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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1942
Page
7
Market summaries show hogs uneven with most cattle, calves and sheep mixed. Hog top at 14.55 per 100 pounds, cattle steady with primes around 13.65, heifers and weaners near 15.00, lambs weak to 14.50, with Tuesday receipts listed for hogs cattle and sheep.
Chicago market notes show steady prices across produce and poultry. Receipts total 7 572 cases with firsts and dirties listed, plus storage packed products and varied poultry prices including hens, broilers, turkeys, and specific weights and grades.
Chicago cash grain report lists corn quality grades and percentages for several lots and oats varieties. The brief mutates with incomplete entries for multiple lots and color descriptors, indicating mixed grades and uncertain final values as of July 27.
The list shows white 49 and white 4 with 461 percent, red specials at 48 percent, and soybeans priced with yellow 2 at 1.70 and yellow 3 at 1.68 percent. It reads like a shorthand feed of commodity codes and percentage values.
Open high low and close prices listed for wheat corn oats rye and soybeans across Sep Dec and May contracts, with percentage changes and closing figures shown for July Chicago edition. The data cover wheat corn oats rye and soybeans with entry lines for each contract month and commodity.
In hot weather a chicken’s body can reach about 106 degrees Fahrenheit. The fact highlights how heat stress affects poultry health and welfare during peak summer conditions.
The column lists weekly sales in Iowa locations including Midway Cow., Columbus Junction on Wednesdays and Whittaker sale barn on Fridays plus a surplus furniture disposal by R C Ferguson at Sam Witting residence near Washington on highway 92. Auction times include 6:00 P M and various dates in August and July.
A house agent bluntly lists the nearby nuisances bounding the property including gasworks India-rubber works a vinegar factory and a glue-boiling establishment. The couple recoils yet the agent notes the upside cheap rent and a humorous hint about wind direction.
National Geographic estimates the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere would span over a billion people and much of the earth, covering Siberia to Iran and the Southwest Pacific. The map, reportedly in Chinese hands, shows numerous regions under potential Japanese control and notes diverse races and terrains across the area.
Secretary Wickard said the United States may feed Allies and itself with minimal rationing in a year of record production. He noted ample supplies, emphasized military needs first, and discussed coordinating farmers, the War Production Board, and shipping needs to minimize sacrifice.
Mr and Mrs R E Triplett in Rawlins Wyoming welcomed three newborn boys placed in incubator after birth. Doctors report the mother is recovering fine. The couple already has two other children a daughter and a son.
Police hailed Robert La Bonge as he sped home to greet his wife expecting a baby. Officers calmed him and provided convoy duty to ensure a safe arrival.
Berlin reports Germany is speeding up cultivation of kok sagis from the dandelion family to produce rubber. The plant yields a substance in the root that gives elasticity to buna, used in synthetic rubber manufacture.
Geologists report ground feldspar as an effective material to extinguish magnesium incendiary bombs. Sprinkled like sand, it melts to form a protective coating that cuts off air and stops burning. Feldspar outperforms salt and ashes mixtures and was developed by W. W. Rubey, Michael Fleischer, and J. J. Fahey in lab and Edgewood Arsenal tests.
Akron reports B. F. Goodrich has developed a wood core rubber heel saving 10,000,000 pounds of rubber and 1,700,000 pounds of steel annually. The new heel reportedly matches prewar wear and saves 242 ounces of compounded rubber per pair.
Salmon migrate more than 1000 miles inland to spawn and do not feed once they leave the ocean.
The adjutant generals office will start accepting applications for dependents allowances shortly after August 1. War Department distributes forms worldwide but asks that applications be sent to Washington until next week. The forms come under the Service Men’s Dependents Allowances Act.
A patrol officer in Ra Baul New Guinea left his Airedale Susie at home to begin a six week 400 mile boat journey through swamps and mountains. On return the dog was missing, then found at his bedside the next morning, having tracked the officer’s scent the entire distance.
The late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, president-elect, prized his memory for names. A New York haberdash er named Kaskel tried to aiding the President by saying he made his shirts. The President interrupted, recalling Major Schurtz and saying he would have known him anywhere.
Ravenwood House in West Wycombe, Tudor era building famed for a Spanish ambassador's ghost, is being torn down to clear space for a new English cinema. Londoners wonder if the haunting will persist amid redevelopment.
Two elephants fed buns near a Clacton-on-Sea school during vacation and damaged several windows. Pupils returning from break explained the scene and blamed the animals for the mess.
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