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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1945
Page
5
Two miles north of Haskins on highway 218 offers 50 acres for oats 50 acres for corn 45 acres pasture 30 acres clover hay with share crop terms. Contact W. R. McCreedy Haskins via phone.
Hogs 15,000 head very active and steady with 170 lb plus hogs at 14.75 ceiling and sows around 14.00. Cattle 8,000 head with calves 1,200. fed steers and yearlings 10 to 15 cents higher. top 16.60 at 3,318 lb. Wealers steady at 15.50. Sheep 6,000 with scattered sales. strictly choice 112 fed wooled western lambs at 15.85.
In Chicago on January 23 UFP reports steady egg market with top grades and receipts of 12 876 cases. Extra firsts quoted at 9.35 to 41.1, current receipts 7.1, dirties 32 tapic percent. poultry receipts total seven trucks with market firm and unchanged prices.
January 23 update from Chicago markets notes cash grain for oats with mixed heavy at 79 and white at 79 14 per bushel reflecting current price levels.
Chicago grain table shows Wheat with varied open and close prices across contracts for Dec May and July. Corn steadies with consistent Sep and May values. Oats and Rye display cross month fluctuations with several minor shifts reflected in early quotes.
If ink is not permanent use water to remove it. Do not use milk as it dulls fabrics and runs colors. For remaining traces apply bleach to whites or fast colors. On silks and woolens use peroxide after stretching cloth over a bowl, repeat as needed, then rinse with lukewarm water.
The article traces corned beef terminology from dry salting to brining as the meaning shifted. It explains that corn originally meant salt and that corning evolved with changes in preservation methods over time.
Luminescence plays a key role in vitamin analysis television blackout lighting and petroleum prospecting. It serves chemists physiologists criminologists mineralogists and industrial engineers as a versatile analytical tool.
Guidance on avoiding overpacking handbags to preserve shape and seams. Suggests stuffing crumpled tis sue paper to maintain form and storing in its own box. Recommends wrapping silver and evening bags in black tis sue paper and keeping them in separate boxes.
A notice lists weekly Friday sales at Whittaker sale barn and Wednesday livestock safes at Midway Sales Co in Columbus Junction Iowa. It also details multiple dated auctions from January 25 to February 15 including closing out and public sales near West Chester Winfield Brighton Ainsworth Sandy Hook corner and other sites with auctioneers Klotz Duncan Brenneman and others.
The correct method to open a zipper is to press the tab gently with the forefinger and pull back. If the zipper stalls, don’t yank. back up slowly, clear the path, and resume operation as before.
Staff Sgt Edward Pappy Welch mess sergeant at Camp Blanding's infantry replacement training center Florida displays a full chest of service history. His left arm shows three overseas stripes for WWI, one for WWII and nine hash marks for three years each. right arm bears a WWI wound stripe. He earned the Croix de Guerre, combat infantry badge, the Distinguished Unit Citation, the Purple Heart, the Victory medal with seven clusters, a WWII citation, the Southwest Pacific ribbon and American theater ribbons.
Guidance for treating wool with a mild ammonia or borax solution. Warns against excessive alkali and hot or cold dips that may shrink wool. Advises lukewarm water, abundant rinse water, and generous suds or soapless oil washing products.
Jane McFarland reports from Ainsworth that Matt McFarland, living in the Philippines after serving in the Spanish American War, sent a card to his brother John revealing he is in a No 1 prison camp and well, with Red Cross packages received. Walter McFarland, on Leyte, may read the card through his mother. Other local notes include visitors Neal Sands and baby returning to New Jersey, Robert Megdelsen's furlough and move to Santa Ana, Harknesses visiting Iva McMullen, Ruth Shearer, Bonnie Simpson's hospital discharge, Martha Wood's Chicago trip, Stella McCaleb's San Francisco visit, and Gene's 30 day Navy leave.
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