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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1944
Page
7
Markets report shows hogs at 11 000 head slow steady with sows steady to 10 cents higher and top price 13.75 for 200 270 lb hogs. Cattle are limited with steers 13.25 to 14.85, top 15.00 and calves 16.00. Sheep include loads of lambs around 99 pounds and woolled sheep above 16.40 with natives at 16.00. Estimates project hogs 500 cattle 600 sheep 500.
The grain table shows bid and closing figures for wheat oats rye with September and May contracts. Wheat ranges around 165 to 173 with near term highs. oats and rye display mixed percentages across Sept Dec and May maturities, reflecting structural price shifts.
Chicago May 6 receipts show 20 390 cases with 65 extra firsts and 31 firsts, current 25 dirties 25 percent and 26 checks. Poultry receipts list 1 car and 20 trucks with market firm and unchanged.
A federal Indian service letter signed by R. M. Nygaard proposes a joint plan to buy 300 acres annually for ten years starting in 1956, doubling the Sac and Fox reservation west of the area from its current 3,278 acres.
Peanut butter helps reach nutrition goals while adding rich flavor. It can replace part of the fat in soups and sauces and enrich scalloped vegetables omelets muffins biscuits cookies cupcakes and more.
Allied heavy bomber strikes target rail yards around Budapest amid a broader push to disrupt Axis supply lines into Italy. RAF bombers drop blockbusters and incendiaries while U S Eighth Air Force swarms hit lines north of the Anzio front as German assaults along the southern sector intensify.
Frank Streb and daughter Margie hosted a noon dinner in Riverside for Pfe. Melvin Schneider on 30 day leave from the Marine Corps in the South Pacific. Attendees included Lawrence Mottet family Washington and several Schneider relatives. Mrs Waldschmidt hosted the Y Social club with guests crafting Red Cross garments.
A blaze at the John H. Witte & Sons Paint Co warehouse in Burlington destroyed the building and five or six nearby storage tanks. Firemen reported it among their hottest battles with more than a dozen explosions heard citywide. The warehouse held linseed oil while nearby tanks contained naphtha and solvents.
Bismuth is widely distributed in Brazil's mineral regions and used in preparing alloys for electrical fuse wire fire fighting apparatus and safety plugs in boilers.
Political announcement by Arthur Wiley seeking the Republican nomination for County Supervisor for the term starting January 1, 1945. Primary election set for June 5, 1944.
The guide advises scrupulous cleaning of saucepans and kettles inside and out while avoiding polishing the bottoms. A dull surface absorbs heat more evenly and rapidly, whereas a shiny bottom can affect heating.
The house approved and sent to the senate the income tax simplification bill from the ways and means committee. It would relieve about 36 million taxpayers from the need to compute their taxes.
In 1884 an aluminum tip was placed on the Washington monument, finalizing the striking memorial to the nation’s independence leader and first President.
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