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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1935
Page
8
Chicago cattle and hog markets show the sharpest hog price break of the year with losses of 15 to 25 cents and a top around 9.75, while receipts for Monday and the week rise, suggesting bear market pressure from higher future hog numbers and weak wholesale demand.
Market readers saw a mixed session with U S government bonds showing losses while federal issues held firmer at times. Treasuries yielded slightly higher while shorter maturities traded with modest gains and the broader market weighed by inflation fears and policy expectations.
Fragmentary text references varied markets and places including New York London Denmark Poland and Hungary. It mentions pest control prices and goods like wool and butter with scattered numbers and names, creating a hazy trade snapshot. The piece reads like an OCR jumble of ads and listings with multiple proper nouns and figures.
A Cedar Rapids page lists grain prices for Wheat Oats Rye Barley and Corn with New and shelled varieties, plus soybeans, and wholesale fruits vegetables and meats. It details prices for oranges grapefruit lemons potatoes pears grapes apples lettuce celery cabbage onions and hides including horse and pony hides with various quality levels and licenses.
Hogs on the local market slump with 10 to 35 cent cuts in several grades on Saturday. The top price falls to 900 dollars while other market segments show little change except a small decrease in vegetables.
Chicago Produce Market notes show butter and eggs steady with receipts around 5 96 and 4195 respectively. Poultry deliveries include hens roosters turkeys and leghorns with varied prices. potatoes on track at 797 per ton. New York product reports butter futures and weak demand with limited movement. Chicago markets overall slow with stabilized prices on several items.
Wheat prices on the Chicago board of trade closed with small gains as May wheat edged up while December failed to hold its premium. Corn and oats showed minimal movement with light demand from commission houses. Lard futures remained steady to easy throughout the day.
Chicago cash provisions show No 2 red wheat at 103, corn mixed 54 to 53 cents, soybeans No 4 yellow 8 cents and oats No 3 white 30 to 31 cents. Minneapolis grain notes bids for No 1 dark northern spring and No 2 hard Montana with prices around 1.20 to 1.27 per bushel. Sugar futures in New York edge lower with refined prices steady.
In Cleveland at St Alban's Episcopal church during communion, about 100 children rose and left as smoke filled the lower level. Rev Don H H Copeland ordered the evacuation after he detected the fire, preventing serious damage. Cody, senior warden, assisted in the safety check.
In TEWISBURG Pennsylvania William McGuire, newly admitted to Northeastern federal penitentiary, was found wrapped in fifteen yards of pope felt. He claimed he is a contortionist who slept in odd positions to stay comfortable. Guards found him in his cell later with his right leg tucked under a pallia.
An ancient cedar in the Paris botanical garden, brought from Lebanon in 1734, is toppled by a French gale after two centuries of endurance. The 35 foot girth and 105 foot height tree survived prior lightning and storms but suffered interior rot.
Secretary Wallace on Saturday fixed the 1936 sugar import quota at 4,624,088 short tons, up from 4,549,260 tons in 1935. The article notes U S sugar consumption projected at 6,434,088 tons, with basic quotas for beet and cane sugar set at 1,550,000 and 260,000 tons respectively, while offshore quotas derive from three-year import averages 1925-33.
Stock market session quiet with profit takers cashing in gains and mixed results across sectors. Heavy decline among some leaders while rails and aircraft show steadiness. transfers around 1.1 million shares. list includes Youngstown Sheet & Tube Santa Fe Pennsylvania New York Central Union Pacific and Allied Chemical among resistants.
Wilfred Blaser and Gladys Hilbert, both of Davenport, obtained marriage licenses.
Charles J Caldwell retired railway telegraph operator died at his Cedar Rapids home after a long illness. He was born October 22 1866 in Lowden and worked 47 years with the Northwestern Railway. He is survived by wife Mathilda Schroeder a daughter Mrs R F Keech a son Herbert J Caldwell and a brother H A Caldwell. Funeral at Turner chapel Monday at 2 pm with Crescent Lodge and Dr Robert Little in charge. burial Oak Hill cemetery. Master Masons urged to attend.
David E. Orr longtime Cedar Rapids resident and Orr Brothers Supply member died Friday in Denver Colorado where he had lived the past year. He was born February 13 1865 in Waterman Illinois and is survived by his wife five children nine grandchildren one brother and a sister in law. Funeral services will be Monday at 2 pm with burial in Earlville Illinois family lot.
Funeral services were held for 3 month old Alice Mary Lefebure daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armand Lefebure at Monahan Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Saturday. Rev. J J Buzynski officiated. Burial followed at Fairfax Cemetery. She died in a local hospital Friday at 11 30 a.m. after a short illness.
Funeral services for William Sheahan of Chicago who died here late Thursday will be held Monday at 9 am in Immaculate Conception Church with Msgr John Molloy officiating. Burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call at Monahan funeral home this evening and Sunday.
Funeral services for Mrs Ada T Iten will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m in Trinity Lutheran Church conducted by Rev M J Steege preceded by private family services at Beatty Chapel at 1 50 p m Burial in the Lin wood cemetery family lot Friends may call at Beatty Chapel from 7 to 9 this evening
Worcester report of Tony a 12 year old dog who shops at a nearby restaurant at noon, buys a ham burger with 10 cents placed in an envelope, then trots home to eat it. A garage foreman notes the dog has lived on ham burgers and ice cream cones, self delivered, for years.
In Moscow a Soviet experiment tested long duration gas mask wear by about 60 Red Army officers and soldiers. After training they wore masks for 20 hours, carrying out a military drill and shooting exercises and even taking a nap during the session.
A Chinese report says Manchukuoan troops aided by Japanese air power advance across Chahar Province and threaten to cut Chinese center. The invaders move toward Shangtu and across the western Chahar area with irregulars under a pro-Japanese commander at Mewe.
Ran Westes community members elect new officers at the Dairy Dale meeting. SoS Shsay retiring officiants were noted. New officers include Lows Varnes, JP Fred erikas, and Jehn E. Suresh ow Arvnig with Bert WRighar Exwesats Bans for the New Years event. An amateur contest is planned with a $7S prize and entrants urged to contact Shannon or Warner. A bowl cup and spoon are requested for attendees. Refreshments are organized by Mrs Bert Kiekar and others.
Towns end Club No 1 schedules a special meeting for New Year s Eve at 1 30 in the superior court rooms. J Hamilton of 800 Twenty first Avenue SW was fined $1 and costs in police court for parking in a prohibited zone. Devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual Help set for Immaculate Conception church Tuesday at 7 30 PM. Firemen doused a shed fire at 1632 Fifteenth Avenue SE caused by an overheated smoke pipe. Lumir Pfeifer 23 of 1829 L Street SW jailed 30 days after being arraigned for intoxication following a beer parlor disturbance. Clifford Adams returns to San Diego aboard The Ranger after a ten day furlough from Navy aviator mechanic training. Georgia Miller s will probate in Cedar Rapids names Mertie E Miller executrix beneficiary. The joint will dated January 12 1933 was admitted to probate by Judge H C Ring.
Dave Williams the commissioner of streets urged residents to clear snow from their sidewalks or the city willclear them and bill the property owners. A crew will begin work Monday to enforce the measure.
Walter W. Smith president of the First National Bank in St. Louis contends in a annual business conditions statement that Supreme Court rulings voiding the NRA and the Frazier-Lemke farm moratorium act boosted trade. He says these decisions restored confidence and begun expansion in heavy industries.
In Indianapolis Lyman Beecher Stowe, once a neighbor of Mark Twain, says the author’s life was shaped by Joan of Arc. A torn page from The Life of Joan of Arc drifted to Twain in Hannibal Missouri when he was 12, leading him to seek the book and fuel his future writings.
Mr and Mrs Elmer H Koehn of 211 Thirty first Street Drive SE greet a daughter Eleanor Rae born December 22 at St Luke's Hospital.
Linns Best 4-H club met Friday at Ila Mae Burrs home with mothers as guests. Baking demonstrations led by Mary Michel Ione Hanson and others featured honey nut bread corn bread muffins baking powder biscuits and plain white bread. Two new members Neva Anderson Mildred Sloan joined.
Kathryn McElwain hosted twenty four friends with banco games and dancing followed by refreshments. Distinct guests included Martha Jane Snell and Lyle Manson who led high and low scores among attendees.
In Audierne France a lugger named Reine-des-Flots hauled in a 200 pound wild boar while fishing three miles offshore. Hunters drove the animal from the woods and fishermen killed it with a hatchet then sold it to a local butcher for a good sum.
Religious notices list services across Marion churches including Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Seventh Day Church of God. Citations name pastors, service times, schools, choirs and sermon topics for Sunday and midweek programs.
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