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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1935
Page
15
Chicago AP reports hog prices climbed to a top of 10.25 and 10.20 in dressed trade, the highest since 1930, while live hogs gained 5 to 15 cents. June slaughter fell to 3,047,033 head, the smallest June in forty years, as packing plants moved 5,000 direct loads and 1,000 hogs carried over.
Market reports show hog receipts around 10 000 at Chicago with prices up 5 to 15 cents for several weight classes and top hogs near 10 25. Cattle show mixed demand with calves steady to weak prices and beef cows steady to higher in spots. sheep receipts about 8 000 with lambs trading lower and ewes under pressure.
The Associated Press notes hog prices higher in Waterloo Mason City and Ottumwa markets with gains of 10 to 15 cents. Prices for various weight classes range from about 7.45 to 9.40 per hundredweight, with good to choice quality hogs commanding the best bids and packing hogs showing modest rises. Markets in Austin Minnesota also reflect a 30 cent higher trend for good to choice hogs across multiple weight brackets.
Chicago markets show receipts and prices across butter eggs poultry and potatoes with steady to mixed movement. Butter and eggs show activity at various graded levels while poultry prices reflect liveliness in hens turkeys and roasters alongside varied potato stock and regional bids.
An uptick of 10 cents lifted the local hog market top to 9.50. All hog grades gained, with Sinclair Hog Market listing a wide range of prices by weight class from 140 pounds to over 350 pounds. Cattle and sheep sectors show steady to strong values across several weight categories.
Grain items show Wheat 75 80, Oats 284 20, Rye 43m 3c, Baker 4241. Hens under 4 pounds 12c, Springs 4 pounds up 13c. Leghorn, cocks and pens eyes 23c. No. 1 20c, No. 2 cm. Wholesale fruits and vegetables list Valencia oranges 32.50–74.00, seedless grapefruit 4.00, lemons 7.00, potatoes 17.54 22.00, bananas 5 percent, black raspberries 2.00, head lettuce crate 4.25, cabbage 1.50, onions 2.00. Hides prices: No. 1 beef 4c, No. 2 beef 4 4c, calf No. 1 8c, No. 2 6 7c, kip 6c, No. 2 kip 4c. Pony and glue hides half price. No. 1 horse 27, No. 2 horse 2. Green hides 1 cent less.
New York bond review shows values little changed on Thursday with rails slight weakness and utilities mixed. Government issues remained thin as investors awaited a crop of uncertain prospects while industrial and telephone issues traded near unchanged margins.
The report notes varied foreign exchange quotations for Belgium Denmark Greece and Argentina among others and highlights wool market activity in Boston Texas and other regions with prices for scoured and average quality clips. Sugar futures in New York show steady to firm demand with improved inquiry and notable July to August shipments.
Bearish sentiment overwhelmed the wheat trade on the Chicago board, with wheat futures down up to 3 3 cents and cash prices 1 to 1 4 cents lower. Corn and oats also declined or held steady amid government crop reports, Liverpool weakness, and scattered buying by houses as hedge selling looms.
Wall Street stocks sagged amid profit taking after recent gains with some leaders like Allied Chemical Du Pont and Public Service of New Jersey dropping about 2 to 3 points while others held or advanced on selective buying. Transfers neared 1.2 million shares as copper and coal markets moved with mixed bond and foreign exchange activity.
The Minneapolis cash grain report shows wheat receipts at 27 cars with prices for No 2 northern and No 3 dark northern, along with protein adjusted values. Corn No 3 yellow bids around 7 1/8 cents, oats No 3 white at about 3 344 cents, and barley feed around 35 7/8 cents, with various barley and rye notes and forward price indications for futures months.
The AP reports bonds in New York closed with varied results. Liberty bonds, Treasuries across several maturities show prices around 112 to 105, with yield changes in a narrow range as investors gauge demand and inflation expectations.
WESTVILLE, WN. S. (UP) Seventy years a miner and still "rarin' to go" is the record of Roderick Chisholm, Canada's oldest miner. Chisholm started work in the coal pits of Nova Scotia when he was 12. Now he is 82 and still at work.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann told his wife he felt sure of being home soon after the state pressed its final brief to sustain his Lindbergh baby conviction. Anna Hauptmann met him in his death house cell for about thirty minutes as officials filed the last state ment in the case with the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals.
William B. Childers 70 died at 5 50 p m Wednesday at his home 808 Second avenue SW after a long illness. He had lived in Cedar Rapids 22 years and is survived by four children Jess Charles Mrs Clifford Hare all of Cedar Rapids and Ed of Chicago three brothers Walter Robert and John Childers of Walnut Ridge Arkansas and a sister Mrs Nan Henley of Sand Springs Oklahoma Funeral services will be in Beatty chapel Saturday at 10 a m conducted by Rev Blaine Hyten Burial in Linwood cemetery Friends may call 7 to 9 p m Friday
Mrs. Cora Carper wife of Clarence F. Carper of 1447 Mount Vernon Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 1 10 am Thursday after a year’s illness. Born November 28 1890 in Maple Hill Kansas she had lived in Cedar Rapids eight years. Survived by husband a daughter Verba her parents Mr and Mrs F A Ripper of Cedar Rapids one sister Mrs Ben Stern of Los Angeles two brothers Louis Hartley of Pella and Homer Hile of Los Angeles. Member of the Church of the Brethren. Funeral announcements to be provided later. Friends may call at Turner chapel.
August Fuller former Cedar Rapids resident and Linn County Home inmate since November 14 1925 died at 11 40 p m Wednesday after a long illness He is survived by a niece Mrs Marie Dedo of Kansas City Missouri The body is at Beatty chapel awaiting funeral arrangements.
Washington hearing on President Roosevelt tax program called off as no witnesses appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee. Names listed include Chester H Gray American Farm Bureau Gen R E Wood Sears Roebuck and Co Vivien C Anderson C C Owsley and others. Treadway notes no bill exists and majority will draft one.
President Roosevelt approved 55,184,207 from the unemployment fund to employ 56,960 people in New York City and surrounding areas. He released 41,571,090 for 104 non federal construction projects in New York City and 13,613,117 to the agriculture department for disease and insect control. The plan estimates 43,347 New Yorkers will be employed for a year, with about 1,000 dollars per worker allocated to agriculture.
CHICAGO INS Marjorie Lytell and Phil Faversham, married Aug 2 1934 in Yuma Ariz, finally plan a honeymoon delayed by work. Lytell stars in Three Men on a Horse in Chicago while Faversham finishes Fly Away Home in New York and will soon join her in Chicago.
The report notes ten percent of Oregon lakes are unnamed and lie in heavily timbered areas. More than 1,000 lakes are listed with the state game commission or forestry service, while the remainder await designation.
Mrs. Jessie Bernard earned a PhD at Washington University after surveying 531 St. Louis housewives on neighborliness. The study links neighborly ties to stable, home owning, churchgoing communities and finds correlated declines in suicide and juvenile delinquency. summer activity differs for some respondents.
Montreal experts from McGill University argue spiders are mankind's allies not foes. They note spiders feed on pests and help limit dangers from mosquitoes and wasps, though rare poison effects can occur.
Roy C. Klock, once Toledo’s top chain letter magnate, asks participants to donate cash to cover a $1,251 payroll and a $250 supply bill. His 125 employees were paid by filling in winnings by hand. he promises repayment after fixtures sell and claims from three partners are collected, following police closure of the operation.
NORTH BAY Ontario residents celebrate 112th birthday of John Birch a veteran of the Crimean and Franco Prussian wars born in Sebastopol Russia. Deafness is his only ailment and he jokes about heaven awaiting his call as friends offer congratulations.
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