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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1941
Page
7
Pleasant Ridge news notes threshing in progress with Arthur Campbell aiding Raymond King and Fred Eisele doing local combining. Neighboring gatherings include visits by Chalupa, Renoux, Emery, Stalder, Letts, and Kauffman families with relatives from St. Louis and Rock Island.
Mrs Ruth Shearer started work in the Ainsworth post office replacing Mrs Delores Hazlett who moved to Davenport. Mr and Mrs Milo Arthur and family moved into the Mrs Bertha Pearson property. Mr and Mrs Clarence Hamilton of Chicago are visiting Mrs Hamiltons sister.
Radio photo from Berlin shows Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler, and Wilhelm Keitel at Hitler’s field headquarters somewhere on the Russian front. The image quiets rumors of Goering’s disgrace as the trio appears together, the first front-line picture to reach the United States since the war with Russia began.
Berlin reports General Heinz Guderian, a key organizer of the Reichspanzer divisions, killed in the Russian front near Luck in former Polish territory amid ongoing German Soviet clashes.
Mrs Wylie Anderson visits from Longmont Colo to see her parents Mr and Mrs D Rabenold. Emma Walker and Edith Jolly take vacation coverage at the telephone office. Charles Marsh and wife return home to Alden Minn after Farmington hospital accident injuries include three broken vertebrae and a shoulder wound. Dr C K Bassler returns home from Colorado after days with his mother.
Midway Sale Co of Columbus holds auctions every Wednesday while Community Sale runs Fridays at City Feed Yard. On July 29 a closing out sale is listed for the Cornelius J Sherry Estate in Crawfordsville.
Columbus Junction reports the Eden families held their annual reunion at Chautauqua park with 70 attendees. Officers elected: Dayton Eden president Clayton Eden vice president Mrs. Charles Kergess secretary and Mrs. Alta Hendrick treasurer. The 1942 reunion set for the second Sunday in August at the same site.
Staff Sergeant Robert W. Shackleton of Fort Dix New Jersey draws the first number in the second peacetime draft lottery in Washington The number drawn is 196 Lieutenant Colonel Charles R Morris of Elizabeth New Jersey blindfolded Shackleton stands behind him as the draw proceeds
Chicago markets July 23 report steady to higher hog prices with top at 11.90 and bulk runs 180 to 270 pounds. Cattle receipts show strong steer and yearling demand with top steer price 13.00, bulls weaker, veal steady. Sheep slow with steady to higher bids for good native lambs and fed yearlings. Estimated Thursday receipts: hogs 8,000 cattle 4,000, sweep 1,000.
The Chicago cash grain report lists corn bids for yellow and sample grades with ranges from 63 to 78 percent. oats bids in mixed and white grades from 32 to 35 percent. soybeans bids for yellow grades from 1.49 to 1.54 percent.
Chicago July 23. Eggs market firm with receipts at 14 568 cases. Extra firsts 2 614 and fresh graded firsts 2 514. Current receipts 24 percent, dirties 223 percent, checks 224. Poultry market steady with receipts 381 trucks, springs 21, broilers 16.
The Chicago grain table shows open high low and close for Wheat Corn Oats and Soy Beans across July and December contracts. Wheat trades around 1.00 to 1.07 times, Corn about 0.72 to 0.75, Oats futures around 0.34 to 0.37, and Soy Beans near 1.53 to 1.40 with multiple delivery months listed.
Poultry and eggs priced at Powers Produce in Washington Iowa. Heavy breed hens Leghorn hens and roosters offered with quantities and per unit costs listed. Documentation notes packaging and weight details for bulk buyers.
Amboy residents report Sunday calls at Frame and Frieland homes, visits with relatives from Rock Island to Medford Oregon, and a busy threshing period. Elizabeth Dea and Dorothy Fearson tour southern states on a four month sight seeing trip while Ferris of Albia plans a 23 person bus tour through Tennessee and Florida.
The African tsetse fly transmits a germ causing sleeping sickness. The statement notes the biological role of the tsetse in spreading the disease and underscores its medical significance.
Regular meeting notices for Westbound Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M led by W M Lee Holland and Secretary A W Yard. Train schedules list Westbound No 3 Golden State Limited 3:57 p m, No 1 Local 11:30 p m, No 43 Californian 2:20 a m, No 4 Golden State 3:08 a m with discharges at Washington. Eastbound services No 2 Local 7:06 a m, No 44 Californian 2:20 a m, plus Knox ville Branch No 430 service 9:66 a m depart 10:45 a m and more. Additional notes include Co B Q arrives No 23 10:45 a m leaves No 22 11:30 a m. OC M S T P P R KR Co West Bound No 3 Davenport-KC local 9:58 a m, No 25 Southwest Limited 1:45 a m, No 26 Southwest Limited 1:19 a m, with East Bound No 8 Kansas City Davenport and other stops.
Bus No 3 departs Washington at 6 00 am Bus No 9 leaves at 8 92 pm Bus No 7 at 3 45 pm daily Omaha to Chicago Bus No 2 from Washington to Chicago unknown time Bus No 6 nightly 12 10 am Bus No 10 from Washington to Chicago also listed Tickets available at the Bus Depot Candy Kitchen North Side Square for full country trips Agent Al Cantoni note
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