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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1943
Page
7
Highest prices paid for iron. We also buy hides wool iron metal paper. Mose Levy 319% N Iowa Phone 791 R Washington and Kalona.
Xenia notes Glen Wood's fifteen day furlough from the medical corps and reports on troop movements with German prisoners aged 17 to 21. The column lists visits, picnics for Burdette Wagenknecht enlisting in the army, family gatherings, dinners, threshing, and local farm projects. Weather brought a midnight electrical storm with minor damage and rain.
Chicago markets show Hogs nominally steady with 300 head, weighups 250 to 550 pounds, top at 14.25 and 13.75 to 14.00 for 250 to 280 pound butchers. Cattle weekly gains led by fed steers to 16.85, with loads at 16.60 to 16.75, heifers up to 16.25, and most fed cattle 13.75 to 16.00. Sheep traded around 14.85 finish for lambs, with 12.50 to 13.50 for medium grades.
Midiway Sale Co of Columbus Junction lists weekly sales every Wednesday and a community sale each Friday at the Whittaker sale barn offering livestock and farm goods to local buyers.
Chicago July 21 31 UP wheat and oats futures report shows Sept and May wheat lines with mixed highs and lows, while oats entries list several mix categories. The text notes market activity alongside a stray sentence about dinner guests at the parental Orval Meeks home near Riverside.
The Riverside Leader, founded 1883 by the late Dennis Kryan, suspends for the war due to lack of newspaper help. Last issue July 8, publication to resume when staff available. The paper has served Riverside nearly 60 years and may move remaining Riverside equipment to Wellman.
Mrs W W Twinam fell on basement steps Wednesday evening injuring her right arm and gashing her forehead though no bones were broken. Joyce Gault visits her grandmother Mrs Strothman at New London this week. Betty Despain visits an aunt at Olds this week. Local youths attend Keokuk Presbytery young people's convention at Ainsworth the 54th annual event. attendees from here include Wilma Wooley and Mary Cher.
Wally Lester, a Brisbane messenger, delivered his Strangest telegram addressed to a Lady on a bench in Anzac Park from her soldier husband. He found the addressee quickly and explained he searched for the most impatient woman sitting in the park.
For good crops on sandy or gravelly soils or fields that seldom receive manure potash should be applied in addition to superphosphate. The guidance emphasizes combining potash with phosphate to improve nutrient availability and crop yields on challenging soils.
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