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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1942
Page
7
Hogs 10 000 with gains 5 to 15 cents, top 14.25, most 14.00 to 14.25 for 180 380 lb. sows 13.50 to 13.75. Sheep 1,000 and strong, lambs 15.60 to 15.66. Cattle 9,000 and calves 1,000, fed steers 12.50 to 14.50, top 16.50 for 1382 lb Nebraska, feeders 14.75 down.
Eggs receipts 37,000 cases market steady with extra firsts at 30 percent and firsts at 29 cents per dozen. Dirties and checks around 28 and 27. Storage packed firsts 31 and extras 32. Poultry receipts 42 trucks with hens easier and balance steady. spring geese 17 cents, small hens 21 percent, heavy hens 19, leg horn broilers 2 lbs and up 22.
Chicago cash grain prices listed for June 1 show corn at various yellow and white grade codes from 86% to 81% depending on batch, oats ranges from 61% to 48% white, and soybeans quoted with several yellow grade percentages around 1.60 to 1.68 percent.
Grain table from Chicago dated June 10 shows wheat and corn activity. Wheat Sep trades around 1.20 percent, with Noe and July figures listed. Corn Sep ranges near 89 percent with closing at 89.
The fragment lists fluctuating futures quotes for crops including oats rye and soybeans with several percentages and month markers such as Sep Dec Oct and July. It notes percent changes and bids across multiple contracts without cohesive narrative or clear event.
Thousands packed Waterloo stadium for the fourth annual northeast Iowa band jubilee. About 1 500 high school musicians from 382 towns performed under Capt William Santelmann of the United States Marine Band Warl King from Fort Dodge and Maj George Landers of Clarinda. A 100 piece Bandmasters band played as marching bands and baton twirlers demonstrated. Over noon more than 15 000 watched a parade of the bands.
With one exception, New Mexico's nine state monuments have been set aside to preserve remnants of the Spanish conquest and the work done by Franciscan padres in the seventeenth century.
Ethel Thompson of Van Horne Iowa purchased the McAvoy Beauty Salon from Mrs Marvin Buckwalter the former owner and will run the business as the Thompson Beauty Salon. Miss Thompson has operated a Van Horne shop six years and Mary Jane Carrothers will remain on staff.
Anna a twenty two clerk craves life and thrills not home and protection. Bennie is steady but Anna longs for romance and excitement. George from Detroit arrives with charm and plans for a cottage life and a family, challenging Anna to choose between security and a brighter future.
Jane resents Aunt Susan living with them yet accepts the shift as Aunt Susan plans weekly visits from the boarding house. John, torn between duty and desire for independence, shows rare joy at the compromise revealing unspoken concerns about the arrangement.
Fort Monmouth preserves a compass and chain once worn by Brigadier General Albert J Myer First Signal Officer U S Army. The article recounts Myer's Civil War era visual signaling system his rise to major colonel and brigadier general and his role in founding the Army signal corps and the Weather Bureau.
Social calendar items list meetings and events for Snowball Social Club Past Noble Grand Rebekah Lodge Rural Women's Club Prairie Flower Missionary Society Walnut Women’s Club Home Builders’ class Methodist groups Unit meetings and picnics at Sunset Park with rain plan. Rebekah visit to Wellman postponed to June 25. West Chester alumni banquet at the high school.
The passage defines the flying fox as a fruit bat with reddish fur, a foxlike head, and wings spanning about five feet as it flies through tropical regions.
English furniture maker and designer Robert Gillow produced the present type billiard table in the eighteenth century, reflecting his craft as a renowned furnitur e manufacturer.
The Presbyterian church hosts its 19th vacation Bible school under Dr. F W Eastwood pastor of the church. This marks his 27th daily school across Illinois Wisconsin and Washington. Forty children attend with room for more as Eastwood leads junior and intermediate classes aided by Dorothy Turner Betty Michels and others.
The Melbourne zoo gains whistling eagles, famed for their powerful whistle that can be heard from the ground. Although common, these birds are hard to capture.
Whittaker Sales Co announces a Friday sale at 11 o clock featuring over 300 head sold last week and a broad catalog. Milk cows and cows with calves by side, yearling steers and heifers, several bulls, hogs of all kinds, sheep and lambs, plus furniture will be offered.
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