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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1948
Page
7
Hogs market active and steady with top at 23.25 dollars and various weight classes selling around 19 to 23 dollars. Cattle calved and calves very slow with steers weak, cows and bulls down. large lots of fed steers 29 to 36 dollars with top 20.00, heifers 25 to 28 dollars, canners and cutters 13 to 16.50, bulls 20 to 23. Sheep slaughter lambs slow with lambs 22 dollars, wooled lambs around 22 dollars and small lots around 1800 dollars in slaughter use.
Three blasts and a gas explosion shook Chicago neighborhoods early today. Alderman John J. Duffy and his two daughters were awakened by a dynamite blast at their Beverly Hills home. A barber fixture company suffered a crude bomb, blamed on possible labor or contractor motives. A restaurant gas explosion caused injuries to Cleveland Timas and $5,000 in fire damage.
Chicago March 24 Shortaged market activity with six trucks reported firm prices for hens and various broilers. Prices listed include colored fryers Plymouth Rock broilers white rock broilers colored broilers and several mixed lots with miscellaneous yard and shelling figures.
A method where fat enzyme and moisture are forced through a high pressure nozzle to tenderize meat is described as more effective than a traditional swissed process, indicating a culinary technique refinement.
At the Hospital admitted yesterday Mrs W F Allbaugh 409 E Madison medical John Benn Route 1 medical Mrs Margaret Schafer Columbus Junction medical Today Mrs Emma Waggoner Route 4 surgical Births yesterday Mr and Mrs Richard Hagist Keota a son at 112 a.m
Roads improving bring a consigning wave of livestock including veal calves in strong demand. Buyers mark cows hogs and stock cattle. Auction items include a John Deere tractor plow 1-2 bottom plow tandem dise oats feeder hedge posts and household furniture.
Chicago grain table lists May, July and Sept futures for wheat corn and oats with varied percentage ranges. For sale ads are noted at end, inviting buyers to respond to listings.
Eleven milk cows sold for 101 to 225 dollars at the Walter Hill farm sale six miles northwest of Columbus Junction on Saturday March 20. Nine Hampshire brood sows sold for 68 dollars, seven shoats for 9 dollars, chickens 1.94 each, hay 60 cents per bale, 100 bushels corn 2.27, 200 bushels oats 1.29. An F-12 Farmall tractor 300, manure spreader iron wheel wagon 61 dollars.
March 27 cattle sale at Sales Pavilion in Albia Iowa. Miads, an early dog lineage, roamed forests and plains of North America about 55 million years ago.
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