Hog Prices Decline Amid Limited Test of Market
Chicago and Midwest livestock markets report sparse receipts and weak demand on Saturday. Hog, cattle, and sheep prices ease from Friday’s levels as buyers test conditions. hogs 10-20 cents lower, cattle generally steady to up, and sheep mixed with some declines. Regional yards in Omaha Sioux City Mason City and St Paul show similar trends with quiet demand and modest advances in select fat cattle and yearling prices.
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Chicago
API
Ius
Dept Agriculture
Omaha Livestock
Omaha
IU S. Dept Agriculture
Practical
Sioux City Livestock
Sioux City
Towa
Associated Press
Ottumwa
Waterloo—Hors
Hinder Road
Choice
Mason City
ST_PAUL
South ST. Paul
Mkt
BCO
Iowa
Des Moines
Iu. S. Dent
Minnesota
G. Shee
Kansas City
East St Louis
Hogs Unchanged on Local Market Report
Local hog prices held steady with top quotes around five dollars. Cattle also remained steady as buyers and sellers moved little, with figures across various hog weights and packer categories reflecting unchanged market conditions.
Cedar Rapids Miscellameous Grain and Produce Prices
Cedar Rapids market notes list prices for grain such as wheat oats rye and barley with various No. grades, hay, soybeans, and straw. Also includes butterfat milk products, poultry prices for hens, leghorns, roosters and other fowl, and wholesale fruit and vegetable prices with quantities and per unit costs. Additional hides prices and related animal products are provided.
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Cedar Rapids
Chicago Markets Show Mixed Produce Prices and Receipts
Chicago produce receipts show steady butter and egg declines with varied prices across grades. Potatoes reach strong northern stock support with several U S classifications and burlap and washed sack prices. New York reports mixed egg quality, firmer butter, and fluctuating standards, while futures reflect storage and refrigerator standards for late December through January.
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Chicago
U S
Idaho
Colorado
Red McClures
U. S
Nebraska Bliss
North Dakota
Red River
U_ S
Buss
New York
Samson Bros. and Co
Wisconsin cheese prices and Dow Jones averages report
Wiscon sin cheese exchange lists Dec 11 to 16 quotes for brick cheddars and horns with tact and dailies. Dow Jones averages show bonds rails utilities and industrials with mixed moves and stock transactions noted.
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Wisconsin Cheese
Plymouth
Wis
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Farmers’ Call
DOW Jones
Stacis
Daisy Ward Flunks License Exam After Collision
Colorado Springs AP reports Mrs Daisy Ward failed her driving test after a collision with a truck during the examiner’s presence in her car on Saturday.
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Colorado Springs
Daisy Ward
Stocks Struggle To Rally In Narrow Saturday Session
In New York a sparse market muted by year end tax selling and foreign liquidation. Transfers for two hours around 250000 shares with only a few steels, motors, rails and aircraft showing fractional gains while many issues finished lower or unchanged. Major names like U S Steel and Bethlehem slipped late while others held back.
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New York
Wall Street
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Sears Roebuck
Us, Rubber
Douglas Aircraft
Glenn Martin
Consolidated Edison
Western Union
Pennsylvania
Southern Railway
J. I. Case
Air Reduction
Santa Fe
Anaconda
Wall Street Stocks Quotations From Adams Exn to Quaker
Stock table from Wall Street shows numerous listings including Adams Exn, International Paper, Alaska Juneau, Allied Stores, Kennecott, Allis Chalmers, Amn Can, Libbey Owens, Amn Tel & Tel, Procter Gamble, Chrysler, General Electric, Union Carbide, Goodyear, Woolworth, Zenith, and many others. Markets reflect wide sector movements with numerous percentages and price hints across banks, oil, steel, mining, and consumer goods firms amid Saturday quotations.
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J. E. Bennett & Co
Merchants National Bank
Adams
Alaska Juneau
Wits Alleghany Corp
Ita Johns Manville
Allied Ch
Kan City
Allied Stores
Kennecott
Allis Chalmers
Kresae
Amal Leather
Kroser G
Libbey Owens
Lig. Myers
Amn Metals
Marshall Pid
Am Street
Martin
Amn Tel & Tel
Mathiesen
Amn
Tsaio
Rane
Packard Mtrs
Burroughs
T's Pillshury
Cerro de Pasco
Pittseah
Ches & Ohio
Ches Corp
Proctor Gamble
Pullman Co
Chrysler
Hea Radio Corp
Syc
Radio Keith
Corea Cola
Rem Rand
Colg Palmolive
Reo Motors
Cola Furl
Reph Steel
Columbas
Credit Sea Safeway
Schenney
Southern Ie
Seaboard Oil
Conde Nast
Sears Roebuck
Servel, Inc
Cons Edison
Sharp Dohme Oy
Shell Union
Motors
Coty Inc
Crucible Steel
Sperry Corp
St Joe
Cudahy
Calif
Deere. Co
Ind
Douglas Air
du Pont
St. Frieco
Stew Warner
Eaton Mic
Stone Webster
Bice Puys
Studebaker
Sia
Eric
Thompson
Tidewater
la Freeport
Timken
Gen Baking
Gen Cables
Trans-Amer
Gen Electric
Fox Film
Gen Foods
Union Carbide
Gen Gas
Union Pac
Gen Motors
Uni Aircraft
Gen Outdoor
Uni Air Lines
Gen Realty
Uni Corp
Gillette S
Gimbel Bros
Uni el Coal
Glidden
Uni Fruit
Goebel
Uni Gas Co
Uni Gas
Goodrich BF
USG
Gootyear Tire
Graham
Greyhound
Hall
Walworth
Hives
Warner Bros
Union
Hiram Walker
Westlise AB
Houston
Hudson
Hupp
Jarvis
Bendix
Marshall Field
Bliss Laushiin
Midwest
Warner
Quaker
Butler Bros
Cherry Burrell
Swift and Co
Chicaco Corp
Switt Inti
Edison
Walgren
Wheat and Corn Futures Rise on Short Covering and Weather Outlook
Wheat traded up as much as two cents on the Chicago board of trade with a close 7.5 cents higher at 145 cents, December 97 cents. corn gains of up to a cent and oats 1/4 to 1/2 cent. Buenos Aires and Winnipeg firming prices aided demand, with Canadian export sales around 250000 bushels and modest government loan stock offerings noted.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Buenos Aires
Winnipeg
Kansas City
WINNITEG MARKET WHEAT FUTURES AND CHICAGO CASH PROVISIONS
Market notes show Winniteg wheat futures with close Dec and May bids and prices. Chicago cash grain reports list cash wheat, corn, soybeans, timothy, clover, alfalfa seeds, lard, and bellies with bid ranges and quotes. Minneapolis receipts and grain prices include No 1 heavy dark northern, No 1 dark northern, hard Montana, durum varieties, corn, oats and barley quotes, with adjustments from the prior year.
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Lamson Brothers and Company
R. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Merchant National Bank
Chicago
Minneapolis
Montana
Bond Market Moves Mixed Amid Small Gains in Rail Bonds
New York bond traders saw railroad bonds attract buyers on Saturday with fractional gains. Several issues including Union Pacific 34s and Southern Railway 4s rose, while others such as International Telephone 5s and Western Union 5s traded under water. U S government bonds closed quietly with minor shifts, Treasury issues posting modest changes.
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NEW York Bond Review
New York
API
Union Pacific
Southern Railway
Baltimore and Ohio
Long Island
International Telephone
Columbia Gas
Alleghany
Western Union
Central States Electric Seeks Bonds to Retire Old Debt
Central States Electric of Cedar Rapids Iowa filed for 2.25 million dollars of 4 percent first mortgage bonds due 1964 and 0.75 million dollars of 4 1/2 percent serial debentures due 1945 to 1952. A 0.5 million dollar serial bank loan adds to a total 3.5 million dollar debt retirement plan. Underwriters lead Harris Hall. Frank Fratcher says debt older than years, many at 6 percent, will be retired at 100 thousand dollars annually. Service area includes Eldora Iowa Falls northwest of Marshalltown.
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Washington
The
Securities Commission
Central States Electric Company
Cedar Rapids
Harris, Hall & Company, Inc
Frank Fratcher
Central States Electric
Central States Company
Marshalltown
Eldora
Iowa Falls
Real estate transfers in Ridgewood and surrounding area
Multiple 1939 deeds recorded: Sadie A French transfers to Reginald and Zoe Symonds Figge a Ridge Wood Lot 121 for $1. Bertha C Quarten and Charlotte Pinney convey to William B Quarten a West 250 feet of section 14 83 7 with reservations. Hawkeye Loan transfers to Claude V and Doris L Reeve a West Lot 33 Plat 213 with covenants and restrictions.
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Sadie A. French
Reginald B
Zoe Symonds Figge
Ridgewood
Valcon
Bertha C. Quarten
Hus
Charlotte Pinney
William B. Quarten
C R
I C Ry
Lt Co
Edward C. Clark
Hawkeye Loan and Brokerage Co. (Inc
Claude V
Doris L. Reeve
Marion area clubs host Christmas events and notices
Marion community news details electing Mrs. Paul J Fiedler president of the Diana Fret club and installing officers, Christmas reads and gift exchanges, and a Linn county rural letter carriers party. Other items cover theater outings, visits, church guilds planning Christmas drives, Navy news, hospital updates, and 4-H club activities with guests present.
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Paul J Fiedler
Diana Fret Club
E. C. Ainley
L. M. Phelps
H. B Phillips
Ainley
Phelps
W C. Sheets
Willis Jordan
Frank J. Cleveland
Linn County Rural Letter Carriers
Hallwood Cafe
Marion church notices outline service times and subjects
A local church listing provides morning and evening worship times for several faith groups including Baptist under Rev. L W Inman and Christian under Rev Vernon H Carter. Subjects cover Our Neighbors The God Answering by Fire The Book for Every Crisis Revelation in Scripture and The Voice and the Word. Community choirs, Christian Endeavor and youth leagues are noted along with Sunday school start times and midweek prayers.
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L. W. Inman
St. Joseph's Catholic
T. J. McElliott
Vernon H Carter
C G. Ellinger
Walter Hall
Herbert Livingston
Dorothy Potter
Arthur W. Henke
Voice
Marion Union Christian Endeavor
Gilbert Voorhies
de Jong
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran
Carl E. Krog
Walther League
Williamsburg
Seventh Day Church of God
Sixth Street
Ninth Avenue
Prairie Chapel
J. B.clyde
Epworth League
Alburnett
J. B. Clyde
Coe To Meet Eight Conference Foes On 1940 Card
The 1940 Midwest conference football schedules were drawn with Cornell at nine games and Coe at eight. Cornell opens at St Ambrose, then Culver Stockton, Ripon and Beloit, meeting Grinnell Knox Monmouth Carleton, with Monmouth and Carleton on the road and an open date on October 12. Coe's eight games include contests with Grinnell Ripon Beloit Monmouth Carleton Knox and Knox at various home and away sites.
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Chicago
Cornell
Coe
Kohawks
St. Ambrose
Davenport
Culver Stockton
Mount Vernon
Barker
Lawrence
Mount
Ripon
Beloit
Grinnell
Knox Nat
Monmouth
Carleton
Reloit
Open
Appleton
Knox
Galesbure
Hungary Fortifies Carpathian Border Amid Finland War Watch
Hungary rushes to fortify the Carpathian mountains forming a frontier with Ruthenia and Soviet controlled Poland as southeastern Europe fears a Russian advance if Finland falls. Cement shortages hit Budapest due to defense work and mobilization.
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Budapest
Carpathian Mountains
Hungary
Europe
Russia
Finland
Hungarian Ruthenia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Regional leaders back third term bid in 1940 race
Washington dispatch reports Garner forces gearing to push his vice presidency candidacy while Roosevelt’s plans remain unclear. Texas figures and Tammany leaders back a Roosevelt third term, with Republicans noting potential limits. Dewey and McNutt meet at Union Station amid broader party intrigue and upcoming paries.
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Washington
Garner
Roosevelt
John N. Garner
Uvalde
Tex
E B. Germany
Texas
NBC
John Garner
William L. Sirovich
N Y
Michael Edelstein
Tammany Hall
Eighth
New York
White House
Earle Peters
Indiana
Republican National Committee
Roy O Woodruff
Mich
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
King George
Chamberlain
United States
Union Station
Thomas E. Dewey
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Dewey
Chicago
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Tom
Russian Chiefs Deny Poison Gas Use Denials From Moscow
Moscow reports the Leningrad military district denies Finland's charges that the Red Army uses poison gas and dumdum bullets. The high command calls the allegations malicious fabrications and states the army never has and never will employ such war methods.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Finland
Red Army
Local Gift and Service Ads Mix of Goods and Trades
Page listing various ads and offers including herbal tonic Lee's Herbal Compound, jewelry repairs, old gold buyback, personalized services, van lines, knitting and sewing, bicycle trade ins, washing machines, pens and pencils, quilts and machine quilting, dry cleaning, feather mattresses, gas delivery and tow service, baby portraits and Christmas cards. Notes of multiple businesses with addresses and phone numbers.
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Lee
May's
Probasco Jewelers
2Nd Ave
Whitman
Paris
Podzimex Pharmacy
16Th Ave
Enwood
E. A. Kriz & Son
First St
Nmas
L. A. Lower Jeweler
2Nd St
Cedar Rapids Knitting Co
Allied van Lines, Inc
Calder’s van & Storage Co. Inc
H. K. Shaeffer
Kresge
Lynch Transfer & Storage Co
Hall Bicycle Co
2nd_Ave
Briggs-Stratton
Eas Nel
Hoe East Oy
Mera Shop
Slayer Executed in Colorado Gas Chamber
The body of Harry Leopold, who killed a Denver tavern keeper, was to be sent to his Denver mother for burial after Leopold died calmly in Colorado's lethal gas chamber at the state penitentiary Friday night.
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Canon City
Colo
INS
Harry Leopold
Denver
Leopold
Colorado
State Penitentiary
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Austin
Minn
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Ubuque
Cokuk
Louis
Alro
Memphis
Russell
Jonathan Apgles
Mide
Wall St
Winniteg
May
U S. Bonds
Treasury
Cokes
Marion News
Ray Bolton
Cbe
Clark
Mount Auburn
A. M. Gott
George Fullerton
Don
Anna Klappholz
August W. Beyer
Keystone
Robert Taylor
Hedy Lamarr
Tuella G. McGowan
George B Gray
Huntington Park
Betty McBride
Coe College
Anamosa
Melvin Oldfather
Iowa City
Mrs Oldfather
O. R. Martin
Marion
McKesson-Nyal
Miles
Owen's Drug Store
Clarence Brown
Boone
M. S. Hickman
Friendly Guild of the Methodist Church
Phil J Crew
Charles Hibner
Mr. Hibner
George M. Hibner
Gleaners
Methodist Ladies Aid Society
August W Beyer
Klappholz
Robert Carey
E. V. Carey
Fourteenth Street
Billie Scott
Lawrence Martin
Bob Davin
Jerry Gerrans
Dale Goodyear
George B. Gray
J . Kramer
Columbus, O
Earl Snyder
Lena Samuelson
L. A Shellenbarger
St. Luke’s Hospital
Raymond Manson
Edward Manson
U S. Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Elizabeth Shellenbarger
L. R. Shellenbarger
Mrs. Shellenbarger
W. E. Dennis
Fidelis Circle
King's Daughters
Will Grassfield
Arthur E. Fairhurst
Arlene
Ardyce Quass
Dorothy Pflughaupt
Catherine Reinheimer
Byron Ambdenstock
Ethel Limpus
Maxine Quass
Carl Carver
Mary Elizabeth Starry
Lucy Groundwater
Carl J. Kassler
Marion Churches
Carpathian Border
Flapper
By Sylvia
Charlie
Gazette
Gazette Office
Sunday Gazette
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Humane Shelter
C Ave
Lane
7Th Ave
Kory Inn
St Patricks School
Seattle
6Th St. NW
Udesen
Shrine Temple
Plamor
Stan Norris
NBC Orchestr
Padies
Reservat
Terrace Garden
Abrams’ New Green Lantern
Foreman
First ‘Street
Viking
Recordign
SP. S. Hall
Danceland
Hussey Orchestra
Gents
Aite
de Camp
Smitty's
Jackson's
Barby
Walford
Royal Entertainers
Moose Hall
Kula
E. Henecke
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