Chicago hog market gains lift prices at stockyards
Fairly active interest in hogs Friday at Chicago stock yards pushed prices 5 to 10 cents higher. Receipts in five key markets totaled 32 700 with Chicago taking 22 000. top quotes rose to 4.65 for best hogs, average around 4.40, as Cleveland Pittsburgh and East Buffalo showed modest gains or steady trade.
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Markets Notes and Grain Prices from Chicago
The page lists receipts and prices for staples like oats, potatoes, and butter in Chicago markets. It notes various commodity figures and daily tallies including firsts and seconds, with obscured OCR details scattered through the text.
Bond Markets SPW York Bold
Bond market brief notes trading activity in New York with price moves and indices. Traders monitor yields and credit spreads amid steady liquidity and thin holiday volumes.
Wall Street Stocks Fall Amid Late Friday Slump
Trading opened dull after the holiday with intermittent churning and a broad drift lower. Major losses touched rails utilities and industrials with American Can and Armour preferred dropping over three points. transfers reached about 2.3 million shares as weakness spread through the list.
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American
US Steel
Liggett and Myers B
American Tobacco
Packard
United Aircraft
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American Telephone
Armour
Wilson Co
Allied Chemical American Can Industrials
Grain Movement Purnishee by J E Sennett and Co
An OCR readout shows stock quotations and grain receipts with numerous company and commodity names. A fire report notes a roof fire at 807 West Road NE owned by H L Nehls and a grass fire at 1900 Blake Boulevard SE with responding units.
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Wheat Futures Dip As Stock Weakness Weighs Market
Chicago grain markets closed lower for wheat on Friday as selling rallied with weak stocks. Corn rose slightly while oats held firm. Foreign demand buoyed early trading, but later selling kept prices near the previous close. Provisions climbed with demand from eastern buyers. Liverpool and Winnipeg showed strength while local cash prices remained steady.
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Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Liverpool
Local porkers rise a nickel on market report
Hogs are slightly higher with AN grades up a nickel Friday, price top $395 and the packer top $320. Calf market ranges good to choice 130 190 lbs at 33 NOS 00 SAFEP markets. Fed lambs 80 90 lbs $800879 00. According to quality suck lambs fetch about $100 less.
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Hs Soo
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Liberati
Twenty Firms Spent 20 Billion In 1929 Market Boom
Senate committee released a survey showing twenty large corporations poured over 20 billion dollars into the 1929 boom market. The Standard Oil Co of New Jersey led with 17.67 billion in total advances and a 97.8 million single day peak. In other news Thomas B. Gay challenged Fletcher-Rayburn stock exchange control as unconstitutional, arguing actions were intrastate.
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Senate Stock Market Investigating Committee
Standard Ol Company
New Jersey
Fletcher-Rayburn
Thomas B. Gay
New York Stock Exchange
Gay
Congress
Weihe Seeks Allamakee County Supervisor Post
William H. Weihe of Postville announced his candidacy for Allamakee county supervisor for the term starting January 1 1935 on the Democratic ticket. He previously served as supervisor from 1908 to 1910 and 1913 to 1915.
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William H. Weihe
Allamakee County
Weihe
Poe
Wallace Targets Milk Dealers in New Dairy Policy Push
Washington reports the government launching actions against milk distributors and ten leading meat packing firms as part of Wallace's dairy reform. Officials pledge to revoke licenses of noncompliant distributors while pursuing broader investigations to curb racketeering and malpractices in pricing and distribution.
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Chester C. Davis
George N. Peek
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Peek
Representative Eagle
Texas
Davis
Kirkham Held For Earlville Robbery
Lester Kirkham is arrested near Hopkinton and charged with robbery with aggravation for the Jan 20 at Nick Konzen’s filling station near Earlville. Konzen robbed of 43 dollars and gasoline after a gun was pressed to his ribs. Kirkham denies guilt. Preliminary hearing set for Saturday. maximum penalty 25 years.
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Lester Kirkham
Hopkinton
Nick Konzen
Earlville
Konzen
Kirkham
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Scheck To Die For Slaying April 20
John Scheck, condemned for the slaying of Policeman John G Levins in Chicago, lost his bid in the state supreme court. The court set April 20 as his execution date after his Oct 13 death sentence in Cook County was suspended for review.
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John Scheck
John G Levins
Chicago
Friday
State Supreme Court
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Cook County
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Births Reported at Mercy Hospital
Born at Mercy hospital on Feb 21 a son to Mr and Mrs Ernest Woodford of 610 Second Street SW another son born Feb 23 to Mr and Mrs Michael Bethen of 90 Fifteenth Avenue SW and a son born Feb 13 to Mr and Mrs Harold A Lockhart of 2311 Meadowbrook Drive SE.
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Michael Bethen
Fifteenth Avenue
Harold A. Lockhart
Meadowbrook Drive
Law Students Stage Realistic Murder Drill at Nebraska Law College
A mock homicide on the University of Nebraska campus sparked panic as students acted out a classroom exercise. Harry Foster collapsed with tomato juice on his shirt, an ambulance arrived, and a tense scene followed with scuffles and a near fainting by Mary Quigley.
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Jess Quigley
Earl N Deppen
Dean Foster
Allen to chair economics at Carleton after Minnesota stint
Edward Allen, son of the Rev. and Mrs. H. O. Allen, will assume the chair of economics at Carleton College Northfield Minnesota immediately. The incumbent professor suffered 4 broken hip and Allen formerly taught at Coe College.
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Plan to shield unions faces Senate amendment
Senator Wagner of New York announced a Senate amendment to the National Recovery Act aimed at protecting unions. The measure would bar employers from financing union leaders and require recognition of leaders as voice for workers, prohibiting paid campaign time by company officials for union activities.
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Wilder Estate Sues Milwaukee Railway for Fatality on Tracks
Grace Wilder executrix of the William R Wilder estate filed a 5000 dollar damage suit against the Milwaukee railroad. The death of 63 year old Mr Wilder occurred on Milwaukee tracks at Martelle near midnight July 20. The suit alleges Wilder attempted to flag a train as passengers did at that stop and was pulled by the train onto another track where he was fatally injured.
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Army Mail Pilot Crash In Ohio Leaves Crippled Pilot Hurt
Lieut. Norman R. Burnett, 28, an Army mail pilot, bailed out over Fremont, Ohio, when his Cleveland to Chicago flight encountered trouble. He landed in a field with a broken leg and endured near zero temperatures for four hours before a farmer rescued him.
Cedar Rapids seeks bids for sewer outlet construction Sections C D E
City of Cedar Rapids invites proposals for the construction erection and installation of sewer outlet sections C D and E and purifying plant. Bids due by 10 am March 16 1934 with plans specifications and contract forms available for $25.00. Work includes rotary distributors screen house primary sedimentation and electrical work with completion by Oct 1 1934 and final payment after 30 days. The city reserves the right to accept or reject bids.
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Hearing on proposed sewer outlet project plans Cedar Rapids
Notice of a March 16 1934 hearing in Cedar Rapids Iowa on proposed plans specifications and form of contract for Sections C D and E of a sewer outlet and purifying plant. The City Clerk invites any interested party to appear and file objections or costs. Published Feb 23 and Mar 2 1934.
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