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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1943
Page
5
Chicago market report shows hogs at 16,000 head with steady to slow demand and sows firm. Hogs 200 to 300 pounds bring 13.75 to 13.10. 150 to 170 pounds 11.75 to 12.50. 310 to 380 pounds 13.00 to 13.35. Cattle and calves listed at 12,000 and 800 respectively with fat steers 13.50 to 16.25 and top 17.00 on prime for 1,205 to 1,316 pounds. Wealers and other classes noted with varied pricing.
Early sales steady with quality noted. Short deck good to choice fed wooled lambs bring 15.00. Two loads mid to high grades 13.50 to 14.50. Higher bids up to 15.25 for load lots good to choice western lambs. Hogs 8,000. cattle 5,000. sheep 7,000.
The Chicago cash grain market shows corn at 107 and a half, oats at 84 with mixed quality observed. The report notes all prices as generic cash quotations without specific delivery details or contract terms.
Chicago markets report unsettled eggs with receipts of 8 752 cases. Extra firsts nine, firsts eighty seven, current receipts eighty five, dirties thirty, checks twenty nine. Poultry receipts include one car and sixteen trucks as market remains firm.
The grain table opens with varied quotes across commodities. Prices show strength in some futures while others slip, reflecting cautious trading as markets weigh harvest supplies and export demand.
The page lists wheat oats and rye futures with diverse percentage figures for Sept May and July, indicating price changes. A frost temperature note explains that frost forms at 32 degrees or lower at ground level and that air just above the surface can be several degrees warmer on clear calm mornings.
Weevils breed year round in warm dry seeds and can be found in all growth stages during winter. Do not plant infested beans. After harvest dry thoroughly and fumigate with carbon bisulfide before storage. Use tight sacks to prevent reinfestation.
War Manpower Commission reports in 16,600 plants with 13.4 million workers that four million are women. For every two women hired in labor shortage areas one quits, with a 6.2 percent quit rate for women versus a 3.9 percent quit rate for men.
Pleasant Hill residents share Christmas Day and weekend gatherings at many homes. A. E. Kephart, Roy Kephart, and numerous relatives hosted and visited kin from Emmetsburg, Kinross, Washington, and Fairfield. Laurence Kephart sent a box from North Africa before Christmas, destination now unknown.
The guidance emphasizes precautions against fire and equipping homes with fire fighting gear. It suggests outside boxes of sand and water buckets, teaching older children their locations and use, and ensuring every family member knows how to exit during a fire. It also urges city residents to know how to activate a fire alarm.
Weekly sale notices list closing out and public auctions across Nebraska towns including Crawfordsville Ainsworth Washington River side and Brighton. Dates range Jan 3 to Jan 17 1944 with agents D P Twinam Albert Taylor John Simmering W A Pickard Ira A Coon Cora Baird and K A Weates administering Dutch Rees Estate.
The note lists COMSURER POINT VALUES for shank bone dietary inputs across categories of fat content and origin. It references heel of round shank meat bone and boneless variants in a historical pricing or valuation system for meat and dairy products.
A Christmas day gathering at Elmer Mason's country home included Mrs. Oscar Jugenheimer Mrs. Eva Harvey and the Jugenheimers Louie and Lewis Hering and Juanita with a duck dinner and songs while Elmer Mason played violin and Margaret guitar. Nearby visits included Charles Cannon and family at Howard Wittings and multiple Wittmer family Christmas dinners with relatives in Emmetsburg Mt. Pleasant Iowa City and Stout households.
Mr William Jamison and Mrs Jamison with two daughters shared Christmas dinner with the Pete Lauber family. Jesse Stout and family also celebrated at the Fred Simmons home in Fairfield.
The Clay Church Christmas program by the Sunday school drew a good crowd on Friday night. Santa Claus visited with presents and a treat for attendees.
Raymond Dickinson, a student in the Navy V-12 program at St Am brose College Davenport, was home for the Christmas holiday.
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