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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1946
Page
6
A cluttered page lists numerous Lost and Found items including a red billfold, black corday bag and a yellow wrist watch, with rewards and contact numbers. It also features church announcements, local ads for services, beauty shops, and riding requests all dated to a Sunday broadcast and city venues.
A dense page of home repair and service listings from Cedar Rapids covers washing machines, cleaning, heating, plumbing, trucking, painting, fur repair, sewers, and moving. It includes multiple telephone contacts, addresses, and ad notes for job seekers, part time help, and commercial operators.
Unofficial Monday livestock estimates show hogs steady with other weights and classes. Cattle 15000, hogs 18000, sheep 14000 reported, but Saturday receipts and prices unavailable. market tone steady versus Friday of prior week in Chicago area.
Chicago market receipts show hogs 6.000 steady with top 14.85, sows 13.75 to 14.10, pigs around 12.00 to 14.25. Cattle receipts 500 steady with good to choice steers 16.00 to 17.75, heifers 11.00 to 16.75, cows 10.00 to 14.00, calves 10.00 to 16.50, feeders 11.00 to 15.00, stockers 10.00 to 14.75. Sheep receipts 3.000 steady with choice lambs 14.75 to 15.35, yearlings 11.00 to 14.00, ewes 5.00 to 8.25, feeder lambs 13.50 to 15.75.
Hog receipts near 500 with unchanged ceiling prices for barrows and gilts at 14.50. Cattle see large fed steer and heifer share, tops: three loads of choice 1116 to 1336 lb at 17.65, choice steers 14.75 to 16.25. vealers and feeders also noted. Sheep receipts unavailable. lambs steady to strong, ewes up to 25 cents, yearlings around 12.75 to 16.50 for feeding and slaughter grades. Des Moines market figures show good butchers and packing sows around 13.60 to 13.75 per hundred.
The Cedar Rapids hog market lists ceiling prices with prime butchers at 1445 dollars and packers at 13.70, covering good hogs weighing 160 to 180 pounds and packers 270 to 600 pounds. The cattle market shows dress grades, market choices, and various utility and canner categories, plus calf and sheep/lamb valuations and grain notes. Marion News items report local dinners, visits, and requests, including households, hospitality for a reunion, and job ads.
Sioux City livestock prices show Friday gains and uneven demand across cattle hogs and lambs. Hogs steady to firm with barrows and gilts around 14.50, sows 14.50, feeders near 14.00. Cattle ranges uneven with good and choice steers 14.75 to 17.60, heifers 16.00 to 16.50, cows up to 14.00, calves 16.25 to 16.50. Lambs firm to 0.25 higher, good and choice woolskins 14.25 to 15.00, No 1 to fall shorn pelt lambs 14.25 to 14.85, yearlings 13.00 to 13.50, ewes steady around 7.00 to 7.50, feeding lambs 15.50 to 16.25.
Slaughter steers steady to 25 cents lower, heifers and mixed yearlings steady, cows largely steady, bulls steady to strong. Vealers and calves mostly steady with a few 25 to 50 cent declines. stockers and feeders show broad offerings. Prices include bulk good to choice beef steers 15.50 to 17.00 with loads up to 17.65, and good to choice heifers and yearlings 15.00 to 16.50.
Des Moines reports 28 500 combined receipts from 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Saturday, down from 32 000 a week ago and 30 800 a year ago. Market active, fully steady. Loads near 44 500 last week. Prices: barrows 180 Ibs and under 45.00. 180-360 Ibs 14.20 14.45. sows 270-450 Ibs 13.45 13.70. 450-550 Ibs 13.40 13.70.
Chicago market report lists No 2 red wheat at 1 79 nominal No 2 hard wheat 1 79 nominal ceilings No 5 yellow corn 1 0554 per bushel No 2 rye 2 16 with no sales in oats field seed and other categories, no further transactions reported.
Major financial and commodity exchanges across the United States closed Saturday as part of a three day weekend layoff begun for Washington's Birthday observance.
In Plymouth Wisconsin a carload of twincheddars sold last week at 27 cents per pound. The item reflects local dairy market activity with buyers showing steady demand for Wisconsin cheese varieties.
Two disturbing the peace cases were heard in police court Saturday. David J. Jones of 1226 Nineteenth Street SE was fined $25 and costs after his wife complained of a strike. Ted Kingston of 421 Tenth Street SE was arrested on a similar charge but his case was dismissed with costs after his wife requested dismissal.
Former Senator Guy Gillette will be unable to attend tonight's Jackson day dinner in Des Moines where he was slated to speak. He informed Iowa Democratic headquarters that the American League for Free Palestine extended its meeting in New York through today, keeping him there.
A consolidated church schedule lists services across Marion churches. Notable speakers include Herb Scott of Moody Bible Institute at Marion Churches and Rev. T J McElliott at St Josephs Catholic. Also note congregations like Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, St Pauls Lutheran, Prairie Chapel and Seventh Day Church of God with their worship times and sermon topics.
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