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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1934

Page

4

Hog Prices 10 Cents Higher at Market Peak Since Fall

Chicago and other markets show hogs firm with prices at highs not seen since last October. Receipts across five markets total about 29 300 head with Chicago at 20 000 and top bids around 5 35 per hundredweight. Sheep and lamb values varied while cattle prices stayed mostly steady amid strong hog demand and mixed regional movement.

Chicago Cleveland Pittsburch East Buffalo East St Lous Rome Pos Pittsburgh East St Louis Washington Omaha USS Hishey Kansas City Louis St. Joseph Oux City St Paul Indianapolis

Unclear OCR fragment with scattered names and events

Fragmentary text mentions Washington and a speaker at a picnic, with garbled names and dates. Readable items include potential references to people like Roth of Wolone and a Bandar picnic, but most content is indecipherable in this OCR snippet.

Washington Dake Roth Wolone Rit Bandar Echaal Hte Pavey Piresda

Hog prices rise and grains advance on local market

Hog prices move higher with AU choice grades 10 cents up and top at 450 dollars. Good packers gain five cents as the site market remains steady. Wheat quotations firm with market advancing three cents amid fluctuating grain values.

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Cedar Rapids Grain Prices and Market Listings

A Cedar Rapids market page lists prices for wheat, oats, corn, barley and timothy and clover seeds, with broken down grades and weights. It notes specific prices like No 2 red wheat at 0.309, No 3 hard at 0.429 and other grade quotes, along with barley, oats and rye values.

Grain Market Holds Gains Amid Profit Selling

Chicago grain markets showed stubborn strength despite profit sales on Wednesday. Reports linked to a weak crop in the belt and ongoing heat boosted futures as wheat rose modestly, corn and oats gained, while futures remained volatile on Winnipeg Liverpool and Buenos Aires cues.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Liverpool Buenos Aires Middlewest la Salle Street New York Rotterdam

Wall Street Stocks Rally Late Amid Mixed Trading

Wall Street closed with a brisk late rally as most groups moved up fractions to about two points led by American Telephone U S Steel Howe Sound Western Union U S Smelting American Can and Union Pacific. Transfers reached around 700000 shares while inflationary psychology waned and grains rose in Chicago.

NEW York American Telephone Uu. S. Steel Howe Sound Western Union U.S. Smelting American Can Union Pacific Wall Street Chicago Norfolk and Western Pennsylvania Southern Pacific American Telephone American Can Johns Manville Montgomery Ward Loews DuPont General Motors Cerro de Pasco Dome U. S McLellan US Treasury Treasury

Markets CHICAGO PRODUCE Receipts and prices overview

Fragmented OCR shows Chicago produce market activity with receipts, price levels, and item notes. The text references butter creamery specials, standard prices, freight terms, and various market items, indicating a dense, numeric price report with multiple entities and figures.

Bond Markets New Year Review and rate shifts

Fragmented OCR reports mixed bond market notes from New York and nationwide. Mentions Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois and St Paul areas with references to postal telegraph rates and early 20th century financial figures.

New York Pennagivaois Theaapenko Ohio St Paul Postal Telegraph

Wednesday Quotations From Chicago Markets Show Broad Movements

A dense list of stock quotes from Adams Express to Union Carbide appears, with numerous companies and prices across industries. The item notes brokerage activity and market standings for investors, reflecting a busy trading day on the Chicago exchange.

Two Galesburg Flyers Are Killed in Plane Crash

Federal Inspector PA OL Blevens opened an investigation into the deaths of Dan Terry, 35, and Eric Hjertelet, 208, after their airplane crashed in a pasture near the municipal airport in Galesburg. The plane circled at 600 feet as if to land and then crashed.

Calesburg PA OL Blevens Feamsto Dan Terry Eric Hjertelet World War Flyer

Reverend Frank Hladky Accepts Call to Marengo Church

The Rev Frank Paul Hladky of LeClaire has accepted a call from the Marengo Presbyterian congregation and will be in the pulpit here in September. He is a Coe College and Princeton Theological Seminary graduate and previously served as moderator of the Iowa City presbytery. He has a wife and two children.

Marengo Frank Paul Hladky LeClaire

Roosevelt Praises Doctors Will and Charles in Public Remarks

President Roosevelt lauds Dr. Will and Dr. Charles Will for fifty years of medical service in Rochester New York. He highlights advances in medicine public health and medical education and notes their influence on democracy and national welfare. He recalls a wreath visit to Mayo Park and a downtown parade.

Roosevelt Mayo Park William Worrall Mayo Rochester Will Charles

Iowa court upholds state refund recovery from gas firms

District Judge Allan Herrick rules the state may recover 125 300 in gasoline tax refunds from Standard Oil and Phillips Petroleum. Standard Oil owes 107 565 and Phillips 17 735, with about 25 000 more refunds barred pending final decree. Suit began August 19 1933, covering refunds for the difference between invoiced and actual unloaded gasoline gallonage.

DES Moines Standard Ol Company Phillips Petroleum Company Allan Herrick Phillips Company

Law Loophole Lets Out-of-Town Painter Win Cedar Rapids Post Office Job

An obscure rule allows contractors on federal work to dodge prevailing wage laws if a project costs under five thousand dollars. The Arthur M. Gelden company of Chicago won the Cedar Rapids post office painting bid at 4473 dollars, avoiding local union wage scales. The treasury department cautions no obligation to hire Cedar Rapids workers but will urge local hiring where possible.

Washington Arthur M. Gelden Company Chicago Cedar Rapids Gelden Company Treasury Department B. M. Jacobsen Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor

Former Chauffeur Held For Plotting Against Millionaire

John Cavaniga, 26, a former chauffeur to Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, was arrested in New York on a $10,000 extortion plot against the Standard Oil heir. He carried bogus money in a suitcase after luring Rogers to leave the money at a Midtown tailor shop.

New York INS Col Henry Huddleston Rogers John Cavaniga Col. Rogers Polce Pauline van der Voorst

Women urged to curb spending by Democrats, Iowa GOP

Miss Martha McClure, Iowa Republican national committeewoman, told Washington women the nation faces recklessness in federal expenditures. She warned of rising prices and a devalued dollar, urged more efficient distribution and farmer-led production to curb democratic waste.

Washington Martha McClure Republican National Miss McClure

Two Youths Rob Minnesota Bank Taking 2600

In Taunton Minnesota two young bandits robbed a State Bank late Wednesday and escaped with about 2600 in cash. They fled in a dark 1934 Ford V-8 with yellow wheels and stolen license plates. Police noted the robbers were likely amateurs and nervous. Taunton lies in northwestern Minnesota.

Taunton Minn Minnesota Lake City

Order Execution Of Mrs Antonio Tonight In New York

Mrs Anna Antonio mother of three faces the electric chair at Sing Sing Thursday night unless there is a last minute intercession from Albany. Convicted of arranging her husband’s murder, her final appeal for a new trial was rejected by the supreme court at Elizabethown.

Ossining Anna Antonio Sing Sing Executive Albany Supreme Court Elizabethtown

Marion Concert in City Park Delights Residents

The tenth band concert of the summer series is set for Thursday at 8 p.m. in the city park. The program features pieces like The Sunset Limited Festival King Touchdown Moonlight on the Nile and Say “Lassie o Mine” by a brass quartet including Raymond Smith John Titus Donald Brage and Gaylord Ward.

Nile Raymond Smith John Titus Donald Brage Gaylord Ward

Hoover book warns of liberty danger in new work

Former President Herbert Hoover announces in The Challenge of Liberty that national regimentation and bureaucracy threaten American liberty. The book, to be published by Scribner's, argues for the American system and examines fascism socialism and communism with eleven parts and a foreword explaining aims.

New York Herbert Hoover Hoover White House Charles Scribner's Sons Kent

Pennsylvania Woman Hurt Near Chelsea In Serious Condition

Mrs. William Riley a 72 year old resident of New Castle Pennsylvania remains in serious condition after a Tuesday morning car crash one mile west of Chelsea. Injuries include spinal fluid hemorrhage shock and facial injuries. Mr. Riley sustained a severe head gash and minor injuries.

William Riley Newcastle Chelsea Riley Mercy Hospital Helen Riley

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