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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1944
Page
5
FOR SALE ONE USED SOUTH Bend enameled cook stove for wood or coal and one circulating heater stove both extra good. See Roth Hardware Wayland. USE BEE LINE TAXI AND BUS service. Call 210 1016eod ee FRAM FILTERS AND CART ridges Yes, Fram Filter will pay for itself in oil savings Washington Oil Company 1813
Markets show hogs at 19 000 head with gains 10 cents for 200 to 330 pound hogs and higher prices for under 200 and over 300 pounds. Cattle 15 000 with steady vealers at 15.00 down and yearlings and steers showing strength. calves 800. Sheep 5 000 with lambs uneven but shorn lambs above 14.50 and more good western lambs above 16.25. Estimates total hogs 18 000 cattle 9 000 sheep 5 000.
The article reports Paasikivi, who brokered the 1940 Finnish Soviet peace, was expected to resume talks with Madame Alexandra Kollontai but rebuffed comments and might travel east soon. Morgontidningen cites Helsinki sources on the plan as editor Richard Lindstrom visits Helsinki.
The fourth in the home project lesson series travels countywide in March. The program, Methods of Housecleaning, offers ideas to ease homemaker tasks and covers cleaning walls floors rugs upholstery curtains. Cedar township women meet Frairie Flower Church March 7 noon. Dutch Creek homemakers meet Grace Hill March 8 noon. Seventy-Six Community Club studies March 4% and offers a covered dish meal.
Twelve eighth grade girls attended a Friday evening birthday party for Neda Faye Aston at her home. The guests enjoyed quizzes games vocal and instrumental music and gifts. Tables featured green and white decor with pastel sweet peas and a fourteen candle cake.
Robert Stevens of Oklahoma City will arrive tomorrow afternoon to conduct the preaching service at the Christian Tabernacle on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. He plans to drive home Thursday morning. Mr and Mrs Merritt Harkness and daughter Susan of Decorah visited the Stewart home. Joa Lu Harkness has spent a month there. The Stewart-Webb wedding was noted as the Harkness party stayed. Fred Burger and wife received their first letter Saturney from Sgt Don Burger, tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, stationed in Italy since mid January. earlier letters have not arrived.
Philadelphia Navy Yard Beacon details USS Philadelphia noted for Mediterranean service. Local man Russell Rohrer C2/C served aboard the ship until transfer during a dry dock. The vessel earned the nickname Galoping Ghost of the Sicilian Coast after 1945 actions and took part in convoy duties and North African landings.
Market unsettled and unchanged with receipts at 19 274 cases including 34 extra firsts. Poultry shows firm market with 2 cars and 2 trucks receipts, with young roosters 25 and small hens 24, springs of fryers 27 percent, and tom turkeys priced at 5 and 33.
Chicago cash grain update lists corn at 126 percent in yellow category as of March 6. Market notes show standing prices and brief indicators for nearby grains.
Fish production per man hour is very great compared with any other means of obtaining meat, being four to ten-fold that of hog production. Trawlers in the North Atlantic yield in the neighborhood of 200,000 pounds of cod per man each season, while the California sardine catch for the seven month season amounts to 500,000 pounds per man.
Chicago March 6 grain table shows open high low and close quotes for wheat oats rye with contracts for May July and December. Figures list price levels and percent changes across multiple contracts and months for sea wheat oats and rye.
The color of camouflage on warplanes depends on the operation area. Liberators used for anti-submarine patrol have underwing paint matching the sky and clouds, while desert missions receive a special camouflage scheme.
In 1889 Louisiana led U S rice production and retains the lead. The South Atlantic states exited the shift. Rice trade spread to southeastern Texas around 1900, eastern Arkansas prairies in 1905, and California in 1912. Machine age methods, unfamiliar to the Orient, form today's rice industry and US growers rely on machines to compete with low wage labor.
The cotton fabric exterior covering of a specific army shelter type is treated to repel water resist rot and vermin and resist fire. The process aims to extend shelter life in harsh conditions and reduce maintenance needs.
The Big Inch pipeline carries oil at about 4.5 miles per hour and takes roughly 14 days to travel from Texas to New Tarcay.
In West Chester on February 23 and March 1 the school held stamp and bond fund drives across grades. The high school raised 114.65 with all grades contributing a total of 161.00 on Feb 23, and the March 1 drive netted 128.15 with the 1st and 2nd grades leading at 37.95 and freshmen close behind at 36.20.
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