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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1949

Page

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Marion city notes and assorted social items

Local brief highlights include a fifth birthday party for Clarence Burns Jr with guests from Maquoketa and Alburnett, a vintage antiques display at George Oxley building, and a Storm's promotion. Civic groups schedule lodge work and a band weiner roast at Bever Park.

Clarence Burns Clarence, Jr Roy Burns Maquoketa Howard Burns Alburnett Charles Dukek George Oxley Linn County Old Settlers L. E. Howell

Hogs Prices Up in Chicago Livestock Trade

Chicago live hogs sold active trading with prices up about 25 cents a hundredweight. Cattle receipts up and values mixed with calves and steers showing gains, bulls steadier, cows down slightly. hog and lamb bid levels listed with tops around 21.75 for some hog lots and cattle loads reaching 31.00 for prime steers.

Sioux City Livestock prices and receipts report

Salable receipts 3,500 with calves 250. Slaughter steers showed strength up to 25 cents higher, limited top quotas. Medium feds uneven. heifers scarce. cows slow but about steady. Stockers and feeders mostly steady, includes 500 fresh western grassers. Prices: fed steers 28.65. good 26.00 to 27.25. medium shortfeds 21.00 to 24.50. some food heifers 25.00. common grassers 15.00 to 17.00. early bulk common and medium cows 14.00 to 15.50. food grassers 16.00 to 16.50. most canners and cutters 12.50 to 14.00. medium to good stock steers 18.00 to 21.50.

Chicago Livestock Chicago USDA Sioux City API Kans City Insi Kansas Iowa

Omaha Livestock Market Receipts and Prices

USDA cattle report from Omaha shows receipts of 5500 cattle and 250 calves salable. High quality fed steers and heifers sold 25 to 50 cents higher, lower grades steady to strong. Cows steady with best action on lower grades, bulls down up to 50 cents, stockers and feeders light in supply. Readouts include one 226 lb fed steer at 29.25 and four loads of 1150 to 1320 lb at 29.00, with various grades priced from 12.25 to 28.75 for different cattle classes.

Omaha Livestock Omaha USDA

Iowa Hog Receipts and Prices Across Iowa Minnesota

Receipts for the week and year are uneven across packing plants in Iowa and Minnesota. Hog prices for barrows and gilts range from 17.25 to 21.25 dollars per hundredweight depending on weight, with sows priced from 13.25 to 17.00 dollars for various weight classes.

Cedar Rapids hog and cattle market prices steady

Cedar Rapids market reports steady prices for hogs with top hog prices at 21.00 for prime butchers and 18.75 for packers. Cattle tables show ranges for steers, yearlings, cows, bulls and calves with varied grade notes and weights, alongside fruit and produce prices and miscellaneous market data.

Cedar Rapids

Stock Market Stays Uneven in Mixed Day of Trading

In New York the stock market tried to edge forward but made only small moves. Demand was selective and the final bell showed a mix of gains and losses with about 700000 shares changing hands.

New York

Livestock Prices and Weights in Waterloo Market

The listing shows steer and hog price ranges by weight in a Waterloo market. Prices fall as weight increases, with ranges from 160 pounds up to 850 pounds and specific per hundredweight values for various weight brackets.

Chicago Produce Market Highlights From Live Poultry to Butter

Chicago live poultry receipts 31 trucks with market steady. hens and Leghorn around 24c. broilers Plym outh Rock 31c. butter receipts 773531 lbs with various scores and prices. cheese assortment with multiple varieties. potatoes arrivals 129 on track 237 total US shipments 532, with Idaho Oregon Minnesota and other regions quoted around 3.90 to 4.00 per cwt.

Chicago Plymouth Rock White Rock Springs U_ S&S Idaho-Oregon Minnesota North Dakota Washington Wisconsin As. Triumphs Cobblers

New York Butter and Egg Market Reports Mixed Prices

New York market quotes firm to steady with receipts of 799 858 pounds for butter and 17 232 cases of eggs. Creamery butter prices range from 59 to 63 4 cents per pound with grades AA A B and C varying slightly. eggs show mixed color weights and grades with wholesale prices from 50 to 66 cents per dozen depending on size and grade.

New York Midwest

Strength Shown By Wheat Mart

Wheat shows underlying strength amid expectations of large cash grain deliveries on September contracts. About 1,000,000 bushels tendered. soybeans quiet. Wheat up 5 to 158 cents. September at 2.0034 percent. Corn mixed. oats steady. rye up. soybeans higher. Chicago cash provisions list various grain prices and samples.

Chicago

Auction takings on meat weights noted in OCR snippet

The fragment lists butcher prices for various weights from 170 to 500 pounds with figures like 19.00, 21.00, and 14.25, indicating a local meat sale or auction price table. Names and locations are partially garbled but reference to Ottumwa appears.

Steers Tie Peak Of Seven Months In Chicago Trade

Beef steers reached the highest price in over seven months in Chicago trading, with a load choice at 31 dollars per hundredweight, matching a level not seen since late April. The ore price marked a $3.50 difference above the month’s low of 27.50 from August 4, while a year earlier peak prices climbed to record highs.

Chicago

Iowa Briefs Snapshot of Rural School and Community News

HAWKEYE adds seven new teachers as Supt. H G Lincoln begins fourth year and John Boyd takes the coaching role. Elgin adds four teachers to the high school faculty. Monona reports a church wedding for Rose Berns and Leo Vlazny with plans to farm nearby. West Liberty lists ten new staff and new administrators. Oelwein notes a church wedding for Jacqueline Basten and Andrew Bellendier Jr. North Liberty enrolls 66 pupils with Earl M Caspers as principal. Toledo records a Sunday wedding of Lois Lewis and Eddie R McKee. Tama reports the sale of Matilda Irwin’s home for 5300 at public auction. Ely notes Frank Krob and wife at the American Legion convention. Brooklyn announces Eva Hauersperger engagement to Walter LaRose with Sept 10 wedding planned.

West Liberty M. J. Johanssen C. E. Westphal James F. Harding Jessie Waln Oelwein Jacqueline Basten Mathew Basten Andrew Bellendier Sacred Heart Church Loras College Dubuque North Liberty Earl M. Caspers Toledo Lois Lewis Eddie R. McKee First Methodist Waterloo Mathias B. Hauersperger Eva Walter LaRose Moline St. Patrick’s Church

McCullough Elected National President of Woman's Relief Corps

Mrs. Harriette G. McCullough of Des Moines was chosen national president of the Woman's Relief Corps at a Tuesday night election in Indianapolis. She succeeds prior leader, guiding the organization into its next term.

Indianapolis Harriette G. McCullough Des Moines Woman's Relief Corps

F D R Jr Weds Suzanne Perrin in Private New York Ceremony

Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. married Suzanne Perrin in a private Wednesday ceremony at the bride’s mother's apartment in New York. The 28 year old socialite became Mrs Roosevelt in a low profile event.

New York Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr Suzanne Perrin

Man Eats Glass After Drinking Beer in Windsor Bar

Windsor Ontario police search for a man who, after drinking beer, smashed the glass and ate it. A bartender, excited by the act, forgot to charge him for the drink or glass.

Windsor, Ont Windsor

Student Registration Figures At Marion High

Seventy two sophomores registered at Marion high school on Tuesday with five more indicating they would register later in the week. Juniors registered on Wednesday.

Sophs Marion High School

John Ross Returns Home From Mexico Employment

John Ross is at home after working at a Boy Scout ranch near Cimarron in Mexico. He plans to re enter the University of Iowa this fall to resume studies.

Mexico John Ross Cimmarron University of Iowa

Community Chest Board to Meet at City Hall

The Cedar Rapids Community Chest board will meet in the city hall at 7 30 p m Thursday. Shirley Bechtel, secretary, Cedar Rapids Community Chest, will speak.

Bever Park Cedar Rapids Chest Board Community Chest Board Shirley Bechtel The Cedar Rapids Community Chest

Hills Woman Gives Birth to Triplets

In Iowa City Mercy hospital a second set of triplets arrived, two girls born to Mrs. Louis Knebel of Hills died soon after. Hospital hoped to save the remaining infant. The Knebels live near Hills, while another triplets birth occurred January 19 in Coralville for Mr. and Mrs. William E Brecht.

Iowa City Mercy Hospital Louis Knebel Hills

Violent Winds Sweep Chicago

A sudden violent storm swept over Chicago with 50 to 70 mph gusts. Coast guardsmen reported two small vessels overturned or swamped on Lake Michigan and three people were seen clinging to one. The same storm path caused lightning deaths of two men seeking shelter indoors.

Chicago Lake Michigan

Boys Severely Burned By an Exploding Bomb

Two East Des Moines boys Gary Brown nine and Donald Carter eleven were severely burned on face and hands when an aerial bomb they found at the state fair grounds exploded. They were hospitalized after the blast in Brown’s backyard.

DES Moines East Des Moines State Fairgrounds Gary Brown Donald Carter Scott Crowley Fairgrounds

Beardsley to receive Arkansas razorback hog

Iowa Governor William Beardsley plans to receive a 200 pound razorback hog from Arkansas Governor Sid McMath at the Amvets convention. Beardsley, a New Virginia farmer with about 200 hogs, said he will place the animal with his herd to show hog ancestors and bring a novelty to his farm.

Des Moines William S. Beardsley Sid McMath Arkansas McMath Beardsley Amvets Virginia

Cigar Case Value Surpasses Suiter’s Estimate in Hollywood

Ann Sheridan reported a diamond emerald sapphire cigarette case lost at Ciros on Aug 19. She valued it at 1500 dollars and kept silent 10 days hoping it would be found. The item held her name and was a gift from former lover Steve Hannagan.

Hollywood INS Ann Sheridan Ciro’s Steve Hannagan Ann

Took for Granted by Edgar A Guest

Poem reflects on daily joys overlooked until lost. It laments how familiar smiles, flowers, and songs are underappreciated until missing, urging readers to value simple pleasures before they vanish.

Roosevelt Says She Opposes Robeson Propaganda

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said she violently disagrees with Paul Robeson yet would attend a concert if he did not use his art for political propaganda. She called the Peekskill riot horrible and said she would walk out if he spoke for communism.

New York Franklin D. Roosevelt Paul Robeson Robeson Peekskill N.Y

Pilot found dead in Wellpinit B-29 crash wreckage

Lt. Jack Gillard of Spokane, co-pilot of a B-29 whose crew members parachuted to safety, was found dead Wednesday in the crash wreckage at Wellpinit Washington. At a social function, the U S President enters the room ahead of his wife.

Wellpinit Wash Jack Gillard Spokane U. S

Gazette Want Ad Rates and Classified Fragments

Classified page fragment showing Gazette want ad rates for consecutive days and small display ads. Includes lost and found notices, memoriam, personals, and various misc. entries with phone numbers and box references. Mentions Buresh Motors Rosens Jewelry and local businesses.

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