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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1948
Page
13
Estimated livestock for Tuesday show cattle at 6,000 hogs at 7,000 sheep figures. Live hogs were steady to 50 cents lower Monday with heavy weights strongest, cattle uneven plus or minus 25 cents, wealers down around a dollar, and sheep mostly steady.
Overnight guests include CHICAGO GRAIN QUOTATIONS and Arlo in the La Barge home. Community updates report travel, visits, and family activities with mentions of local businesses, churches, and schools.
A jumble of notices lists wrecker service, watch repair, jewelry, clothing, mattresses, life belts, carpet care, furniture buying and selling, window shades, transfer services, and vacancies. Names such as DeLung, Hertz Licensee Buresh Motors, Kenwood Transfer, YELLOW Cab Co., and Harmony Cafeteria appear amid offers for alterations, cleaning, and jobs.
Hog receipts 5 500 total 6 500 slow with few loads over 400 lb and sows uneven. Prices range 30.00 30.50 for good to choice hogs and heavier weights scarce. Cattle receipts 12 000 calves 700 steers steady to 50c lower with top steers 41.25 and heifers up to 38 50. Sheep receipts 2 000 total 4 500 with lambs and yearlings largely steady to higher and yearling wethers around 25 00.
Receipts show hogs salable 4 500 with mixed demand and price declines across weights, 30 cent spread in good to choice barrows and gilts. Cattle market reports steady to lower, cows and bulls near steady, feeders and yearlings softening. sheep and lambs bid at varying levels. Also Cedar Rapids quotes show prime butchers up to 29.75 with other weights moving accordingly. Cattle and hog prices for various weights and classes listed alongside calf and sheep values. general market mixed with small gains in some hogs and declines in others. Farm product prices and river stage figures included.
New York prices opened lower and slipped further through the day. The market closed with fractional to four point losses as about 550000 shares changed hands.
US cattle market report shows salable receipts around 16 000 with unsold loads. Short fed steers and heifers range from 24 to 32 dollars, choice 917 lb Colorado fed heifers at about 38.75, good heifers near 32 to 34, stockers steady with good and choice steers around 31 and feeders near 40 for heavy weights.
Chicago market report shows steady trades with varied produce and poultry prices. Items include hens, broilers, leghorn chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guineas, pigeons, eggs, and butter, with receipts and grade scores noted across multiple lines.
New York markets show butter receipts at 521,989 with wholesale cartons of creamery cheese premiums and varied scores. Prices range around 76 to 92 with 66 to 68 cent spreads on different grades and tub sales, while receipts for a shorter period reach 532,928 with American and Swiss cheese notes and regional Midwest activity.
A cautionary report urges readers to prioritize safety over risk taking. Officials emphasize vigilance, planning, and measured actions to prevent accidents and harm in daily activities and shared spaces. The piece highlights practical steps and community guidance from local agencies.
Grain futures fell to seasonal lows as traders priced in ample corn supply, worries about storage, and potential parity-support revisions. Wheat slid to $2.17, corn to $1.55, oats around $0.71, soybeans near $2.43 with all major grains touching new seasonal lows.
Chicago cash market quotes for wheat corn and oats with No 1 hard No 2 yellow and No 1 yellow prices. No 2 white oats and mixed oats detailed. Barley prices listed as nominal feed and high grade plus soybeans reported as none.
USDA cattle receipts 6,500 with calves and yearlings showing steady to higher bids. Hogs 4,500 receipts with slow but steady demand and mixed weights trading down to 50 cents. Sheep receipts 1,300 with buyer sentiment leaning lower on slaughter offerings and limited early action.
Des Moines reports show receipts Monday around 18 000 head with week and year totals. prices largely steady from Saturday with some rises up to 50 cents for certain hogs. Weight ranges cited include 160-180 and 200-240 pounds with per hundredweight figures from $26.00 to $29.00 and sow prices varying nearby.
Mr and Mrs C W Griffin and Mr and Mrs R W Esslinger won the Elmcrest Golf Club fourball event with a net 136. Bud Turner and Loretta Gorman were close with 137 and Joe Fredericks pair had the low twosome at 61. J M Welch claimed closest drive on No 5.
Miss Doris Pense and Richard Jedlicka, both of Cedar Rapids, married Sunday afternoon in the Baptist parsonage with Rev. Charles Moore officiating. Attendants were Mary Powers and Oliver Klein. The couple will reside in Cedar Rapids. Also, Reunion guests including W F Kruger and Florence Kruger attended a faculty reunion at Wartburg college in Waverly. Kruger attended the American Lutheran church convention as a delegate.
Mr and Mrs Eugene McConaug hy moved Monday into the house at 1055 Seventeenth street which they recently purchased. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Mobbs are at home from Silver Springs Fla. John Hoeft of Clear Lake joined Mrs Hoeft and their daughter Sue in a weekend visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank La Barge. Mrs Hoeft and Sue accompanied him home Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Herman Larson of Worthing S D
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