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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1945
Page
5
Several furniture items offered including a large walnut dining table, eight chairs and a long living room table. Also a five room modern bungalow on South Iowa for sale seen by C. G. Schmoeller at 119TF.
Hogs 6500 active fully steady. Good and choice barrows and gilts 140 lbs up at 14.75 ceiling. Sows 14.00. Cattle 7000 calves 800. Weighty steers steady. other classes strong to 25c higher. Top 18.00 ceiling. Yearlings 17.75. Wealers 16.00. Sheep 500 active and fully steady. Native spring lambs 16.00 to 16.95. Bucks 1.00 less. Medium to good 14.50 to 15.50. Light weights 13.00. Old crop shorn lambs/yearlings absent.
Chicago July 2 eggs market firm with 14 274 cases received. Extra firsts 37.2 to OS S8, firsts 35.6, current receipts 33.5, dirties 32.5, checks 32.5. Poultry: receipts 1 car I trucks, market firm and unchanged.
Open high and low figures for wheat corn oats and rye listed with July September December and May contracts. Prices show small gains and losses across commodities with notable July wheat at 168 and July rye around 156, reflecting typical midsummer trading.
Chicago July 3 cash grain rounds show oats mixed with prices 73 to 74 per bushel. Market standings reflect light demand and varied futures signals from local trading pits.
P. E. Johnston, Illinois farm labor supervisor, cites widespread neighbor sharing of machinery and labor last year and warns that 1945 crops require extending the practice. He notes communities using a uniform scale for labor charges and machinery rental.
Molasses, a by product of the sugar industry, is rich in iron and experiments show its iron is valuable for the body. It also contributes a spicy flavor that makes it especially popular in ginger bread and spiced cakes.
A partial record lists motor fuel purchases in Iowa after 12 GA on July 4 1945 from retail outlets. The document mentions locations and quantities but contains illegible portions and names several counties and officials in a formal procurement style.
An audit by State Examiners John Horning and A. Louk covering five years to 1943 found William H. Baker collected $17,187.96 in commissions for Louisa County on a contract basis. The report notes a roughly $10,000 difference between Baker's total pay and the amount the examiners say he should have received, based on 25 and 10 percent rates for different collections.
Police seek the identity of a driver whose auto struck and killed 53 year old Marion Munn as he crossed a Davenport street Sunday night. The driver did not stop the car.
DES MOINES March 14 The Des Moines OPA district set the July tire quota at 28 616, about 5 000 more than June. Walter JD Kline said 4 283 farm implement tires and 7 286 bus tires will be released for July. He noted June release rose after reserve adjustments and that another boost is likely later this month. The tire supply remains critical as rationing continues amid limited production.
Army Air Forces training planes all have radio transmitters and receivers checked regularly to ensure ground communication. Women’s Army Corps members assigned as air WACs handle this duty at many AAF fields.
Sweat is odorless when released from pores but when allowed to remain on skin or soak into clothes it breaks down body salts and acids producing a foul smell and damaging fabrics and dyes.
The largest American flag in the United States is displayed in Detroit. It measures 90 by 239 feet and uses 840 yards of red cloth 881 yards of white and 260 yards of blue.
Dr C R Boice turned Rotary gavel to C R Bill Wilson to start a new fiscal year with J C Holbert as vice president The retiring president praised club cooperation and Wilson announced committees and plans Meals are supervised by Mrs E E Stutsman with help from Rotary wives Guests included Art Rankin Davenport Jesse Busby Morning Sun Kirk Latta Lt Robert Stutsman on leave and Sgt Chas Berdo back from War service Berdo served in the 8th Air Force payroll of the 93rd Bomber Group and sailed home on the Queen Mary with 15 000 furloughed men Ralph Thompson is club secretary.
Three block corner residence with modern features and furnace offered for 4000 dollars. Paving cost estimate of 1500 dollars noted. potential value around 2000 dollars. Two top acreages with modern houses on prime street priced to sell with possession at once on one.
DES MOINES July 3 The Iowa indices of prices received and prices paid by farmers on June 15 rose to new highs for the current movement. Prices received stood at 202 and prices paid at 182, up two and three points respectively. Prices received are revised monthly, prices paid quarterly. Both crop and livestock prices strengthened, feeding ratios narrowed as corn and barley prices rose, and practically all prices remained steady to stronger.
A fragment notes that the world owes debts to China for the compass silk tea porcelain and gunpowder. It also mentions City University hospital undergoing treatment and observation.
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