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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1934

Page

10

Hog Prices Rise Sharply Amid Strong Demand at Chicago Markets

Chicago stockyards saw hog prices climb as demand surged. Total receipts across five terminals reached 29,500 with Chicago handling 18,000. Top heavyweights hit $7.15, average around $6.80, while cattle and sheep also showed mixed gains and steady declines in other markets.

Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh East Buffalo East St. Louis Ave U 8 Dept. Agriculture

Grain Prices Hold Narrow Margins in Dull Holiday Trade

In a quiet Friday session on the Chicago board of trade, grain prices lingered near small margins. Wheat finished mostly steady to up, corn rose slightly, and oats edged higher as light trading and modest demand appeared amid forecasts of snow and rain across the wheat belt.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Commission House Liverpool Buenos Aires Vancouver Dominion Winnipeg Exchange Winnipeg Argentina

Hogs Strengthen On Local Market As Prices Rise

Hog prices increase on the local market with 5 to 15 cent gains. Sinclair plant to be open on New Year’s Day as quoted prices show higher ranges for truck hogs across weight classes. Calf, sheep, and cattle markets listed with steady to higher values and various grades.

Austin Sinclair Sinclair Bog Market Sinclair’s F

Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Market and Livestock Terms

Mixed listings show grain prices, poultry weights and prices, wholesale fruits and vegetables with crate prices, oysters and hides by type, and small animal values including skunks raccoons civet cats and muskrats. Numerical figures appear alongside product names in a dense ledger style.

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Grain Movement and Cash Grain Values From Minneapolis and Chicago

Chicago cash grain quotes show No 2 red wheat at 10 cents, No 3 red weevily at 100 dollars per ton, corn mixed values and various yellow and white corn notes. Minneapolis cash grain reports receipts, price ranges for No 2 northern and No 1 dark northern, protein levels, amber durum prices, and December to July futures quotes for red durum and corn.

Chicago Minneapolis Montana

Foreign exchange and sugar market notes from New York

Foreign exchange rates list dozens of national currencies with cents values and a note on New York sugar futures remaining quiet and unchanged. The report includes rates for Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Switzerland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czechoslovakia and other regions, plus a reference to Tokyo Shanghai Hong Kong and Mexico City.

New York Great Britain France Italy Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Switzerland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia Austria Hungary Argentine Brazil Hongkong Mexico City Montreal

Wall St Stocks Climb Amid Moderate Trading Day

Stocks edged higher with 1 to 3 point gains as American Can Liggett & Myers led advance. Major issues like U S Steel General Motors Chrysler and AT&T gained while transfers reached about 1.15 million shares amid tax related cash trades.

NEW York American Can Liggett & Myers U.S. Steel General Motors Chrysler N. Y. Central du Pont American Telephone

Markets Flash: Chicago and New York Produce Prices

In Chicago receipts for butter, eggs and potatoes show firm to steady prices with select grades and US No 1 listings. Idaho russets and Wisconsin round whites are priced. poultry live receipts appear, with dressed turkeys steady. New York reports butter and eggs receipts and unchanged trades note.

Chicago Idaho Wisconsin New York

Prices Hold Steady Across Dairy and Produce Items

Receipts show mixed color categories and standards with firm prices on cheese and eggs. Live poultry remains steady to firm by freight while Chicago futures report butter and egg futures with December and January quotes. storage standards listed.

Chicago Produce Futures Chicago

Count Gengler the bowling legend and his lessons

The piece recalls Count Gengler nicknamed the count, now 56, who avoids foul line overreach and suggests starting closer to the line to prevent fouling. He no longer bowls due to an ice skating injury and now plays golf while owning and training a racehorse stable. Al Demaree offers an illustrated leaflet on improving bowling delivery.

Count Gengler Chicago Gengler John Gengler Water Hagen al Demaree al De~maree

King And Queen Of Grapefruit Crowned In Fiesta

The King of Grapefruit and the Queen of Citrianna were crowned at the Texas Citrus Fiesta in Mission Texas. Downtown was decorated with palm leaves and citrus fruit for the Parade of Oranges opening and the Grapefruit ball coronation closing the celebration.

Mission Tex

Getting Ahead of the Shot Fear of the Ball

The article explains why golf drives misfire after practice. It says players get ahead of their shot when hazards loom and fear the outcome, causing hurried swings. It notes practice and play differ as attention shifts from the ball to potential trouble ahead.

Fingerprint hunt in Columbus for train wreck vandals

Investigators said the Columbus wreck of a Pennsylvania system passenger train resulted from deliberate tampering with a switch signal. Three killed and thirteen injured when the train derailed after passing the red signal removed from the tracks. Fingerprints were found on the destroyed signal as officials, railroad representatives, County Prosecutor Donal Hoskins, and County Coroner E. E. Smith joined Ohio utilities agents in the probe.

Columbus, O Akron and Cincinnati Columbus Donal Hoskins E. E. Smith Ohio Public Utilities Commission

Condemnation Jury Probes Dam Site Landowners Named

A condemnation jury appointed by Chief Justice Richard Mitchell began assessing damages for land owned by Isa B. Sturges Grace G Wolfe Dr T L Wolfe and Wilma Wolfe of Mount Vernon for use at the west end of the new Palisades dam The state conservation board seeks to appropriate one acre below the lower Palisades for site and rock material The jury will report its appraisal late Friday afternoon The land in Putnam township is now owned by W W Goodall The jury includes H Grulke Lewis Edward M Flaherty Cedar Rapids Mike Hyland Tama R Swartzlander Iowa City T R Osborn New Sharon and W F Maher Fort Dodge

Richard Mitchell State Supreme Court Isa B. Sturges Grace G. Wolfe T. L. Wolfe Wilma Wolfe Mount Vernon New Palisades Dam Joseph A. Petrus State Conservation Board Wolfes Palisades Putnam Township W. W. Goodall H. Grulke Lewis Edward M. Flaherty Cedar Rapids Mike Hyland Tama R. Swartzlander Iowa City T. R. Osborn New Sharon W. F. Maher Fort Dodge

Petition Seeks Dismissal of Pawnee Receiver Action

Intervenor asks district court to dismiss a petition by Paul N Clark Harry T Hedges and Horace G Hedges as executors of the George T Hedges estate seeking appointment of a receiver for the Pawnee Land and Improvement Company Glenn M Averill named as Pawnee Co receiver defendant Friday.

Pawnee Co Glenn M. Averill District Court Paul N. Clark Harry T. Hedges Horace G. Hedges George T. Hedges Pawnee Land and Improvement Company

Lease action seeks $1637.50 judgment in district court

Smulekoff and Miller a partnership seek $1637.50 against Ely Katz in district court for breach of a lease on premises at 217 Second Street SE Katz allegedly quit the premises last May with twenty two months remaining in the term The lease was made March 6

Smulekoff

Divorce Suits Filed for Cruel Treatment in Two States

Ruth Green sues Charles Evan Green for divorce on cruel and inhuman treatment. She seeks custody of two sons and title to Cedar Rapids property and household goods. Hazel Conn sues Glenn Conn for divorce and cites similar grounds. The Greens married in Colorado in 1922 and the Thon? were married in Illinois in 1930.

Ruth Green Charles Evan Green Hazel Conn Glenn Conn Colorado

Funeral services for Mrs Maria Akers

Funeral services for Mrs. Maria Akers will be held at the Beatty chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. J Renwick Mc Cullough officiating. Burial follows in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call the chapel from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

Maria Akers Beatty Chapel J. Renwick McCullough Oak Hill Cemetery Friay

Charles B. Clark 70 Dies After Short Illness in Cedar Rapids

Charles B. Clark 70 of 711 B avenue NE and Roosevelt hotel employee died at a local hospital at 9 p.m. Thursday after a short illness. He came to Cedar Rapids from Chicago in June 1932 and is survived by his wife Winifred. The body lies in state at Monahan chapel pending funeral arrangements.

Charles B. Clark B Avenue NE Roosevelt Hotel Cedar Rapids Chicago Winifred Monahan Chapel

Adolescents Products Of Ductless Glands Crile Says

PAINESVILLE Ohio UP Dr George W Crile Cleveland surgeon tells audience that adolescent children are products of their ductless glands. He says the brain needs oxygen and that thyroid and adrenal glands regulate activity and emotions.

Painesville, O George W. Crile Cleveland Crile

Horse Stealing Baffles Cincinnati Police

CINCINNATI UP The frontier crime of horse stealing baffles police in the city. Hal Decker of the Victory Riding Club reports his 12 year old horse, 16 hands high and worth 150 dollars, rustled by a young confidence man who saddled the horse and rode off claiming he would show it to his father who hoped to buy it. If caught the thief faces an old state penitentiary law.

Cincinnati Hal Decker The Victory Riding Club Decker

Will of Katherine Krall Admitted to Probate in Cedar Rapids

The will of Katherine Krall of Cedar Rapids who died December 13 was admitted to probate by Judge A B Clark in district court. Bequests are made to her children including Mamie Krall the executrix Frank Krall Lillian Dona hue Edward Kvitek John Kvitek and Anna Melsh. The will was made August 28 1928.

Katherine Krall Cedar Rapids A. B. Clark Mamie Krall Frank Krall Lillian Donahue Edward Kvitek John Kvitek Anna Melsh

Injury suit dismissed in district court settlement

A $3,500 personal injury case filed by Jennie Melsham against John Mc Raith for injuries from a collision involving a car passenger and a truck on Seventh street at Sixth avenue SE on May 16, 1933, has been settled and dismissed with prejudice at the defendant's costs.

Jennie Melsham John McRaith McRaith Seventh Street Sixth Avenue SE

Pleated Peplum Pattern 2098 by Anne Adams

Dress pattern 2098 offers a simple chic two piece with a fitted bodice that falls to a belt and peplum pleats. Skirt stays slim with optional open belt sleeves and lace trim accents. sizes 12 to 20. Pattern book and pattern together priced at 25 cents. Order to Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department New York City.

Anne Adams Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department West Seventeenth Street New York City

Bond Market Opens With Modest Gains Across Rail and Utility Issues

New York bond trading showed light activity with modest gains in low-priced rail and utility issues. Treasury securities edged higher, with the 3 4s of 1944-46 at 102.27 and the city 3 4s at 102.31. Home Owners Loan Corp 234s rose to 96.22 and the 4s to 99.23, while Alleghany 5s of 1950 traded at 22.4 and American and Foreign Power 5s at 55.14. Foreign issues displayed small mixed swings.

New York Lst U. S. Treasury City Home Owners Loan Corp Alleghany Corp Baltimore Ohio St Paul

Bulkley Defends NRA Reorganization to Aid Needy

United States Senator Robert J. Bulkley told the Cornell Club in Cleveland that the NRA is being reorganized efficiently under Washington guidance. He said the focus should be on feeding the hungry and caring for those in need rather than balancing the budget at the moment.

Cleveland NRA Washington United States Robert J. Bulkley Cornell Club Bulkley

Texas Co-Eds Play With Historical Dolls

University of Texas co-eds opened an exhibit of historical dolls of the southwest. The display, intended to delight children, features toys not from Santa but from history, with dolls aged 150 years and others nearing eighty.

Texas Austin, Tex University of Texas Santa Claus Southwest

Mack Foresees Ruth Returning to Ball in 1935

Connie Mack asserted Babe Ruth would return to baseball in 1935 despite threats to quit. Mack, in Honolulu with eight Japanese stars, said Ruth would play in any capacity and not retire, though Ruth did not accompany him and was heading to Europe.

Mack Ruth Honolulu T. H INS Babe Ruth Connie Mack Philadelphia Athletics Japan New York Yankees Europe

Chinese Woman And Family To Stay In U S

In Ashland Ohio Probate Judge McCray names two guardians for Mrs Gin Shee Quong and her four children Tom 9 Tim 8 Trule 3 and Ted 1 amid local deportation efforts. He also reinstates her on the mothers pension list with about 20 dollars monthly.

Ashland Ohio B. W.W. McCray Gin Shee Quong Lee Quong

New Year Eve Dance Listings Across venues

Local listings advertise numerous New Year's Eve events with dancing and live bands. Venues include Plantation Inn in Reserve, Little Germany Veleage Hallwood, Little America on 3rd Ave, Joe Navratil's Beer Garden, Golden Slipper, Casino Thornwood, and Jack's Inn offering Old Time and modern dances. Seating and phone reservations are mentioned for several spots.

CMC Silver Palace Smoy Lou Burrow Cavaliers Playboys Hallwood Marion Plantation Inn Don Forbes Joe Navratil Johnnie's Place Grd Ave Ola's ACES Thornwood Jack’s Inn Ave NW Joe’s

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