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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1942
Page
7
Markets report Chicago July 18 shows week figures for hogs and sows with prices for 240 pound and 400 to 550 pound ranges. Cattle and sheep prices listed for week including yearling and ewe values. Oats and soybeans quoted with mixed and white oats and yellow soybeans prices.
Chicago cash grain market report lists corn classes with mixed colors and prices. The fragment shows grade labels and prices for yellow and white corn, but the data is garbled and incomplete. No clear transactions, destinations, or quantities are provided.
July 1 market page shows open high low close figures for Wheat Corn Oats Rye and Soybeans for Sep, Dec, May, and July contracts. Prices fluctuate with small percentage changes across Wheat Dec Soybeans Oct and other notes.
Mrs. Lottie M. Hotchkiss of South English donates hooked rugs to aid the war effort. Rugs sold for 1200 dollars at Dave Elman’s Hobby Lobby auctions for bombers in Detroit Michigan. A Woodbury soap design rug won top prizes at Iowa State Fair and Pomona international show.
Retired Supreme Court associate justice George Sutherland died of a heart attack in Stockbridge Massachusetts last night. The announcement from his former secretary Joan Cragan said Mrs. Sutherland was with him when he was stricken during a summer visit two weeks ago.
Dr B. E. Harper director of Iowa State University school of fine arts said the University of Iowa Symphony will broadcast its concert over NBCRed today as scheduled. NBC technicians will oversee the broadcast and arrive today. Petrillo head of the AFM protests alleging the contract bars amateur musicians on network programs.
The Amazon river system is highlighted for its twelve tributaries each stretching over a thousand miles, illustrating the vast network feeding the mighty waterway.
Garden guidance covers rockery design soil mixes and plant choices with Sedums Sempervivums and alpines for diverse terrains. It also includes a fiction excerpt about Elinor and Mary Gerrard and a note on a tree frog color changing ability.
In Tyrone on July 17 Dennis Miller two and a half, son of Mr and Mrs Waldo Miller, played with a box of arsenate of lead left on a shelf. His aunt Nora Tinnes a nurse from Marshalltown cared for him and they went to Washington County Hospital where doctors pumped his stomach. No poison trace was found.
Marion Smith finished combining wheat for Ernest Van Sickle on Saturday. Relatives from Moline Illinois visited the Guy Black home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Otto Sheetz and family were Sunday dinner guests with sister and Dale Carris and family. The Ernest Van Sickle family attended the Dodder reunion at Sunset Park Washington honoring Charles Dickenson Daryl Dodder and Bill Van Sickle before they leave for the army. Mrs Frey Sheetz Mrs Josephine Singmaster and Jackie shopped in Washington Monday. Janet Tinnes joined her granddad Nick Tinnes to Waldo Millers Monday to help with oats cutting.
West Chester residents Mr and Mrs Fred Coakley hosted a Tuesday evening with the Ernest Van Sickles. Mrs Walter Sheets was called by the illness of her mother Mrs Frank Smith.
Brazil was colonized by daring Portuguese colonists whose endurance opened vast territories. Beautiful Rio de Janeiro stands as the largest Portuguese speaking city. European settlers still arrive by the thousands to aid land development. Consequently Brazil remains a nation in the making.
In Pernambuco, Brazil a plant processes tomato seeds into oil and repurposes the residue as tomato seed cake for animal feed and fertilizer use.
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