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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1943
Page
5
Hog receipts 22 000. Slow but some good ad choice 200 to 300 pounds at 13 75. Cattle 8 000 calves 1 000 steady to weak. Top four loads yearlings 17 00. Heifers steady. Sheep 7 000 lambs open strong but not followed. Good to choice western lambs 14 65. Estimates for tomorrow hogs 10 000 cattle 10 000 sheep 0 00.
Naples harbor action left a cruiser sunk then raised and repaired. Navy seeks SRUs with 40 trades for immediate ship repair work, booklet available at the Navy Recruiting Station.
Chicago reports eggs receipts 10 238 cases with unsettled market. Extra firsts 59 percent current receipts 33 percent dirties 20 percent checks 29. Poultry receipts are zero with no cars or trucks in market. market remains firm.
Chicago cash grain bulletin lists oats at 14 dollars per bushel for 4 white and 188, 186 for 1 yellow and 2 yellow soybeans respectively. No additional context or entities provided.
Chicago grains release shows Wheat Sep 162% 164% 163% close 163% May 1667 167 166% 166% July 1645 165 164% 164% Oats Sept 76% 76% 75% May 78% 78% Rye 122% 123% 12334 1285 May 126 126% 125% 1261 with mixed percentage figures and contract months.
A shoe manufacturer now makes wood and glue soled footwear for street and dress use. Soles are of hard northern maple and affixed with waterproof synthetic resin glue.
Before spectacles were invented many strange nos trums were used to combat failing sight according to the Better Vision institute. Herb teas were popular and a salve known as golden ointment was used extensively around the eyes for years.
Gardeners in dry weather place a board over seed rows to speed germination. Once seedlings push through the soil they lift the board, exposing roots to air and light and accelerating early growth.
A sequence of auction and public sale notices across Iowa towns including Ainsworth Crawfordsville Washington Pleasant Plain River side Keota and more. Entries list owners such as R C Blankenhorn D P Twinam Albert Taylor John Simmering W A Pickard Ira A Coon J H Thompson E I Dutch Rees Estate and Mrs Cora Baird with dates from Jan 3 through Jan 18 1944 and locations on roads and near towns.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that American secret weapons are being employed against Germany and Japan. He summarized a year of Navy Bureau of Ordnance work noting unconventional devices have struck both sides and that carrier numbers have sixfold increased since Pearl Harbor with Corsair and Hellcat fighters boosting the fleet’s offensive sting.
Play materials for children can be simple and inexpensive. Many of the best are available at little or no cost dirt water grass wood stones sand pebbles pine cones acorns and leaves.
Nine of ten unmarried British women aged 18 to 40 are engaged full time in war work or civil defense or serve in the armed forces.
Crawfordsville residents recount Christmas dinners with family and friends. J C Rhea hosted relatives including Lisle Maxwell and family. Holmes hosted most of their clan. Max Mitchell visited Riverside and family. several travelers and workers on vacation joined local households. Private Ernest Whiting returns on furlough from Camp White. WACS member Mildred Whiting transfers to Camp Pine. other family members disperse across Osage Iowa Trinidad Texas Tipton and Cedar Rapids. Reverend H N Poston hosts daughters Janet Johnston Ruth Swift and Mary Ann Thompson visiting from nearby towns.
Resembles Delaware in land use and coast, Sandy seaside country with no mountains or many rivers. It supports a crop economy oriented to export, with prewar Denmark described as a large produce farm for England. Motorized refrigerator boats carried bacon butter eggs and hams to Harwich in about 18 hours.
A tip advises keeping toilet soaps, toilet tissues, and other bathroom items on a shelf in the linen closet or upstairs clothes closet to save steps when replacements are needed.
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