Chicago market report shows hogs and cattle steady to weak
Hog sales reach 11 000 with total 22 500 and slow steady trade across weights. Good and choice hogs 200 to 550 pounds quoted 13.10 to 13.85, with lighter weights 12.75 to 13.65. Cattle and calves 2 000 and 600 respectively, trade largely steady with strong demand for all classes. Sheep 2 000 with slaughter lambs weak to 25 cents lower. good and choice fed western lambs around 15.75 and 16.15 for Colorado loads. yearling wethers about 13.00 and ewes discounted. Tomorrow's estimates: hogs 1 900, cattle 590, sheep 200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Colorado
Nebraska
Montana
Grain table shows mixed wheat oats futures quotes
Chicago March 3 grain table reports Wheat Sep 166% 165% Close 165% May 171% 170% July 168% with mixed highs and lows. Oats Sept 78% close 73% Dee shows minor shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dee
Surgical Dressings Classes to Re-open
The article notes Surgical Dressings Classes will reopen after a closure since early November due to gauze shortages. The dressings room operates Tuesday to Thursday afternoons from 1 to 4 30 and Tuesday evenings 7 to 9 30, with local women prioritizing urgent needs for wounded service members.
Contouring Demo Planned on Marvin Warnock Farm
On Monday afternoon March 6 at 2 00 pm a contouring demonstration will be held two miles southeast of Washington on the Marvin Warnock farm. County extension director J W Chandler says this is the first in a county series and weather permitting baselines can be plowed marked. Farmers with rolling ground seeking higher corn and soybean yields are urged to attend. The field lies a half mile east of No 4 school on the north side of the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Warnock
Washington
J. W. Chandler
Chandler
No. 4 School
Vv Club Honors Two Soldiers at Riverside Event
In Riverside on March 2 the Vv Club and families honored Pfe. Joseph Skubal and Pfe. Theodale Swenka with an evening at Catholic Forester hall. Older guests played euchre with Lena Bopp high score and Ida Dorothy Skubal consolation. younger guests danced, Frances Hardy high and Elmer Rummetlhart low. a cooperative lunch followed. The report also notes Dale Mottet’s fourth birthday celebrated at his parents’ home.
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Riverside
Pfe
Joseph Skubal
F. V. Skubal
Theodale Swenka
John Swenka
Catholic Forester Hall
Lena Bopp
Ida Dorothy Skubal
Frances Hardy
Elmer Rummetlhart Low
Dale Mottet
Clement Mottet
Untitled OCR Fragment Reflects Incomplete Data
The readable portion shows mixed percentages and codes from an OCR fragment likely about rates or yields. No clear names dates places or events are identifiable to form a proper summary.
Chicago produce market reports mixed eggs and poultry
Receipts show 14 303 cases of eggs with irregular market conditions while extra firsts 34 and firsts 321 percent. Current receipts include 32 dirties 30 checks 29. Poultry receipts total 1 car and 12 trucks with a firm market and unchanged conditions.
War Needs Cut Sugar Available to Civilians
Ames Iowa March 3 civilians will get about 6 percent less sugar this year than in 1943. The decrease is due to need for sugarcane molasses for industrial alcohol, to armed forces and allies needs, and wartime shipping conditions. Allocations for the first and second quarters of 1944 remain the same with plan for the last half. Sugar demand peaks in July to September and declines in the last quarter. Sugar imports will rely on Caribbean sources as beet sugar production is Nazi controlled and cane areas忙 in the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa
Miss. Marie Rudolfson
Iowa State College
Berlin Is Raided By U S Planes
Formations of American fighters struck Berlin in daylight as the first United States Army Air Force raid on the Nazi capital, with bombers from the west and south hitting northwestern Germany and Rome. Aircraft reportedly machine gunned targets as the long flight limited bomb loads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
United States Army Air Force
U. S
Germany
Rome
Storing Bulbs in Pots and Garden Beds
The guide advises placing broken crockery or gravel in pot bottoms to protect drainage. Use good garden soil for bulbs, then store pots in a basement at 40 to 50 degrees or bury them with four inches of soil and 8 to 12 inches of straw leaves. Water soil regularly if kept in a cellar.
Roadways by type reveal vast counts across county system
The county and local road network totals 2 400 000 miles with 45 000 miles of high type pavement. Low type bituminous surfaces cover 99 000 miles while 788 900 miles are non treated and prone to mud and dust. About 613 000 miles are merely graded and drained and 861 000 miles remain primitive roads.
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C. L. Jennings
New London
Salkin
South
Wabash Avenue
Illinois
McLellan Stores Co
Murray L. Moore
Ainsworth
J. D. Rabenold
Lloyd Turnipseed
Poline
MacLellan’s Store Co
Tournal
General Carpenter
Jay Moore
Inquire Journal
Geo. Foster
B. G. Holt
H. C. Finney
Washington and
Kalona
National Bank
Ed Simmering
Washington Co. Nat. Farm Loan Assn
Jeffrey Building
the Evening Journal
Wayne
Lockridge
Humble
Hawk
Hawk's
Iowa City
Robert Reaney
Marion Shaffer
Dave Benson
Rose Cottage
Farmall
Wim
Vogel
Rawleigh Products
C. G. Picken
Phope
Pratt
Pioneer Drug
Eclipse Lumber Company
Carson Plumbing & Heating
W. D. Care
Journal
Spurgeon
Briggs Stratten
Phil George
Montgomery Ward
West Chester
Berkshire
Delco Light Plant Motors
Leonard Leichty
Wayland
New Hampshire
Hostetler Hatcheries
Katona
Bordwell
Baker’s Hatchery
Marion No
Highway No
Sale Bay
Will Augustine
Rubio
Little’s Furniture
Little's
Eelipse Lumber Company
Edgar Eckey
Busby Mfg. Company
Goodyear
Goodrich
Washington Oil Company
Farrow
Frank Pringle
Guernsey
John Wagner
Western Auto Store
DU Pont
Brighton
Geo. J. Breitenbach
South Side Square
Karl Marr
Gilbert Hoskins
Pleasant Plain
International Disc
Briggs & Stratton
Straw
Kay Joseph Graber
Bud’s
Chicago Livestock
Sept, New
Whittaker Sale
Keota
M. M. Flynn
Crane
Baby
White Rocks
White
Austra
Reister
Produce
Vv” Club
George J. Breitenbach
Kent Pig & Low Meal
Kent Chick
Japan
Far East
United Kingdom
Canada
Russia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Caribbean
Fred Frank
Ardell Gerot
Robert Gerot
Raymond Kron
Grace Mottet
Paul Muller
Freshwater’s Feed Store
Food For Freedom
Ramseyer
Hatchery
East Washington
Excell Feed & Hatchery CO
Cargill
Ramseyer's Hatchery
East Wash
McAllister
Henry County
Towa Agricultural Experiment Station
Lowa
Walter Nicholson
2Nd Ave
H. H. McAllister & Son
Mount Union, Iowa
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