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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1944
Page
6
The notice outlines discontinued periodic passenger tire inspections while requiring owners to keep inspection records. It details rationing rules for replacing certain tires and notes commercial vehicle inspection intervals and various wartime fuel coupons with validity dates and quantities.
Washington Lodge No. 26 A A M holds its regular meeting on the first Friday each month. Morrison Jr. serves as worshipful master and A W Yard is secretary.
The notice lists westbound trains including No. 3 Golden State Limited OC 155 am and No. 11 Southwest Express with several departures and daily runs. Eastbound service from Omaha to Chicago is noted with multiple bus connections from Washington and depots, plus ticket pickup guidance at the Bus Depot and North Side Cafe offering cross country travel options.
Fragmentary timetable data lists departures and arrivals among Iowa City Cedar Rapids Washington Ft Madison Winfield Burlington Oska oose Sigourney Knox and related depots with times and fares. The text is garbled showing multiple routes and misread stations and numbers.
Government ration details list valid periods for No 5 and No 1 sugar coupons, Book 4 stamps, and spare stamps with dates through 1945. It notes first and second period canning sugar limits, spare stamp requirements, and indefinite validity for several blue and red meat stamps as well as airplane stamps in Books 3, 8 and 4.
North Oregon notes a busy week of home visits and family dinners. Wayne Ornduff and Fred Ornduff of Batavia joined Kenneth Ornduff and others for Sunday dinner. Many trips to Davenport, Washington, Ottumwa, and Iowa City are listed with relatives and friends visiting, hosting, or attending gatherings. Threshing and combining progress, aided by cooler weather, closes the update.
A New York picaresque piece sketches a taxi fare mix up on East 14th Street where a driver returns a ten dollar bill, followed by satirical vignettes on wartime hotel staffing, reed shortages in music, and a Lower East Side street scene with images of mothers, children, and urban routine as part of Bell Syndicate WNU Features.
Colorado faculty vote to stop using titles in senate meetings. Professors deans and doctors will address each other as Mister Mrs or Miss in official gatherings at Boulder campus.
The average net income on sales for the 29 leading manufacturing industries in 1943 stood at 3.6 percent, indicating overall profitability levels across major sectors. The data highlight sector-wide earnings efficiency amid wartime production.
United Nations sourcing rubber from the Southwest Pacific rises as Japan is expelled. India recommends expanding tapping on 80 percent of estates with double-three and remaining 20 percent under double-two or slaughter-tapping, with compensation. Papuan plantations reopen. workers return. Groundwork, repairs, and reorganization drive March yields on 56 plantations spanning 20 000 acres rubber and 60 000 acres coconut. Papuan rubber quality matches East Indies and Malaya.
Thousands of American service men donate to the Stars and Stripes War Orphans fund for British children who lost parents in the war. Units may buy a baby for 400 dollars and adopt through a five year uncle relationship. 184 babies have been adopted and 25 more await adoption as the drive aims for 200,000 dollars.
At Tyndall Field Florida the army air forces deploy swamp gliders designed to operate in as little as two inches of water. Made of plywood with oak frames the craft carry more than six men and reach speeds around forty miles per hour.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Bullock found a screwed old box in their new Berkeley home attic. Inside lay a mummified cat and a letter dated March 24 1897 from Liverpool with a certificate of a registered postal packet. The note calls the item sacred and of no small value and is signed Stephen J Menzies.
Sacramento report details how Mrs. Dale Thrapp became intoxicated in jail after Mrs. Josephine Siverts was arrested on a conspiracy charge. Siverts allegedly confessed to pouring whisky into the cell and into its occupant through a paper funnel and a hole in the door.
Precautions warn against sudden cooling of aluminum pressure cookers to avoid warping and cracking. Let cookware cool gradually after use to prevent structural damage and ensure safe operation.
Plant one hundred asparagus crowns in rows four feet apart with eighteen inch spacing. Use Washington varieties and set as soon as the ground is workable. Spread roots crowns up in six inch furrows and cover with about two inches of soil, gradually filling furrows as growth resumes.
The article notes rice as a staple in South American cuisine, prepared fried in Mexico and Guatemala, used in quesadilla de arroz in Honduras, and served with roast duck in Peru. It pairs with red kidney beans as a common accompaniment throughout the region.
Radium commands about thirty thousand dollars per gram making three pounds worth around forty million dollars. Modern refining mirrors the original Curie process though it remains tedious and complex. Testing and sealed platinum tubes drive up costs and support the high market price.
The article explains three weeks after sowing Scarlet Globe radishes are ready, but after another week they become unfit to eat. It warns beginners that sowing more than a week’s supply of early varieties at once leads to waste, and notes radishes share a welcome with young onions grown from sets in the first garden harvest.
Early thinning should start as plants become large enough to handle. Space 3 to 4 inches apart in the first thinning. Leaves from root varieties can be used as greens when young. The crop is prone to aphids which damage leaves as plants mature.
The United States farm operators average 11.2 hours worked daily, matching the national hours between sunrise and sunset on March 1. This parity highlights how labor expectations mirror natural daylight in agricultural practice across the country.
Some corn protein based cattle feed is being recovered from the residue of corn fermented to alcohol as a wartime measure. The by product yeast from molasses fermentations is often too contaminated for recovery.
Beat one or two eggs with a pinch of salt until foamy. Mix eggs with flour using two tablespoons per egg. Pour thinly into simmering broth in a steady stream, stirring constantly. Cook two minutes and serve immediately.
Daily potato consumption can supply up to a quarter of a person’s vitamin needs and provide iron and other minerals. The text highlights the nutritional value of potatoes as a staple.
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