Local Page Notes Vocal Solos and Amusements Alongside Market Update
A community gathering featured Mrs Howard Anderson and others performing vocal solos and a girls quartet with Marilyn Miller Ruth Davis Nan eiiee Anderson and Marilyn Horst sans plus a duet by Mr and Mrs Stanley Beck. Maxine Fulton and Wanda Huston sang novelty numbers while the audience joined in God Bless America before refreshments. Rev O J Fix spoke at the Methodist church union service with assistance from the youth group. Mrs A D Rathmell hosted a birthday party for Eddie Rathmell and Robbie Beck. Eva Adams of Detroit visited Daisy Huber. Vera Yeager returned from Des Moines to care for her ill mother. Market report from Chicago notes cattle prices uneven with beef cows down, vealers up, hog prices firm, and sheep trading active with spring lambs higher.
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Howard Anderson
Marilyn Miller
Ruth Davis
Naneiiee Anderson
Marilyn Horst Sans
Stanley Beck
Maxine Fulton
Wanda Huston
America
O. J. Fix
Ainsworth
Annual reception for Crawfordsville teachers draws crowd
A large number of patrons attended the Crawfordsville teachers reception on Friday evening. A community sing led by Mrs Myrtle Brown featured a mixed quartet including Kenneth Beenblossom Cleo Cherryholmes Maxine Fulton and Wanda Huston. Dorothy Waters sang a solo and Mrs Arthur Orris gave a reading. A quartet with Myrtle Brown Genevieve Holmes Clarence Moorhead and Joseph Jones sang. Joan Schantz played.
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Masry W. Packer
Crawfordsville
Myrtle Brown
Kenneth Beenbloosom
Cleo Cherryholmes
Maxine Fulton
Wanda Huston
Dorothy Waters
Arthur Orris
Genevieve Holmes
Clarence Moorhead
Joseph Jones
Joan Schantz
Community and Farm Estate Auctions at Iowa Sale Barns
Weekly livestock sales and a series of public auctions announced across communities in Iowa. Events include the Frank Rummelhart Estate farm sale near Riverside, a household goods closing out sale in Columbus Junction, and a nurse home house and lot auction at South 4th Avenue. Other listings cover dairy cattle dispersals, consignment Guernsey sales, and Hampshire hog sales with start times from noon to evening.
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Whittaker
Midway Sales
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Frank Rummelhart
N. E
Riverside
Wm. Knebel
Admin
West 2Nd St
J. J. Minick
South 4Th Avenue
Board of Trustees of
Washington County Hospital
Emery Brenneman
Wellman
Marvin Matthes
Lloyd Lee
Court House
Jay Brewer
Knotek Bros
Washington
Riiverside
Hampshire Hog
Haldane Farm
Iowa City
Chicago Cash Grain Prices Feed Market Ledger
Chicago cash grain sales show wheat firm at 2.05 in red, corn varied with several yellow grades ranging 1.16 to 1.98, oats firm with multiple mixed grades around 0.84 to 0.85, white and mixed samples, barley malting 1.50 to 1.78 and feed 1.15 to 1.42. all prices quoted per bushel.
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Chicago
High Speed Helical Gear Perfected in 1890
In 1890 the high speed helical gear was perfected enabling practical steam turbine drives for low speed electric generators pumps and ship propellers.
Grain and Rail Costs Report Today
Chicago grain table shows wheat and corn futures with mixed moves for January March May contracts. Railroads’ 1945 fuel bill hit 555 million dollars averaging over 1.52 million daily, highlighting a heavy energy draw for Class I lines.
Heat relief for congress powered by heavy electric motors
Six 1,000 horsepower electric motors drive 800 ton compressors to generate refrigeration. The system provides heat relief equivalent to 14,000 tons of ice weekly, likened to the Washington Monument’s ice-weight.
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Congress
Washington Monument
Checks Arms Velocity Counts in 100000ths of a Second
An electronic device tests accuracy and velocity of ammunition by measuring flight time in one run to a precision of one hundred thousandth of a second. The instrument records speed and timing to assess firearm performance.
Railroads's return on investment 1941 45 at 4.22 percent
The five major Class I railroads earned an average annual return of 4.22 percent on property investment during 1941 to 1945. In the prewar five year span 1936 to 1940 the average was 2.22 percent.
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Ben
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Long & Hotle
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M. M. Flynn
Keota
Ed Hotle
Ean
Tady
Rothschild’s
McCleery-Cumming Co
Cafe
North Side Cafe
Martin Miller
Batavia
Carris Mfg. Co
Montgomery Ward
Cargill
M. C. Huisman
Hampshire
Dewey Coffman
Superba
Prevue
Dodger
David Livingston
Rock Island Stock Yard
al Hahn
Rubio
Sam Torrence
Washington Oil Company
F. E. Dunbar
Brighton
White Leghorn
White Rock
Ramseyer's Hatchery
Mt. Pleasant
Henry County
McBeth Bros
West Side Square
Geo. J. Breitenbach
Don Darbyshire
West Chester
Road Stone
Donald M. Hayes
McCormick Deering
Smart Implement Co
Western Auto Store
Parker's
Farrell's
Chevrolet
Plone
Chester
W. M. Peiffer
F.S
Davenport
WARD
Dutro
O. K
Martin's Cleaners
Martin’s Cleaners
Poland
China
Keith Barnes
Eod
Firestone Imn
Firestone
DU Pont Duco
Eclipse Lumber Company
Little's Furniture
Watkins Products
Gene Nicholson
Rawleigh Products
C. G. Picken
Ave. B
Knabe
Crail Brothers
Call
West
Clyde Kelley
FRIES
Ramseyer’s Hatchery
Joe Picken
Washington County
Washington Concrete Company
Reisser Bros
Grimes
Howard Ballou Orchard
Rigenhagen Orchard
Millers Garage
Dublin
Rose Augustine
Reid Boyd
Elec
H. P
Burdock's
Cut Rate Lumber Co
TOR
Rauseyer’s Hatchery
Arthur Lorack
Fide
Spurgeon's
Brown's Courtesy Corner
Lowa
Anna L. Bowman
District Court
Said County
R. R. Noonan
Washington, Iowa
Pioneer Drug Store
Gamble’s
Chicago Livestock
U. S
Smart Impl. CO
I-H
General Farm Sales Furniture Sales
Geo. F. Clark
N. 3Rd Street
Geerlings
Fred W. Bell
South 4Th Ave. Ledgers
Westchester
Button Company
B & G Firestone
Bell & Gevock
George J. Breitenbach
Chicago Cash Grain
Coralville
Whiting’s
Phope
McAllister
Walter
Nicholson
South 2Nd Ave
Timothy & Clover Seed
Earl
South
Marion
Loren R. Letterdahl
P. O. Box
Eering
Des Moines
Jim Hotle
West Second Street
General Electric
Singer
J. J. Minick Estate
Cash Brown & Bruty
Frank Kos
Choice Farms
Winfield
Mt. Union- Yarmouth
Mt. Union
Canaan
Danville
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Hild Real Estate
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