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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 03, 1938

Page

6

Hog Market Uneven With Top $9.80 At Chicago Yards

Prices at the Chicago stockyards show hogs uneven with a top of 9.80 and a 10 cent drop from earlier levels. Receipts across major Midwest markets including Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St Louis, Pittsburgh, and others indicate varied demand with heads down in several categories. Reports note 14,000 hogs in Chicago with 5,000 directs and mixed regional results, while cattle and sheep receipts are listed for several cities with top values and general market softness.

Chicago Kansas City Omaha E. St St. Joseph Bronx City Indianapolis Cleveland Pittsburgh Buffalo Cincinnati Faust St. Louis East St. Louis

Chicago Livestock Market Slips Across Cattle and Hogs

USDA reports Wednesday weakness across cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago Sioux City and Omaha markets. Receipts heavy, with fed steers, heifers, cows and bulls trading mostly lower while choice lots held steadier. hogs mostly steady to lower with uneven direct movement and mixed weights. sheep slow with bid tone weakening.

Chicago U S. Dept. Agriculture Washington Sioux City S. Dept. Agriculturer

Local Hog Market Slips. Cattle Steady and Lambs Weaker

Hogs weaken further on the local market with drops of 10 to 15 cents in various grades and a top around 9.30. Cattle stay steady while lambs and poultry lose ground. Calf market lists good to choice 140-190 lbs at 8.50. calves, lambs, and cows show mixed prices across grades and sizes.

Iowa Ifgg Frices Associated Press Colens Mason City Wilson & Co Dial

Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Market Rates

Grain and produce prices listed for Cedar Rapids include No 1 and No 2 yellow corn No 3 oats rye soybeans and baled hay with a range for prices. Wholesale fruits vegetables and hides are noted with quantities and unit prices for lemons oranges grapes celery cabbage carrots potatoes sweet potatoes tomatoes cantaloupes watermelons and various hides and animal products.

Texas Cabbase

Wool Market Boston Slows As Prices Hold Steady

The wool market in Boston moved slowly with several buyers inactive, per the UK Department of Agriculture. Quotations on root wool were largely steady with occasional willingness to trim prices on a few lots, while bright country packed fleeces and mixed crude lots were offered at lower levels than late last week.

API Boston Department of Agriculture

Wheat Prices Firm Despite Absence of Trading Activity

Chicago wheat markets nudged higher on light trading amid strong outside markets and unsettled overseas politics. Prices closed mixed with Sept wheat at 67 44, corn down to 54 54, oats steady to down 1/2. Export demand and tentative foreign sales provided support as Minneapolis and Winnipeg posted small gains.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade U. S New York Germany Liverpool Winnipeg Minneapolis Kansas City United Kingdom

New York Bond Market Mixed As Rail and Steel Lead

Bond market steady on Wednesday with rails and utilities showing mixed results. Industrials like Bethlehem Steel and Pacific Gas and Electric advanced while McKesson Robbins and Studebaker declined. U S government bonds closed withTreasury notes and Home Owners Loan issues posted modest gains.

Ae York New York Yokohama United States Treasury Missouri Pacific Southern Railway Bethlehem Steel Pacific Gag International Telephone McKesson and Robbins Studebaker US. S U. S

Wisconsin Cheese Market and Sugar Prices Report

Wisconsin cheese quotations for the week show various varieties with cents per pound values. Raw sugar in New York was steady at 2.75 with futures inching higher. No. 4 and Sept No. 3 futures rose slightly while refined markets remained unsettled.

Wisconsin Plymouth Wis Farmers’ Board New York

Markets Chicago Produce and Price Highlights

Chicago Produce reports receipts and prices for poultry butter and eggs with Chicago and New York listings. Prices stay steady across categories. potatoes show weak demand and varied US No 1 and better grades. futures close with modest gains and standard storage notes.

Chicago Leshorn White Rock Springs Idaho Kansas U. 8 U. S Nebraska California Oregon Bliss New York

Stock Market Downgrade After Early Rally Fails

New York reports a quiet trading session with the market mixed near the close and unchanged on average after an early spurt. About 850000 shares traded as investors awaited further confirmation of a broad business recovery and aviation stocks drew attention amid expanding sales and earnings.

New York U. S. Steel General Motors Chrysler Westinghouse Johns Manville Anaconda Copper New York Central International Harvester Goodrich Western Union American Can National Distillers Homestake Mining American Cyanamid B. Lake Shore Mines Creole Petroleum

Wall Street Stocks Quotations From Bennet & Co

Wall Street quotations list numerous stocks and prices across many firms including Adams Express Alaska Juneau Oil Allied Chem International Paper Kayser Julius Kennecott National Bank etc. The sheet shows prices for banks, steel and coal producers, motors, oils, and consumer goods with many figures and percent changes.

J.D. Bennet & Co W. HH Jump Merchants National Bank Bulldinc Adams Express Intl Hydro Alaska Juneau Armour & Co Atchison T&sf Motor Wheel Aviation Murray Corpn Baldwin Loco Balto & Ohio Natl Bellas Barber Co Natl Wy Penney J. C Pittsburgh Screw Plymouth Oil Cerro de Pasco Proctor Gamble Aft Pub Soc NJ Ches Onio Ante Pullman Co Hes Coroa Ollee Ja Radio Corpa Rem Rand Co Motors Tis Coca_ Cola Reyn Tob Col Palmolive Safeway Schenley Seabonra Sears Roebuck Comw Southern Servel Inc Congoleum Sharon Steel Consel Edison Sharn Dohme Consol Oil Shell Union Simmons Co Skelly OU Eve Contl Motors la Socony Sou Pac Coty, Inc Crucible Steel Energy Corp Eaton Mfe Gen Foods Gen Motors Gen Outdoor Gillette SR Gimbel Bros Varner Bros Sue West Union Traydy Gig Westrhouse Hupp Motors Mangsia S & Tat Zenith Radio Dexter Co Helléman Avi & Transp Mar Phild Butler Bros Midwest Corp de Cherry Burl Quaker Com Ghicaro_ Corp Quaker Pr Edison Swift & Co Sta Swift Walereen

French Honor For Belgian Anthem Author

In St. Quentin France a bronze tablet was affixed to the house where Charles Rogier author of La Brabanconne was born in 1800. Distinguished French and Belgian representatives attended the event honoring the statesman who helped win Belgian independence.

Paris Ins France Belgium St. Quentin Charles Rogier

Marion News: Half day round up planned by PTA

The dental medical committee of the Marion PTA plans a half day summer roundup next week with no registration fee. Readiness certificates for new Marion students will be issued, and free exams will be offered to those who missed spring tests. Various local residents and events are noted, including visits, luncheons, sales, and a church choir rehearsal.

Dental Medical Committee Parent- Teacher Association Marion Sptember

Missionary Vesper Service and Local Socials Reported

The Christian church missionary groups held a sunset vesper on the Hamm lawn with a picnic supper. A program of poems prayers and songs featured members from Grace H. Stary circle United Women’s Missionary group and guests, with several Cedar Rapids Marion and Chicago visitors noted.

The Christian Church E. C. Hamm Sixth Avenue Fred Lang Lang Will Grassfield Edgar Guest John Reynolds R E Leidigh Jean Leidigh Archie Milner la Verna Crew J B Emmons Christ W. Prather Cedar Rapids Graysfield

Girl Believes Flying Will Be Her Destiny

Lyndel Barch a 17 year old from Cleveland believes she is destined to become an aviatrix. She leads the Cleveland Girls Aeronautical club builds model planes and collects Amelia Earhart material. She flies with Mrs Florence Boswell North East Ohio Ninety Nines leader and plans to study aeronautics.

Cleveland Lyndel Barch Lindy Col Charles A. Lindbergh Amelia Earhart Miss Earhart Lyndel Cleveland Girls’ Aeronautical Club Florence Boswell Northeast Ohio the Ninety- Nines Society of Women Fliers School of Aeronautics Fgl

City Briefs and Personals Report Moscow News Effects

Miss Melvina Svec describes a six months tour of England Germany Russia Austria and Czechoslovakia at a Kiwanis luncheon at the Montrose hotel. She notes Soviet focus on new industrial buildings to house workers drawing crowds into cities, leaving older structures unrepaired.

Russia Kremlin Melvina Svec Maplewood Avenue Kiwanis Club Montrose Hotel England Germany Austria Czechoslovakia Miss Svec

Wool clip set at 368 000 000 pounds

The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates the 1938 wool crop at 368.528 million pounds, up about 2 million from 1937 and near the five year average. Sheep to be shorn total 46.632 million, about 600 thousand more than last year, with an average fleece weight of 7.90 pounds. Western states forecast shorn wool at 269.47 million pounds, up from 266.098 million last year.

Washington Bureau of Agricultural Economics

Toledo Peace Board Three Years Of Work

The Toledo Industrial Peace board is three years old. It has handled 182 disputes affecting 31,061 employees. Of these, 118 were settled without work interruption, 34 strikes and one rock out were resolved, and 26 other disputes were settled by the involved parties.

Toledo

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