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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1939
Page
2
Unofficial Monday livestock receipts show hogs 28 000 and sheep 12 000 with overall next week projections 124 000. Hog receipts Saturday totaled 10 000, lightweights at 7 80, heavy butchers at 7 30, market steady to slightly higher than a week ago.
Receipts about 500 hogs with steady demand on light supply and top hog price of 7.80 for 190 lb. averages. Cattle receipts near 200 with higher values across steers, heifers, and bulls. top light steers around 13.65 and yearlings to 13.40. Sheep receipts about 1,000 with fat lambs down slightly to 9.00 top, mixed lamb and ewe prices varied through the day.
Receipts show cattle at Sioux City and Omaha with steady to firm undertones. Good and choice beef cattle hold firm while calves and stockers vary. cows rise modestly. Hogs steady to strong on 170-225 lb ranges, with top prices around 7.40. Sheep trade nominally steady with fat lambs near 9.25 top earlier, yearlings and ewes mixed.
Market report shows steady to higher cattle and hog prices in several towns. Iowa and Minnesota buyers posted mixed quotes with midweek gains for various weight classes, while packing figures reflect solid demand and regional price spreads.
U S Department of Agriculture reports 29 800 hogs received at 19 concentration yards and 10 packing plants in interior Minnesota and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending at 3 a m Saturday. Compared with 26 500 a week ago and 43 400 year ago, keeping prices steady to 180 higher on 140-180 lb hogs and higher on 180-220 lb weights. Packing sow ranges noted from 276-350 lb at 6 05 to 6 20. other weight classes listed with varied quotes.
Chicago markets show butter receipts at 1011 9 185 steady creamery firsts 88 39 with 4 margins, receipts 49 836 weak, current 154c and other prices steady. Potatoes arrivals 685, shipments 662, Idaho russets demand moderate, Colorado red and Wisconsin round whites quoted with light price variation. overall cash prices listed for various sacks and bags.
New York AP report shows egg receipts at 19 124 irregular mixed, price standards 19 %%c, firsts seconds 17c, middling 0, average checks 160. Creamery cheese receipts 618 009, weak, prices unchanged. extra 92 score 25 26c and 344 2444c.
Grain prices list No. 1 wheat 59c No. 2 57c New oats White No. 2 25c No. 3 22c Rye No. 3 30 34c Hay and straw prices Baled tame bay 7.00 Baled straw 6.00 Butterfat prices 26c No. 1 cream 25c No. 2 cream 23c Cedar Rapids poultry prices Colored hens 14c Leghorns 10c Colored stags 9c Leghorn 6c 4 ccs Homnerus 16c No. 1 14c Potatoes 1.45 190 Sweet potatoes 1.25 1.90 bushel Hides No. 1 cured beef piece No. 2 cured beef hides 52 a full tails Pony clue Hides Balt price.
Local market items show hogs up 5 to 10 cents with top at 7.25. Various hog weights and packer ranges listed. cattle market notes include choice to prime steers 595 to 10.50, midweight calves and yearlings priced, and sheep lambs around 7.00 for 75 to 90 lb lambs.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for the week of January 23 to 28 list Twins Il'7c daisies 12c horns 12c cheddars 13c? Parsers cal poard Dulmes 12c horns 12c cheddars.
New York AP notes a tepid bond session with U S government issues ending with small losses and minor gains in select rail and utility issues. Foreign dollar group weak, rails including Baltimore and Ohio and Illinois Central led losses. Columbia Gas Electric and Bethlehem Steel posted slim gains.
Oklahoma lawmakers moved to back Gov. Leon Phillips in the Red River flood control project fight while signaling willingness to concede on federal policy. The Senate urged no funding be halted except for dam related items, as a delegation heads to Washington to discuss state concerns. Senator D. Thomas warned a repeal of blanket state condemnation consent would be seen as unfriendly and halt all appropriations.
New York stocks dropped about four points amid fears of another European flareup after the ousting of a Reichsbank official. Trading was active from the start, with a late-day dip and limited recovery. Safeway Stores rose on strong profits, while U S Steel and several big names led the retreat.
Prices held near closing levels in light trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat was unchanged to off fractions May at 69 1/2 cents, corn off fractions to 51 1/2 cents, and oats steady. Cash wheat sales were about 140000 bushels with strong outside demand as weather forecasts warned of a cold grain belt.
Wall Street quotations show numerous equities with varied percentages in a dense list led by Adams Express and Allied Chem. Chicago cash provisions report mixed wheat and corn prices while Minneapolis cash grain notes widespread bids and bids for oats and flaxseed.
Decorah High Trips beat Gelwely 20 to 8 to secure a Northeast Town conference victory and their third straight. The game was noted as the fastest seen on Decorah’s floor this season, with a prelim victory over Oelwein 147 to 97.
Twenty pensioned veterans honored at Quaker Oats Athletic Association dinner in Stuart hall with gold pins, speeches by George Laird and Edward Sheehy, boxing and wrestling exhibitions, and a plan to make the event annual. About 350 attended as the first such gathering.
Irving pupils in the third and fourth grades, taught by Miss Lillian Thada, presented a program Friday with first and second graders as guests. Performances included a Farley play, dances, poetry, piano solos, and readings by Diane Biddick and others. Local residents and family members were noted in attendance and community notices followed about hospital stays and visits.
The Excelsior A and L club held an all day meeting Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Burns. A noon picnic dinner was served. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Harley Ives and several others. The next meeting is set for Feb 28 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Creglow with Mrs. Carl Wiley and others overseeing the program and refreshment committee.
The Mary Lowe Dickinson circle of King's Daughters observed its third anniversary with a Friday dinner at Mrs. Carl J. Kassler home. Cedar Rapids county president Mrs. Arthur Chase attended as a guest. Plans were made for a February 16 dinner in Memorial hall.
Firefighters led by Chief C. H. Sweet responded to a call Friday at 9 20 p m to the home of LeRoy Scott northwest of the Linn county home where rags sparked a blaze. The crew included Roy Cooper Lawrence King James Reynolds and Wes Barkwill. The truck was three quarters of a mile away when Chief Sweet learned the fire had been extinguished.
Earl Sharts aged 33 of 1324 A Avenue NW was fined 300 dollars plus costs by Judge H C Ring after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He received 30 days to pay. The county attorney said Sharts' liquor book and license would be sent to Des Moines for suspension after a near collision with detectives at 1 a.m. last Sunday.
Judge John T. Moffit approved the twenty second report for the period July 1 to December 31, 1938. Cash on hand December 31 stood at $2,097.38. Depositors dividends to date total 50 percent or about $41,000. D. W. Bates is receiver and O. A. Conwell examiner in charge. L. M. Phelps and Grace E. Phelps sue in a $464.66 lease and contract case. Royal E. Wright and Elma D. Wright are defendants.
Local church listings show multiple denominations with service times and sermon subjects. Baptist Rev L W Inman offers morning worship at 10 45 with topic The Joy and Art of Forgetting, and evening sermon Life's Choice. Catholic mass at 8 and 10. Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Paul's Lutheran, Seventh Day Church of God, and Prairie Chapel each provide planned Sunday schools, worship times, Bible study, and choirs.
Mrs Laura C Long died Friday at her brother in law and sister’s home after an extended illness. Survived by three sisters Mrs Daniels and Miss Ola White and Ida Bigelow both of Brooklyn Iowa. brother A A White of Ruderal services to be held Monday at 2 in the Methodist church in Brooklyn conducted by Rev Holler, burial in Brooklyn.
James G. Stahlman, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, told Fresno Advertising Club that labor’s salvation lies in more jobs not politicians or communist advisers. He urged advertisers to defend a free press and warned against demagogues exploiting labor while stressing job creation as the cure for unemployment. The piece also notes a moon fact about slow axial rotation and prolonged sun exposure.
A collage of business cards and notices lists funeral services by Rady Mortuary and Goodye Shoe Pair, moving and storage by Van Lines and Lynch Transfer, cleaning and maintenance by Corey Blog mechanic and electrical services, carnations malted milk, hauling and painting by various local firms. Includes addresses and phone numbers for multiple trades and home services.
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