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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1945
Page
5
Classified notes list a 10 ft John Deere grain drill for sale with phone 691-3 Sitleod. Also offered is a very wide light dinette set with credenza buffet Davenport two chairs and cocktail table for den living room or porch with phone 148-M. 8712. A baby buggy is for sale calling 727-J.
Hog market weak with mostly 14.75 ceiling for barrows and gilts while sows and stags held to 14.00. About 1,000 hogs sold daily elsewhere for slaughter. Cattle and calves show activity. steers and yearlings rise to 16.25 to 17.50 with top at 17.90, while sheep market steady to slightly higher with lambs 15.00 to 15.25 and wool and shorn lambs adjusting modestly.
Des Moines May 26 Urging Iowa homemakers to salvage used household fats George B Sheehe Iowa district representative of the War Food Administration warned of a projected drop in fats and oils production from 11 2 billion pounds in 1943 44 to about 9 7 billion pounds this year He said civilian consumption will be at least 10 percent lower and drying fats used in paints and linoleum will fall 5 to 40 percent lower than last year Only increased salvage can free more fats for civilian goods while military needs take priority to ensure early V J Day
Clothing Specialists advise hanging furs in a cool well ventilated room to dry and staying away from heat. Once dry shake gently or brush to restore fur. Light snow or showers won’t affect fur noticeably if water is shaken off immediately.
Chicago grain prices and trading ranges for wheat corn rye oats and related futures on May 26 show July and Sep cycles with open high low and close figures across wheat corn and rye contracts. The table notes percent values and shifts indicating market activity in summer and fall delivery months.
Report of cash grain bids shows oats and soybeans with mixed and yellow notes. price line indicates soybeans at 2.22 per unit. No full prices for oats provided.
The article notes birthmarks may be removed by radi um and x rays. It also mentions some physicians report success with injections and dry ice as methods.
Instructions describe making pie pastry as usual, rolling to one eighth to one quarter inch thick, cutting rounds with a biscuit cutter, baking four rounds on iron at a time, and serving with thick jam.
Derris vines produce tuberous roots that mature in about 18 months and are discarded if over 4 inches in diameter. Middle American test harvests show refinable rotenone at 8 to 9 percent of root weight with record crops of 10 to 11 percent, doubling Far Eastern averages of 4 to 5 percent.
A simple test described by the Better Vision institute suggests covering one eye and looking at an object, then viewing it through a card with a pin hole. If vision improves, astigmatism in that eye may be suspected.
Laborite ministers rejected Churchill's plan to extend the coalition government to end of the Japanese war, prompting a general election likely on July 5. Sir Archibald Sinclair questioned prolonging Parliament, while Ernest Brown backed Churchill and Clement Attlee opposed extension. The Labor party meets at Blackpool.
W D Bakehouse moves to Muscatine with family after accepting a position as music instructor for 7th and 8th grades. He will continue directing the Brighton band during the summer and has spent the past two years as a music instructor and band director in Brighton schools. Memorial day events and local notices follow including a program at the school auditorium and community tributes.
Weekly sale notices list events at Whittaker Gale Barn every Friday and Midway Sales Company Columbus Junction Iowa hosts Wednesday livestock auctions.
The American Legion Auxiliary prepared five white crosses to honor local soldiers from Crawfordsville. Each cross will bear the name of a fallen service member including James Mitchell Wendell Voss Carol Davis and Herschel with crosses to be placed near the soldiers' monument in the new cemetery.
A farm guidance note urges each family to maintain at least two productive milk cows to ensure a steady year round supply of milk and dairy products. This advice emphasizes self sufficiency and steady yields for households.
An application of 50 pounds of ammonium nitrate to the c ere under fair seasonal conditions increases corm yields by about seven bushels.
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