Cattle Hit Record $25 CWT as Prices Rise on Tuesday
Chicago cattle bids surged to a record $25 per hundredweight on Monday with the previous high $23.25. hogs followed higher with loads at $19 and most weights under 260 pounds at $18.75 to $19. Hog receipts reached about 14,000 in restock and 2,006 cattle with 10,000 sale and 4,000 shipped to packers. Young lightweights topped at $17.75 as demand stayed strong.
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Chicago
Dow-Jones
Steen Ennenendost
Bennett & Co. W
Adams Express
Alieznany Corp
Sia Allied Cnem
Allis Chalmers
A Jones la’ Eill
Libby
Rell Mills
Lockheed
Myers
Marshall
Armour Ark Nat
Sethe Au. Co
Atlantic Rig
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Loco Motor
Balt & Ohio
Natl Biscuit
Orden Co NY Mtral
Bridgeport B. Org Ware Triges North Am ‘N Co
N. J
Chao
West
Chivaler Motor
Raa Radio
Reyn
Colum Schen
Colu Ceech
Sears Buck
Com Credit Tyel. Inc
Edison Om
Solvents Howell Union
Simmons Co
Oll N. J
Curtis Wr
Stone Webster
Stew
Warner
du Pont
Studebaker
Douglas Air
Swift and Co
Swift Ind
Elec
Ort Tex. Gulf
Elec and Erie
Ovid
Howe Sound
Hudson Mtrs
Woolworth Ms
Rayon
Market Report Hogs Cattle and Lambs Prices Steady Higher
Receipts near 30 000 with hogs strong on most weights top at 19.00 while sows gain 50 to 75 cents. Calves and yearlings show gains up to 1.00 with choice steers and heifers at 25.00 and 23.25 respectively. Cattle trade slow, cows weak to steady, beef cows around 17.00 to 18.00, spring lambs steady with good and choice offerings moving to packers.
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USDA
Hogs and cattle market roundup from Omaha trade
OMAHA AP USDA hogs see 1,000 head active with bid up to $1.00. Cattle receipts total 10,000 with calves 375. fed steers and yearlings higher, cows steady to strong. Vealers steady. feeder steers up 25c. Sheep receipts 2,000 with spring lambs steady to 25c higher. shorn prices around $9.75 and western Nebraska feeding lambs above $16.00.
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Nebraska
Sioux City Cattle Receipts Mixed as Prices Rise
Cattle receipts total 8 900 with calves 150 and steers and heifers up to 50c higher, cows and bulls 25c to 50c higher, steers steady. Select loads show top prices around 22 75 to 23 00 per 100 pounds, with heifers near 21 50 and mixed steers and heifers about 22 25. Hog and sheep receipts 8 700 and 900 with hogs uneven due to higher asks and lambs priced up to 21 00 for native spring lambs Existing market unclear for a firm overall trend.
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Sioux City
Iowa Hog Receipts Report Mixed Prices in Iowa and Minnesota
Des Moines reports 48 hour hog receipts across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota show declines from 74 to 39 thousand head year over year. Active market with higher prices for sows and mixed weights ranging 160 to 550 pounds. Prices listed include sows at 16.00 to 18.00 and larger hogs around 17.75.
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Iowa
Des Moines
INS
Minnnesota
Mondey el Sae
Butchers Markets Note Prices For Pigs And Sows
Prices listed for various weights of pigs and sows across Waterloo Ottumwa Austin Mason and other locations. Sows priced at 16.75 to 17.00 with all weights shown. Market figures include several per hundred rates and miscellaneous decimals.
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Pes Weltes
Waterloo Ottumwa
Austin Mason
Cedar Rapids Hog Market Rises Again Amid Higher Prices
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market gained another dollar Monday following gains of over two dollars last week. Top price for prime hogs reached 18.00 while packer bids stood around 17.58 for hogs weighing 270 to 600 pounds.
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Cedar Rapids
Sheep and cattle market prices and fruit listings
The column lists prices for cured beef hides and calf hides, horse prices, sheep market notes with spring lambs and shorn ewes, and apricots with unit prices per pound and per bushel. Reads like a rural market roundup with varied goods and unit costs.
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Seeaiam Ee Ae
Chicago grain quotations and rates summary
Open high quotes for corn oats and barley reflect mixed values with oats showing late gains. Old contracts note July oats at 83 42, Sept oats 0 78 34, and December oats 0 78 42, indicating firming levels and seasonal movement across futures while Lamson Brothers and Merchants National Bank oversee data.
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Chicago
Lamson Brothers
H. R. Mowrey
Merchants National Bank
Cedar
Bet One
Stock Prices Drop Sharply in New York Market
NEW YORK AP reports leading stocks fell by $1 to more than $5 a share Monday, the widest decline since June. Brokers cite price control fears, consumer strikes, anticipated economic unrest, and market congestion from new issues as causes. Around 1,200,000 shares changed hands, among the largest since July.
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New York
New York Bond Review Signals Lighter Rail Offerings
The New York bond market opened with modest losses as light rail offerings drew scant demand beyond fractional concessions. Government issues across distant maturities stabilized after prior declines, leaving the over-the-counter market broadly steady.
Chicago Produce Market Report Noted Weak Demand
Chicago market receipts include four cars of produce with weak demand. Hens and Leghorn hens fetch 27 cents, fryers 32, old roosters 22, heavy ducks 23, small ducks 0, ducklings 28, tom turkeys 31 cents, old guinea hens 25, guineas 45 cents. Pigeons $1.50, EESE-Twins daisies 38 to 42 cents. Butter price 92 cents per pound, eggs around 28.7 cents per dozen with 42 cases, market weak. Idaho potatoes and related shipments show decay and mixed prices with washed and unclassified lots noted.
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Chicago
New York Produce Price List Fragments
Fragmentary butchered OCR shows price data for New York produce including lots of weights and grades. Entries list Nos 1 to 4, 45 Ibs, 394 medium, 40-44 36e, dirties 43 Ibs, and checks with a three day total 567,912. This item lacks full context but preserves key figures and categories.
Oats Dip While Corn Holds Near Steady After Highs
Chicago price reports show oats dropping over 2 cents at times while corn stayed near steady following seasonal highs. Cash oats fell 2 to 4 cents with spread trades against cotton. No 2 yellow corn traded up to 2.28 amid OPA termination, with final corn at 1.60 to 1.70 and oats 23 to 3% lower at seasonal lows.
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Chicago
OPA
Market quotes Chicago area grain and feed prices
GO CASH yappone. CHICAGO AP No. red 2.13 No. 2 hard 2.11 No. 1 hard 4ait CORN No. 4 yellow 2.24 sample grade yellow 2.15 OATS No. 1 a hor e mixed 93 9342c No. 1 mixed 93c 1 heavy white 9249 Feed heavy white 93c No. 3 white BARLEY Making ott 4861.00 nominal feed 1.30 1.6 nom
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Chicago
Live stock auction report with steadiness and price ranges
Auction cattle sale shows steers and heifers firm to higher with gains up to 50 cents on good steers. Stockers and feeders near 45 percent of run. light stock steady to slower. Prices: good and choice steers 19.50 to 21.50, top loads 22.50 to 22.75. shortfed and grass beef steers 15.50 to 17.00. mixed fat cattle 18.00 to 20.00. cows 15.50 to 16.50. vealers 15.50 to 18.00. stocker feeders 17.00 to 17.25. calves 16.40 to 17.50.
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Ibis
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Sales Report Snippet
Plymouth Wisconsin seismic cheese exchange sales list shows Twins and ched one car 364ac three cars 39 percent ec, forty two cars.
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Wisconsin Cheese
Plymouth
Wis
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Woman Fined For Drunkenness And Disturbing Peace
Nora Peterson of 1209 Fourth street SE was fined 75 dollars plus costs for drunkenness and disturbing the peace. O. O. Spencer of 42 Eighth avenue SE paid 25 dollars and costs for the same charges after a Saturday night fight at Snyder's tavern. Spencer and Walter Becicka were also charged with drunkenness and disturbing the peace and will appear in police court.
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Nora Peterson
Fourth Street
O. O. Spencer
Eighth Avenue SE
Miss Peterson
William R. Miller
Eleventh Avenue SE
Snyder’s Tavern
Haraold Kelly
Murphy Davis
Frank O'Neill
Spencer
Walter Becicka
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Third Street
O'Neill
Davis
Miller
Becicka
Jan Hus Lodge Installs New Officers
Newly installed officers of Jan Hus lodge No. 51 10.C.F. include Archie G. Douda noble grand Milo Nesetril vice grand Frank V. Morris warden Milo Vrba conductor Louis Blazek chaplain Aldrich Stanek right scene support Henry A. Webster left scene support George Meli char and Joseph Biskup right and left support to noble grand Henry Zahradnik and Charles Dilask right and left support to vice grand Paul Eilers inside guard and Charles Dougherty outside guard Milo W. Koutny elected treasurer to fill the unexpired term of Frank Joseph Dvorak who died July 7 Louis H. Straka and Louie J. Pochobradsky Jr are financial and recording secretary respectively Past Grand Mile Vrba received the certificate and jewel installation services with Special District Deputy Grand Master Milvoy Horsky in charge.
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Jan Hus Lodge
10.C.F
Archie G. Douda
Noble Grand
Milo Nesetril
Frank V. Morris
Milo Vrba
Louis Blazek
Aldrich Stanek
Henry A. Webster
George Melichar
Joseph Biskup
Henry Zahradnik
Charles Dilask
Gjellefald Construction Firm Awarded Contract
Gjellefald Construction of Est City Ind won a Cedar Rapids contract for sanitary sewer work. Bid was 26 752 15. Work includes installations across Oakland Road NE Elmhurst Drive NE Cold Stream Avenue NE Twenty first Avenue SW Mallory Street SW Wilson Avenue SW Dalewood Avenue SE Thirty first Street Meadowbrook Drive SE and Fourteenth Avenue SE. Senne bidder was Egg Construction of Cedar Rapids.
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Gjellefald Construction Company
Forest City
City of
Cedar Rapids
City
Oakland Road
Elmhurst Drive
Cold Stream Avenue
Twenty-first Avenue
Mallory Street
Wilson Avenue
Dalewood Avenue
Thirty-first
Meadowbrook Drive
Mrs Ollie Gillmor Rites Held At Yocom Chapel
Marion News Services reports Mrs Ollie McLain Gillmor died in Los Angeles last Thursday at age 72. Funeral at 2 30 p m Wednesday at Yocom chapel with Rev J P Van Horn officiating and burial in Oak Shade cemetery. Born Marion November 15, 1873. married February 1898 to Robert L Gillmor. Survivors include two daughters Neva Schmieter Dorothy Harvey Rockford N, Niles R Gillmor Sche nectady NY Donald M Gillmor Chicago, sister Myrtle De Russey Los Angeles, niece Helen Johnson Marion, six grandchildren. Friends may call at the chapel Wednesday morning.
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Ollie McLain Gillmor
Los Angeles
Yocom Chapel
J. P. van Horn
Oak Shade Cemetery
Marion
Robert L. Gillmor
Miller
S. D
Gillmor
Neva Schmieter
Dorothy Harvey
Rockford, N
Niles R. Gillmor
Schenectady
N. Y
Donald M. Gillmor
Chicago
Myrtle de Russey
Helen Johnson
Surprise Dinner Honors Leaving Couple at Indian Creek Club
Mr and Mrs Lewis Alcorn, bound for Santa Cruz California, received a surprise dinner at Indian Creek Country Club Sunday hosted by Mr and Mrs Robert Brodie and Mr and Mrs Bernard Port. Guests included Mr and Mrs Dean Feigh Mr and Mrs Harry Jones Mr and Mrs Verle McNutt Arminta Davidson Glatha Port and John C Mullin who presented a gift to the Alcorns.
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Lewis Alcorn
Santa Cruz
Calif
Indian Creek Country Club
Robert Brodie
Bernard Port
Dean Feigh
Harry Jones
Verle i McNutt
Arminta Davidson
Glatha Port
John C. Mullin
Carey son ill forestry student rushed to Des Moines hospital
Mr and Mrs E V Carey visited Des Moines on Sunday to see their son Robert Carey a patient at the Veterans hospital. Carey then a forestry student at Iowa State college was in Spokane on a field trip when illness struck and he was flown to Des Moines Saturday for treatment.
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E. V. Carey
Des Moines
Robert Carey
Veterans Hospital
Carey
Iowa State College
Spokane
Wash
Mrs C E Clark Injured in Fall at Sweet Home
Mrs C E Clark mother of Mrs Charles H Sweet fractured her left hip in a fall at the Sweet home Sunday and is confined at St Luke s hospital.
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C. E. Clark
Charles H. Sweet
Sweet Home
St. Luke’s Hospital
Surprise anniversary party honors Wayne Scott couple
Mr and Mrs Roy Cooper of Burlington former Marion residents spent weekend with Marion relatives. Mrs Dewey Lint and Miss Doris Scott hosted a surprise party Sunday night for the first wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Wayne Scott at 969 Sixth Avenue with 18 guests. Mrs Jesse Potter had major surgery at St Luke Hospital Saturday. Helen Lagerquist and Mrs Carl Whittemore visited Iowa Falls Monday. Ruth Rathbun Celia Baily Marjorie Whittemore Marleen Novotny and Mae Hilmer returned from Baptist Young People's Camp with them. Guests at E A Lagerquist home included Clarence Filby Des Moines and son Larry, and Mrs Walter Hadsall of Santa Monica Calif with her children David and Nancy.
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Roy Cooper
Burlington
Marion
Dewey Lint
Doris Scott
Wayne Scott
Sixth Avenue
Helen Lagerquist
Carl Whittemore
Iowa Falls
Ruth Rathbun
Celia Baily
Marjorie Whittemore
Marleen Novotny
Mae Hilmer
Baptist Young People’s Camp
E. A. Lagerquist
Clarence Filby
Des Moines
Larry
Walter Hadsall
Santa Monica
Calif
David
Nancy
Filby
Mrs. Hadsall
Mrs. Lagerquist
Minneapolis separation center wording reaches Marion relatives
M M Roy Williams Jr 3/c awaits dish accord at the Minneapolis separation center with Marion relatives reported. His California based parents are mentioned, while other family members including Mrs Anna Duncan of Seneca SD and Mrs John Cory are noted in hospital convalescence at St Luke's Cedar Rapids. Patricia Reed of Washington Ia and Peggy Denna g are linked to Clarion.
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M. M
Roy Williams, Jr
Minneapolis
Marion
California
Anna Duncan
Seneca, S. D
John Cory
Jington
Peggy Denn Ag
Patricia Reed
Washington, Ia
Clarion
Centennial Picnic Draws Residents to Mason City
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Fleisher and Mahlon Fleisher joined Mrs. Harry Davies for a family visit and Centennial celebration at the Odd Fellows home in Mason City. Also attending were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Booze, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Parkman and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lurth for the annual picnic on Sunday.
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Harry Davies
W. J. Fleisher
Mahlon Fleisher
W. H. Booze
Troop Arrivals by the Associated Press
Ten transports carrying nearly 11,000 service men plus 435 war brides and civilians were due Monday. Ships arriving include New York Sheepshead Bay Victory with 1,268 troops from Bremen and Tufts Victory from Le Havre with 902 troops. In San Francisco the War Hawk from Tsingtao carries 1,432 navy and 340 marines, among others.
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Associated Press
New York
Sheepshead Bay
Victory
Bremen
Tufts Victory
le Havre
Alhambra Victory
Norway Victory
Southampton
Willard A. Holbrook
San Francisco
War Hawk
Tsingtao
Navy
Marine Swallow
Shanghai
Renville
Pearl Harbor
Army
Great Republic
San Diego
Charles Carroll
Sasebo
Cedar Rapids Council OKs Sewers and Curb Boosts
The Cedar Rapids city council passed a resolution assessing property along Wilson avenue SW for sanitary sewers while overruling an objecting petition. Mrs. Marie R. Hamilton of 2214 J street SW protested the assessment. The council sent curb and gutter petitions on Seventeenth and Eighteenth avenues SW and I street SW to the city engineer. Final plat for Hamilton Development Company lots along Franklin avenue NE and Twenty-fifth street NE near the Milwaukee railroad right of way was approved. Dr. Henry H. Hamilton pledged to bring the streets to grade.
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Wilson Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Marie R. Hamilton
J Street
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Avenues
I Street
Johnson and Others
Hamilton Development Company
Franklin Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Milwaukee Railroad
Henry H. Hamilton
All Implement Plants Facing Strike Threat
CIO Farm Equipment Workers union leaders warned at a Stevens hotel meeting that the group will urge its convention opening July 31 to call an industry wide strike against major farm equipment plants if no settlement is reached by then. The threat targets Allis-Chalmers Case John Deere and Oliver plants with work stoppages already in motion at several facilities in Wisconsin Indiana Illinois Ohio and Massachusetts. The move follows a prior warning from United Auto Workers chief Walter Reuther that remaining Case plants would strike if disputes were not resolved.
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Chicago
CIO Farm Equipment Workers Union
In- Pensure
Stevens Hotel
Cea
Kneagg van Fey
Egrams
Lewis ‘Schwellenbach
Hearings This Week on Trucking to Mason City
State commerce commission holds two hearings this week on plans to operate truck freight between Cedar Rapids Mason City and related routes. McCoy Truck Lines seeks Cedar Rapids Mason City service, with hearing at Linn County auditor's office Wednesday at 10 00 a m. Bus Freight Lines seeks Cedar Rapids Hampton Mason City service, hearing at Marshalltown Thursday.
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State Commerce Commission
Cedar Rapids
Masonity
Mason City
Harry F. Sundberg
Traffic Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce
Linn County Auditor’s Office
McCoy Truck Lines, Inc
Waterloo
Mason
Marshalltown
Hampton
Sundberg
City Council Names Five to Commissions
Cedar Rapids city council approved appointments to several commissions and boards on Monday with Mayor Frank K. Hahn presiding. Reappointed were Dawson R. Grim and Jess A. Kitterman to the playground and recreation commission. Earl Heinze to the electrical board of examiners until 1949. George Farmer to the board of adjustment with a term extending to 1949.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank K. Hahn
Dawson R. Grim
Jess A. Kitterman
Playground and Recreation
Earl Heinze
Electrical Board of Examiners
George Farmer
Board of Adjust
City Sells House on Zika Avenue for $350
The Cedar Rapids parks department sold a house at 1609 Zika Avenue NW to Haegg Construction Co. for $350, with a single rival bid of $125. The house must be moved to clear the lot for an extension to Ellis Park Golf Course, as announced earlier this month by Parks Commissioner Dick Jones.
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Zika Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Deadline Set For Street Oiling Petitions
Public Improvements Commissioner David L. Williams announced August 1 as the deadline for street oiling petitions. His department cannot accept requests after that date, and the schedule will be filled by then as the streets department has been busy with a large summer oiling program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Improvements
David L. Williams
Williams
Streets
Vacationer Finds Sunburn Costs Money This Summer
Washington columnist notes summer travel woes as inflation hits lodging and meals. He jokes about high hotel prices, 40-cent hamburgers, and sunburns, recounting lodging misadventures from Cape Cod to Vermont and New Hampshire while lamenting rising costs and lumber shortages.
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Washington
Othmans
New England
Pittsfield
Mass
Lake Morey
Manpower Shortage Seen By Fall Looms
Washington AP dispatch notes federal economists warn of a fall manpower shortage with civilian employment near 56.74 million in June and rising demand in construction retail and services. CPA says shortages could emerge by October or November as veterans re-enter school and labor slack from farm jobs declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civilian Production Administration
Census Bureau
Secretary of Commerce
Wallace
CPA
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
United States Employment Service
Armed Services
Breakage of dishes costs Nebraska state institutions
Breakage at Nebraska state institutions costs about $17,000 annually. The figure reflects losses from broken china and glassware across state facilities, underscoring ongoing material waste and procurement implications for public budgets.
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Nebraska
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By Angelo
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Marion News
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Robert Carey II
Jesse Potter
St. Luke’s Hispital
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