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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1936
Page
11
AP report notes Saturday livestock trading in Chicago was quiet with most receipts billed direct to packers. Top hogs hit 11.60 while the week saw a push toward 12.00, then a late pullback as pork prices could not rise. Cattle and lamb markets showed mixed changes, with prime steers reaching about 10.25 and natives at around 10.00, amid smaller hog supply and sluggish eastern demand.
Receipts 2,000 hogs including 1,500 direct with top at 11.60, most weights over 200 pounds steady to 25 cents lower. Cattle receipts 4,068 with prime prices around 10.15 to 9.50, grass cattle weak on killer demand, stockers up to 8.15. Sheep receipts 4,000 direct with fat lambs steady to 25 cents lower, best natives 9.00 to 9.50, late packer top 9.75, westerns 7.50 to 9.25 for yearlings.
AP dispatch from Sioux City notes cattle receipts 1,100 with fed steers and yearlings mostly 25 cents higher, cows lower, beef kinds soft, stockers and feeders up. Hogs receipts 300 steady with midrange butcher weights $9.75 to $10.50, sows $9.00 to $9.50. Sheep receipts 2,000 with lambs $8.75 to $9.10 bulk, natives and westerns quoted $6.25 to $7.75, Idaho yearlings around $5.50 to $7.50.
U S Department of Agriculture cattle hogs and sheep prices from South St Paul show receipts of 600 cattle 700 hogs and 4 500 sheep. Grain fed steers and yearlings steady to 25c higher with best loads up to 9 00. grass beef prices mixed. Hogs steady to weak with lighter weights 170 250 lbs up to 11 00 top. sows and pigs softer. Slaughter lambs mostly 50c lower with Washington and native lambs around 9 35 and 9 00 respectively. range feeders 7 50 pears. Overall, market activity mixed as buyers weighed supplies and demand.
U S Department of Agriculture notes cattle reopens week with 300 recempts and 50 calves. Fed steers and yearlings rise about 25 cents, better grade stockers show slight gains, while weak spots appear in other classes. Prices include 1,134 lb steers and 896 lb yearlings around 9.40, heavy loads up to 9.00, and short fed cattle down to 7.50 per hundredweight.
Trade in slow day with bulk grass beef cows 4.00 to 5.00, cutters 3.25 to 4.00, bulk bulls 4.25 to 5.00, stockers and feeders 4.25 to 6.00, yearling steers to 6.75, calves to 6.50. Sheep receipts 1,200 with killing classes mostly 25c lower, feeders strong. Lambs 8.50 to 8.85, native lambs to 9.00, ewes 2.00 to 3.00, no choice lambs 7.00 to 8.10. Hogs receipts 700 with barrows steady, sows mostly 10c higher. butchers 180-230 lb to 10.85, 140 lb around 10.25, 100-140 lb 7.75 to 9.50, light sows 9.25 to 9.40, medium to good sows 8.25 to 9.15. Friday average 9.39 per cwt. details show varied shifts by weight and class.
U S Department of Agriculture reports 24 hour hog receipts at 9,400 across 21 yards and 9 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota, down from last week and up from a year ago. Prices move steady to higher with strong undertone on better grades. ranges posted for various weight classes from light to heavy hogs, pigs unquoted, sows at 8.95 to 9.45 for 275 to 350 pounds and 8.60 to 9.20 for 350 to 425 and 425 to 550 pounds.
Market notes from Waterloo Ottumwa Mason City show hog prices mostly steady with small gains in several weight classes. Prices span from 8.30 for lighter hogs to about 11.10 for midweights, with packers quoting weaker highs across heavier categories.
Hog prices steady with good to choice ranges across weight classes. Top prices span 180 to 350 pounds from 10.00 to 10.85 per hundredweight, with 275 to 550 pound packing sows reported between 8.30 and 9.30 per hundredweight.
Hogs continue slightly higher on the local market. All grades advanced 5 cents Saturday raising the top to $11.15. Corn is weaker and dropped 2 cents. Other local markets are steady.
The notice lists cattle prices with varieties of steers, yearlings, and cows. Prices range from 4.59 to 8.75 per hundredweight, with weights noted such as 900 to 1100 pounds. It includes choice, medium and common grades along with grass and dry lot categories.
A Cedar Rapids listing details mixed market quotes for grain including wheat oats rye and barley with various grades and prices. It also lists wholesale fruit vegetable and hog poultry items with priced crates and weights along with cured hides and horse hides prices.
The New York bond market, in irregular trading, regained part of Friday’s losses as buyers awaited a recession cue for fresh accumulation. Rails led gains with fractions to over a point, industrials like Youngstown Sheet and Tube 3s Studebaker 6s and Allis Chalmers 4s rising 1 to 2 points. Loans showed moderate improvement. U S governments were quiet and mixed. foreign issues and most prices changed little.
U S government bonds closed with Treasury 4 4s 47 to 52 at 118.28 and Treasury 4s 44 to 54 at 113.31. Treasury 334s seen a June at 108.80 and Treasury 3s 51 to 55 noted.
In a firm but subdued market a Winnipeg and Liverpool tone supported grains. Wheat edged up while corn and oats showed modest moves as traders closed week positions amid lingering Argentine shipments and rains delaying harvest in the Dominion.
Market brief lists Winnipeg wheat quotes with open high low and close figures for Oct Dec May futures. Includes supplier Lamson Brothers & Co and manager H R Mowrey with Cedar Rapids office details.
A Chicago AP market update lists cash grain provisions across categories. Wheat includes No 2 red at ACC 1.1? No 3 red 1.16 and various grades. Corn showcases No 1 yellow at 1.16 and other yellow and white grades with small differences. Oats, rye showing no sales, barley priced for feed and standard, Timothy seed and clover seed priced per cwt.
In Minneapolis AP report price ranges for flour and bran see slight shifts. Family patents drop 10 cents to about 7.75 to 7.95 per barrel, standard patents unchanged near 6.85 to 7.05, pure bran 26.00 to 26.50, standard middlings 33.00 to 33.50, with carload lots in 98 pound sacks and shipments at 24.196.
New York AP reports foreign exchange prices steady with varied cent values. Listed figures include Great Britain 50344, France 6.58 7-16, Italy 7.87, Belgium 16.88 1/2, Germany free 40.23, registered 21.60, travel 22.60, Holland 67.91, Norway 25.29, Sweden 25.95, Denmark 22.48, Finland 2.22, Switzerland 32.60, Greece 94, Poland 18.85, Yugoslavia 2.31, Austria 18.88, Hungary 19.80, Roumania .74, Argentina 33.55, Brazil 8.72 42, Tokyo 29.47, Shanghai 30.25, Hongkong 31.31 14, Mexico City 27.88, Montreal in New York 99.96%, New York in Montreal 100.00. N-Nominal.
In the Boston wool market last week, business was steady to active. Prices strengthened on several grades with fine territory wool firm against buyers and combing 3% blood showing advances. Ohio fleeces remained moderately active, with grease prices around 35–36 cents for fine delaine and staples blood, 38–39 cents for combing 3% bloods, and 37–38 cents for 1% blood.
Chicago AP report shows butter and eggs with no session price changes. Live poultry receipts at 20 trucks unsettled with varied prices by breed and weight. Potatoes on track with U S shipments. prices mixed by variety and region, including Idaho russet Burbanks Washington White Rose and Colorado Bliss notes.
New York AP market notes show egg receipts at 16 316 with mixed colors unchanged, butter receipts at 8 028 steady to firm with prices unchanged, cheese receipts 174 990 easier, and live poultry steady with all freight and express prices unchanged.
The Hindenburg completed a five day round trip and landed at Frankfurt from Lakehurst New Jersey on Saturday forenoon. The return flight took 43 hours 48 minutes marking a swift traverse across the Atlantic in historic air travel.
A brief quake was felt in several Southern California communities Friday night. Windows rattled and pictures moved but no damage or injuries were reported.
Twenty two Black Legion members were arrested in the Detroit area as authorities intensify efforts to detain alleged terrorists. An extradition warrant targets Virgil F. Effinger, cited as national commander, toward Lima Ohio. Indictments accuse the group of criminal syndicalism with potential penalties of ten years and five thousand dollars fine upon conviction.
Wall Street reassessed war fears as Saturday trading slowed and weak issues retraced. The market closed firm with about 500000 shares traded, bonds steady, and commodities mixed. Notable gainers included Chrysler, General Motors, U S Steel, Bethlehem, Sears Roebuck, and Douglas Aircraft among others guided by overnight European news and an optimistic Lamont interview.
Published by J. E. Bennett & Co. a ledger of stock listings, price quotes, and trading firms. The page itemizes numerous companies including Adams Express, Johns Manville, Amn Gold Dust, General Motors, Goodyear, Westinghouse, and many others with bid and percentage figures, plus warehouse and bank references. It reads as a market snapshot with extensive entity coverage and occasional price marks across rail, oil, steel, and consumer goods names.
Edward Danaher, a Cohoes bus driver, builds tiny houses from cigar boxes. He has completed five structures and is on a sixth, furnishing them with furniture carved from orange crates. His toolkit includes a hammer plane screwdriver and small saw. He plans to light the sixth house with electric lights in his yard.
Postmaster Frank B. Baldwin and inspector Robert A. Munroe attend the Iowa State Postmasters convention in Davenport. Ralph Levien of Viola was arraigned before Justice U. S. Reed on concealing mortgaged property, with the case continued to Tuesday.
L G Brumback of 1321 Twenty first avenue SW pled guilty to intoxication and was fined 25 dollars plus costs with 15 dollars suspended. Loren Goddard of Thirty second street NE paid 10 dollars plus costs on the same charge in police court Saturday.
M J Fakinson of 916 E Avenue NW pled guilty to reckless driving and was fined 25 dollars plus costs. M J Prochaska of 1700 Hamilton Street SW paid one dollar and costs for parking in an alley. Ish Phillips of 1226 Tenth Street SE agreed to work out a one dollar fine for double parking.
George Thomas of Kubias Hardware reported a chest with tools worth 20 dollars stolen from the rear of the Kubias store. R. W. Fahl of King’s Crown Plaster said a tire and rim were stolen from the warehouse on Vernal street NW. Frank Kulish complained that five gallons of gasoline were taken from his car Thursday night, the third such theft in a week. George Casper, 1506 Fourth Street NW, said two men have been prowling the neighborhood at night for the past two weeks.
A notice of appeal was filed in district court Saturday by the plaintiff John C. Petrovitsky seeking supreme court review of Judge H C Ring's ruling sustaining a defense motion to dismiss an injunction action. The case targets restraining the clerk from accepting a tender of redemption for property under sheriff's sale certificate and blocking the Petro vitsky company's transfer of its interests.
Jack Holmes aged 22 of Atlanta Georgia faced larceny of a domestic animal charge after allegedly taking a calf from Boyd Kaylor near Cedar Rapids on August 5. Judge H C Ring sentenced Holmes to six months in county jail with release on good behavior after three months served, following his arrest by Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon.
Farrell Baker of Cedar Rapids faced a $300 fine and costs for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Judge H C Ring ordered 90 days in county jail if unpaid, and a three month driving ban. Arrest occurred June 27 by county officials.
Dorothy Colson and H F Colson filed actions seeking 2500 each in district court over a collision between cars driven by H F Colson and Carl F Becker at Eighth avenue and Tenth street SE on Oct 26 1933. The suits were dismissed with prejudice by the plaintiffs on Oct 26 1934.
The will of Mary Nagele who died March 3 was admitted to probate on Friday. Beneficiaries include two brothers Fred Weigold and Jacob Weigold, plus nieces and friends. O. J. Elsenbast was appointed administrator with the will annexed. The will dated July 3, 1929.
In district court Dorothy Hinton files for divorce from Byron Hinton on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds. She seeks custody of two infants and title to household goods. The marriage occurred June 6, 1934.
Robert Mackey of Ely told Sheriff James H. Smith that a 1928 Ford parked north of Ely vanished between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle is registered to Mrs. Robert Mackey.
Samuel J Lentz aged 88 died at his daughter Laura Roberdeen’s home in Cedar Rapids at 2 p.m. Friday after a lingering illness. Born December 28 1847 in Scio New York he moved to Muscatine at 17. Survived by two daughters Mrs Roberdeen of Cedar Rapids and Mrs E W Vetter of Muscatine four grandchildren and two brothers. Funeral at Muscatine Methodist church Monday 2 p.m. Greenwood Cemetery burial. Friends may call Monahan chapel Sunday.
State mine inspector Arnold Griffith led a rescue team in the Esty mine collapse at Moberly Missouri. They freed A W McCann and searched for Sexton and Stoner before two men died from white damp and a failed air shaft rescue while Coroner Jesse Maddox and Dr John Maddox assisted. The first words Sexton spoke after rescue were a grateful plea for coffee.
Rochester Minn AP Governor Floyd B Olson ill with a stomach ailment was reported worse Saturday after previously improving. Physicians said he grew steadily weaker but no immediate crisis was feared. Dr M J Mayo said he could take liquid nourishment orally after days of intravenous injections following a Netherlands feedings through a tube in his small intestine had to be abandoned.
The Marion churches present Sunday schedules for Baptist The Rev Loren Inman Catholic St Josephs Rev Father T J McElliott Christian Rev Irving E Wade Congregational Rev Her bert O Allen Free Methodist Rev C O Monroe Methodist Episcopal Rev Ralph Hall Collis Presbyterian Rev W E Fisher St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Rev Carl E Krog Seventh Day Church of God Sixth Street and Ninth Avenue. Morning worship times range from 10:30 to 11:30 and include sermon topics such as The Wages God Pays and Is It Easy to Live a Christian Life. Bible schools or Sunday schools run around 9:30 to 10:45 with various superintendents and leaders listed.
D W Bates transfers trust and savings bank to W A Conway for deed to lots 3 6 7 and part of lot 1 and 5 section 11 83 8 price 550 dollars dated 7 17 36 as recorded statuses show.
J William Sanborn born Sept 8 1876 in Tama county died Friday at 4 pm in University Hospital Iowa City after extended illness. He lived in Tama county 51 years and moved to Marion eight years ago. Survived by wife Susan Burns son Bryan daughter Matilda granddaughter Carolyn Matilda, two sisters. Funeral Monday 1 pm Free Methodist church Marion with Rev C M Cunningham and Rev C O Monroe. burial Oak Hill Tama. Flowers not requested. Friends may call Sunday.
No services will be held at the Congregational church until September 13. The notice indicates a pause in regular worship with a resumption date pending further information.
The Monticello Country club will send a golf team to Marion for a Sunday match at the Marion Golf Club.
Mrs. Maurice Smith of Tama arrives in the city due to the serious illness and death of her brother, J. W. Sanborn, drawing family concern and local attention.
Several Marion residents plan to attend the McConaughy family reunion at Wapsipinicon State Park in Anamosa on Sunday, with family members gathering for the occasion.
A group from Linn chapter No 900 Order of De Molay enjoyed a Friday evening picnic at the Palisades with members gathering for a social event and camaraderie.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Ford, guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Homans since Monday, have returned to their Storm Lake home.
Mr and Mrs Claude Knapp traveled to Waterloo on Friday to escort Tom and Dick Shay back after a several day visit with friends there.
Mrs Herbert Parker of Brooklyn Illinois visited her brother and sister in law Dr and Mrs H G Stitzel this week and left Saturday for her home.
Miss Harriet Cook will reach the seventh and eighth grades in the Palo school this year, marking a step up in her academic progression.
Mrs Alvin Schley hosted the Ladies Aid of St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church with Mrs Theodore Pesch assisting. They invited the southeast conference of Lutheran churches to meet here and scheduled a picnic supper at Alfred Rinderknecht home Sunday at 6 30 p m. Members and friends were invited and asked to bring sandwiches a covered dish and table service. Refreshments were served to seventeen members and seven guests.
In Scottsbluff Nebraska the Oregon trail, a historic main highway before railroads, is being restored by the WPA and two western counties. The graveling and rebuilding follow highway department specs and will join the state system as a farm to market road serving the populous south bank of the North Platte. The Oregon trail, widely used during 1849 to 1860 California gold rush years, remains a landmark of early westward travel.
At the Leipzig Fair a compact handbag is shown that contains a dozen toilet requisites. The kit includes a cigarette case with lighter, manicure set, small sewing kit, powder box and mirror, purse, notebook and pencil, perfume bottles, and lipstick, illustrating streamlined personal care on the go.
Property description NE NE sec 1 82 5 in Wayne Nebraska transferred for $1 and consideration Valcon on July 15 1936. Records show the parties involved as John F Molin and Mae and O C Mohn.
First round completed and second round in progress at Marion Golf Club for the championship tournaments. Finals set for Labor Day with top matches including Koppenhaver over Smith 1 up, Van Fossen over Mulvany 6 and 5, and Rowe over Endsley 1 up at 19. Women's and various flight results listed with several defaults.
Mrs D Earl Miller elected president of the Marion Book Club at the Marion Golf Club on Friday. Mrs M W Courtney chosen vice president and Mrs Josephine Whitacre secretary. Others named to program and social committees include Mrs H N Strader, Miss Bernice Toms, Mrs H G Stitzel, and Mrs A A Hardin. Next meeting set for last Tuesday of September at Mrs H G Stitzel home with Strader in charge. luncheon honored club organizer Mrs O L Brown, visiting guest Mrs Herbert Parker of Brooklyn Illinois.
Miss Grace Donovan and Miss Barbara Price, who have been visiting the last two weeks with relatives of Miss Donovan in Davenport, returned home Friday.
Introducing modern equipped pocket pool and billiard tables. Headquarters for cigars, cigarets, candy and soft drinks. Phillips cigar store advertisement.
Marion residents await the return of Miss Nevah Prior who has spent the summer touring Europe and is expected home today.
Mr and Mrs D E Miller Friday took Mrs J A Cooper to Grundy Center to visit her daughter Mrs Thomas Evans, sharing a brief family outing in midweek.
Mr and Mrs E C Sonne have traveled from visiting Mrs Adah Mann in Davenport and returned to their home in Davenport.
Mrs Rose Speakman of Bakersfield California arrived in Marion Friday evening to visit her brothers Albert and George Kaiser and her sisters Mrs George Hutton and Mrs Frank Charles.
The Endeavor division of the Ladies Aid entertained the General Aid on Wednesday in the church parlors. Division leaders presented financial and activity reports. Plans were completed for the Old Settlers' day dinner. Refreshments were served to thirty five women.
Mrs E W Decker and her son Clarence Decker of Hockwell City, visiting Norman J Waffles, departed Saturday morning. Mr and Mrs Carl Gruis accompanied them. Mrs Gruis, sister of Mrs Waffle, has been visiting here and Mr Gruis has been attending summer school at the University of Iowa.
Mr and Mrs James Wallace and children Betty Emma Margaret Ann and Jimmie returned from the east where they spent the summer Mr Wallace did special work at Harvard University Mrs Wallace and Betty and Emma headquartered in Cambridge Massachusetts Margaret Ann and Jimmy visited relatives on a farm near New Castle Pennsylvania
The Missionary and Aid society of the Presbyterian church met Thursday at Mrs. Caroline Quaas's home. Mrs. W. B. Sebern led the devotional period. Mrs. C. E. Blinks spoke on China and Mrs. Mary Clements discussed Missionary Personnel. Mrs. Owen Fernow read a letter from missionary Katherine Kearns White in Spanish Guiana, granddaughter of Mrs. Valentine Kearns. Refreshments were served to twenty six women.
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