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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1942
Page
7
Chicago markets report hogs totaling 11 000 good and choice prices from 14 75 to 14 96 for 80 to 240 pounds and up to 15 10 for top 15 cattle include 4500 head with yearlings at 14 75 and vealers up 25 cents or more. Sheep show 1000 native spring lambs active with bulk good and choice around 4 50 and ewes 4 50 to 6. Estimates for tomorrow list 6000 hogs 1000 cattle and 1000 sheep.
Chicago July 23 eggs receipts 16 490 cases market steady extra firsts 32 percent firsts 12 current receipts 31 dirties 30 checks 29 percent storage packed firsts 344 storage packed extras 32 Poultry receipts 1 car 40 trucks market firm easier geese 13 small hens 221 heavy hens 21 No 2 hens 17 White Rock broilers 24 White Rock Springs 4 bbs and up 24 bareback hens 19
Fragmented numeric entries reference percentages across months and codes such as OATS and ARN. The text lists Sep Dec May Jully with figures like 40 90 0.90 93 and values around mid to high forties and fifties. No clear event or entities beyond these percentages are identifiable.
Chicago July 23 UP cash grain quotes for corn oats and soybeans with mixed yellow white and red grades. Corn values range from 84 to 85 14 percent with 1 white 1.10 percent and 2 whites 1.10 percent. Oats show 46 481 and 48 percent for various lots. Soybeans listed as 2 yellow 1.72 percent.
Riverside July 21 Hubert E K Doud resigns as cashier at Peoples Trust and Savings bank opened in March 192?. He plans to move to California with wife and son. He has served as adjutant of the American Legion Post, town clerk, secretary of the Better Riverside club, and chief registrar for men registrations.
Chicago grain table reports Wheat futures with varying open high low and close values for Sep Dec May and July contracts. The data shows slight percentage changes and rounded figures across months though Corn data is incomplete in the snippet.
Midway Sale Coun Columbus Junction hosts weekly Wednesday auctions and Friday Whittaker sale barn sales. Public real estate sale July 25 starts 2:00 led by George Westfall agent. August 20 Hampshire sow and gift sale at BER Brenneman Keota Iowa.
Mrs. Doud continues as president after a spring election. Riverside residents attend St Joseph's church funeral services for Joseph Rummelhart with many relatives named. A baby girl was born at Mercy hospital Iowa City to Mr. and Mrs. John Walsh of Riverside on July 16. Stephen Dautremont on furlough from Fort Riley visits his parents. Fairfield visitors Mr. and Mrs. John Mougin and family meet Lucien Mougin. Navy man William Waldschmidt spends furlough with his mother before returning to his ship. Mrs. G O Patterson of Davenport visits Riverside at the Heitzman home.
Riverside rumors and events show Mrs. Lewis Whitted and sons visiting her parents in Rock Island while Mr Whitted plans a weekend stay. Widmer and Busby promote a clearance sale with low prices on summer trousers and sport sets. A Des Moines trip marks several residents outings, naval enlistment, funeral services, and a large closing out sale as Joseph Rummelhart dies and plans Texas relocation.
Douglas T. Smith, county welfare official, announces a joint AMA and state welfare policy changing commodity distribution. All Washington County recipients are being reviewed for continued eligibility under AMA rules, with many previously qualifying households subject to removal if ineligible.
Lieut. Col. W. J. Matteson announced Hunzinger Construction Co. of Davenport was awarded a contract for less than one million dollars to build 35 housing facilities at the Schick army hospital in Clinton, Louisiana. Construction will start immediately for the war department.
A 1904 event marked by the debut of New York City’s first motor taxi alongside Fifth Avenue. The new service demonstrated early urban automobile use, signaling shifts in city transport and public mobility.
Rev Martin Horan presided at a requiem mass with pallbearers Elmo and Robert Rummelhart Paul Knebel Firmin Deutsch Walter Wombacker and Paul Mougin. Burial followed in Mount Olivet cemetery Riverside beside his wife and two children.
Boston grapples with a beef famine as dealers hold only about 10 percent of normal stocks. A 250 member committee seeks OPA help while farmers resist selling at new ceilings, and Leon Henderson urges distribution across all channels to prevent city shortages.
The page lists a series of defense drills and lectures running August 10 to 25, including gas masks, first aid, panic prevention, protective clothing, explosive munitions, and structural protection. Presentations cover gas casualties, fire bombs, air raid defense, and observer duties with photos from West Point and London. Exams conclude with graduation for Col. H. H. Slaughter.
Gracehill on July 22 reports farmers taking advantage of good weather for hay and oats before a big rain. Visitors include Jesse Meyers of Florida and local families at the Williams, Robertson, Miksch, Haverty, and Hayes homes. Blackberries are plentiful and being picked and canned locally.
Late dispatches from the desert front in Egypt report severe fighting across multiple sectors. British forces gained limited ground and repulsed Axis counter attacks with aid from RAF and U S air squadrons. The British are said to hold the initiative in tank and infantry clashes of increasing intensity.
Earle Libe and Carl Oldfield announce a county salvage committee and war board meeting at the Y to plan a county scrap metal drive. Notices go to salvage chairmen and others to help secure 1000 tons of scrap metal in the county.
The article notes a gap in hospital coverage in Iowa stressing Washington County Hospital’s ACS approval. A corrected paragraph would name Boone, Marshalltown, Muscatine and Oskaloosa as having no approved facilities and more than 10,000 residents, while listing Albia Atlantic Chariton Charles City Creston Estherville Fairfield Oelwein Perry Shenandoah and Spencer as others without such facilities.
Cedar Rapids reports John May 34 the first Chinese inducted into the army from the city said I want to get at the Japs before leaving with a group of selectees. May, born in Canton China, had lived in Chicago before moving to Iowa. The item also notes local social visits as families gather for weekends and meals.
The Board of Directors of Washington Independent School District Iowa will meet August 5 1942 at 7 30 P M in the Board Room Washington to hear tax payers on the proposed expenditures for the 1942 43 year. A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements will be available at the hearing. Donald R Boyer district secretary.
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