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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1948
Page
7
Hog market very slow with weights 170 to 375 pounds trading at 18 to 23 dollars per hundred weight and declines up to two dollars. Cattle and calves show overall softness with slabs of good to low choice steers at 26 to 30 dollars and cows and bulls trading weak to steady. Sheep bids remain scarce as slaughter lambs move slowly with typical prices near 21 dollars for medium wool lambs.
Chicago market news shows poultry totals with 14 trucks and firm conditions. Colored fryers and colored springs priced with varied cases and irregular receipts. extras and standards cited with percent ranges and current receipts figures.
Eight Guernsey milk cows averaged 200 at Lloyd Lee closing out sale nine miles northeast of Columbus Junction on March 19. Sows with pigs a month old averaged 90. A Model A John Deere tractor brought 1805, manure spreader 190, four double hog houses 87 each, rubber tire wagon 197.50, milking machines 177.50, 16 inch Bear Cat hammermill 200, cultivator 140, 14 foot flat bottom boat 28. Bank clerk Mr. Lee is quitting farming.
Chicago grain table dated March 23 reports open high low and close bids for wheat corn and oats with May July September and December contracts in various percent ranges. Data includes wheat at 234% 286% 233% 236% for May and similar figures for other months, corn around 216% 206% 204% 206% and oats near 111% 92% 90% 91% with additional fractional values and odd characters in the transcription.
A newly patented machine will sort and count paper money by value. Bills are fed in and emerge on shelves in $1, $2, $5, $10 or $20 compartments, with values transferred to totalizers. The Pacific Northwest forest industry pursues forest practice to boost timber supply and find markets for small trees and low grade logs.
The Washington high school adds the Future Farmers of America as a new vocational agriculture group. The chapter leads local activities with a father and son banquet, basketball tourney, and soil conservation contest, under instructor Frank Lee. The national body comprises about 250,000 members in 47 states, with 7,500 local chapters.
Brighton remains the premier seaside resort of England with royal ties and literary patronage. The prince who became George IV helped build the pavilion as a royal residence and visited in 1783 at age 21, sparking fashion and aristocratic pursuit of Brighton as a social center.
A hippopotamus killed in water sinks to the bottom and remains for several hours before rising to the surface.
A Detroit inventor received a patent for a gasoline additive formula that includes trimethyl phosphate or trimethyl phosphite to reduce knocking and prevent autoignition without sacrificing anti knock performance, compared with tetraethyl lead fuels.
In Providence a new method for tracking trackless trolleys uses overhead electrical contacts at intervals. When the trolley pole brushes a contact, a tiny mark is logged in the dispatcher's book to show the time a trolley coach passes a given point.
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