Hogs Fall 15 to 25 Cents as Livestock Mixed on Friday
Chicago AP reports hog prices dropped 15 to 25 cents while other livestock held steady. Feeder hogs and yearling steers showed little change amid uneven demand and prior market tension.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1941
Page
1
Chicago AP reports hog prices dropped 15 to 25 cents while other livestock held steady. Feeder hogs and yearling steers showed little change amid uneven demand and prior market tension.
Lamson Brothers and Company provide grain quotations with contact details for H. R. Mowrey manager Cedar Rapids office at 503 Merchants National Bank building. Phone number 2 3141.
Grain futures retreated in the last hour as demand faltered despite soybeans gaining. May deliveries moved to around 1.22%% for soybeans with nearby wheat steady. corn and rye showed mixed fractional changes while selling declined after CCC price cuts. Cloudy grain belt conditions and a general quiet market further muted activity.
Chicago prices show hogs steady to lower with top at 8.85 for choice lots. Lambs uneven, mostly steady to strong with western fed lambs around 11.10, light weights scarce. Cattle steady to weak with beef cows up to 7.00 and bulls to 8.75. vealers about 7.00 to 9.50. Receipts and weights indicate mixed demand.
Receipts show barrows sows and slaughter cattle with bids weaker by a quarter to fifty cents. Heavier cattle fetch lower prices with load weights 190-225 and 240 priced around 8.65 to 8.75. Calves and sows varied from 7.75 to 8.00, while fat lambs pace sluggish with bids softer. best fed lambs around 8.50 and wool lambs near 10.70. Total receipts about 5,700 to 7,000 across cattle and calves.
AP dispatch reports Sioux City cattle, calves, and hogs at sluggish to weak demand. Slaughter steers and yearlings steady to weak, stockers scarce. bulk fed steers range around 9.00 to 11.75, few good heifers to 10.35, cows 7.00 to 7.78, sows 7.54 to 8.00. Feeder pigs 8.50 to 9.00. receipts 1,500 to 2,000 head with limited good offerings.
Fragmentary OCR shows waterloo meat items and weights with assorted prices ranging from 6.35 to 8.70 per pound. Several weight ranges and totals appear, but many lines are garbled, hindering full interpretation of product names, quantities, or selling terms.
Reported hog receipts for 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Thursday show totals near 200 with previous week and year figures higher. Prices listed for various hog weights and sizes, with ranges from about 6.45 to 8.15 per hundredweight, and farm product details including gifts and loading notes.
Minn pigs steady as market reports show barrows around 7.10 to 7.95 per 100 pounds with varied quotes for 160 to 360 pounds. Prices listed include 7.20 to 8.20 for lighter ranges and around 7.40 to 7.50 for heavier 330 to 360 pound animals.
Receipts total about 3 500 cattle with weak early rounds and prices down to 25 cents. Slaughter steers mostly 8.75 to 10.00 with few top at 11.25, bulls 6.50 to 7.00, cows steady around 6 to 8, feeders around 7.50 to 9.00, dairy cows near 8.80, dealers steady with good to choice 10 to 12.50. Hog receipts 8 000 with total 9-? indicate market activity.
Market notes show barrows and sows mostly $7.56 to $8.60 with heavy hogs at $7.83 per hundred weight. Slaughter sheep and lambs offered light with best choicest lambs about $10.50 and shorn lambs around $9.25 as prices remain steady.
Peoria Illinois livestock sales report shows hogs with various weights and prices around 7.25 to 8.50 per pound for sows and barrows, cattle receipts about 275 with steady to higher bids for fed steers and heifers, cows and bulls mixed, calves and weighers quoted at 10.50 to 13.00 for heavies, and sheep lambs few on sale with quotes around 12.00 for springers and 10.75 for top lambs.
Local Cedar Rapids list details assorted farm goods seeds fruits vegetables and hides with prices for No 2 yellow corn oats cabbage carrots and asparagus plus cattle hides and horse sale figures. Includes seed peas onions and miscellaneous perishables with unit pricing.
Chicago Produce Markets report notes 35 trucks of receipts with poultry prices for White Rock under 4 pounds at 22 to 23 cents, Plymouth Rock broilers 23 cents, turkey and heavy white ducks priced, cheese quotes around 17 to 18 cents, potatoes with 137 arrivals and 848 on hand, heavy demand slow with Bur banks and Bliss varieties priced from 80 to 165 cents per pound.
AP reports New York egg market activity with receipts 972,246 cases across creamery areas. Prices for mixed colors fancy to extra fancy up 23 percent, extra large 23 percent, packed firsts 23 percent. Current grade 21 to 21 2 cents, and mediums 21 2 cents. Butter receipts and premium marks noted with varied scores.
A fragmented note lists butter pricing around 34.68 to 34.70 and references egg retrieval standards and a October-like term. The readable items suggest commodity pricing and quality guidelines without a clear event or person.
New York stocks showed mild support after an early steel drop unsettled the market. Rail and scattered industrials helped lift some quotes while declines of fractions to over a point softened, with Steels and Motors still slipping and Chrysler hitting a new yearly low. Better performers included Pennsylvania, American Telephone, Sears Roebuck, and Johnsonville.
Wall Street shows modest gains as Libby McNeil reports mixed earnings while Libby McNeil Bank delays spark investor caution. Market watchers note support from several major institutions and a rebound in tech shares despite volatility in regional lenders.
In Plymouth Wisconsin an AP report notes cheese quota figures for the industry with values showing percentages for cheddar and other cheeses. Details are fragmentary but indicate ongoing quota adjustments affecting production.
In Boston the wool market showed spotty activity with some buyers present. The U.S. Agriculture Department reported prices near average, with original bag wools around basis and combing wools in the 86 2s to 86 6s scoured range. A few buyers were active in the market.
CHICAGO CASH PROVISIONS report cash wheat at 82 3/4 cents. No. 2 soft 68 1/2 to 68 3/4 cents, No. 3 mixed 68 1/2 to 68 3/4, No. 4 65 1/4 to 66 cents. Barley price around 66 to 66 1/2 cents. Oats around 8.08 to 12.00 dollars per ton.
New York bond trading near midday features fractional gains in a broad railroad issue group with Missouri-Kansas-Texas 4s for 1900 struggling to move. Timots Central 4%4s Rock Island 4s Southern Pacific 4%458 and Pennsylvania issues rise modestly while U.S. government notes stay quiet and foreign bonds attract limited demand.
The report shows mixed moves across Dow Jones averages with small gains in industrials and utilities while rails show modest declines. Data indicates minor fluctuations in bond and stock indices alongside scattered price changes among listed industrial and utility components.
Conservationists from Elkader and St Olaf plan to attend Manchester fish fry while Elkader hosts its own catfish dinner on May 8. Clayton County Rural Carriers aim to buy an iron lung at a Monona meeting with funds raised countywide. In Monticello, Elfreda Yossi and Elwin Behrends wed at the Evangelical and Reformed church and will farm near Scotch Grove. Also, three youths from Cascade plead guilty to petty larceny in Justice McIntyre's court, each fined 25 dollars with 20 dollars suspended, following arrest by local officers.
Mrs. Carl Cherry was elected president of the Marion township P T A as Kemp secretary and Mrs. Lloyd Klopp treasurer. A program by Picayune Big Head and Hazel Ridge pupils featured radio broadcast segments with Evelyn Adams as reader and Prof. C. A. Iverson of Iowa State College explaining milk by products and a wool and candy exhibit.
Observe 62nd anniversary at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Secrist at 1096 Eleventh Street. A family dinner was served to 26 with out of town relatives including Mr. and Mrs. J. Ray Ris of Atkins Mrs. Carl O. Secrist of Franklin Park Ill and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Secrist of Springville.
A court of honor will be held Friday at 7 30 p m in the auditorium of the public library for all Boy Scouts of the Linn district.
Co. FE. Batchelder has been brought to his home at 690 Fifth Avenue from a Cedar Rapids hospital for convalescence and recovery.
Jo Ann Failor stays with D. F. Sullivan in Perry during Easter vacation. Edward Failor visits his elderly mother Mrs. Anna Rhode Mapleton.
C A Garrison traveled to Chicago on Thursday for business matters.
Mrs T L Bosacker and her children Jean Billie and Bobbie have gone to Minneapolis to visit relatives.
Trojan Lodge No. 548 A F and A M will meet Friday at 1 p.m. in the Masonic temple for Master Mason degree work. Supper will be served at 6 p.m. Past masters of the lodge will work in the degree in the evening.
Mrs A A Schenken is brought to her home at 1001 Eighteenth Street after an arrival from Cedar Rapids. Her condition and date of return are not specified in the visible text.
The Tuckabache club will meet for a one o'clock luncheon Friday at the home of Mrs F Ford at 970 Eighth Street.
J. B. Howell traveled to Springfield Illinois on Thursday for business and plans to return for the remainder of the week.
During Mrs A A Hardin absence the sewing room opens at usual hours. Mrs M W Courtney Miss Mae Lake and Miss Mabelle Oxley oversee the room.
Lyman Hough travels to Grimes to visit his daughter Mrs. Fred Wright and her family, spending time with relatives during a reported family gathering.
Jazz clarinetist Bob Wilber is confined to his home due to a throat infection. Doctors expect a short, uncomplicated recovery with rest and medication.
Mrs. Margaret Clark of Center Point spent the last ten days in the city with her son George Clark and other relatives before returning to her home.
Belle Plaine Commerce club and John Jennings Post of the American Legion announce a kite flying contest for local youths co sponsored for Saturday April 26 in the city park. Both boys and girls may enter until 8 p.m. April 23 with 12 divisions including school and high school categories. Nearby town youths may enter as well.
The Women’s Association of the Congregational church met Wednesday with Miss Jine Wiggins as hostess. Two tables held spring bouquets and crystal-tapered centers. After lunch, Mrs. Cecil Seger led a devotional, and Mary Lou Thomas earned a superior rating on April 10 at the Davenport Mozart contest, playing Arioso and Etude Comique. Dr. Raymond C. Swisher and Mary Lou Thomas attended as guests.
The Marion board of education appointed Miss Alice Jones of I NL to succeed Miss Peussell who resigned as teacher of the second grade in the Teena building. Miss Jones is a graduate of the University of Owa and has been pursuing postgraduate work there last year. Rudolph Harris was confirmed as janitor of the Lincoln building to succeed A Milner who resigned.
The paper corrects a report by stating Mrs. LeRoy Sayer is a patient at Mercy hospital rather than at St. Luke's as previously published in Wednesday's issue.
Hardware ad promotes a Green Colonial Furnace and Gehl Stoker with installment plans. Ken Dalls Hardware markets the combo as an easy buy now pay later option.
Mrs. C. G. Greier of Freeport Illinois visits her sister Mrs. A F Chesley who is recovering from an illness. Walko Tablets for baby chicks turkeys ducks and geese advertised at Owens Cut Rate Drug.
In Dubuque on Thursday Mrs. E A Lagerquist and daughter Helen Mrs Letha Fowler and daughter Bonnie Mrs Wendell Bills and Mrs Dora Ellis came to the Baptist Women s Mid Eastern Missionary rally.
Mrs. Marion Brotemarkle and her sons Jack and Jerry traveled to Greeley to visit her parents, continuing a family visit over the weekend.
Trask, car foreman for the Milwaukee Eighth Street division, of Cedar Rauids, intends to let the residence for the present. No timetable is given and no further details are provided.
A short note references a vacation involving Mr. and Mrs. William T. Kehoe and their daughter, noting a family leisure trip during a recent period.
Mr and Mrs O R Martin long time residents of 545 Thirty first street have driven to a location south of Marion for a motor trip rest stop and check on the journey notes.
An advertisement highlights two films: Victory starring Fredric March and Betty Field, and Honeymoon For Three featuring George Brent and Ann Sheridan, showcased at New Marion theater.
Mr and Mrs Walter have purchased the George Zier residence located at 490 Talieth Street. The deal details are not disclosed in the readable text.
Mr and Mrs Elbert Kline and their daughter Ruth of Laurel have returned home after visiting Mr and Mrs H P Kline, the parental grandparents.
Mrs Maude Secrist departed Thursday for Franklin Park Illinois after a two month stay with relatives and friends here.
L. F. Carver, after several weeks of illness, is improving at his home at 1092 Third Street.
The Homebuilders class of the Methodist church will hold a pot luck supper and meeting Sunday at 6 30 p m in the church dining room. A patriotic program will follow the meal.
Mrs Le Roy Cooper underwent an appendectomy Tuesday evening at Mercy hospital in Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Myrtle Snyder was taken to St Luke s hospital in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for treatment.
Arthur Foreman and Mrs. Foreman return to their home at 545 Thirty first street from Hampton where they were married on March 24 to Mrs Annie Recter. Mrs Foreman is cousin of Mrs Frank Zuhlke.
The Marion Softball Association will meet tonight at 8 in the C Hall. Leagues will be discussed and organized for the upcoming season.
Mrs C R Oxley, confined five weeks with a sprain, is recovering at home and can now walk about the house.
Mrs. Frank J. Cleveland was summoned to Mount Vernon on Wednesday evening due to illness of her brother in law Al Meakins.
The Fortnightly club hosted the winners Wednesday evening at the Michel tea room with 12 guests. High score went to Mrs. Walter Hall, second to Mrs. Celan Rollins, and third to Mrs. Elmer Neff. Mrs. Bert Nedrow won the door prize. Guest included Mrs. A. L. Barngrover.
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