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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1944
Page
5
Market opened slow and finished active with hogs 14.15 to 14.30 and top 14.35 at 190 lb plus. Cattle showing steady to strong demand with yearlings and steers 14.00 to 17.25, calves steady. Sheep markets active, good to strong with western lambs 14.75 and native lambs 14.50 to 14.75.
Eyes: receipts 9,754 cases market firm unchanged. Extra firsts 46 to 49.8, firsts 40 to 4245, dirties 31 to 35, checks 81 to 34 percent. Poultry: receipts 22 trucks market firm.
The OPA announces a joint OPA WPB plan to curb clothing prices with four to five months for full effect. WPB allocates 40 million yards of inexpensive infant and children's clothing for ceiling pricing. OPA sets specific dollar and cent ceilings. A ban on over finishing and fancying up cheap materials at production aims to stabilize prices and improve quality and availability for housewives.
A sequence of livestock and farm asset auctions listed by date and location around Washington Iowa. Entries include sale names like Lexridge Holsteins and various closing out or dissolution sales with auctioneers such as Morton Emde Yoder P M Swartzendruber and Brown Bruty. Dates span December 21 to January 11 with sites at Washington Columbus Junction Coppock Road Columbus City Lone Tree Wellman West Chester Riverside and Crawfordsville.
Market brief lists December, May, July, and September wheat, corn, oats, rye futures with percentage changes and daily ranges. At-a-glance figures show shifts in crop prices and belief in fluctuating demand.
The Order of Rainbow Girls hosted a Yuletide semi-formal at the Rendezvous with Christmas decor and colored lights. About 100 couples attended as Red Steele and orchestra provided the music. patrons included Mr and Mrs John Harp and Mrs Harp, former Rainbows leader.
In 1870 Thomas Nast popularized the donkey as a Democratic emblem in Harpers Weekly. Four years later the elephant emerged as a party symbol after a zoo escape rumor inspired Nast to group forest animals, labeling the elephant “The Republican Vote.”
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