Weather and Hog Market Report
Hog prices lead the page at 23.25 per hundredweight. The forecast calls for cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with showers and scattered thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1948
Page
8
Chicago Livestock Market Report
Chicago markets show hog activity around 7 500 head with slow demand. Prices mostly 25 to 50 cents lower, with various weight ranges indicated and several price points for hogs and sows. cattle and calves totals noted with dull trading and new low ranges for some classes.
Market Prices for Cattle Sheep and Local Notices
The report lists cattle and sheep prices including steers at 28, heifers 21 to 26, common cows 17 to 20, good cows to 22, culled stock 12 to 17, tops 23.50 for sausage beef, canner numbers 15.50, welders to 27, plus sheep bids at 22 for fed wooled lambs and 21.5 to 21.73 for other lambs. It notes a 2,500 head sheep run and loads around 1107 pounds at inside price, plus skins prices and deck beef figures. A local line mentions Shella barger drug store employee details, a 1942 Wapello high school graduate bridegroom now in Muscatine with Stampings Inc. Davenport, and a note on golf introduction to the United States in 1888 by Robert Lockhart.
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Shellabarger Drug Store
Wapello High School
Armed Forces
Muscatine
Stampings Inc
Davenport
Chicago Produce Market Report Sees Steady Prices
Poultry trucks totaling 238 report firm market with hens at 3, leghorn hens 23, various fryers and broilers listed with mixed color varieties. Eggs mix brown and white at 24 171, market steady. extras and standards priced in the 39 to 46 range, current receipts 42, checks 39.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
White Rock
White Rock Springs
Plymouth Rock Springs
Colored Springs
Pugh and Schafer wed by Rev F L Hanscom
Doris Pugh of Columbus Junction married Rex K Schafer of Muscatine and Warshaw Ill at Little Brown church Nashua. Rev F L Hanscom officiated the double ring ceremony with Mrs Hanscom at the organ. Attendants Jo Anne Morris and Bill Yakle.
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Mch
Doris Pugh
Lewis Pugh
Rex K. Schafer
Gladys Schafer
Muscatine
Frank Schafer
Warsaw
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F. L. Hanscom
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