Chicago Hog and Cattle Prices Steady Amid Strong Hogs Rise
Livestock market report from Chicago shows 11 000 hogs sold with 10 cent gains on strong to fully higher sales. Heavy butchers up, 200 to 280 pounds 13.75 to 13.90, top 13.90 at 250 pounds. Sows scarce, 10 to 15 cents higher at 12.90 to 13.10. Cattle 1 500, calves 400, trade uneven but generally steady. yearlings top 15.85, bulk 13.00 to 15.00. Sheep 1 500, market irregular. Colorado fed lambs around 100 pounds at 16.95, up 20 cents. Tomorrow's forecast: hogs 1 900, cattle 500, sheep 300.
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Chicago
Market report shows receipts and firm prices across commodities
Bells report 20 060 cases with unsettled quarket and extra firsts 4144, firsts 33, current receipts 32, dirties 30, checks 29. Poultry shows no cars in preceipts and trucks, market firm and unchanged.
Grain table shows Wheat and Oats market figures
Chicago grain table dated February 18 presents open high low and close values for Wheat in September May and other months, along with Oats and Rye figures. It lists percentages and price estimates, reflecting daily market movements.
Fathers in Federal Service Face Short Deferments
Rep Forest A Harness charged at a House subcommittee hearing that fathers employed by the federal government receive discriminatory 60 day deferments not given to draft age fathers in private industry. He urged uniform treatment for all fathers and said the order was unfair and not lawful.
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Washington, D. C
Forest A. Harness
Indiana
Harness
House
War Manpower Commission
Release Ohman Car to Bank in Iowa records show $150 mortgage
An automobile confiscated from Raymond Ohman after a Muscatine sentencing on illegal liquor transport was released to the Columbus Junction State Bank. The bank holds a $150 mortgage with $120 remaining.
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Columbus Junction
Iowa
Raymond Ohlman
Muscatine
Sweden builds world’s longest concrete span bridge
Sweden completes a bridge with an 886 foot concrete span replacing a coastal ferry link between Stockholm and Haparanda near the Finnish frontier. The total bridge length reaches 14,700 feet with a vertical height of 131 feet above the water.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Haparanda
Passenger Tire Quotas Reported Dwindling For Next Months
The Rubber Director through the rationing board states that new passenger tire quotas will not exceed 750000 a month for at least three months. Shortages of materials and military needs limit civilian tire production, with no forecast beyond three months. Boards will screen tire applications, prioritizing work essential to the war effort, health, and safety.
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Office of the Rubber Director
OPA
United States
Mexico Trade Ties in 1940 Near Total with United States
In 1940 Mexico, the third power of the Western hemisphere, sold 89.5 percent of its exports to the United States and bought 78.8 percent of its imports from the United States. Germany accounted for 1.3 percent of imports and under one tenth of exports, Italy 1.7 percent of imports and 2.3 percent of exports, the United Kingdom 1.1 percent of imports and 0.9 percent of exports, and Japan 2.6 percent of imports and 2.5 percent of exports.
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Western Hemisphere
Mexico
United States
Germany
Italy
United Kingdom
Japan
Bulls Deserve Hay Equal to Milking Herd Quality
Farmers urged to provide bulls with hay of the same quality as the milking herd based on recent information. The appeal stresses fair feeding standards and consistent forage quality across livestock groups.
Electronics extend our sense in control and measurement
Electronics offer a way to detect and amplify signals too small to notice, extending our electrical sense. In fast industrial processes this use of electronics opens a new page and fulfills a newly created function.
Student Exam Gaffe Reveals Karl Marx Front Page Grade
A Pennsylvania State College instructor faced a humorous mishap when a student failed to answer a question on the new economic policy in Russia after the Revolution. The instructor revealed the grade by turning to the exam’s front page and naming Karl Marx.
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Pennsylvania State College
Russia
Karl Marx
Community Friday sale calendar at Whittaker sale barn
Weekly journal sale listings cover February dates with multiple closing out sales across Iowa. Entries include start times, locations such as Riverside Joe Kupka farm Walnut Lane West of Wa pulp o Wa pello and more, with organizers like Bill Wingler H B Jones Reo Horak Estate and Ward Essley.
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South Marion
Don Bell
Adm
S. E
Riverside
Joe Kupka
Bill Wingler
Walnut Lane Farm
Wapello
Iowa
H. B. Jones
Lone Tree
Reo Horak
Kalona
Duroc
Knotek Bros
Timm
Timm Farm
Muscatine
Washington
Ward Essley
West Chester
Sidney Smith
South Wayland
C. M. Shrock
New Titanium Dioxide Rutile Pigment Improves Opacity
A wartime pigment advance introduces a rutile type titanium dioxide with a denser crystal structure. It is about one third more opaque than older whites and shows superior resistance to chalking and fading.
Tender Apples Require Careful Harvest Handling
The article notes that delicate varieties like McIntosh need gentler handling during harvest compared with firmer types such as Baldwin or Greening.
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C. L. Jennings
New London
North Side Cafe
Clyde Stoutner, Jr
Keota
John Stout
Warner & Bristow
Rendezvous Ballroom
Zelather Taylor
General Carpenter
Jay Moore
John Deere
Ainsworth
Washngton
J. D. Rabenold
Lloyd Turnipseed
Edward Wolfe
Call
Inquire Journal
Busby Mfg. Company
Wilmer Kauffman
W. Wayne Limerman
Porter Elevator
Pioneer
Pioneer Drug Store
Martin
R. W. Hyde
John Zieglowsky
Eclipse Lumber Company
Carson Plumbing & Heating
Hampshire
C. A. Strohm, R
Grace Hill
Eugene McClelland
Brighton
H. C. Finney
J. E. Letts
Brawleigh
C. G. Picken
Little’s Furniture
New Hampshire
Louis Kaufman
Wayland
Call O
FEL
Conry, Haskins
Hawk
Hawk’s
Iowa City
Farrow
Washington Co. Nat. Farm Loan Assn
Jeffrey Building
Ramseyer
Hatchery
East Washington
the Evening Journal
Chicago Livestock
AETNA
ORR Lond Company
Washington, Iowa
U. S
Ohman
Martha Butler
Robert Schabilion
C. E. Schabilion
Davenport
Shirley Russell
Charles R. Russell
Carthage
Ill
Schabilion
Conesville
Rock Island
Walter Vineran
Cecil Lowe
Here
Luther Davis
Dean Duncan
Farrarat
Idaho
Jean Duncan
A. S
Alex Randolph
Columbus City
Rationing Board
Bradley Dewey
Raymond Timmerman
R. G. Wessler's Blacksmith Shop
North Marion
For Stores
U. S. Employment Service
Journal
Whittaker Sale
George J. Breitenbach
Delco
H. P
Dewey Stephens, Jr
Exgell Feed & Hatchery CO
Fair Grounds
Oskaloosa, Iowa
New Glory
Wisconsin Roller
Stovall
New Sharon, Iowa
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Kalona Golf Course
Jersey
Guernsey
Deering
Galloway
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Lowa
Sol
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Atwater Kent Radio
Raymond W. Hasty Brown
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