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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1936
Page
13
Livestock market shows sales steady to 10 cents under Wednesday's average as hog receipts in Chicago and surrounding markets estimate moderate totals. Prices hold near the week’s trend with demand muted by heat and supply fluctuations.
Local market notes show hog prices advancing as buyers push for high yields. Traders report steady demand and firmer bids across prime cuts with several large lots passing through the yards.
In Cedar Rapids a miscellaneous column lists wholesale prices and items such as fruits vegetables and produce. The page shows prices for potatoes beets and various groceries with multiple vendors and quantities.
Chicago wheat futures firm at close with May wheat up about 24 at 1.00 per bushel, May corn steady to up fraction, oats unchanged. Snow forecasts and southern sowing delays weighed on sentiment while traders noted limited bullish follow through despite firm cash market.
Wall Street opened with a steady trend as profit taking remained limited and failed to spark a rally led by steel and specialty shares. Gains were pared later with only a few issues advancing, copper and railroad categories mixed, and standard oil easing as transfers reached about 3 million shares.
A fragment describes a London nursery game called sanctions a board with red and black pieces where reds threaten to break a covenant and blacks seek to enforce seclusion insiders suspect the game mirrors real political tension though details are unclear. In Postville the Citizens State Bank annual meeting elected officers including Carl Holter JC Wehe Melinda Casten and Chas Beucher. deposits rose from 276,11398 to 210,582,5811 and total assets reached 1,181,398 58.
Detmold Germany AP Adolf Hitler addresses a mass meeting promising possible future sacrifices for the nation. He recalls Lippe campaign of January 1933 and warns the path will be hard but Germany must grow strong. He says citizens may endure shortages and that greater sacrifices may lie ahead.
Monsignor Francis Kopecky, 68, former St. Wenceslaus pastor, died at 1030 m. Wednesday at 809 Tenth Street SE after a lingering illness. Born in Bohemia, ordained in Dubuque, served Cedar Rapids, Fort Atkinson, Barkley, and Duncan, where he became monsignor in 1934. Funeral Saturday at St. Wenceslaus with archbishop presiding. Burial in St. John's cemetery. Also notices for Florence Euretta Crawford and Mrs. D. B. Homan and family arrangements announced.
A daily menu listing breakfast with orange juice cereal eggs coffee bread and date. luncheon with creamed peas tuna toast hot cocoa grapes sugar cookies. dinner features fish scalloped potatoes buttered tomatoes cabbage salad apricot bread pudding lemon sauce coffee milk for children with date coffee bread. A dessert bake recipe includes flour baking powder sugar salt cinnamon dates milk eggs fat brown sugar nuts and a 20 minute bake in a moderate oven.
Marion residents are invited to a general meeting of the Marion Service club on Wednesday January 22 with a speaker and entertainment followed by a round table discussion on club growth. Reservations for 100 are available with C R Biddick or M H Biddick.
Oberlin College will inaugurate a peace institute next summer, the first such program in a coeducational college. Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, president of the college, announced the institute after condemning the slackers oath and urging student and graduate involvement in practical politics and study for peace. The plan expands a peace program already active with a students’ peace society, a peace mobilization, and Wilkins’ lectures.
Cracow Poland AP attempts to preserve Marshal Pilsudski by sealing his body in a bronze coffin set in a stone sarcophagus. Earlier plans for a transparent glass or silver coffin failed. The bronze coffin was sealed in a ceremony with Mme Pilsudski and army officers. the guard of honor was withdrawn.
An Italian reporter exposes a "faith day" dodge used to raise wedding ring sales during a crisis. The piece compares sales to marriage licenses and urges the wealthy to donate their own rings to the country, warning the poor cannot afford similar sacrifices. Public scorn is invited for flaunted rings.
In Rio Vista California a five foot salt water shark was hooked by Ralph Dodge while working with the United States engineers on the Sacramento River. The shark proved nonnative to the river and was later killed.
A notice explains a 10 cent addition to all out of town advertisements in Gazette Want Ads. It instructs readers to send letters to the Want Ad Department to respond to ads that only list phone numbers.
A dense aged page lists warnings and notices about immoral ads and scams, plus a collage of local business promotions. It features contact details for jewelry loans, furniture, clothing, shoe gear, beauty services, and party planning among others. Names like Armstrong and Ginnish appear amidst addresses and phone numbers.
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