Martins Modern Cleaners Ad Offers 3 for 25c Ties
An old classified style notice promotes cleaning and pressing neckties at Martins Modern Cleaners located at 10716 T Hay Fever relief is advertised for DUO-HALER with a $1 complete package at Pioneer Drug. For sale Watkins products by R W Bozman at 302 South Iowa Ave phone 22-1. A Shetland pony is for sale through Ora Gingerich Wellman R3 Wellman phone 1303.
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Martins Modern Cleaners
Watkins Products
R. W. Bozman
South
Iowa Ave
Shetland Pony
Ora Gingerich
Wellman
Market Report Hogs Cattle Sheep See Mixed Gains
Hogs 5 000 cattle 11 000 sheep listed with hogs at 6 500 active and steady. Barrows and gilts 140 lbs plus at 34.7 ceiling. sows around 14.00. Cattle and calves show gains with fed steers and yearlings up 10-15 cents. top at 8.00 with four loads at ceiling. Native spring lambs 16.25 to 16.40. lambs 15.00 to 16.00. bucks discounted.
Chicago Produce Market Report July 17
Eggs receipts at CHIC reach 12 824 cages with firm market and higher prices for extras. Firsts and dirties show mixed gains while current receipts stand at 33 5. Poultry shows 1 car and 11 trucks with market unchanged.
Chicago Grain Table shows mixed July quotations by commodity
Grain table from Chicago dated July 17 lists Wheat Corn Oats and Rye with July values and futures for Sept Dec May. Wheat around 165 164 162 percent. Corn around 118 118 118. Oats near 66 65 65. Rye near 1534 151 137 percent with various month futures indicated.
Yank Writes Novel On One Diary Page
Battle Creek, Mich. Sgt. Joe Orlando preserves a six day diary from a German battlefield. He describes being wounded, his tank ordeal, bayonet wounds, enemy near misses, and his rescue by U.S. troops ending with gratitude for being alive. He is from Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Joe Orlando
Joe
Erie
Jerry
U. S
Plants Can Bite Back When Bugs Attack Them
ITHACA A Cornell University method lets plants defend themselves by absorbing sodium selenate into their sap from soil applied to roots. The poisoned sap reaches foliage and buds, so insects ingest the toxin while feeding, providing continuous pest control without sprays or dusts.
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Ithaca
Cornell University
W. E. Blauvelt
71 Year-Old Man Knits Dream Flag Sweater
Fort Wayne Indiana resident Harris Dingman aged 71 completed a navy blue sweater featuring a 10 inch American flag down the front after three years eight months of work. He began knitting at eight and says the stars were the hardest part of the project.
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Fort Wayne
Mnd
Harris Dingman
Dingman
Preachers Endorse Des Moines Cleanup Effort
Des Moines ministers unanimously back the Civic Action committee's Des Moines and Polk county rambling and liquor law enforcement program. The Des Moines Area Ministers association adopted the resolution at a closed First Methodist church meeting, with copies to law officers.
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Des Moines
Civic Action Committee
Polk County
First Methodist Church
Female Mosquito Love Call Studied By Science
New York report states Dr. M C Kahn of Cornell medical college demonstrated that recording the female mosquito call can lure males into a trap. He claimed removing males would stop reproduction and wipe out diseases like malaria yellow fever dengue fever and elephantiasis.
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New York
March of Science
M. C. Kahn
Cornell Medical College
Eloping teens travel woes lead to New Jersey detour
In Irvington New Jersey two junior high students John Rossback Jr and Hilda May Heiser both 15 eloped from Poughkeepsie New York citing fatigue with travel They began with 25 dollars and after two nights in bus stations and a night in a park shrubbery police found them in Bayonne They had 16 cents and then returned to Poughkeepsie.
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Irvington
N. J
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
New Jersey
Texas
John Rossback Jr
Hilda May Heiser
Bayonne
Free Strip Tease Act Lands Woman 30 Day Jail Term
PORTLAND MAINE Mrs Patricia M Archer received a 30 day jail sentence after conviction on an immoral behavior charge. While testifying she delivered a condensed version of her strip-tease act to police officers.
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Portland
Maine
Patricia M. Archer
Postwar Promise Encloses Eggs in Rubber Wrapper
A patent has been granted for a machine that encases eggs in a rubber wrapping film resembling sausage casing. The device aims to protect eggs during transport and storage, promising efficiency gains and reduced breakage.
Curtailment of Civilian Travel Seen With Rail Labor Pull
Col J Sewell Morris heads the western railroad urgency committee warning that civilian travel will further shrink if recruitment of 90 000 railroad workers does not proceed. He says the next months will bring 2 500 000 troops and 5 500 000 tons of supplies to the Pacific coast, taxing the system and shaping government travel controls during the redeployment.
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Col
J. Sewell Morris
Western Railroad Urgency Committee
Pacific Coast
Hmit
Japan
Cow's Head Caught in Farm Wheel Spokes
A cow became stuck with its head between the spokes of a stalk rake wheel on a farm near Salem. The houseman cut the iron spoke to free the animal as workers wrestled with the situation before his early town appointment. Local residents and visitors are noted, along with haying day antics featuring six year old Larry Shalla atop a hay horse.
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Dewey Weeks
Salem
Nat
Loris
Mary Krotg
Mora
Mina
Leroy Krotg
John Horak
Anna Krotz
Charles Marek
Dale
Bob
Tony Marek
Mexico
Audrain County
Larry Shalla
Uwane Shalla
John Shalla
Harold Strum
Larry
Frank Krotz
Harold
War Loan Drive oversubscribed in Wellman area
Wellman and vicinity raised 156000 in the war loan drive, surpassing the 145000 allotment by 10000. The article notes community activities and local residents, including Mrs. C F Mayer, Mrs. Henn, and others, with social visits, veterans’ news, and farm work updates.
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Wellman
Denver search finds Mrs Seager dead in cistern
The body of 40 year old Lydia Seager was found in a cistern under her porch two hours after her daughter-in-law heard a scream. The sheriff attributed the death to suicide. Her husband killed himself in 1937 by kerosene fire. Family notes she bought a new store recently and wrote a letter to her ration board seeking kerosene.
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Denmark
Lydia Seager
William Dess Seager
Weekly Livestock Sales Across Iowa at Key Venues
The community sale occurs every Friday at Whittaker sale barn. Livestock sales are held Wednesdays at Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction Iowa. Augusta Spotted Poland China bred sow sale is listed with Kari NReloege and Sons of Winfield Iowa.
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Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Augusta
Kari Nreloeger& Sons
Winfield
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