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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1944
Page
7
A two year old registered black Angus bull is offered for sale. The listing notes the animal is identified as A Poas and invites interested buyers to inquire for more details on registration and ownership.
Mrs Andrew Barnett 58 of Brighton died yesterday at a Mt Pleasant hospital after months of poor health. Funeral arrangements by F A Hoskins funeral home await word from her son Robert in military service. She was born in Waukee Kansas to Frank and Mrs Diller. Surviving: husband two daughters in Glenwood two sons John of Brighton and Robert in Texas service.
Entomologists at the New York state experiment station in Geneva report ants are numerous this season in lawns. The cheapest effective remedy is gassing colonies with carbon bisulphide, which is cheap and easy to apply and won’t harm the lawn though it is highly inflammable.
Research by S G Younkin of Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station Ithaca shows daisies and a few other weeds host the yellow dwarf potato virus. The virus spreads to potato fields via clover leafhoppers moving from abandoned fields, with about 45 percent of daisies testing infected compared to under 3 percent of other weeds. Diseased plants reduce seed quality and yield, producing dwarfed dry plants and rosettes of curled leaves in spring and fall.
Mexican reports say the jojoba bush yields an excellent liquid wax from its nuts and can fetch up to $200 per ton for export to the United States. Trials in irrigated cultivation have begun near Florence Arizona, with the plant deemed suitable for Arizona New Mexico and areas south of the Rio Grande.
Situated on Italy north coast near the island tip Palermo faces the Tyr rhenian sea. From Mt Pellegrino road the city sprawls along the Conca d Oro plain toward a spacious bay. Palms gardens and villas dot the countryside and climate makes Palermo a profitable winter resort.
A Nova Scotia apple honey syrup replaces glycerine in cigarettes to preserve tobacco freshness. The form, a byproduct syrup, may find use in bakery products cosmetics and as a syrup base for drugs and laxatives. Early tests show it can be spread on bread and pancakes and tastes agreeable.
Great Lakes water levels are at record highs for 14 years, per the US Lake Survey. Lake Superior hovers within six inches of its 1916 peak, Lake Ontario tops levels unseen since 1870, and Lake Erie along with Lakes Huron and Michigan approach 1929 highs.
A weekly community sale is held every Friday at the Whittaker sale barn attracting local buyers and sellers. Livestock and related goods are auctioned, with patrons noting brisk turnout and routine bidding activity.
Vitamin D must be added to all rations during winter and for chickens kept in confinement. This adjustment aims to maintain bone health and productivity in limited sunlight conditions.
MOSCOW June 29. Red armies with heavy air support raced to within 35 miles southeast and 40 miles northeast of Minsk as a new column pushed toward Baranowicze gate to Warsaw. Germans retreated in panic while White Russian forces closed on Osipovichi and Bobrusk, signaling near collapse of enemy garrisons on the Moscow Warsaw front.
Hog prices ranged 11.50 to 13.75 for various weight groups with about 7 000 unsold. Cattle and calves activity showed steady demand for good fed steers yearlings and heifers with vealers down. Sheep volume around 5 000 with native spring lambs and shorn ewes near steady and buck discounts. Estimated totals: hogs 9 000 cattle 1 000 sheep 1 000.
Open high low and close values for Wheat, Oct/Dec/May/July contracts, plus Oats Rye figures. Wheat Sept at 158% 159% 158% 159%. Dec 160% 161% 160% 161%. May 161% 162% 161% 162%. July 158% 158% 157% 158%. Oats Sept 70% 71% 70% 71%. Dec 69% 70% 69% 70%. May 70% 70% 70% 70%. Rye Sept 110% 110% 109% 110%. Dec 112% 112% 111% 112%. May 116% 115% 115% 116%.
Chicago market notes show produce receipts firm with 18 cases and 35 percent firsts, current receipts 33.3, dirties 26, and checks listed. Poultry receipts include 1 car and 3 dollar trucks, with small hens 22 percent and heavy hens 22 percent.
Calf pens are often dark damp and cold making sanitation and disinfection difficult. They need not be expensive but must be sanitary to raise normal healthy calves.
James A Finnell Hoey an Irish canal worker became the first person to receive American citizenship on foreign soil when he was naturalized in the Canal Zone on December 4 1942.
Authorities describe an ancient American Indian game that closely resembled modern baseball in rules and play. The discovery highlights early athletic traditions and cross cultural influences in sport history.
In the last eight hours allied air forces destroyed at least 57 German planes as D-Day advances. German fighter bases recede at least 100 miles. German sorties total about 200 daily from bases near Paris and in Belgium and Holland, while Normandy operations remain limited. Cherbourg peninsula coastal batteries at Cape La Hague and Querqueville face ongoing resistance. American engineers report encouraging harbor repairs suggesting Cherbourg may be operational sooner than expected.
Allied units claim they knocked out 121 German tanks and disabled 171 others in ongoing heavy fighting. Details specify sustained armor losses across multiple sectors with no full casualty breakdown available.
The county clerk issued three marriage licenses yesterday. Arthur J. Yoder and Beatrice Corrine Perrin of Alona, Stephen Carris of Wellaston and Emma F. Maxwell of Kalona, William Allbaugh and Elizabeth L. Custer of Washington.
Cars driven by Paul Hayes and Margg Keen Redlinger collided at 12 15 this afternoon on the corner of West Sixth Street and North Avenue B. Damage estimates were not available this afternoon.
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