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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1944
Page
5
Hogs run 180 to 650 pounds with 13.75 to 18.80 for 180 to 300 pound ranges and lower for heavier loads. Cattle receipts total 10 000 with red steer and yearling prices up 10 to 15 cents and top steers at 17.65. Sheep offerings around 1 500 with slow demand and mostly steady lamb and ewe prices. Estimates project 14 000 hogs 5 000 cattle 1 000 sheep unchanged totals.
Chicago July 19 UP CASH GRAIN reports oats mixed at 79 in early bid with reference to market activity in futures and cash markets.
UP Chicago reports a weak market with receipts totaling 12,836 cases. Extra firsts 36 percent and firsts 33 percent, current receipts 32 percent, dirties 26 percent, checks 26 percent. Poultry receipts include 2 cars and 25 trucks. market remains unsettled.
Grain table from Chicago dated July 19 lists Wheat, Oats, and Rye futures with Sep Dec May contracts. Figures include open high low and close values with minor percent changes across months, showing slight gains for some maturities and flat or varied results for others.
The modern tank began as a joint British French project and was first tested in combat in September 1916 in the Somme sector. Weighing 28 tons at birth, it evolved into a decisive factor in WWI warfare.
The state department of forestry reports 1 620 forest fires with 290 from careless smokers 642 from careless burning of debris 198 by children 181 by railroads 214 incendiary and the remainder miscellaneous.
In Noble on July 19 Mrs Ray Bublitz and her son Gary visited relatives in Antigo Wisconsin Carmen Gonzales the newborn from Chicago stayed two weeks with Henry Yoder Leonard Leicity had the first wheat thrash of the neighborhood last Thursday as yields fall below normal.
Lieut. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the Marine Corps, on his first visit to Camp Lejeune, says the women Marines’ mess halls serve the best tasting food and maintain the cleanest galley he has seen in 34 years of service.
The article notes arroz con pollo as a familiar Spanish American dish in the United States a savory mix of brown rice chicken and peppers. It also mentions paella produced by adding diced seafood sausage beef lobster peas and beans to the rice and peppers.
The article notes that gasoline powered engines and internal combustion motors enabled mechanized warfare. It credits the United States with inventing track-laying treads that improve ground grip and allow larger field guns, shaping early tank development.
In 1941 there were 6 822 mines up 17.2 percent from 1939 with little change since then.
Mary Schantz a student of towa spent Monday afternoon and evening at her parental home in Cedar R Falls visiting with W. state Teachers college.
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