Pickup Crash Hurts James Birney Near Wilkis Jackson Home
June 23 Living Lake reports a pickup crash northeast of town when the vehicle struck a road cup and an electric light pole. James Birney was taken to a doctor with a badly cut face nose lip and leg injuries. The wreck followed heavy gravel road cupping from spring truck traffic. The incident raised concern over road danger and flood damage nearby.
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Living Lake
Wilkis Jackson
James Birney
James
Homer Birney
Maud
Rochester
Minn
Birney
Dorothy Walker
Marie Davis
McGregor
Gordon Cartensen
Baby
Dell Walkers
Jimmy Heck
Edward Heck
Tdocger
Jimmy
Livestock Market Report Chicago June 26
Hogs 7,000 head steady to 25 cents lower with heavier weights and sows down. Top hogs $25.00. Cattle 4,000 with good steers up to 29.50 for 1,207-1,233 lb. fed steers. yearlings 27.50. Cows and bulls varied. calves, sheep and lambs show mixed gains and declines. Slaughter ewes scarce. shorn lambs scarce with lower grades noted.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Report Sparks Unclear Poultry and Egg Figures
Chicago June 24 reports show poultry trucks and fryers with mixed unsettled figures and varied egg case totals. Potatoes note new stock arrivals and total shipment figures, while old stock and on track data appear inconsistent in the trade bulletin.
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Chicago
Chicago Grain Table reflects mixed futures in late June
June 26 Chicago grain table shows July soybeans at 218, corn at 202, and wheat around 184 to 214 with fluctuating highs and lows. Market notes include spread differences for September and May contracts and incomplete figures due to OCR.
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Chicago
Chicago Cash Grain Prices Report
Chicago cash grain market summary for June 26 shows wheat up 15 to 20 cents while corn holds or gains up to six cents. No. 1 yellow corn prices quoted across several grades with specific ranges. oats mostly flat to one cent higher.
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Chicago
Leprosy Bacilli Isolated by Dr Hansen in 1874
Isolated leprosy bacilli by Norwegian Dr. G A Hansen in 1874 ended a long scientific mystery about the disease known to humankind for over four millennia.
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G. A. Hansen
Weekend and midweek auctions in Iowa for estate and household goods
Community Sale every Friday at Whittaker sale barn and livestock sales Wednesdays at Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Iowa. June 28 is a sale of household goods to settle the estate of Goldie Vinton at 726 East Third Street with Elmer Vinton as administrator. July 2 features a closing out sale of household goods at 308 West Jefferson Street conducted by Mrs. Bessie Palmer.
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Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Goldie Vinton
East Third Street
Elmer Vinton
West Jefferson Street
Eave P. m
Bessie Palmer
Washingtonians Here and There recollections and clippings
Don Ross shares notes from travel and Iowa contacts including Lew Warren publisher of Oelwein papers, Buck Wilson, Rod Davis, George Rudiger, Lee Norris, Leo Benediek, and Clarie Dewey, with rail announcements in Chicago and Washington. He recalls meetings in Des Moines Davenport Ames and Iowa City and mentions Rotary, state college ties, and old friends amid Washington county history.
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Warren
Iowa Daily Press Association
Lew Warren
Oelwein
Lew
Buck Wilson
Warrens
Wilsons
Davenport
Washington
Fred Moore
Rodney Davis
Altho
George Rudiger
Lee Norris
Ainsworth
Leo Benediek
Kansas City
Rock Island
Des Moines
Big Leters
Cloid Willits
Glen
Sen
Clair Dewey
Claire
Iowa
Vernon Witting
Wittrigs
Cherry's Pond
Indianola
Earl Eldridge
Wade Gardners
Rotary
Earl
Wade
Russell Vifquain
Town State College
Ames
Fred Blick
Don Pike
Russell Virgguain
ISC
Iowa City
Jefferson Hotel
Bob Pattersons
Henry Bertles
Tulsa
Ned Longs
Myrtle Speer
Washington County
Michigan
C. A. Speer
Justice of the Peace
Speers
Henry Steck
Iowa Restaurant Association
John Winga
John
Record enrollment at University of Iowa summer session
In Iowa City on June 26 the university announced a new summer session enrollment of 5102 students, surpassing last summer’s 4650 record. President Virgil Hanecher’s office released the figures.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Virgil Hanecher
Forty Escape In Crash Of Airliner
New York June 26 UP Forty persons aboard an Air France Constellation escaped injury when the airliner skidded to a landing at La Guardia field after the right wheel collapsed on touch down. The plane from Paris swerved off the runway, halted on the grass, and firefighters rushed to the scene with no fire. The craft carried 30 passengers and a crew of 10.
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New York
Air France
Constellation
Iury
la Guardia Field
Paris
New Mine Locomotive Headlight Increases Visibility
A new headlight for mine locomotives projects a beam of 850 feet and raises visibility by 83 percent, improving safety and operations in underground work.
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Bill) Hagie
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