Livestock market broadens demand across regions
Chicago and Midwest barrows to hogs and cattle edge higher as receipts rise. Cattle at Chicago, St Paul, Des Moines, Sioux City and Omaha show improved demand with top prices noted for choice light steers and heifers. Hogs steady to higher across 180-270 lb ranges. sows strong, with steady lighter weights. Sheep buyers cautious but steady, spring lambs priced around $11.25 at multiple yards.
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Chicago
UPI
Paul
South ST Paul
Minn
Dept. Agriculture
Iowa
Des Moines
U. S. Dept. Agriculture
Interior Town
Minnesota
Sioux City
Bioux City
IAPI
Omaha Livestock
Omaha
Kansas City
East St Louis
St, Joseph
St Paul
Indianapolis
Buffalo
Scrap Material Drive Promotes Defense Program Support
Workers can convert scrap iron automobile bodies fenders barbed wire and other scrap metal including newspapers and magazines into cash. Top prices are paid in line with government selling price and proceeds support the American defense program.
Livestock Prices Across Regions Mixed With Steady Cattle
Market notes show cattle steady to higher on light receipts with bulls active. hog prices hold firm across Waterloo Mason City Ottumwa and Peoria with varied weights. Lambs and sheep weaker in places, spring lambs and cows show mixed moves. regional ranges cited for 160 to 360 lb hogs and fat lambs.
Local Hog Market Holds Steady With No Grade Changes
Hog prices remain unchanged across weights from 140 to 360 pounds on the local market with top hogs at 11 dollars. Packers’ quotes span 9.7 to 10.9 for various weight classes, while calves fetch up to 12 dollars and spring lambs around 10 dollars. overall tone notes steady demand and limited movement.
Cedar Rapids Miscellanieous Market Prices
A mixed listing of grain and feed components with prices for wheat oats rye barley soybeans and shelled corn plus straw hay poultry items and wholesale fruits vegetables and hides. Includes quantities and unit prices such as lemons oranges grapefruit cabbage onions potatoes and California peaches along with hides and horses pricing.
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California
Wisconsin cheese and wool market notes from Plymouth and Boston
Wisconsin cheese quotas for the week list dealers exchange prices for cheddar and other varieties. Wool prices in Boston show fair demand for fine territory wools with some lots firm, while other grades move slowly. Mississippi River stage readings are provided for Davenport Hastings LaCrosse Dubuque Prairie du Chien Keokuk and Cairo with rises and falls noted.
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Boston
Agriculture Department
Mississippi River
Davenport
Hastings
Nodhuance
Prairie du Chien
Dubuque
Keokuk
D &T Louis
Cairo
Memphis
Faint Recovery Signs In Stocks In Tepid Market
A cautious session in New York showed a tentative stock recovery with only modest gains. United States Steel aided firmness along with rails, mail order shares, coppers and specialties while Western Union, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Harvester, Westinghouse and Kennecott led gains and Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey lagged.
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NEW York
United States Steel
Western Union
Montgomery Ward
Sears Roebuck
Harvester
Westinghouse
Kennecott
At Motors
Standard Oil NJ
Wednesday Stock Quotations From Wall Street Deck
Wall Street stock quotations and brief listings from Alaska to Chicago include many names such as Allied Stores Lockheed American Express Lorillard Maytag Westinghouse and United States Steel with various prices and index movements. The Jones averages section notes multiples across industrials rails utilities and stocks with daily open high low and close figures and totals of transactions.
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J. E. Bennett & Co
W. Jump
Yoon Merchants National Bank
Alaska
Juneau
Link Breit
Allied Chem
Lockheed
Allied Stores
Loews
Incum
Allis Chalmers
Lorillard
Lowville Gas
McKesson
Nash-Kely
Amn Wat Works
Anaconda Cope
Nati Dalry Po
Armour. Co
Uel Batre
Atlantic
Riaig Nor Pac RR
Nor Amn Co
Aviation Corp
Holdwin Loco
Soy
Amb Avilaos Balto
ORIG
Otis Steel
Arnsda
Packard
Peoples ‘Gas
Briggs
Phillips Pet
Rueyrus Eric Io
Pepsi Cola
Canada Dry
Gamble Sat
Af Can Pac
Pulinian Co
Caterpillar
Pure Oil
Tm Radio Corp
Fade Reith Ahese
Paseo
Reple Steel
Chrysler Motors
Safewas
Corn Cole
Schenlev Cols Palmolive
Sears Roebuck Tire
Servel Inc
Coe
Shell Union
Simmons
Edison
Bkelly Ol
Pac RR
Sperry Corp
Fis Crown Drug
Crucible Steel
Curtiss
Studebaker
du Pont
Tidewater
Timken
Elec
Dond & S
Trans-Amer
Fox Film
Gonables
Union Carbide
Gen Foods
Westghouse el
Wilson & Co St. Kennecott Cpr
Woolworth
Kresge
Indians Acquire Fabian Gaffke From Minneapolis
The Cleveland Indians announce the purchase of 27 year old outfielder Fabian Gaffke from the Minneapolis team in the American Association. The association season ends September 7 but Gaffke will stay for the playoffs if Minneapolis qualifies.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Indians
Fabian Gaffke
Minneapolis
Gaffke
Wheat Advances on Chicago Board as Markets Rally
Wheat futures reversed a downward drift to post gains up to 23% cents a bushel on the Chicago board of trade before profit taking trimmed advances. September quotes near the high with gains around 17 to 21 cents. corn, oats, rye and soybeans also higher amid strong support from professional traders and brokerages.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Bond Markets Inch Higher in Timid Wednesday Session
New York bond prices edged up with small fractions gained toward noon as trading stayed moderately active. Lower priced rails rose after a cautious open amid solid earnings prospects. several utilities also advanced led by commercial Mackay income warrants and various 5s. Foreign dollar loans underperformed, while federals showed little action on the stock exchange.
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NEW York Bond Review
New York
Rock Island General
St. Paul Vs. Alleghany
Portland General Electric
International
Telephone
Great Northern
New York and Longe
Stock Exchange
Chicago Produce Markets Mixed Poultry Butter Eggs Reported
Chicago market notes show uneven poultry receipts with small hens and leghorn broilers priced per pound. Butter and eggs at Chicago and New York reflect firm to weaker tones, with specific prices for creamery butter and various egg grades. Produce futures and storage standards are listed by Lamson Bros. and Co. for November and December.
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Chicago
White Rock Springs
White Rock
Idaho
Oregon
Nebraska
Bliss
Wisconsin
New York
Lamson Bros. and Co
Two Vinton Boys Held For Tavern Breakin At Urbana
Sheriff J B Franklin reports William Fore 16 and Richard Deardorff 15 held for stealing a pickup from a local car lot and breaking into a tavern in Urbana. The boys confessed to the truck theft Monday night and said they did not commit earlier incidents. After the Urbana break in about 40 dollars in merchandise was taken and the truck wrecked in a ditch the pair allegedly took another car in Urbana leaving it in a corn field two miles east of Vinton. Fore also admitted dropping a rock from a viaduct onto a tramp who later needed hospital treatment. They are slated for juvenile court.
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Vinton
J. B. Franklin
William Fore
Richard Deardorff
Urbana
Fore
Five Cedar Rapids Men At Claiborne Promoted
CAMP CLAIBORNE LA Five Cedar Rapids men in the 136th medical regiment at Camp Claiborne received promotions. William George Fieseler, son of Mr and Mrs William Fieseler, route 3, to sergeant. Tom S McPartland, 2047 Linn Blvd SE, Jack T Steele, 1742 Sixth Ave SE, and William Thomas Reynolds, 511 Sixth St SE, promoted to corporals. Glenn Richard Rejsa, 1503 Second St SW, promoted from fourth class to third class specialist.
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Camp Claiborne
Cedar Rapids
136Th Medical Regiment
William George Fieseler
William Fieseler
Route 3
Tom S. McPartland
T. F. McPartland
Linn Boulevard
Jack T. Steele
B. Steele
Sixth Avenue SE
William Thomas Reynolds
Albert King
Sixth Street
Glenn Richard Rejsa
Edward A. Rejsa
Second Street
118 Indicted in Ham Price Fix Conspiracy
A federal grand jury indicted 118 corporate and individual defendants in 29 states for conspiring to fix ham prices at Easter under the Sherman Act. The indictment cites a five year pattern, notes that the packers controlled over 80 percent of U S hams and operated in about 30 states. Among defendants are the American Meat Institute and major packers Cudahy Armour Swift and Wilson.
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Chicago
United States
The
American Meat Institute
Big Four
Cudahy, Armour, Swift and Wilson
Local Railroad Retirement Office Closes in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids local office of the Railroad Retirement Board has closed. Fred Waye, in charge since June 1939, is transferred to the Des Moines district office. Anticipated itinerant service may occur without a fixed schedule. Questions on retirement annuities and unemployment insurance should go to Des Moines at 325 Old Federal Building.
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Railroad Retirement Board
Fred Waye
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Old Federal Building
Wanted ads from The Gazette reader exchanges
A dense jumble of classified lines shows lost items rewards vehicle transport and job ads. It includes missing items such as a traveling bag billfold a Westfield watch and a man’s wedding ring. Also offers for drivers maids waitresses and sales staff with contact details and box references.
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Gazette
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Financial One
Market News
Austin
Austin, Minn
API
Barrows and Wilts
Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Merchants National Bank
WATA
Sth Ave
3Rd St. SW
Iowa Iron & Coal Co
B Ave
Dial
Jowa
Associated Press
Waterloo
Mason City
Peoria
U S. Dept Agriculture
Fancy
Foultery Market
Plymouth
Wis
Dealers Cheese Exchange
Twins
Wall St
Sox
ARLEY
Treasury
Vinton Boys
Claiborne
the Gazette
Classified Advertising Department
Kuba Funeral Home
2Nd St
Tan Feather
Lee H. Chandler
Wildwood Dr
Jos
Kadlee
J St. Rd
Troy Mills
Jack Sammon
10Th St. S.W
RC Wato
Ave
Westfield
Katz Jewelry & Loanco
1St Street
S.E
Probasco Jeweler
2Nd Ave
Palace Theater
Iran
May
Claxton College Pharmacy
1St Ave
Ginsberg's
Arana
J. Stantorf
Joliet
McKinney Fire Agency
Spomrert
Los Angeles
Marlon
Andrew
1St St
Iowa Fair Bar
Vincent's Jewelry Store
Land's
Morris Fur Shop
Genes. Printing Co
2Nd St. NE
Kriz & ‘Sone
St. SF
K. Schaefer
Feather Mattress Co
Corey & Fletcher
3Rd ST
Lovely Lady Oil
Lovely Lady Beauty Shop
Bishop's
LE Mar Beaute Salon
Pitnaan Suchy
Beline Beauty Shop
Paris Academy Beauty School
Walford
Gall Curry’s
Walford Bank
Frank Suchomel
Swisher
Joe Fisher
Skip Soassion
Phil D'Rey
Dugan
Larry Herman
Thornwood
Rene Hartley
Palisades Lodge
Lower Palisades
Eva M. Delane
Mer
Perrose
American Legion
CE Mar
Renee Sera Maes
Lower
Palisades
City Club
Ellis Blvd
Park Court
Hallwood Cafe
Marion Linger
Dairymaid
3Rd Ave
Novak Heating
Ast St
Kutchera Sodding & Fuel CO
French Glass & Paint Co
St. SE
Geo. L. Karr
Fred Young
Gardner
Biazek
Hennessey Bros
Mason Works
Borovec
Hawkeye TN
Chas
Lebeda
Willman Coal & Woop
Good Consolidated School
Linn County
Penick & Ford
Millsap
G. Holston
Armstrong's
Yabcemene
BOK
Ode Sfos
Sam Grimm
Chilton Greetings
Essex
Dept
Associated Studios
S. Wabash
Chicano
Wallace Brown
Fifth Ave
Wolf's
2Nd St. SF
Eo Holly Shop
Church
Second Ave
Virginia
Butterfly Cafe
Hiway
Dia
Einen
Jackson's Cafe
4Th Ave
Fidelity Employment Service
Central Employment AG Cy, Granby
Ee I
Trade Schools
R Finances Rother
Henderson
School OF Welding
Sth
Midwest
Rapids
Marion
American Technical School
Autos & Trucks
Kudes
Chrysler
Rude Auto Co
Third Ave
Culver's
Pontiac
Packard Tudor
Culver Motors
6Th St
Ford
Marne
Baxter Motors
Chrysler Corporation
Second Ave. SE
Loosmobile
Allen Motor Co
10Th St
LA Salle
MakKibben Motor Co
BUICK
Fisher, Unistee
Hudson Sales CO
Plymout
JONES
Chevrolet
Ceater Langhurst Motor Co
16Th Ave
Klingers Standard
Ist Ave
Diamond T Truck Bales Co
Ist St
DODGE
Chevrolet Caune
Kadlec Bros
W. Dial
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