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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1935
Page
4
Price declines slight as buyers press for lower quotes on hogs in Chicago and Iowa. Receipts shrink with packers halting Friday purchases. top quotes around $12.15 for hogs, with loins and pork prices pressured by tepid demand and limited fresh pork production.
Hog prices remain steady on the local market with no grade changes and the top price held at 1175 dollars. Prices at Sinclair Hog Market and other local markets show little movement across various hog, lamb, and cattle categories including good packers and calf ranges.
Chicago livestock receipts show hogs, cattle, and sheep with mixed prices. Hog prices mostly steady to a touch lower. sows around 10 to 35 lower. Cattle steady to firm on feeders and light steers. veal weaker. Sheep and lambs active with steady to higher bids for fat lambs and range feeders. In St Paul market, cattle and calves steady with strong heifers and good yard demand. hogs mixed but near Thursday levels.
A jumble of prices lists grains fruits vegetables and staples. Entries include soybeans beef hides onions and horse glue with varied per unit costs and crate or bushel designations. The fragmentary itemized list reflects a wholesale market catalog from Cedar Rapids with multiple commodities and rates.
Bullish sentiment from foreign cables and Alberta frost drove wheat higher on the Chicago board. September wheat up to 181.5 cents, corn up about 0.5 to 1.25 cents with December leading gains, oats steady. Coppering by mills and limited moisture in the belt supported prices while harvest expectations and Manitoba Saskatchewan crop reports added caution. Cash prices rose 0.12 to 0.14 cents and receipts totaled 182 cars.
Grain trade notes mixed prices across wheat oats and barley with Chicago AP dispatches recording cash bids for No 7 to No 4 red wheats and assorted hard and mined tough varieties. Receipts at Minneapolis Minneapolis AP WHEAT show 36 cars with price ranges and discounts for heavy dark northern and amber durum. further details list per bushel prices and discounts on various grades and weights.
The notice lists prices for fancy No. 2 hard amber durum and No. 3 hard amber durum with various figures, plus No. 3 yellow corn and No. 3 white oats quotes. Distinct entities include durum types, corn and oats grades, and several price markers and dates.
Wall Street closed with a modest upturn after an initial selloff. Rail, mine, utility and select specialty issues led a cautious recovery while several high tech and large industrials ticked lower. Volume ran around 1.6 million shares in transfers as gains and losses narrowed amid a steady but subdued trading day.
In a quiet, mixed day for bonds, U S government loans drifted with small gains and losses while rails like Baltimore and Ohio 42s and St Paul 4s moved fractionally. Corporate issues Nat American Smelting 5s and Chile Copper 5s rose slightly, with Treasury notes mostly down and Home Owners Loan bonds higher. The foreign sector stayed quiet as Liberty 4s, Treasuries and other issues traded within narrow ranges. Sugar markets were largely flat with spot raw sugar at 3.18 and refined prices steady at 10.
NEW YORK The Quarton family from Cedar Rapids arrived Friday after a two day delay in Le Havre caused by a crew wage strike aboard an ocean liner. Mr. and Mrs. Summer D. Quarton with Betsy and Gardner endured the pause, noting the French government handled it efficiently and safely. They had visited France and Spain during the voyage.
Funeral notices announce services for Frank Dean of Blairstown at 2 0 pm Saturday in the Gaffney and Moore chapel with burial at the Gaffney and Moore crematory. Survived by two sisters Dorothy Dean and Mrs Ed Pettit. Also listed are Louis A Dow services at the family home in Cow Falls with burial at Blaine Cemetery. and Katharine Mazanek services at Polansky chapel and St Wenceslaus church with burial at St Johns cemetery. Call details provided for each family.
Funeral services for Richard Ray Robinson will be held in the Turner chapel Saturday at 2 p.m. Masonic services will be held. Friends may call at the Turner chapel. Mrs. Joseph FE Nye, 80, died after a paralytic stroke. Funeral services were held from the home Friday. As Harriet M. Fawcett she was born Sept. 8, 1854. She married J. E. Nye in 1879. They later moved to West Union and to Manchester in 1899. Surviving are two sons and other relatives. Mrs. Nye was active in Community church and several clubs.
Receipts show unsettled butter at 15 481 with prices unchanged and eggs steady at 9 788. Potatoes on track with 49 receipts, total U S shipments 272. Bliss Triumphs softer, other stock dull as light supplies and slow demand persist. Idaho russet Bur banks and Triumphs listed with No 1 prices around 1.90 to 1.98. Maryland cobblers and Minnesota Early Ohios quoted with various No 1 prices. New York jargos receipts 13 731 firmer with standard and mixed color packs, butter receipts 7 971 firm, cheese 247 725 quiet, live poultry irregular by freight. Chicago futures show butter and refrigerator standards with modest gains and storage contracts steady.
Lester Jay Baldwin and Bernice Mae Hach of Cedar Rapids. Frank Kulish of Marion and Mary Kadlee of Cedar Rapids. Laurence E. Barcus and Mary A. Tickal, both of Cedar Rapids.
In Minneapolis flour shipments and prices show changes with pure bran at 18.204 and middlings at 17.00. Boston wool trade enlarges, with fine wools dominant but more mediums moving. combing blood territory wool sold on a discounted scoured basis. Foreign exchange quotes show minor shifts in major currencies worldwide.
Eddie Herr, 54, was fined 300 dollars and jailed three months for illegal liquor possession found in room 73 at the Grand hotel after a raid. A prior June raid at the same room also led to a three month sentence to run concurrently. Lebeda of Cedar Rapids had a suspended 300 fine revoked, with 100 paid plus costs, on a new liquor charge linked to Chuck's Place at 55 Sixteenth Avenue SW, and bond was set for Lebeda and co-defendant Pisarik.
Judge H C Ring granted divorces on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds. Notable cases include Bernard Boegel 28 of Opal Boegel marrying March 27 1935, Marian L Reynolds and William B Reynolds married July 16 1934, Marjorie I Andrews and Edgar W Andrews married Oct 3 1919, and Gertrude F Berry and Clinton L Berry married Oct 24 1917. Mrs Andrews won custody of a minor son plus support money and household goods. Mrs Berry won custody of a minor daughter plus support money and alimony.
Two civil actions arising from a December 4 collision on Highway 11 near Center Point between cars driven by Robert H Harger and Joseph P Jaeger were settled and dismissed with prejudice. Plaintiffs Ivan S Harger and Robert H Harger claimed left leg fracture and other injuries. defendants included Joseph P Jaeger and the International Milling Company, owner of Jaeger's car.
Judge H C Ring approved the receivers fifteenth quarterly report for Kenwood Savings Bank Cedar Rapids, noting a final 10 percent dividend of 9444 97 paid bringing total to 100 percent. Receivership began Oct 16 1931 with O F Fryer as examiner in charge. Also probate of Vera M Sheets will admitted. Ada J Newman and Frank A Newman named beneficiaries. Newman named executor. John M Redmond seeks 150 judgment in district court note suit against Andrew Condon.
In Manhattan Jimmy Rogers, younger son of Will Rogers, was at a hotel when told of his father’s death. An hotel official delivered the news and the boy left the premises, with staff uncertain of his destination.
Joplin Missouri AP reports Will Rogers Jr is en route to the Philippine Islands and plans to join his famous father somewhere in the Orient, according to Mrs. B W Quisenberry, sister of the humorist's wife, on Friday.
Born to Mr and Mrs H D Chapman at St Luke's hospital a son on August 14. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Nathan Kazebier at St Luke's hospital on August 15. Another son arrived for Mr and Mrs Jack Ox ley of Marion at St Luke's hospital on August 15.
A repaired motor failed soon after a river crash killing humorist Post who made two world trips. Rogers perished instantly. both bodies were recovered near Point Barrow and sent to hospital. A wrecked plane burned for minutes as natives and whites helped. a soggy rotogravure of Rogers’ daughter was found in the sea.
Cap Crossley of the Raiders was guest of honor as Cedar Rapids and Marion carriers honored for their work on the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Ralph Mead and Skeeter Webb attended with Crossley. a signed ball was presented to Jack Rohrer. Contests, dinner, and a talk on team workings followed at Ellis park and the Duck pond.
AP reports Wiley Post, famed aviator, and Will Rogers perished in an Alaska crash. Post and Gatty circled the globe in 1931 in eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes with the Winnie Mae. Solo 1933 round the world took seven days 18 hours, 4914 minutes. Post planned practical aviation work and staged high altitude tests in Bartlesville Oklahoma. He failed four transcontinental stratosphere attempts en route from Burbank to New York, last on June 1 this year.
Peter C. Smith and wife transfer 35 feet by 240 feet of lot 1 outlot 1 C. R. to Frances Kilberger for $1 and valuable consideration dated August 6 and 9 1935. Anna Estella Rhoads and pie band transfer 40 feet of lots 1 and 2 block Theplat Richmonds fifth add to Frank L. Buser for $1 and valuable consideration dated August 7 1935. A T Glass and wife transfer to First Farm Land Company the west half of northeast quarter and north half of southeast quarter section 13 township 86 range 5 subject to mortgage for $13 000 for $1 and valuable consideration dated August 8 1935. Ira H. Winchell and wife convey to Stanley J and Mildred A Mohrbach er husband and wife as joint tenants 40 foot rear lots 47 and 48 Eastland Manor add for $1 and valuable consideration dated August 1935.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette presents want ad rate guidelines noting line estimates by word count for the first line and subsequent lines, with a price table to calculate costs for consecutive days. It includes a 10 cent surcharge for out of town blind ads and states the Gazette’s policy limits on incorrect insertions and accepted methods for submitting ads by telephone mail or in person.
BETRAYED one saddle horse mare dun sorrel mane and tall weight about 900 pounds reported by J. M Kirkpatrick Mt Vere non Iowa. STOLEN 1934 Harley Davidson motorcycle finder dial 3-1054 C R LOST. man’s dark gray sweater west side dial 2-4722. LO BT twenty dollar bill inst sal night in business district dial 2-1365. LOST white dog part collie reward Mrs M J Listerbarger Fairfax.
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