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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1937
Page
5
Chicago reports all livestock prices up with lambs and cattle leading the gains amid better meat demand. Hogs steady to slightly higher with some sales topping 10.35. fat lambs up 25 to 35 cents, best April level since 1929, and cattle firm to 25 cents higher on good demand for steers and heifers. Representative sales show bulls and vealers strong. wool prices rising on high demand.
Bond traders in New York absorbed a quiet session with mixed corporate debt offerings. Treasuries drifted as demand remained cautious, while select issues from several issuers showed modest gains amid a broader rate backdrop.
Local hog prices edge higher with all grades up five cents, top around 9.95. Wilson & Co market appraises good hogs across weight ranges from 140 to 350 pounds, with packers and calves listed, along with sheep and cattle quotes for prime steers to cows.
A Cedar Rapids market roundup lists prices for grain including wheat oats and corn, soybeans, hay straw, and poultry products. Also shown are wholesale fruits vegetables onions and potatoes with various crate and per unit prices, plus hides and horse values and other farm commodities.
Chicago traders saw sharp gains as Argentina announced a 34 903 000 bushel wheat surplus spurred buying. May wheat rose about 3 cents to 1 33 3 4, corn and oats followed with notable gains amid profit taking later. Reports of rain cooled some futures, while Liverpool and Buenos Aires posted strong advances.
Readable lines show Minneapolis cash grain with wheat, corn, oats prices and protein notes, plus Chicago cast provisions and various futures-like quotes. Entries mention No 1 dark northern and Montana wheats, durum, yellow corn, white oats, soybeans, barley and Timothy seed with price ranges and basis notes.
New York receipts show mixed colors and varying quality across dairy and poultry items. Cheese and butter quotes edge in midweek trading while eggs and potatoes reflect uneven demand. Chicago futures hold steady as markets await clearer signals.
A tepid Monday on Wall Street saw scattered gains in steels and various specialties amid a broad ledger of losses. Trading slowed as investors awaited the President's budget detail and possible General Motors Canadian dispute settlement, with Bethlehem Steel Chrysler U S Rubber Goodyear and others holding above water before retreating.
Wall Street stock list shows prices for Adams Express Hudson Mtrs Alaska Juneau Hupp Motors Allied Chem Indus Rayon Mining Amn Steel Fds Lehigh Valley Nor Amn Avi Kennecott Polar, Union Carbide, Chrysler, Ford, General Electric, IBM, Westinghouse and many others. Trading figures cover numerous utilities, manufacturers, oil firms, and rail firms with prices and percent changes.
Ernest Laemmle nephew of film producer Carl Laemmle plans to marry Odetta Bray a 19 year old native Hawaiian hulu dancer. The couple announced their engagement after meeting in Hawaii during a visit to the islands.
Minneapolis prices for flour and related goods show a carload rate per barrel in 98 pound sacks with a 25 cent rise. Patent goods command a 10 cent increase, while shipments and bran middlings list at specific dollar amounts.
New York AP dispatch quotes Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper urging newspapers to educate the public on law and order and to curb rural depopulation. He links city lure to national moral decline and calls for farm profitability and rural social planning to keep families intact. He notes city slums and crime drive the issue and praises Wagner Act labor principles for industrial peace.
Miss Gertrude Stenner, head of the women's personnel department, told Rotarians at the Roosevelt hotel luncheon that Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats employs women on a 40 hour week and offers recreational activities. Each month the female staff prepare a dinner in the plant kitchen followed by theatricals.
Major Allen D. Boggs a retired army officer seeks an unwritten law defense after firing on his wife Sally Boggs 37 in a Santa Cruz home. Sally died days later from two bullet wounds while her stepson Danny Rencar 12 was in another room.
A July 1936 report by Frank E. Wenig shows 34 players of 59 registrants in Iowa’s State Employment Service and National Reemployment Service are semi skilled or unskilled. National figures list unskilled 1 548 271 and semi skilled 1 523 959 workers. In Iowa 37 6 percent were unskilled and 20 4 percent semi skilled with 15 9 percent skilled, 15 5 percent domestic workers, 6 2 percent clerical, 4 2 percent sales, and 2 2 percent professional.
Delight Jewett a 17 year old former Denver high school girl was en route to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury hearing Mann act charges against John Wuest Hunt a millionaire follower of Father Divine federal officers announced
Leonard Shepard of Walker sustained a minor forehead cut when a car driven by Ralph Shepard of Walker ran off the Center Point road NE near Schrimper's garage Sunday at about 12 30 p.m. Ralph Shepard told police he lost control of the vehicle.
Classified ads include FOUND two dogs a Manchester terrier and a female springer spaniel with Humane Shelter contact at 700 C Ave NE. LOST items include a billfold with money and a driver’s license with contact numbers. Several advertisements promote loans watches tailors car services and goods for sale with various contact numbers and store names.
Local beauty shops list perm prices from $1.50 to $7.50 and end curl options at $1.95. Multiple shops including Farris, Marvel, Lillian Suchy, Lora’s, D’s, Alta Duncan, Mary Nell, Helene, and Marc’s advertise services and contact numbers. Location details include 511 10th St SE and 218 2d Ave SW with various phone lines.
Numerous entries advertise painting and paper hanging services with guarantees and free estimates. Businesses include Cach Glass & Paint Co Frank D Cach and various painters offering house painting wallpaper cleaning steam removal and estinations with phone numbers.
Local ad offers 12 carpenters for cabinet work and floor sanding with reasonable prices. Also available plastering roof cement chimneys and plastering services for new or repair work with contact numbers 5077 2 4122 2 9787 and 7355.
WANTED personable young lady for telephone survey work with a pleasant voice. Permanent with advancement. box X-73 Gazette or phone 6565 weekdays. A middle aged couple seeks a neat refined woman to help with housework in a modern farm home. box R-67 Gazette. We’re girl who likes children for housework. no cooking or family wash. 2002 Wash Ave. WANTED girl for housework on farm in small family. Dial 3-2127. WANTED housekeeper Bohemian preferred. Apply 513 7th Ave SE. WANTED girl for general housework with references. Dial 2-159.
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