Market summaries show hogs cattle and sheep activity
Chicago markets report December 20 with hog data noting 28 000 head slow demand and varying weights with prices from 11 50 to 13 75 for different hog categories. Cattle stalls show 18 006 with steers and yearlings generally steady to 25 cents lower and ranges of 13 00 to 16 50 for top cattle. Sheep around 8 000 with no early sales and steady asks. Tomorrow estimates project 25 000 hogs 8 000 cattle 7 000 sheep.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Market Report December 20
Chicago market notes eggs weak with current receipts 35 dirties at 20 to 1 dollars. Poultry receipts 1 ear and 22 trucks. Ducks 25, old geese 25, leghorn hens 23 to 14, young tom turkeys 35, old tom turkeys 33 to 14.
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Chicago
Chicago Cash Grain Update
Chicago on December 29 reports cash grain prices with corn at 106 percent and oats at 84 percent.
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Chicago
Grain table shows shifts in wheat oats rye futures
Chicago grain table lists open high low and close for wheat oats and rye futures across September December May and July contracts with percent changes and prices. Notable figures include wheat Sep 162 163 and 1634, oats Dec 82 83 and May 79 80, rye Dec 124 126 and May 123 126.
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Chicago
Women Complete Surgical Dressings Quota at Wyman
WYMAN Dec 20 The ladies finished their quota of surgical dressings for Red Cross and expect to open for work again Wednesday afternoon Jan 5 if material arrives. Vernon Stribley, former school superintendent, has joined the navy and is at Farragut Idaho. Mrs Stribley and baby reside at Ft. Dodge. Mrs T G Williams returned to Iowa City after visiting daughter Mrs J R Rees. Donald Kracaw now at University of Alabama for college training. Mrs Dean Gipple and husband returned from Dayton Ohio.
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Vernon Stribley
Navy
Farragut
Idaho
Margaret Sheldon
Lockridge
Neil Kracaw
Des Moines
Donald Kracaw
Keesler Field
Miss
University of Alabama
Dean H. Gipple
Dayton
Ohio
Rubio Ladies Aid Meets at Nan Strickland Home
The Rubio Ladies Aid held a Thursday afternoon meeting at Mrs. Nan Strickland’s home with Birdie Ash and Nannie Dickison assisting. Community notes include visits, travel, illnesses, farm shipments to Cedar Rapids and Chicago, and local family updates.
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Rubio Aid Society
Nan Strickland
Leyi van Dyke
Rubio
Rubio Ladies Aid
Birdie Ash
Nannie Dickison
O. W. Schmitter
Doyle
Bloomfield
Levi van Dyke
Rubio School
Mullikin
Elias Rudolph
A. E. Mourer
Cedar Rapids
O. B. Morgan
Fairfield
Olive Balderson
Edgar McClurg
Ottumwa
So and Sew Clubs Christmas Dinner at Hammond Home
So and Sew club members and husbands were guests at an all day meeting with Mr and Mrs Raymond Hammond. A cooperative noon dinner was served and Betty Bishop and Fern Carr provided entertainment. Also noted were a graveside funeral for Roy Bain in Washington and news of Pvt Donald Bishop recovering in North Africa.
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J. B. Moore
Dayton Grove
Dee
So and Sew Club
Raymond Hammmond
Betty Bishop
Fern Carr
Italy
North Africa
Roy Argo
Town City
Walter Leet
Herman Schultz
Sadie Not
Fairfield
Betty
Donnie
Floyd Kinnan
Kinross
Wm. Carr
Ernest Crawford
Merry Mixer Club
Oren Romine
Washing tips for enamelware and garbage pails
A note advises washing garbage pails with soapsuds weekly then hot water rinse to preserve them. It warns against using dry heat on enamelware.
Ramazzini and the Roots of Industrial Hygiene
The piece traces Bernardino Ramazzini as a 17th century Italian physician who laid the foundations of industrial hygiene. It notes his emphasis on cleanliness and healthy working conditions as essential to health and his long life in writing on the subject.
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Bernardino Ramazzini
Ramazzini
Harvest timing affects root crop storage in winter
Premature harvest leads to poorer fruit storage as root crops fail to keep well through the winter. The text discusses how delaying harvest can improve storability of root vegetables.
Don’t Let Vegetables Loaf In Kitchen Care Tips
A home tip urges washing vegetables and moving them to the crisper promptly to preserve Vitamin C, noting loss of up to fifty percent if left exposed.
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Nick Herman
Sigourney
Iowa
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New
Lonavun
Ainsworth
Ames
Fred Burger
W. L. Gates & Son
Journal
Washington
George J. Breitenbach
Ethan Brooks
Mt. Pleasant Wayland
Penney
Ordnance
Day & Zimmer
Mann, Inc
Nancy Vinton
Santa
Nancy
Dorothy Dickey
Washington R. R. 1
Valera Dettwiler
Wilfred McCreedy
Washington, Iowa
Plesse
Daddy
Klein's
McDaniel's
David
Western Auto Store
MacLellan’s
P. S
Hampshire
Mt. Union
E. R. Brenneman
Chas. Brown
Mildred Pressly
Reister Bros
Philco Radio- Phonograph
Berkshire Boars
Frank Fletcher
Crawfordsville
Maytag Motor
Groff
W. Madison
East Jefferson
Eclipse Lumber Company
John Gugel
Wayland
Carson Plumbing & Heating
Washington Oil Company
Plymouth Tudor
Washington County
Washington Concrete Company
L. H. Orr Land Co
Studebaker
Plymouth
Good Boys
Call
Ramseyer Hatchery
Tudor Pontinc
Dennis Blosser
Balk W. M. Darbyshire
Straw
Journal Office
David McGaffey
Lemmon's Jewelry Store
Sorden’s Music Co
Scott Furniture Company
Helman
McLellana’s
George L. McDaniel
AIR Corps
Penney's
Tommy Lan’s
McLes
Priscilla
Westphal
Rothschild’s
Washington Oil Co
Sam
the Evening Journal
Pioneer Drug Store
Chicago Livestock
Rye
Wyman
EF. W. Humphreys
Martin’s Produce & Hatchery
Crawfordsvile
Dwight Moody
Excelsior Springs
McCleary Hospital
Fred Grosseup
P. B. Johnson
Eugene Morgan
Earl Morgan
Ralph Nordyke
Paul Martin
Clayton Martin
California
Sammy Miller
Verne Wolfe
Lester van Dyke
Charley Leppert
Fred Leppert
Omer Long
Frank Ash
Eloise
Hammond
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Ramseyer
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Smylie
MGR. I'S
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North Side
Storf Washington
Jive
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