Chicago Markets Report Fair Hog and Cattle Prices
Chicago markets show hogs steady to firmer with top prices near 14.80 for 180 to 270 pounds and sow values softening. Cattle demand remains strong with steer and yearling runs active and top steer and heifer prices around 14.65. Sheep and lambs hold near steady levels with Calif fat lambs about 13.85 and fat ewes 4.50 to 6.00. Estimates for tomorrow peg hogs at 6,000, cattle 1,000, sheep 1,000.
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Chicago
Calif
Chicago Produce Markets Show Mixed Signals on Eggs and Poultry
Chicago July 16 Eggs market unsettled with receipts of 13 468 cases and varied price levels for firsts extras and dirties. Poultry supplies steady to weak with No 2 chicks leghorn broilers and White Rock varieties priced from 16 to 24 cents a pound and colored spring and broiler lines also quoted.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock Springs
White Rock
White Rock Springs
Chicago Cass Grain Market Update
Chicago July 16. Cash grain report notes corn prices with a 1 yellow 854% and 2 yellow entries. Market activity details are sparse in the fragment and do not establish a full price picture.
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Chicago
Market color notes on oats and beans with color codes
The report lists oats by color and percentage figures such as yellow and white with varying percentages and headers like mixed, heavy, and red. Soybeans show color coded lines for yellow green with small percentage values around 1.7 to 1.76 percent.
Chicago Grain Table July 16 Reported Prices
Chicago grain table shows Wheat Corn Oats Rice and Soybean futures with Sep Dec May and July contracts. Price columns list open high low and close along with minor percentage changes across Wheat Corn Oats Ryber Soybeans and related months.
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Chicago
Man 100 Attends 16th Burlington Community Picnic
Among thousands at the Burlington 16th annual picnic Henry Karv yer celebrated his 100th birthday on July 1. Karv yer is a retired carpenter and longtime resident.
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Burlington
Henry Karver
Karvyer
Secretary Soule Leaves Washington Y M C A for Dayton Posting
Secretary Leigh W. Soule, after 14 years in Washington, will leave Friday for Dayton Ohio to take a new post as a Y M C A secretary. John Winga reports the board has asked O E Lehmitt to oversee routine office work until a successor arrives, with John Harp and other leaders sustaining activities until September. Negotiations continue with regional support to fill the vacancy promptly.
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Leigh W. Soule
Washington Y.M.C
John Winga
Washington Y.M.C.A
O. E. Lehmitt
Chamber of Commerce
John Harp
Soule
Winga
Y.M.C.A
Middle West
Local craftsman to attend annual community picnic
The machinist notes he has not missed the event in 16 years and arrived on Wednesday at 11 a.m., three and a half hours before the picnic began, highlighting his long-standing participation.
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Leon Beatty
Iola Dittmer
Navy seeks officers for many branches in Davenport
The Navy seeks college graduates of good character in good physical condition under 44 for commissions in the Naval Reserve Force. Key fields include radio engineers civil electrical mechanical aerospace and marine engineers dentists doctors clergymen and diesel engineers. Applicants with boating experience encouraged to apply. interviews held in Davenport Iowa with the Tri City Advisory Committee Office of Naval Officer Procurement.
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Navy
U S S. Naval Reserve Force
Davenport
Iowa
Tri- City
Embargo on Storage Grain Ordered by Chicago Board of Trade
A two million bushels surplus of grain arrivals over storage capacity led the Chicago board of trade grain storage committee to issue an embargo on free grain shipments from western markets except Illinois Iowa Indiana Minnesota and Wisconsin. The embargo extends the prior restriction and excludes eastern states with no large shipments here.
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Chicago
Grain Storage Committee
Chicago Board of Trade
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Welfare Office Aims at Assistance and Rehabilitation
The Washington county welfare office notes camps disbanded and NYA workshops ended as emergency spending cuts tighter. Non resident notices rise as labor shortages bring in workers from other states. officials insist aid is for county residents and emphasize rehabilitation and welfare improvements.
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Iowa
Washington County
Smith
Russians Retreat as Axis Claims 118000 Prisoners Near Voronezh
Dispatches say Soviet marshal Timoshenko withdraws toward the Don line with a curving advance toward Stalingrad in reach of 60 miles, while Axis reports claim large numbers cut off and 118000 prisoners in the Voronezh sector.
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Thig
Timoshenko
Don River
Boguchar
Stalingrad
Sea of Azov
Rostov
Red Army
Voronezh
First Lieutenant Claud E Tucker Receives Rank Promotion
First Lieutenant Claud E Tucker II is promoted to First Lieutenant and will stay as an instructor at Randolph Field Texas. He and flight commander 1st Lt R E McClarren recently visited Washington and then Indianapolis for an army benefit baseball game before visiting Crawfordsville and Fort Knox.
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Claud Tucker
Randolph Field
Texas
Tucker
R. E. McClarren
Washington
McClarren
Indianapolis
Ind
William DeMar 78 Dies in Winterset
Word received from Cotter that William G. DeMar 78 of Winterset died Friday morning after a serious illness. Born May 23 1864 in Davis county he was son of William and NeVesta DeMar and lived in Davis Warren and Madison counties. Survived by wife Hattie Fisher a son Owen Winterset two daughters Mrs D R Jones and Vivian both of Hammond Indiana four grandchildren a brother in Bloomfield two sisters in Colorado and Kansas and a sister in Des Moines Funeral was held in Winterset Sunday at three.
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Hammond
Indiana
Bloomfield
Colorado
Kansas
Des Moines
New CPT Class Starts Training at Local Airport
Ottumwa arrived instructors join ground school and military training. Forrest Schwengels and Russell Crane lead flying related studies while E A Ralston aids military work. Flight training uses three planes from Ralph Scott as school plans six programs yearly. Schwengels receives praise for organizing effort and dedication.
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Forrest Schwengels
Russell Crane
Winfield High School
Crane
E. A. Ralston
Ralph Scott
Drive Japanese out of Tsingtien
Chinese forces launched a frontal assault on Tsingtien northeast of Wahochow and drove Japanese troops from the town, killing or wounding about 600. The recapture followed a Japanese advance on Wahochow, with heavy fighting continuing near Waechow according to the high command.
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China
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Tsingtien
Wahochow
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Navy Needs Cooks for Great Lakes Training District
The United States naval training station announces an urgent need to enlist men with cooking and baking experience from restaurants hotels CCC camps and country clubs to staff new navy service schools and training centers across the ninth naval district in thirteen midwestern states.
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Great Lakes
United States Naval Training Station
Navy Recruiting Ad Seeks Able Citizens for Service
Navy announces recruitment for applicants aged 18 to 50 who are physically fit and able to meet Navy requirements. Must be American citizens able to read and write. For more information contact the nearest Navy recruiting station.
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Navy
Patriotic Band Program Honors World War I Draftees
The Washington Municipal band conducts a July 18 8 PM patriotic program in Central Park under Mis Sorden. The event salutes armed forces with Sousa style numbers and requests from service members including Yankee Rhythm and Miss You. Local members Ralph Witthoft, John Jackson, Merle Simpson, and Lt Roger Hicher contribute, with soloists Ione Steele Jack Huston Boyd White Betty Kallous and Iola Dittmer.
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John Jackson
Merle Simpson
Roger Hicher
Ireland
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Jack Huston
Merle Turnipseed
Gene Dunlap
Boyd White
Betty Kallous
Sersvice
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Students Enlist in Reserve Corps at University of Iowa
Col H H Slaughter says 50 to 70 percent of University of Iowa students may enlist in army and navy reserve corps to defer the draft. Enrollees would continue studies unless emergency demands full reserves. fitness and GPA must be maintained or terms end and immediate service possible. Director C W Thompson to present Iowa quota and recruitment plans in Omaha.
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Navy
University of Iowa
H. H. Slaughter
Military Department
Slaughher
C. W. Thompson
Division of Student Affairs
Omaha
Neb
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