Market News Briefs Stir in Live Stock Trade
Receipts show 3500 lambs as undercurrent remains steady. Lamb prices hold around 2.00 to 2.85 per hundredweight with demand steady. several buyers from Dakota and France reported keeping bids strong.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1938
Page
8
Livestock Prices Pivot as Hogs Hit Four-Year Depths
Chicago market sees a big run in hogs driving prices down to levels not seen in four years while cattle and sheep receipts rise. Traders note weak demand and a larger-than-expected hog supply, with heavy hogs dropping up to 25 cents per pound and top quotes easing. Livestock receipts across Chicago and Omaha show mixed moves with hogs hardest hit and cattle steadier to weak.
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Chicago
Sears
eVustuet
Veeck
Omaha
Tnes
Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Price List Items
Local Cedar Rapids listing shows varied commodity prices including grain like No 1 and No 2 flex, yellow corn, and hay and straw at specific per unit costs. Produce prices cover butterfat dairy, fruits vegetables and staples such as lemons oranges grapes celery lettuce bananas onions cabbage carrots potatoes sweet potatoes and cranberries with assorted beef pork and horse prices also listed.
Hog price listings at Austin Minnesota market
Market report shows varied hog prices by weight ranges from 149 to 550 pounds with quotes around 5 to 6 dollars per hundredweight. Listings include multiple weight brackets and quantities, packing sow figures, and percentages. confusion in line items suggests a bulk livestock quotation page.
Iowa hog market results from midweek auction update
Combined hog receipts at 20 terminals and 10 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending Tuesday show 27 000 head, down from last week. Barrows and gilts priced around 140 to 160 pounds at 6.50 to 6.95, with various loads noted across sizes and ages.
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Iowa
Des Moines
US Dent Agriculture
Minnesota
Sam Tueerhisy
Pan Ewe Ave
Feore
Ee Barrows Ind
Shaoh Hagan
St Paul Livestock Market Report
Market notes from St Paul area cattle run show bids around 700 dollars for steer lots and 475 dollars for other cattle. Trade eased into lower bids with steady demand. price ranges cited include 625 to 740 dollars for top offerings. Overall, 2500 head processed with mixed quality stock ready for sale.
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ST Pace Livestock
ST Paul
Sierra Do
Stork
Cave
Local hog and cattle market notes with price shifts
Hogs prices drop 10 cents across grades to a top of 86.80. Cattle listings show choice to prime steers 1,000 pounds and under, yearling steers 790 900 pounds, and various weights for cows and heifers. Calf market and lambs are noted with fluctuating bids and weights for buyers.
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France
Jain
Furidays
Siotn Cmy
Stotn City
Ce Fed
Associated Press
Ottumwa
Waterloo
Mason City
Fong OO My
Brk
Chicago Produce Market Report Amid Price Fluctuations
AP reports varied receipts and price levels for butter eggs poultry and cheese in Chicago. Butter and eggs show fluctuating prices with steady to weaker demanda while poultry supplies include leghorns turkey figures and rising or steady prices. Idaho russet potatoes and Colorado McIntosh apples appear steady with color and quality notes and cheese receipts show softer tones with standard price ranges.
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Cmicago
Chicago
Exusy Creamery
Idaho
Colorado
Burbank
Wool and sugar markets in slow trading week
Boston wool inquiries rise as sales lag with prices mainly steady toward the low to mid sixties on scoured and original bases. In New York sugar futures hold steady amid modest demand with No 3 at 1.81 and May 1.95, while refined and raw sugar prices drift. Foreign exchange shows a winter rally in sterling and franc with mixed levels across major currencies.
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Havers
Sugan
New York
Mississippi River Stages and Weather Mentions
Local river readings list Davenport Dubuque Saint Louis Memphis stages with values ranging from 20 to 72. The fragment shows temperatures or stage markers with city names and numbers, suggesting a weather and water levels brief.
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Davenport
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Stock Leaders Up Fractions To Two Points
New York AP reports stocks rose modestly amid tax selling and profit taking. Industrial leaders including Chrysler General Motors US Steel Bethlehem U S Rubber Johns Manville Philip Morris US Gypsum Santa Fe Illinois Central Public Service of New Jersey Canada Dry led gains. Douglas Aircraft United Aircraft reached new highs for 1938 with Sperry Boeing popular.
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General Motors
US. Steel
Bethlehem
U S. Rubber
Johns Manvile
Philip Morris
US Gypsum
Santa Fe
Great Northern
Illinois Central
Public Service of
N. J
Canada Dry
Douglas Aircraft
United Aircraft
Sperry
Boeing
Electric
Colls Patent Firearms
Lockheed
Wall Street Quotation Highlights From Tuesday Trading
A compact report lists numerous stocks traded on the New York market with prices and percent changes. Leaders include Adams Express Alaska Juneau Norwegian holdings and major firms such as International Telephone, U S Steel, Procter Gamble, General Motors, and Ford among many others.
Bond Markets Rally in Steady Uplift Across Sectors
New York bond market sees a moderate rally with gains in a wide range of corporate issues and U S Treasury issues rising in response to optimistic business outlook for 1939. Prices show a broad, though uneven, upturn as yields drift higher and loan sectors hold within narrow bands.
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York Bond Review
New York
API
U. S. Treasury
Ately
Milan
Wheat prices drift fractionally lower in sluggish trading
Wheat prices eased slightly on the Chicago Board of Trade as Liverpool and Winnipeg markets fell. December wheat at 63 4 cents, corn off fractions, oats mixed, with broad inactivity and minimal demand keeping quotes in a narrow range. Local receipts: 87 cars of corn and 80 cars of wheat.
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India
Australia
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Rotary Club Raises 1268 for Charity Fund
The Cedar Rapids Rotary club surpassed its Christmas fund goal Monday night with pledges totaling 1268 collected at the local broadcasting station. Funds will buy clothing for needy families with $5 allotted per family. shopping is directed by the mother with support from a Rotarian wife. Subscriptions have begun for 100 families.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa News in Brief: Local Obituaries and Notices
Funeral services for Mrs. D P Miller 76 of North English were held at the Brethren church east of South English. Surviving are fourteen children and several siblings and relatives. William Stewart 71 of Miles paid part of a drunken driving fine in Maquoketa with the remainder suspended for good behavior. James E DeCaw died on a Deep River farm. services were held with two brothers and one sister as survivors. Infant Judith Ann Jordan died after birth. services were conducted by Rev Eastman. Nadine Schnede, youngest daughter of Fred and Mrs Schnede, of Wheatland, noted.
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D P. Miller
Brethren Church
South English
D. P. Miller
Miller
Minnie Wirkpatrick
Oskaloosa
Liddy Flory
Sylvia Richie
Elgin, Jr
Frank D. Kelsey
Montezuma
James E. DeCaw
Deep River
Thomas Hill
Elizabeth Johnston
William
Albert
Lewis
Clarence Jordon
Arthur Eastman
Methodist Church
Judith Ann
Wheatland
Nadine Schnede
Fred Schnede
Funeral Home Ad Fits Private Residence Style
Brady Mortuary and Bros Chapel present an institution devoted to public service in a private residence atmosphere. They list contact numbers 2-7237 and 2-8837 for funeral arrangements and pipe organ services at 1107 3rd St SE.
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Bros Chapel
FA. Brosh
3Rd St. SE
Wheatland Set To Wed Ruggeberg At DeWitt Parsonage
The Wed night ceremony at the Lutheran church in DeWitt will unite Miss Bernita Ruggeberg and Virgil Witte with a double ring rite conducted by Rev Hank. Attendants include Virgil Witte and Bernita Ruggeberg. A dinner follows at the bride’s home. The bride, a Wheatland graduate of 1986, and the groom, a Welton alumnus, will reside on a Grand Mound area farm.
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Conspiracy Trial Testimony Involving GM Payments To War Officials
Frank E Speicher testified in federal court that a General Motors official received thousands of dollars for supposed payments to three high war department officials. He identified Norman Uaig as the GM official and said Speicher attempted to surrender previously to the House Military Committee with uncertain immunity.
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War Department
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Speicher
House Military Committee
William No Rogers
New Hampshire
Edward W. Goss
Harold &. Lehnure
Goss Goss
Rogers
William E Leahy
Joseph Silverman
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General Motors
Christmas and gift ads rage through local shops
Local merchants advertise evergreen greens wreaths blankets and Christmas trees at Rosemond and Edar Rapids Nurseries PIERSON FLOWER SHOP and VIN CENTS JEWELRY STORE offer wreaths trees and gifts. Services include jewelry repair transfers moving and beauty services with discounts and specials for the season.
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Edar Rapids
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