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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 01, 1939

Page

14

Hog Market Report Indicates Steady Hogs Amid Small Slaughter

The Chicago and regional markets show hogs steady with small supplies and nominal demand. Prices listed across weights range from 160 to 230 pounds with top figures around 7.05 per hundredweight while cattle and sheep trade is mostly nominal and uneven across Chicago Des Moines Sioux City and Omaha reports.

Sioux City Tivestock Sinus City S Dept Ashtulluie Arler Fed Omaha Livestock Omaha AP U & Dent Agriculture Ealers

Cedar Rapids Miscellanieous Market Prices

Local Cedar Rapids market notes list grains oats hay straw butter and dairy prices and poultry quotes. Wholesale fruits vegetables and meats include lemons oranges Grapefruit lettuce onions tomatoes and hides prices with various grade distinctions.

Best Local Hogs and Cattle Markets Steady in Nigeria District

Local hogs advance five cents on Saturday pushing top price to 7.05 while good hogs hold value. Cattle market remains steady as cream prices weaken to about 8.5 to 9.50 per unit.

Lew Hish Nigkel

Wisconsin cheese and wool market notes

Wisconsin cheese prices for the week April 3 8 show 12¢ daisies and 2c cheddars in the Wisconsin exchange with modest calls from farmers. Wool market in Boston shows weak demand with little change in prices. graded combing fleece quoted around 27 30 cents, finer wools at 28 29 cents, and higher grades at 29 30 cents per pound.

Wisconsin Plymouth Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Iu. S. Dept Boston

Bond Market Slumps On Saturday Trading Action

New York bond markets showed a tough session with government loan prices declining and foreign dollar issues retreating. Wins by Firestone Tire and Rubber, Alleghany, and Chesapeake and Ohio were noted amid overall weaker prices and scattered gains in few issues.

New York Erie Firestone Tire Aid Rubber Alleghany Chesapeake and Ohio Winers Central General Steel Castings Columbian Cias and Electric

Chicago Produce Market Receipts Mixed Across Items

Chicago market reports show butter and eggs with steady to unsettled tones. Potatoes and other items display varied demand with color, weight, and size influencing prices across regions including Idaho, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota markets.

Chicago Colorado Idaho Nebraska U S Wisconsin U. S North Dakota Florida York Tropacte New York

Stock Market Ends Higher After Varied Saturday Trading

In a brisk session the stock market rose at times but fluctuated before finishing higher on Saturday. Prominent gains appeared in U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler U S Rubber Good year Montgomery Ward Douglas Aircraft Sperry American Telephone Anaconda du Pont and Phillip Morris while Dow Chemical American Can Union Carbide Allied Chemical and U S Gypsum lagged. Laggards included Lockheed and American Cyanamid B with mixed curb market results overall.

New York Wallstreet U. S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler U. S. Rubber Goodyear Montgomery Ward Douglas Aircraft Sperry American Telephone Anaconda du Pont Phillip Morris Dow Chemical American Can Union Carbide Allied Chemical U. S. Gypsur Lake Shore Electric Bond Shore American Gas and Electric Lockheed American Cyanamid

Wall Street Stocks and Quotations From Adams Express to Motors

A long list of stocks and prices from Adams Express to Motors appears in the Saturday quotations. The report includes many named companies such as Allied Chem, Amn Can Sis, General Motors, Westinghouse, United Fruit, and Dow Jones averages, reflecting a broad market snapshot and various bond or stock figures across sectors. The closing note mentions a deadly cobra with short fangs and a person in ordinary clothes evading its bite.

Omaha Man’s Birthday Turns to Tragedy

Lorenzo Laley of Omaha wakes to sorrow on his 64th birthday as his wife Lottie is found dead in their home. Reported Friday, the incident marks a grim milestone for Laley and raises questions about the cause of death and any surrounding circumstances.

Mate Omaha API Lorenzo Laley Lottie

Wheat slips after early steadiness on Chicago market

Wheat prices eased from early firmness on the Chicago board as traders weighed bearish U S crop news and European developments. A private 530 million bushel Winter wheat estimate spurred selling while crop improvement in the southwest and unsettled European factors kept sentiment soft.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade James E. Bennett and Company Southwest Liverpool Winnipeg Kansas

Weidmann refuses appeal in Bluebeard murders

Versaille s Eugen Weidmann, condemned to die by guillotine for six Paris area killings in 1937, refuses to sign an appeal petition. His accomplice Roger Million signs. Colette Tricot acquitted. Other verdicts name Jean Blanc and list victims buried at the murder farm.

Versailles Eugene Weidmann Bluebeard Weidmann Jean de Koven Brooklyn Roger Million Paris Miss de Koven St. Cloud Colette Tricot Jean Blanc Jeanne Keller Roger Je Blond Arthur Frommer Raymond le Sabre Joseph Couffy

Libby Holman Weds Young Son of Actor in Secret DC Ceremony

New York Sun reports musical comedy star Libby Holman and Ralph Holmes, 23, son of actor Taylor Holmes, secretly married in Washington DC last Monday. Holman is widow of Zachary Smith Reynolds. Bent Polikoff confirms the wedding and has handled her legal matters.

New York The New York Sun Libby Holman Ralph Holmes Taylor Holmes Washington, D. C Miss Holman Zachary Smith Reynolds North Carolina Holmes Bent Polikoff Winston-Salem, N. C

Marion Nevada high schools shine in class B play festival

Marion and Nevada high schools dominated class B in the University of Iowa festival with outstanding acting awards going to Helen Biddick and Doris Dickinson. The Marion cast included Elmira Russell as director and featured Frank Travis, Edward Conrad, Melvin Arp, and others. Nevada's production was led by Mary E Schwyhart. The festival concludes Saturday night amid additional local notices and civic updates.

Gazette Iowa City Marion Nevada University of Iowa Helen Biddick Doris Dickinson Elmira Russell Mary E. Schwyhart

Iowa House Approves Tax Reorganization Bills With Amendments

In Des Moines the Iowa House concurred with Senate amendments to nineteen tax reorganization bills and sent them to the governor. Fourteen had already cleared both chambers. The measures shift collection of special state taxes to a new tax commission replacing the state board. Gasoline taxes and motor vehicle fees remain to be addressed. The oleomargarine tax bill will die in committee.

Des Moines Iowa Senate Tax Commission State Board of Assessment and Review Secretary of State State Department of Agriculture

Committee Approves Brown Appointment Nominee for Comptroller General

The Senate finance committee recommended Friday confirmation of former Senator Fred H Brown of New Hampshire to be comptroller general. The committee did not meet on the nomination but was polled individually by its clerk.

Washington Senate Finance Committee Fred H Brown New Hampshire Roosevelt

Marion area church services and events schedule

A consolidated church notices page lists services across Marion institutions. Baptist The Rev L W Inman and others announce Bible school 9 45 am with morning worship 10 45 am, sermons on Who Is This and The Palm paved Highway, evening services, and midweek activities. Other churches detail Mass at 6 and 10 am, Holy Week services, union services, and youth groups with times and topics.

L. W. Inman Thomas Moody Belgian Congo St. Joseph’s Catholic Y. J Free Methodist C. O Monroe Methodist Episcopal E. T Gough Jerusalem Kenneth E. Cornell da Vinci Tapic Oxford Congregational C. V. R. DeJong Mary Ellen Ford St. Paul's Lutheran Carl E. Krog Seventh Day Church of God Sixth Street Ninth Avenue Prairie Chapel J. B Clyde Oscar Anthes Epworth League Alburnett Methodist Church

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Kent Mercy Hospital Phillip Shoup Tulsa, Ohlo Rosa Reiter John H. Pazour Nedee Lewis Weis E. B Castle J. E. Homans Castle George Burns Weis Jones Henry N. Miller Miller Burns and Homans Burns Harlan Biggs E. F Biggs Walker Hutchinson Owen's Drug Store John W. Bunting Twelfth Street Robert Ehaweetanda Guardian Frances Miller Lincoln Building Sons of the Legion the Chaser Marjorie Hayden Oxford Junction M. H. Biddick Clara Russell Winthrop High School Lyle N Warren Winthrop Mrs Harry Adee A. C. Young Ninth Street City Intermediate League of the Methodist Church DaVinci Roy Beach Mrs Roy Mack Friday Thomas R. Shelly Keokuk E. L. McArthur T. R. Shelly Dorothy Shelly Harry Sherwood Joseph Lang Hopkinton Fred J Lang Women's Missionary Society of the Christian Church Sue Gazalo Eugene McConaughy Metta Bunger Rose Reiter Clarence Meggers Charles Montgomery Ralph Oxley South Marion Henry Gerdes Elmer Cherry St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids W. 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