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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 27, 1939

Page

5

Hog market climbs on active trading in Chicago region

Hogs rose 10 to 20 cents in a fairly active market led by top bids near 6.15 as receipts hit about 21 000 head. Across segments, reports from Chicago Omaha Sioux City and other yards note steady to higher prices for light to heavy hogs with varied demand and strong bidding on select weights.

Chicago Neavy i Kansas City St Louis St Joseph Sioux City T. Paul Indianapolis Buffalo Cincinnati

Salable Hog and Sheep Receipts Signal Steady Market Tone

Hog receipts 13 000 with prices generally steady. some buyers bid up to 5 75 on choice hogs but no bids. Sows higher in some reports. Sheep receipts 4 800 show steady tones for food and choice slaughter lambs. midweek quotes 7 75 to 8 25 for feeding lambs and 8 75 for good to choice lambs.

Chicago Livestock Chicago API Imdrivei Mealun Witsey Srngsee Smaur Stoosway Spolg Inuher Butik

Local Hog Prices Rise on Futures-Adjusted Market

Hogs higher on local market with advances of 10 to 15 cents. Tops reach $5.40. hogs in various weight grades listed with freight and carcass values. Cattle market shows steady to modest gains across steers and yearlings, with cows and cutters priced lower. Sale notes include lambs and bucks by weight and quality.

Cedar Rapids Mixed Market Prices and Supplies

Daily Cedar Rapids market list shows Grain prices for wheat rye and corn along with hay straw, soybean, and oats. Produce prices cover butterfat eggs fruit vegetables and dairy items with assorted weights and unit prices. Livestock hides and horse prices are listed with various grades and quantities.

Bond Markets Little Change Amid Endyear Trading Hint

New York bond market shows most corporate issues slipping slightly with holiday quiet and light year end selling. Some foreign bonds rose modestly extending recent gains while U S treasury issues hovered near rebound highs. notable moves included Australia 4 1/4, Denmark 6s and Norway 4s.

NEW York Bond Review New York Treasury Australia Denmark Norway New York Consolidated

Wisconsin cheese and wool market report

Wisconsin cheese quotations for Dec 25 to 30 show daisies 15 percent, brick 14 to 4c, cheddars 15c. Wool market in Boston reports slow sales due to limited supplies, steady on some grades, weaker on three-eighths and quarter blood territory wools, with three-eighths blood sold 83 to 85 cents scoured and bright fleece quiet at 43 to 45 cents grease delivered.

Wisconsin Plymouth Wis Cheese Exchange Farmers’ Call Board Boston API U S. Dept. Arriculture

Year Lind Sales Signal Broad Market Declines

New York report shows year end portfolio adjustments with widespread stock losses across sectors including steels motors rubbers mail order houses aircrafts utilities metals rails and more. About 1 million shares traded in heavy morning/afternoon sessions with many issues down from the day’s highs while Lockheed and Du Pont remained firm amid mixed bond activity.

New York U. S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler Central Santa Fe Goodyear Caterpillar United Aircraft Anaconda Kennecott Gypsum Standard Oil Lockheed Aircraft du Pont Cities Service Creole Petroleum Lake Shore Mines

Easier Undertone Imparted to Wheat by Snow

Chicago futures eased as winter wheat gains from additional snow softened prices. May wheat closed 1/4 to 1 cent lower around 102.50, corn and oats held near prior levels, rye dipped about 1 percent, and soybeans fell 1 to 2 cents. Kansas City and Minneapolis markets slipped. Winnipeg rose on holiday gains. Cargo sales included Canadian wheat to Denmark and U.S. corn to Holland. Local receipts: six wheat cars, 42 corn, seven oats, eight soybeans.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Kansas City Minneapolis Winnipeg Denmark U.S Holland Commission House Northwest

Market Wheat and Grain Prices Across Winnipeg and Minneapolis

Winnipeg market notes show open high low close for wheat and barley with bids around 85 for May and July contracts. Chicago cash provisions list no sales for cash wheat and mixed corn, with various No 1 and No 2 grades and soybeans. Minneapolis receipts reflect lower cash wheat and corn bids, with No 1 heavy dark northern at about 1.05 and durum varieties around 93 to 33 cents.

Winnipeg Chicago Minneapolis Montana

Markets report from Chicago and New York produce lists

Chicago markets show live poultry steady with 63 trucks and turkeys weak. butter receipts 656,481 steady. eggs 10,770 steady with refrigerator extras 15%4c. Potatoes arrivals 59 on track, United States shipments 294 firm. various regional potato prices listed. New York eggs receipts 34,542 steady to firm with mixed colors. butter firmer at 30c above standard. cheese prices unchanged.

Chicago Plymouth Rock Plymouth Rock Springs U S Idaho Burbanks US Colorado North Dakota Red River Valley U. S Bliss New York

Parole Granted After Breaking and Entering Case

Carl Sexton 38 of Cedar Rapids received bench parole from a ten year indeterminate sentence at Fort Madison penitentiary after pleading guilty to breaking and entering before Judge C J Haas. Patrolmen Davis and Mullin subdued him after Davis spotted Sexton at the Joe Stark market. Sexton had been drinking and has prior time at Anamosa reformatory. In a separate divorce suit Kathryn M Smith seeks relief from Thomas H Smith alleging cruel treatment and asks for household goods and a real estate interest. Sheriff’s office probes thefts from Robert Condit and W A Sherman farms near Springville and Marion.

Carl Sexton Cedar Rapids Fort Madison Penitentiary C. J. Haas Earl Davis Frank Mullin Sexton Davis Joe Stark First Street Haas Anamosa Reformatory Kathryn M. Smith Thomas H. Smith

Cedar Rapids City Briefs and Local Notices

Local items list meetings at city hall and the Chamber building including Townsend club 6 meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday council chamber. Also notices of hospital ER surgeries car thefts burglaries and community events with names and addresses. Volunteer knitters asked to donate sweaters to Red Cross by Thursday noon for January 1 shipment.

Townsend Club No. 6 The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Chamber Red Cross Chamber of Commerce Helen Hubbard Volunteer Service Committee

Sunshine Mission Feeds 82 at Christmas Eve Dinner

Sunshine Mission served eighty two men including twenty one locals on Christmas Eve. The menu featured fried chicken mashed potatoes buttered peas bread and butter jello fruit nut salad pickles celery and pumpkin pie.

Sunshine Mission

Local County Road Vacated by Linn County Supervisors

Acting on a petition from adjoining property owners Linn County supervisors voted Tuesday to vacate one mile of a local county road running west and south from the Spring Grove township line in Grant township. The road has been replaced by a half mile segment extending an east west road to the Spring Grove line.

Linncouny Spring Grove Grant Township

Two men held for questioning in teen delinquency case

Police questioned Emanuel Ferguson and Frank Wilson after a 17 year old white girl was found crying near the Syrian cemetery on Twelfth Avenue SE. A city bus driver alerted authorities Tuesday evening, leading to the arrests.

Emanuel Ferguson Tenth Street SE Frank Wilson Newcomb Court SE Twelfth Avenue

Kiwanis Club Closes 1939 Sessions With Light Humor

The Kiwanis club wrapped up 1939 meetings at Montrose hotel with an informal session. Tray crashes and boos punctuated talks starting with Clark Beems on Suicide of Success, meant in jest. Speakers Jack Shepard Fred Kluss Clyde Sanborn Henry Kling and Arthur Poe offered humorous remarks. The program ended with community singing of Auld Lang Sync.

Kiwanis Club Montrose Hotel Clark Beems Jack Shepard Fred Kluss Clyde Sanborn Henry Kling Arthur Poe

U S Attorney General Signals Sabotage Probe in Cities

Detroit and nearby Michigan cities Detroit Lansing and Flint are named as sites in a federal probe into industrial sabotage and espionage. A special federal grand jury in Washington will hear evidence next week, Attorney General Frank Murphy said.

Detroit U. S Frank Murphy Washington Lansing Flint

Deaths of Mrs Effie O Connor and David Saxton

Obituary notices report Mrs Effie O Connor 70 of Cedar Rapids area died in Mount Vernon after long illness. She is survived by three sons, a daughter, siblings and a sister. funeral at Neff funeral home Mount Vernon with burial at Campbell cemetery. Also obituary for David L Saxton 15 of Troy Mills who died after lingering illness. survivors include parents four siblings and three sisters. services at Troy Mills Methodist church with Moen chapel viewing.

Effie O'Connor Thomas O'Connor Mount Vernon Bertram Cedar Rapids James John Merle Mechanicsville Mary Beechley Monterey Park Calif George Sam Preston Hensley Stewart Grauerholtz Neff James Bawlz Campbell Cemetery David L. Saxton David Lincoln Saxton Troy Mills Ralph William Glen Cecil Los Angeles Ethel Foster Beaman Jessie Waterbury Joseph Saxton Ella Walton Anoka Mina Mary Smith Nettie Floyd Moen Chapel

Mrs. Evelyn Bouquet Dies After Illness in St. Paul

Former Cedar Rapids resident Mrs. Evelyn Bouquet 52 died at a local hospital at 6 45 am Wednesday while visiting at 710 Seventh Street SW. She owned and operated the Oxford roller skating rink in St. Paul and is survived by her son Raymond Lafaver of St. Paul. Body to be sent to St. Paul Wednesday night for funeral services Saturday at Willwerscheid funeral home.

Evelyn Bouquet Cedar Rapids St. Paul H S. Goodenough Seventh Street

Dies After Brief Illness in Cedar Rapids

Joseph Hanisch 69 of 1332 Ninth Street NW died in a local hospital at 12 45 am Wednesday after a brief illness. He resided in Cedar Rapids many years and worked 25 years for Morris Sanford company. Surviving: daughter Mrs Gordon D Barger Cedar Rapids. son Joseph Hanisch Jr Bell California. brother Rudolph Hanisch Iona Falls. sister Ida Schullenburg Tex. Body at Beatty chapel. funeral arrangements pending arrival of son from California.

Joseph Hanisch Ninth Street Cedar Rapids Morris Sanford Company Gordon D. Barger Joseph Hanisch, Jr Bell, Calif Rudolph Hanisch Iona Falls Ida Schullenburg Tex Beatty Chapel California

Local obituaries note several deaths and funeral plans

Mrs Elizabeth McKernan widow of Charles McKernan former police officer died at her daughter's home after a lingering illness. Funeral from Monahan to home Thursday evening with calling hours. Mrs A seneth De Ette Walker of 1640 Avenue NE dies in a local hospital and will be buried in Sabula after a Beatty chapel service. Albert R Shipley 68 Des Moines printer father of Mrs L D Powell dies of a heart attack in Des Moines. Survived by wife and son, with daughter in town and other relatives.

Elizabeth McKernan Charles McKernan L. N. McFarland Eighth Avenue Monahan Aseneth de Ette Walker 1640 Avenue NE Beatty Chapel First Church of Christ, Scientist Sabula Albert R Shipley Des Moines L. D. Powell Vernoncourt

Obituary: Thomas H. Goodrich dies after lingering illness

Thomas H. Goodrich age 69 of 523 Sixth avenue SE died in a local hospital at 6 40 am Wednesday after a lingering illness He was born April 1 1870 in St Johns Newfoundland and had lived in Cedar Rapids 23 years He is survived by his wife and a sister Mrs Rose Houghton

Thomas IH. Goodrich Thomas H. Goodrich Sixth Avenue SE St. John's Newfoundland Cedar Rapids Rose Houghton

Marshalltown Woman’s Step-Son Involved in Funeral Arrangements

The body of Marshalltown resident a step-son John Bendient lies at Moon Funeral Home awaiting funeral arrangements. Friends may call at the Moon Funeral Home. The statement notes two nieces and five nephews among surviving relatives.

Marshalltown John Bendient Moon Funeral Home

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