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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1948
Page
7
Elmer Horning offers a 6 foot genuine Frigidaire refrigerator in good condition. Ed Squire lists a hot water tank with side arm heater and used furnace pipe.
Property listing at 420 West Main Street describes a seven room seven bath home in a close-in location. Agent George J. Breitenbach offers immediate possession and invites interested buyers to contact Victor Maver for apricot container inquiries.
Chicago markets report a slow day across livestock with hogs down 25 to 50 cents, sows weaker, and top hogs at 29.75. Cattle and calves show moderate demand with steers and yearlings mixed to down, cows and bulls mostly firm, and sheep market sluggish with spring lambs trading around 38 to 41 and ewes steady. Volumes: cattle about 4,000 and calves 500.
Chicago July 16 report notes poultry prices with 27 trucks in market. White rock layers and white rock slightly varied with sales across leghorn chickens, feeders, and remaining stock. Totals show 20 768 cases and market firm for top offerings with price ranges and current receipts listed.
The clip shows grain prices for Wheat Corn and Soybeans with July September and December contracts, including highs lows and closes. It also notes New York Rapid Transit the largest intra urban railroad system and municipally owned line in the U S plus a 1948 highway construction spending estimate of one and a half billion dollars and 40 689 miles of mileage let to contract.
Home rendered lard stays fresher longer by adding two to three pounds of hydrogenated vegetable shortening to fifty pounds of lard during rendering. This method preserves lard freshness for roughly twice as long in most cases.
Officers of the American Legion auxiliary were installed at Mrs Ethel Gabriel's home with Wilma Henson as installing officer. Letha Hall was named president Floy Lchermer horn vice president Ocie Moran secretary Julia Hawkins treasurer Eva Johnston chaplain. Hall and Moran were chosen as delegates to the Des Moines state convention. A Willing Workers luncheon followed.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Duncan and Mr. and Mrs. Rees Richards of Norfolk Nebraska visited Mr. and Mrs. Tom Peters while en route home from Canada where they attended a convention.
Through a careful breeding program commercial egg producers in North Carolina have increased the size of eggs considerably during the past few years.
July 22 closing sale of household goods at 719 N Ave B begins 6:30 p.m. Mary Fountain described the moving paper charting heart pumping with an electrokymograph in a detailed medical report.
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