Livestock Prices Steady Amid Week of Mixed Trade
Chicago market reports a steady tone for cattle and sheep after strength earlier in the week, with hogs weaker due to government price ceilings. Top quotes sit near 142.50 per hundredweight. receipts thin for hogs, cattle, and sheep across Omaha Sioux City Des Moines and Austin markets, with mixed weekly summaries and notable highs for steer sales.
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Chicago
Omaha Livestock
Omaha
API
Dept. Agriculture
Sioux City
Dept Apricultures
Markets Chicago New York Produce Report Summary
Markets report steady to unsettled tones across items. Chicago receipts include butter and potatoes with varied prices from Idaho russet Burbanks to Nebrask a Bliss Triumphs. New York notes dressed poultry and frozen turkeys in strong position, with prices ranging across several regional varieties.
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New York
UPI
Western poultry and dairy price list from 1940s market
Live poultry prices show fowls and hens with receipts, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, and guineas listed by type and region. Cheese and butter quoted with storage standards and current makes. Produce futures and egg refrigerator standards are noted with month references and prices.
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Wisconsin
Sea End
Lamson Bros. and Co
Hogs Dime Higher On Local Market
Local market report shows hogs rising with improved bids. Lamb and ewe categories posted varied prices across weight classes, including 80-95 lbs and 120-180 lbs ranges. Demand patterns reflected steady buyer activity and adjusted quotes from area buyers.
Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Prices Mixed in Market Report
Grain and produce prices listed for Cedar Rapids include No 1 wheat 96c No 2 94c oats No 2 53c rye No 2 60c corn yellow 75c new 73c soybeans No 2 yellow 173. Bay and straw prices show baled tame 13004.214.00, baled straw 9.00 10.00. Poultry markets note hens four pounds and up 16c, heavy cocks and ducks priced per cwt. Fruit and vegetables include Colorado celery 3.50 lemons 5.50 oranges 4.00 lettuce 3.25 onions 3.25 new cabbage 2.25 potatoes 1 Russels cobblers 2.30 certified seed potatoes cobblers 2.85 Ohios 3.40 Red Triumphs 2.85 grapefruit 2.75 apples 1.90 hide prices per type and size listed. Manes and full tail included. pony and give half price.
Bond Prices Hold Narrow Gains In Quiet Trade
New York bond prices remained within narrow limits as rail liens saw modest gains while foreign loans largely steadied after reports of aerial bombings in Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Australian bonds edged up about a quarter point, but U.S. treasuries traded lightly and closed slightly lower than Friday.
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New York
API
Tokio
Australia
U .S
Wisconsin Cheese Quotas and Wool Market Report
Wisconsin cheese quotas for the week of April 2025 list Twin 2034, Daisies 21, Horns 21c, Cheddars 2014. The wool market in Boston shows generally quiet trading with occasional sales of fine combing Wool at 47-48c and Ohio wools at 39 1/2c. Graded 34 and 44 blood bright combing fleeces quoted mostly at 22 53c.
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Wisconsin Cheese
Plymouth
Wis
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Boston
Iupi
U S. Dent — Agriculture
Ohio
Unidentified aircraft alert along Southern California coast
A preliminary alert spread Friday night from San Diego to Oceanside due to unidentified planes. The craft were later identified as friendly, neutralizing the scare and prompting no security action.
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California
Los Angeles
San Diego
Oceanside
Tokio Bombing Boosts Stocks
New York stock prices firmed somewhat on Saturday after official Japanese reports that American planes bombed Tokio and other Nipponese cities. Early gains faded for some pivotals while United States Steel and American Telephone slumped to fresh annual lows. Allied Chemical Eastman Kodak Johns Manville Westinghouse Union Carbide Sears Roebuck Chrysler Southern Railway and Santa Fe held small gains.
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Stock Exchange
Tokio
Pierre Laval
United States Steel
American Telephone
Telephone
Allied Chemical
Eastman Kodak
Johns Manville
Westinghouse
Union Carbide
Sears Roebuck
Chrysler
Southern Railway
Santa Fe
Chungking Jubilant At Word Nipponese Given Own Medicine
Chungking celebrates as Tokio and other Japanese cities reportedly suffer bombing by American planes. The city, long battered by war, sees rare jubilation as Japan faces strikes it has imposed on Free China. Citizens wonder how Tokyo will respond to this turn of events.
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Chungking
INS
Free China
Chiang Kai-shek
Tokio
Japan
Grain futures gain on favorable war news in Chicago
Favorable war reports buoy grain markets with all futures firmer. Wheat up cents, corn 13-36, oats 1% to 2, rye as high as 4, soybeans about 4%. News of Tokyo bombing boosts early gains, volume light, demand from shorts covering. mill demand absent, trading local. Winnipeg shows strength while Chicago cash wheat and corn quotes vary by grade.
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Chicago
Tokio
Shorts
United States
Winnipeg
Redicker Convicted Of Manslaughter In Wife Death
Randolph Rudy Redicker, a Minneapolis salesman, was sentenced to 5 to 20 years in state prison after being convicted of first degree manslaughter in the death of his wife on January 25. The body was found in a bathtub. the state argued a beating caused the death, while the defense cited alcoholism. The jury rejected murder, verdicts allowed by Judge Bardwell, and Redicker said he would appeal.
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Minneapolis
Randolph
Rudy” Redicker
W. W. Bardwell
Redicker
Administration to Fight Out Labor Problem This Week
Washington AP says Administration leaders will push war labor policy on the Senate floor next week with possible Roosevelt opposition to restrictive measures. The Senate labor committee is expected to back Monday a bill by Senator Ball providing mild wage and union activity restrictions. Roosevelt may address the labor question in a forthcoming radio talk, though timing remains uncertain.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Senate Labor Committee
Ball
R-Minn
Jean Perrin a French Scientist Dies at 71
New York AP reports Dr. Jean Perrin died Friday at Mount Sinai Hospital at age 71. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 winner was noted for proposing the transuranium element 93 in 1938.
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New York
Jean Perrin
Mount Sinai Hospital
Perrin
Former Maddy Horn Sues for Divorce
Mrs Madeline Schelfhout formerly Maddy Horn filed for divorce from Raymond Schelfhout in Oshkosh circuit court alleging mental cruelty. The couple married June 10 1941.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Madeline Schelfhout
Maddy Horn
Raymond
Schelfhout
Deaths Mrs Nannie E Stansby Pioneer of Cedar Rapids
Mrs Nannie E Stansby 83 longtime Cedar Rapids resident and oldest St Paul Methodist member died at 361 Second Avenue SW Friday after a short illness. Born December 11 1858 she married Christian Stansby in 1879 and survived by son Earl W Stansby three grandchildren a brother and several nieces and nephews. Funeral at Beatty chapel 2:30 p.m. Sunday with burial in Linwood cemetery.
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Cedar Rapids
St. Paul Methodist Church
Second Avenue
Stansby
John D. Frazee
Bowling Hill
Christian Stansby
St. Paul's Church
A. B. Kendig
Earl W
Linwood Cemetery
Cheerful Companions Host Country School Party
Marion area social notes report the Cheerful Companions class of a local Christian church hosting a "day in a country school" party at Pleasant Grove school Friday evening with 45 attendees including guest Mrs. Ray Caraway. Ed gar Harville provided music and refreshment chairmen were Mrs. Rachel Rawley and Mrs. William Stroope.
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Cheerful Companions
The
Christian Church
Pleasant Grove School
Marion
Ray Caraway
Edgar
Harold Harville
Rachel Rawley
William Stroope
Marion Area Clubs Report Busy Achievement Day
Attendees from North Marion Farm Bureau and Pleasant Valley Tuesday club gathered from Marion and nearby areas. Mayo Clinic patient Floyd Strane reported. Red Cross nurse recruitment in Marion and Cedar Rapids noted. Weekend visitors Charretta Townley and James Phlager joined Robert Wilber’s household.
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Achievement
Springville
North
Howard M. Titus
Floyd Strane
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Strane
Marion
St. Mary's Hospital
Charretta Townley
James Phlager
Perry
Robert Wilber
Wallace Sees U S Arms Output Record High
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told 96 new army ordnance officers at Aberdeen proving ground that by the last half of this year the United States would turn out more war materials than any nation in history. Among the graduates is his son Robert B. Wallace, 23. He urged the class to maintain the war machine and expressed confidence that U S factories will soon roll to deliver decisive victory.
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Henry A. Wallace
Army Ordnance
United States
Robert B. Wallace
Ordnance Officers’ Training Center
Aberdeen Army Proving Ground
Pearl Harbor
City Marbles Champion Jack Schloeman, 12
Jack Schloeman, 12, son of Mr and Mrs Jack Schloeman, won the 1942 city marbles title at Reed Park after taking the northeast district crown. Harold Hora, 13, was runner up. eight finalists included district winners. Final score was Schloeman 7 5 7 3 over Hora 3 7 7 3.
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Jack Schloeman
Twelfth Street
Reed Park
Harold Hora
Loren Hora
H Avenue
Lyle Pickart
Milton Horak
Neil Hamilton
Bob Lynxwiler
Dick Hausemen
Norbert Horak
Schloeman
Hora
Hausemen
Marion area church services and pastors schedule
Listings of church affiliations in Marion with pastors and weekly times. Baptist Rev Benjamin H Shaw Bible school 9 45 worship 10 45. Catholic Rev T J McElliott mass 8 and 10. Christian Rev Vernon H Carter Bible school 9 45 worship 10 45 sermon The Living Church Facing a Hostile World evangelistic service 8. Congregational Rev J Franklin Parsons morning 11 sermon After Easter What. Free Methodist Rev Guy James Jr Sunday school 9 45 preaching 10 45 and 7 45 Y M C S 7 Midweek 7 30. Methodist Rev Arthur W Henke church school 9 45 worship 11 youth 6 30 junior high 7. Presbyterian Rev C V R De Jong Sunday school 9 45 worship 10 55 sermon Seeking Whom special music junior senior Christian Endeavor 6 30. St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Rev Carl E Krog Sunday school 9 30 worship 10 30 sermon He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd Walther League 6 30. Seventh Day Church of God Sabbath school Saturday 10 30 preaching 11 30. Prairie Chapel Rev J B Clyde Sunday school 10 worship 11 Epworth League 7 30.
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Benjamin H. Shaw
St. Joseph's Catholic
T. J. McElliott
Vernon H. Carter
Bible School
Living Church
J. Franklin Parsons
Foreman
Guy James, Jr
Arthur W. Henke
Heart Hunger
Lower Parlor
Upper Parlor
Presbyterian
C. V. R. de Jong
North
Prairie Chanel
J. B. Clyde
Epworth League
War Ads and Party Nights at Local Venues
Fragmented ad roundup notes savings on War Ads for seven days with cancel anytime, plus listings for Ce Mar Roller Rink and Lafayette Clubroom party nights. Also mentions Hi Way Gardens entertainment and various local services like printing, knitting, feather mattresses, and employment ads with boxes for readers to respond.
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Ce-Mar
Marion Blvd
Lafayette
Tom Owen
WMT Cowboys
Hi- Way Gardens
Stanwood
Hallwood Cafe
Marion
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