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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1937
Page
13
Cattle and hogs shown below Tuesday estimates amid slower trading. Top hog price reached 10.40 as steer prices hovered around 14.50 for 1300 pounds. lambs hit 11.00 with February peak noted. Receipts across branches were under Saturday projections and wholesale meat prices held steady.
New York AP report notes U S Steel clears $100 to lead market gains with a 3 point rise. Steel stock strength spreads to peers. American Iron and Steel Institute shows 80.6 percent capacity this week. Broad list of varied movers and laggards across industry sectors.
Receipts total about 46 000 head with 8 900 direct hogs and 13 000 sheep direct. Hogs around 5 10 cents higher than Friday with top $10 40 on 180 300 lb hogs. sows mostly $9 75. Cattle receipts 12 000 with calves 1 500. fed steers and yearlings steady. top steer price $14 50 at 1191 lb and 1275 lb. Vealers around $10 50 down, long strings 1029 lb short fed $8 15. Sheep receipts 13 000 with fat lambs in demand near steady. top $11 00 for 92 lb lambs. other lambs $10 50 to 10 75. native ewes $5.00 to 6.00.
Cattle receipts 2300 with open steady to strong demand. Feeder and beef values: steers around $10.00 and up, heifers $6.25 to $8.25, cows $5.90 to $6.25, cutters $3.75 to $4.75. Hogs receipts 2800 higher than Saturday, top $10.15 for 160-325 lb pigs, 140-180 lb pigs $9.40 to $10.00. Sheep receipts 4000 with steady to strong prices. fat lambs $10.25 to $10.60, feeding lambs near $10.25, ewes weak to selling late.
Combined hog receipts at 22 concentration yards and 9 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern areas for the 48 hours ending Monday totaled 41 800 head. Quotes ranged from 8 10 to 9 50 per cwt with prices advancing 5 10 cents over Saturday and loadings slow.
Sioux City cattle market report shows receipts at 2,500 with calves around 200. Slaughter steers and yearlings steady to higher while cows strong and heifers near steady. stockers and feeders mostly steady. Noted price: 1,140 lb cows around 11.25 per cwt with some higher bids. feeder stock limited. range includes 7.50 to 9.50 per cwt in spots.
Receipts and bids across cattle hogs and sheep show steady to firm demand. Beef cattle and stockers ranged with steers 550 800 lb at 6.25 8.25, 800 1050 lb at 6.25 6.25, cows 3.50 4.50, calves 6.25 8.35. Hogs steady with Friday. top 10.00 for 190 210 lb butchers, lighter 140 170 lb 8.75 9.50. Sheep steady with fat lambs above 10.75, ewes around 5.75, South Dakota fed offerings noted.
In Omaha the AP dispatch lists U.S. Department figures showing hogs at 8,500 receipts with varied prices up to 10.00 and sow prices around 9.35 to 9.50, cattle receipts at 7,000 with steers to 14.00 and vealers to 10.00, and sheep at 6,500 with lambs around 10.00 to 10.65.
Hogs across Iowa and Ottumwa rose five cents with varying price ranges by weight. Iowa reports list prices for 140 to 550 pound categories and packing hogs, while Ottumwa shows similar gains across multiple weight bands and packer categories.
In Austin Minnesota the hog market shows steady demand with lead weights 180-200 pounds at 9.50 to 9.80 dollars per hundredweight and 200-290 pounds at 9.70 to 10.00. Heavier 290-325 pounds bring 9.60 to 9.90 and 325-350 pounds 9.50 to 9.80, while packing sows 275-550 pounds fetch 8.90 to 9.60.
The better grades of hogs on the local market continue slightly higher. Another nickel was added Monday to those grades making the top $9.95. The good packers are unchanged. Other local markets are steady.
Wilsons price list shows good hogs by weight from 140 to over 350 pounds with bids up to 9.95 and packers bids to 9.40. Sheep and cattle sections list lambs, steers, yearlings, cows, and bulls with varied price ranges. Chicago cash provisions cover wheat corn oats rye soybeans barley timothy and clover seeds with current bids and grades.
Cedar Rapids notes mixed grain prices wheat at 1.21 to 1.26 oats 49 to 52 cents rye 0.80 to 0.90 barley 0.90 to 1.12 corn ears 0.70 per lb to 0.98. Soybeans yellow 1.30 to 1.45. Hay straw prices listed. Poultry and eggs with varied weights and prices. Fruit vegetables listed including oranges lemons potatoes bananas lettuce celery cabbage onions apples and sweet potatoes. Hides and animal product prices with various grades No 1 and No 2 hides calf kip and horse prices given.
The Boston AP dispatch from the U S Department of Agriculture notes quietness in small domestic wools with holders sticking to prior asking prices. Foreign wools arrive and spot supplies are offered at concessions, easing tops prices over the last two weeks while domestic prices remain steady or higher.
Raw sugar no sales in New York trading. May No 3 futures at 2.62 and Sept at 2.63, down one to two points. May No 4 at 1.12 and Sept at 1.15, near bid levels. Refined sugar unchanged at 5.40 a hundredweight for fine granulated.
AP dispatch reports flour pricing and shipments in Minneapolis. Carload lots per barrel in 98 pound cotton sacks show standard patents unchanged at 7.50 to 7.55 dollars. Shipments total 9,452 with pure bran at 32.25 and standard middlings at 32.75.
Wheat futures rallied on Monday amid reports of dust storms in the southwest and strong corn prices. May wheat near season highs, new corn up 1.34 to 2.14 cents, oats modest gains, and Liverpool futures firmer on Saturday’s North American market move.
AP reports Minneapolis grain market activity with 45 rail cars of wheat and higher bids for various classes. No. 1 heavy dark northern spring 60 Ibs offered around 1.55 to 1.63. No. 1 dark northern 59 Ibs near 1.54 to 1.63. other classes listed with specific price ranges and protein notes. oats bids shown but remarks indicate nominal activity.
Chicago AP market bulletin lists butter creamery and extra firsts prices, eggs and poultry by class, potatoes on track receipts and U S shipments, with specific weights and grades. Carrots, Russets, Red McClures, Wisconsin Round Whites, Bliss Triumphs and other varieties show varied prices and stock levels across grades.
AP report from New York shows butter receipts at 13,028 with weaker demand, higher creamery goods. Cheese receipts 182,093 with steady state milk flats. eggs receipts 19,695 with steady mixed colors and standard packs. Poultry prices steady to firm by freight with varied chicken and turkey rates.
AP reports Chicago butter futures closed with storage standards at 32c for Feb, 317% sc for March, 29% sc for Nov. Egg futures show firsts at 22% sc for Feb and 23% sc for March, with refrigerator standards at 25c for Oct. Idaho Russet potatoes for March No. 1 at $4.00, March grade A at $3.68, and April grade A at $3.90.
Rail and truck quotations for timothy or mixed hay and straw list prices per unit. No. 1 timothy rail 174.718, No. 2 1517, No. 3 1214, clover rail 178, oat and wheat straw rail 9 10, rye straw 11 12, marsh hay 8 11.
The list shows prices for Adams Express Alaska Juneau Inspiration Allied Chem Allied Stores Am Can Am Car and Fdy Am Tel and Tel Boeing Chrysler Motors General Electric Gent Foods Goodyear Johns Manville Loews North American Packard Motors Proctor Gamble Radio Corp Sears Roebuck U S Steel Westinghouse Woolworth and others. The report details bid and ask levels across multiple departments and commodities.
World Fellowship week at Coe College opens with a Sunday vesper and fireside at the Boyd home. Forty attend the Sunday conference led by Rev Dr Robert Worth Frank. Caroline Van Meter of Moline presides at a Monday chapel, with Robertson Little praying and Dr Frank speaking on Why Be a Misfit.
Cedar Rapids saw a shifting weather picture on Monday with sun and clouds, snow flurries, and temperatures rising after a cold start. An ice sheen covered streets, highways and windshields after Sunday's freezing mists while streetcar service remained mostly unimpaired but roads were noted as dangerously slippery.
Rep. LaMar Foster announces a proposal for a constitutional amendment to adopt a unicameral Iowa legislature. The one house body would have one representative per county elected nonpartisan, replacing the current two house system. Approval requires both general assemblies and a public vote.
New York bond market edged higher with gains across corporate issues and U S government securities. Chesapeake 5s 1947 rose over a point while Alleghany Baltimore and Ohio Rock Island Southern Pacific and Southern Railway loans gained. Some losses hit Western Union 5s Union Pacific 3 os and Nickel Plate 412s.
The AP reports steadiness in foreign exchange with demand figures for numerous currencies. Cited rates include Great Britain at 489 3, France 4.655%, Germany at 40.23, Italy 5.26%, Belgium 16.87, and Switzerland 22.85 with several other nations listed and several cross rates noted between New York and Montreal and vice versa.
Mrs. Pearl Beall Gifford 52 wife of H T Gifford of Cedar Rapids died 5 30 am Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a stroke Thursday night She was born east of Marion, educated in Marion schools, active in Methodist church and Eastern Star and a charter member of Concord Agricultural and Literary club She and her husband traveled across the U S and Canada before settling in Cedar Rapids five years ago Funeral set for Tuesday at 3 30 pm at Yocom chapel with Rev E T Gough Burial Oak Shade Also notes on illness of Mrs Charles Burch flood relief contributions totaling 1029 29 and local updates.
The Rev H O Allen paid tribute to Mrs George W Toms for welfare work as funeral services were held Sunday at the Yocom chapel in Marion. A large attendance from Marion and Cedar Rapids included pallbearers Marley Clark W K Lothian Verne Balster and A R McElwain. Out of town guest Miss Mame Haight of Cedar Falls attended.
The Marion public library adds Rich Land Poor Land by Chase, Live Alone And Like It by Hillis, Iowa Its History and its Fore most Citizens, The Lincoln Highway. Brittain Honourable Estate. James Scorpion a Good Bad Horse. Local clubs meet. hospital and funeral notices. church activities. flood relief drives. resident health updates and social events fill town listings.
The K B B class of the Methodist church postpones tonight's meeting at Mrs J E Cipperas home. Marion Masonic Temple association stockholders meet Tuesday at the Masonic Temple for officers and directors election. Chatterbox bridge club meets Tuesday at 1 45 p m with Mrs W A Jackson.
Private funeral services will be held Tuesday morning for Elihu Root, American statesman and former secretary of war under McKinley and secretary of state under Roosevelt. He died early Sunday, aged 91, after two weeks of illness. Services will be in the chapel at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, his alma mater.
Judge H C Ring presided in district court as O W Harper appeals a Grunewald decision in a $57.50 note suit against James Downing. A May jury awarded Downing $57.50 on a $99.50 counter claim while upholding the note claim, the counterclaim covering damages tied to occupancy of property leased from Harper.
The will of Thomas Wilmott who died January 28 was admitted to probate with a codicil in district court Monday. His wife and children are named as beneficiaries. Executors named are B. H. Willmott and Bertha M. Hart. The will is dated November 24 1918 and the codicil November 20 1931.
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes ordered his secretary to deny reports that he would propose a substitute for Roosevelt’s court plan and retirement at age 75. Clerk C Elmore Cropley stated the statements have no foundation in fact and the chief justice would not appear before Congress on the matter.
The Union Pacific City of Denver passenger train derailed near Orchard in northern Colorado early Monday. The rear two cars left the tracks but stayed upright. several passengers were bruised and shaken, with no serious injuries reported.
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