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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1952
Page
7
Classified fragment listing various sales including Skelgas ranges water heaters and home freezers. Also includes for sale items such as an Albino Saddle horse for sale a forage fertilizer attachment a 90 head vaccinated stock and several cattle cows heifers and bulls with contact names and towns like Rubio Tamworth Duroc Brighton and Fri Francisco Feltz Rubio and Joe Schantz.
Chicago markets show hogs at 16 000 head with steady to uneven demand and top quotes around 22.00 for several lots. Sheep and lambs active with mixed gains, old crop lambs steady to higher. Cattle and calves active. steers and heifers mostly higher, cows steady to higher, bulls up to 50 cents. Prices vary by weight and grade across fed steers, heifers, and commercial stock.
The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn opened yesterday at the State Theatre. The Technicolor adventure romance follows Rosy and Charlie as they navigate a perilous African river during a German skirmish in World War I.
In Chicago Grinlie Andrews described how to identify his missing vehicle a 1949 Chevrolet convertible body mounted on a 1939 Studebaker chassis with a 1949 Kaiser bumper a 1949 Oldsmobile rear bumper a 1949 Chevrolet grille and a 1956 Studebaker engine.
The nation’s war dead since Lexington’s 1775 shot total about 1,005,000 on the 177th anniversary, while highway fatalities since 1900 reach about 1,012,000, surpassing U S military deaths in all wars. In Korea since 1951, US combat deaths reach about 8,500, with highway deaths rising sharply. The first shot at Lexington echoes in modern safety, as highway crashes exceed war deaths for the first time in history.
A four year old boy in San Antonio says his father told him to shoot his mother. The boy shot her in the right chest at her nursing home where he was cared for. Investigators seek the truth as the father remains missing and the boy is in Children's Service Bureau custody.
Severe winter storms halt trains and cars across California and Nevada west of Reno. Donner Pass snow depths reach 19 feet during the storm, in a region famed as one of North Americas snowiest. Tamarack once recorded 74 feet in a single drift during 1906-07.
The Hawkeye Angus Association hosts the State Aberdeen Angus field day and picnic Sunday July 6 at Hawk Eye Downs Cedar Rapids. Events run from 1 am to 1 pm with grooming and type demonstrations, judging contests, a 4-H youth center program, a noon picnic, hoof trimming, and an evening cattle show with awards.
A busy sequence of weekend visits and gatherings fills Pleasant Ridge as Anton Kauffman hosts relatives from Chicago and Minneapolis. Nearby, the Ladies Aid meets for guest day with 12 members, a Japan talk by Rev. Bickford, and plans for an ice cream social in late July.
Mrs. Godlove spent several days in Washington visiting her sister Mrs. May Hopengardner and her daughter Mrs. Frank Embree, along with family and friends. Elmer Thoeming of Davenport joined them for afternoon visits.
July 7 closing out sale of household goods at 903 East Washington starts 11 00 a m The Pines July 9 closing out sale at 1114 East Main Street starts 1 30 p m Mark Campbell Sr Livestock sales every Wednesday at Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Iowa Livestock sale every Tuesday at Ollie Livestock Exchange 1 p m every Thursday Kalona Sales Barn Kalona Iowa
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