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Zelda
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