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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1944
Page
5
Market snapshot Chicago May 1 shows hogs slow with top 12.75 for 200–270 lb. 280–300 lb 12.35–12.65. 300–330 lb 12.15–12.50. 1790–190 lb 11.75–12.75. Cattle 16,000 head. calves 800. fed steers and yearlings up 0.15, top 16.85. cows 9.25–14.00. heifers steady. Sheep 10,000. slaughter lambs 15–25 cents lower. Colorado wooled lambs 16.25. overall sheep scarce.
Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M announces a regular meeting on the first Friday of each month. Russell Goodin serves as W M and A W Yard as secretary.
Tickets may be purchased at Bus Depot and Winga's North Side Cafe in North Side Square. Passes cover travel to any point in the country from coast to coast.
Readable fragments list county level officials named Harold Putnam as sheriff and Marion 8 George as treasurer with unclear organization context. The item appears as a brief notice of county offices or elections with limited surrounding details.
Rail timetables show departures from Washington to Iowa City Cedar Rapids and Fort Madison with multiple daily options. Connections include Winfield Burlington southbound and Sigourney Oskaloosa Knox westbound routes. Tickets sold at local depot 107 W 2nd with various arrival times and destinations.
Dr Chas C Brown provides neurocalometer service from an office opposite the Court House with Las phone 814. Superintendent and high school principal listed as Paul T Dixon and W A Erbe.
Fragmentary figures show percentages and values with mixed dates and numbers. The text reads like market or pricing data, citing percent changes and numeric codes, but lacks clear events or identities to anchor a full summary.
Chicago May 1 UP reports the produce market steady with total receipts 2975 cases including extra firsts 34 and firsts 31 percent. Poultry receipts 1 car 10 trucks show firm market with ducks young geese old geese small hens heavy hens colored springs broilers and friers all priced around 26 to 29 cents.
British submarines sank 22 axis supply ships and damaged 7 others in patrols in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. Two vessels sunk were medium freighters and 20 were smaller supply ships. Damaged ships included two tankers and a large supply ship.
Allied forces bombed Nazi railroad targets and supply ports in northern Italy with over 1,000 American and British planes in a day and night attack. Raids extended along the peninsula center as hundreds of allied aircraft hit enemy communications lines.
Day in Dayton Grove details include Lyle Romine Charlene West Crawford and Dill families visiting Rose Hill and West Chester for a Sunday dinner honoring Caroll Romine and Joe Clark who plan to enter the army. Mason work for Mr Robertson in Dublin area and Comrade Sunday school at Bauer home. Ernest Crawford visits paternal Steve Crawford home. Crawford Jr. ill. Mrs Ladehoff at Onslow with a sick mother Mrs Ernest Horton.
Mrs. Adolph Gislain will leave at once after a wire from her daughter says her husband has a call to go overseas. Dewey Hanley seeks relief for a throat trouble at Excelsior Springs. Margit Barrett reports Joe, her brother, is in Italy. Joe Evans is on the sick list.
The text traces Spain as a wealthy land of silver coveted by a metal hungry world. It notes Phoenicians Carthaginians and Romans seizing its metal wealth and cites Scipio parading home with silver loot from Iberia after campaigns.
About 95 percent of Lisbon subscribers now use dial telephones marking a shift from manual service. The change highlights rapid modernization of Portugal's communications network and greater access to day to day services.
The OPA notes hog weights rising with 1942 prices around 254 pounds and a 1944 crop 15 percent below 1943. Corn remains the food production keystone, and hogs must be fed to lighter weights to ensure fair corn distribution for the war effort. The decision aims to rationalize corn use and stabilize hog pricing.
Mr and Mrs Clayton Bear host Dorothy and Pvt Raymond Bear on furloughs and visits. Dorothy Bear a cadet nurse at Mercy Hospital Iowa City Vacationed in Chicago and Mt Pleasant before returning home. Pvt Raymond Bear recently on a twelve day furlough from Camp Fannin Texas en route to Fort Meade Maryland. Pvt Tom Walker in the army air corps visits his parents before reporting to Camp Pickett Virginia after a posting in Mississippi.
The term salary derives from Latin salarium meaning salt money the portion of a Roman soldier wage paid in salt.
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