Fragmentary price fragment notes
A terse OCR fragment shows prices with vague units and percentages. No clear entities or full context are readable to identify a concrete item, date, or seller.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1949
Page
7
A terse OCR fragment shows prices with vague units and percentages. No clear entities or full context are readable to identify a concrete item, date, or seller.
Chicago markets show hogs up to 50 cents higher with top at 21.75 and most 21.25 to 21.50 for 175-225 lb hogs. cattle active with heifers and steers up about 50, top steer price 28.25 at 1287 lbs. cows uneven but higher on some loads. calves dull though vealers to 30.00. sheep steady with odd lots at 26.25 and more generally 25.00-25.10.
Health unit warns that streptococcal sore throats are common in Washington city schools and in Wellman Kalona and Brighton. Children with sore throats should stay home several days to prevent scarlet fever. Neighbors should avoid sharing throat contact. Health unit offers child discipline training and sex education materials and has added parent education to its library shelf. The next child health conference is Wednesday at Ainsworth led by Mrs Albert Jeffrey.
West Chester school notes cover six week tests in economics geography and bookkeeping progress. Pupils list pet peeves and social frictions from lockers to bus punctuality, while columns report declamatory contest participants and class activities across English biology history typing and algebra with a bioscope purchase for biology and a Washington tournament third place for the junior high.
Weekly and midweek livestock sale times listed across multiple Iowa venues. Whittaker sale barn hosts Friday sales while Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction and Kalona Sales Barn run Wednesday and Thursday sales respectively. Ollie and Sigourney locations hold afternoon auctions with Hi Dollar Sales and Keota Junction also listing Friday sales.
H. Hens and Hbr. Hens Cox report two dozen eggs on grade current receipts. The note outlines egg production figures and income tied to grade standards.
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