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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1946
Page
5
Busby Mtg. Company offers 36 purebred Poland China gilts bred to Hampshire boar for March and April farrowings. Weighs up to 300 pounds with prices $40 $45 and $50 by size.
Local notices extend best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Foss and to other Foss families. Christmas gatherings, family dinners, and visits spread through Pleasant Hill and nearby towns with multiple households hosting relatives and friends.
Thompson families from Iowa City visit the Bernard Deatsch home on a Sunday, with other households attending Christmas and New Year gatherings across Washington Davenport and Riverside. Names include Coon Murphy Krotz Soukup McCreedy and O Connor families along with several Keota and Iowa City residents.
In Wellman on Sunday afternoon a large audience attended a candlelight vesper service. The program featured Prelude by Mrs A N Gardner and invocation by Rey R Pinnell, with a processional listed among the readings and music.
When ironing press with the length of fabric whenever possible. For bias cut skirts slips or nightgowns iron on a slant along the grain or straight of the material to prevent stretching and sagging that causes uneven hems.
A list of upcoming livestock and public sales across Iowa including Whittaker sale barn in Columbus Junction, Midway Sales Company events, and multiple January auctions near Pilotburg Richland Riverside Kalona Wayand Keota Washington Wayland and Keota. Sellers include J A Dickinson Son Clyde Kennard A D Blosser & Sons M M Flynn R C Wead Harold Kauffman Alphonse Peiffer Dye Timmins Dye Schroeder and Ben Fitzgerald with times mostly starting around 10:30 to 12:00 local.
In a year end interview Harold W. Sweatt of Minneapolis Honeywell predicts less than half of wartime housing targets will be built in 1946 due to material shortages and manpower limits. He estimates about 500 000 new dwellings nationwide next year, far below wartime projections. He cautions completion may slip to September next year. Ships slated to join the active fleet include battleships New Mexico California Tennessee South Dakota Colorado Maryland West Virginia and carriers Wasp Hancock Essex Yorktown Intrepid Hornet Ticonderoga Lexington Bunker Hill and Bonhomme Richard. The navy’s storming plan could have the fleet ready in 30 days.
The Navy intends to place roughly 2,690 ships including battleships and larger aircraft carriers into an inactive fleet based at 14 coastal ports on the Atlantic and Pacific. The process has begun as a standby measure.
A thrift tip showing a Turkish toweling pouch filled with scrap soap pieces. Drop the bag into the tub to create a combined washcloth and soap experience.
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