Chicago Livestock Prices Hold Steady Amid Market Tilt
Chicago and regional markets show steady hog and cattle quotes with Chicago receipts around 12,000. Prices for choice dealers rise to 600 dollars, with fats and lambs strong in Chicago. Other cities report varied gains but overall market remains firm on weight classes and grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Onass Peoeyens
S. Lous
F&f
Bemne
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
East Buffalo
East St Louis
East St. Louis
Grain Prices Hold In Narrow Market On Quiet Day
In Chicago on a holiday trading day to Tuesday prices held in narrow ranges. Wheat moved slightly up or down while corn and oats stayed steady amid light activity and modest cash market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade
Liverpool
Winnipeg
Minneapolis
Harrow
Leverpool
Bond Markets Now Tork Bond Review New York
Bond market overview outlines mixed price action with some gains in Treasuries and Canadian issues, while U S government bonds and others show modest rises. Traders note narrow price movements with a few exceptions such as American and Foreign Power issues. currencies and European debts display limited activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mportan
Chesapeake
Dodge
Texas Corp $S
Standard O
United Crus
Bruso
Toledo Seeds and Flour Market Snapshots in 1920s Clippings
Shipping notes show Red clover and flour pricing in Minneapolis and New York markets. Terminology hints at cash deals, carload lots, and varying bag weights. Foreign exchange rates list multiple nations with modest shifts, while grain and sugar prices appear volatile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Red Clover
Hogs Rise on Local Market Amid 15 Cent Advance
Hogs strengthened on the local market Tuesday as a 15 cent advance was made in the prime grades. The top price rose to about 2.85 per hundredweight amid trade activity. The report references packers and market tone with sporadic paltry details of quotes and conditions.
Cedar Rapids Market Prices and Goods Listings
Local Cedar Rapids market page lists wholesale fruits vegetables and animal hides with varied prices. Items include apricots, cabbage, cucumbers, beans, and peaches alongside hides of beef, horse, muskrat, raccoon, skunk and civet cat with per unit ranges.
Grain Movement Across Markets Shows Mixed Corn and Wheat Pricing
Grain notes report varied prices for No 2 yellow corn and No 2 hard red winter wheat across Chicago and Minneapolis markets. Entries list bids for No 1 and No 2 white oats, No 3 white oats, and several barley and rye lots with prices and descriptors from 7 to 13 dollars per cwt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lamson Brothers and Co. R . Dibrow
Cedar Rapics
Effyee
Merthanis National Bank Buildze Preve
Lex
CNC
Minalapolis
Minneapolis
AP -Wheat
Montana
Crater
Chicago Produce Markets Report From Chicago
Chicago market brief shows prices for creamery butter eggs and dressed poultry with levels for firsts mediums and standards. Poultry and eggs trade mixed as shipments load with rack rates and futures data, noting prices for live and frozen stock and express freight terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anduexpress
Chicago
Geens CE
Births Reported for Wiggins and Sramsek Couples
Two births recorded on Christmas Day and Tuesday. Mr and Mrs F E Wiggins of 200 Eighth Avenue SW welcomed a son. Mr and Mrs Paul Sramek of 1636 Thirteenth Avenue SE welcomed a daughter named Lois Ann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F E
Eighth Avenue SW
Paul Sramek
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Lois Ann
Seek Relatives Of Man Who Died In Chicago
Cedar Rapids police seek William Boc jonek known as Branik alias Branek of 1148 Milwaukee Avenue Chicago. He had a mother and three sisters in Cedar Rapids. authorities could not locate them. Body at Wetsniewski morgue North Ashland Avenue Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
William Bocjonek
Branik
Branek
Milwaukee
Navenue
Chicago
Wetsniewski
Wall St Stocks Drift Lower Amid Quiet Trading
New York stocks eased on light turnover with metals weak and several issues dropping. American Telephone, Homestake Mining,US Smelting and Cerro de Pasco led declines while U S Steel and Continental Can also fell. transfers of about 1,050,000 shares were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
American Telephone
Homestake Mining
U. S
S Point
Continental Can
Liggett and
Myers B. du Pont
U S. Steel
American Smelting
Union Pacific
Santa Claus
Washington
U S
Cerro de Pasco
Allied Chemical American Tobacco
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
du Pont
Western Union Consolidated Gas
N ¥ Central
Commercial Solvents
US Industrial Alcohol and
RF C
Deaths: Joseph Francis Kwapil former librarian to prominent papers
Joseph Francis Kwapil 51 former Cedar Rapids resident and librarian for the Philadelphia Public Ledger died at Sharon Hall sanitarium in Philadelphia Monday at 6 am after years of poor health following an operation three years earlier. Born in Cedar Rapids March 4 1882 he studied there and at the University of Chicago. He worked as librarian for the Chicago Tribune Minneapolis Tribune Washington Times Pittsburgh Post and Sun and helped revolutionize clipping and filing reference copy. He is survived by his widow two sons and several sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Francis Kwapil
Cedar Rapids
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Sharon Hall
Philadelphia
Vaclav
Frances Kroulik Knaptl
University of Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Minneapolis Tribune
Washington Times
Pittsburgh Post
Sun
Mrs. Mary Kolarik 98. Cedar Rapids native dies
Mrs. Mary Kolarik aged 98, widow of John Kolarik, died at her daughter’s home in Cedar Rapids. Born May 10 1835 in Bohemia she came to America 51 years ago with her husband. Survived by three children, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services in Janeba and Brosh chapel to be announced.
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Mary Kolarik
John Kolarik
John Kamareid
Tenth Avenue SE
Bohemia
Solon
Cedar Rapids
Kamareid
Wendl Cejka
John
Barbara Pisarik
Vaclav
Otto Synek
Janeba and Brosh
Widow of Cedar Rapids native dies in Waterloo
Mrs Joseph Ptak aged 72 formerly of Cedar Rapids died at 9 am Tuesday in Waterloo after a lingering illness. Born in Bohemia she moved to Cedar Rapids in 1867. Survived by husband a Waterloo ice cream maker a daughter Mrs John Reardon two sisters and a brother with a son Theodore predeceased her. Funeral services set for 2 pm Thursday in Waterloo.
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Joseph Ptak
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Bohemia
John Reardon
Joseph Petranek
Anna Oransky
Victoria Adamec
Theodore
Funeral services for Patrick Murphy at St Patrick's Church
Funeral services for Patrick W. Murphy will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. in St. Patrick's church conducted by Rev. Father D J Lenihan. Burial follows at Mount Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at 1706 First Avenue W on Wednesday with the Rosary at 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick W. Murphy
St. Patrick’s Church
D. J. Lenihan
Mount Calvary Cemetery
First Avenue W
Floyd Manley Given Five Year Suspended Sentence
Floyd Manley age 18 of 629 Avenue NW received a five year suspended sentence at Anamosa state reformatory in district court on a larceny charge for stealing a bicycle from Dean Washburn at 121 Seventh Street SW Saturday night. He was arrested Monday by Detectives Stanley and Bailey and allegedly painted and sold the bicycle to J B Calvert at 916 Eleventh Street NE Sunday night. The bicycle was recovered and identified by Washburn. The sentence was suspended on good behavior. County Attorney G K Thompson filed a true information.
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Floyd Manley
Avenue NW
Anamosa State Reformatory
H. C Ring
Dean Washburn
Seventh Street
Manley
Stanley
Bailey
J. B. Calvert
Eleventh Street
Washburn
G K. Thompson
Man Fined On Liquor Charge In Van Vechten Park
Lester Ruka aged 29 was fined 300 dollars and costs in district court after police found him and another man in a parked car at Van Vechten park. The judge suspended the balance on paying 50 dollars and costs as a gun was tossed from the car and the companion claimed they were to pick up liquor. County attorney Thompson filed the information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Ruka
Third Street
Condon and
Kudina
van Vechten Park
H C Ring
Ruka
G K. Thompson
Race Horse Groom Seeks $686.21 Judgment in District Court
Leonard Emery sues E. B. Fenton in district court seeking 686.21 dollars as repayment for services as a race horse groom and an additional 41.44 dollars for expenditures allegedly made at Fenton's direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Emery
E. B. Fenton
Fenton
Balcer will admitted to probate and multiple bequests named
The will of Mrs. Mary Balcer, who died December 4, was probated Tuesday. It bequeaths to her children Charles Balcer Mary Hall Bessie McHale Anna Stedrowsky Louise Gilmore Emma Burdick Ludwig Balcer and Matilda Balcer Briggs. Otto Sikora and Louise Gilmore were named executors. The will dated August 23. Opal McQuiston seeks a divorce from Carl G. McQuiston filed in district court alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. The couple wed at Nashua September 8, 1926. James H. Johnson in district court partition action seeks one half interest in eight Hawthorne first addition properties in Cedar Rapids. Bessie Lash is named owner of the other half. Also a safety note about keeping garage doors open while warming a car to avoid carbon monoxide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Balcer
Charles Balcer
Mary Hall
Bessie McHale
Anna Stedrowsky
Louise Gilmore
Emma Burdick
Ludwig Balcer
Matilda Balcer Briggs
Otto Sikora
Opal McQuiston
Carl G. McQuiston
Nashua
James H. Johnson
Hawthorne
Cedar Rapids
Bessie Lash
McKinley addition bids lead Cedar Rapids electric firm
The Electric Motors Company of Cedar Rapids submitted the low base bid of 7950 dollars for electrical work on the McKinley building. Total low base bids for McKinley stood at 196483 dollars versus architect W J Brown’s estimate of 205586 dollars. The board of education planned to award Franklin and Wilson contracts and set action dates on McKinley bids. Next, bids for the Roosevelt school addition are due Wednesday at 2 pm and for Franklin mechanical contracts on Thursday at 2 pm.
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McKinley
Electric Motors Company
Cedar Rapids
W. J. Brown
Board of Education
Franklin General
Wilson General
Roosevelt
Franklin
Wallace Seeks Amendment to Make Beef a Basic Commodity
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said after a White House conference that amendments to the agricultural act would seek to designate beef as a basic commodity. He and President Roosevelt reviewed the agricultural situation in a twenty minute conference.
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Washington (Lp
Wallace
White House
Roosevelt
Rebels Planned Archbishop Slaying in Armenian Church
New York AP report says a hardline Armenian faction of the alleged revolutionary order of Tashnag drew lots to kill Archbishop Leon Tourian. The cleric was shot during a church procession after Sunday mass. Police say five men were arrested with one charged with homicide. the group aims to protest Soviet politics.
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New York
Old Republic of Armenia
Tashnag
Leon Tourian
Holy Cross Armenian
Juan Gonzales Tehaleikian
Snow Storm Halves Nation With Heavy East Coast Snow
A heavy snow storm moved across the eastern half of the United States. It began early Tuesday and peaked with five inches in New York by 10:30 a.m. as trains slowed and air traffic halted. Chicago reported 6.3 inches with plummeting temperatures as forecasters warned of ongoing heavy snowfall.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Ohio Valley
Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
North Carolina
New York
Sinclair Packing to Deliver Salt Pork for Relief
The Sinclair Packing company of Cedar Rapids will deliver three of fifteen carloads of salt pork bought by the government from seven Iowa packing firms for relief purposes within a few days. W. J. Albers, state federal surplus committee director, announced Tuesday. One carload will go to Cedar Rapids and Linn county, the other two to Davenport and Des Moines. The entire fifteen carloads total 510,000 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair Packing Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Packing Companies
W. J. Albers
Federal
Des Moines
Linn County
Davenport
Moline Man Injured In Accident On Highway 13
Clinton Prosser of Moline Illinois suffered a fractured pelvis in a automobile crash on Highway 13 between Central City and Cedar Rapids. He was taken to St Luke's hospital at 10 AM Tuesday after visiting in South Dakota. The cause of the accident was not learned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton Prosser
Moline
St. Luke's Hospital
Central City
Cedar Rapids
Prosser
South Dakota
Marion Christmas party hosted by Goodfellows
Four hundred fifty Marion children joined a Christmas show with a Mickey Mouse comedy and Tim McCoy in The End of the Trail at the Garden Theater. Gifts and carols highlighted the event while the Lions Club plans milk for undernourished children and continued charity efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
the Goodfellows
Claire Mershon
Garden Theater
Tim McCoy
W. E. Fisher
Presbyterian Church
Marion Community Club
Goodfellows
Lions Club
Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Dies On Christmas Day
Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin aged 70 died suddenly of a stroke on Christmas Day at 5 45 p.m. at the home of George Holmes in Cedar Rapids. Born Elizabeth Reed in 1863 in LaSalle Illinois she moved to Prairieburg Iowa and later lived in Marion before settling in Cedar Rapids. She married George R Baldwin in 1889. he died in 1930. Survived by two daughters two sons a stepdaughter and a stepson she was active in Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church. Funeral Thursday at 2 30 p.m. at Yocom chapel with Rev Winslow Brown officiating. Burial in Oak Shade cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Baldwin
First Avenue E
Cedar Rapids
George Holmes
South Twenty-ninth Street
Elizabeth Reed
Phineas and
LaSalle
Prairieburg
George R. Baldwin
Marion
Baldwin
Kenwood Park, Presbyterian Church
Charles Martin
Glenn Johnes
Harry
Clifford
Cedar, Rapids
Mason Wells
Springville
Elmer Baldwin
Minneapolis
Yocom Chapel
KE. Winslow Brown
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
Oak Shade Cemetery
Blind student crafts hammocks for Marion dolls
Roy Stanton, in his spare time this month, made fifteen cord hammocks for dolls. The hearts of fifteen Marion girls were gladdened Christmas morning. Stanton learned hammock making while at the School for the Blind in Vinton. Several locals donated dolls to accompany the hammocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Roy Stanton
Mr. Stanton
School For the
Vinton
Stanton
Fire department responds to three weekend blazes in Marion
The Marion fire department answered two calls on Sunday including a bank car fire near the stockyards and a roof fire at 1096 Eleventh Street causing only minor damage. Monday noon a blaze at Bill Jones home on Sixth Avenue near Sixteenth Street was extinguished with little damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
William P. Secrist
Eleventh Street
Bill Jones
Sixth Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Irving second grade earns perfect dental honor roll
The second grade at Irving School under Miss Helen Gregory achieves 100 percent on the dental honor roll. Eighteen students are listed: Dannie Albaugh Richard Carsner Thomas Dochterman Gerald Fry Roy Houser Robert Lundy Richard Schrimper Eugene Webster Bruce Wescott Kenneth Whittier Beulah Blackford Leah Cira Joanna Dumbalton Benny Fowler Dorothy Hutton Mollie Kinkead Catherine Lee Mildred Livingston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving School
Helen Gregory
Dannie Albaugh
Richard Carsner
Thomas Dochterman
Gerald Fry
Roy Houser
Robert Lundy
Richard Schrimper
Eugene Webster
Bruce Wescott
Kenneth Whittier
Beulah Blackford
Leah Cira
Joanna Dumbalton
Benny Fowler
Dorothy Hutton
Mollie Kinkead
Catherine Lee
Mildred Livingston
Sunshine Mission Seeks Overshoes and Rubbers for Winter
The Sunshine Mission asks residents to donate old overshoes and rubbers for outdoor workers as cold weather arrives. Frank Ward, the mission's superintendent, asks people to bring items to the mission or call for pickup. In Springfield, Illinois, four bank robbers exchanged gunfire with detectives after attempting to rob the U S Kresge store, escaping with up to five thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Mission
Frank Ward
Springfield
Ill
INS
U. S. Kresge Company
Whitcomb family hosts Christmas dinner with many relatives
A Christmas dinner at the home of Misses Minnie and Metta Whitcomb drew relatives from Springville Cedar Rapids Lisbon Marion and more. Guests included Bert Whitcomb Roy Mack Howard Mack and families with Emilie Griffin honored by a birthday cake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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Metta Whitcomb
Bert Whitcomb
Lester
Lenna
Glenn
Springville
Roy Mack
Howard Mack
Dorothy
Billy
Metta Bunger
Harry Stick
Marvin Brewer
This City
Irvin Smith
Margaret Ann
Cedar Rapids
L. R. Wilson
N. A. Baker
Jd. Hindman
Vinton
G. D. Graver
Lisbon
W. T. Jackson
Marion
Fresno
Calif
Miriam Jackson
Ely
Nev
W. W. Yocom
Emilie Griffin
Marriage Licenses Issued to Four Couples in Midwest and East
James Lelon Turnbull of Waterloc and Mary Louise Hickok of Cedar Rapids. A P Hellwig of New York City and Edna Freeman of Piqua Ohio.
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James Lelon Turnbull
Water
Loc
Mary Louise Hickok
Cedar Rapids
A. P. Hellwig
New York City
Edna Freeman
Piqua
Ohio
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