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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1934
Page
8
Chicago spot markets show weaker demand as large supplies move into yards. Cattle and hogs posted uneven prices with lambs around seven and a half dollars per hundredweight, while regional plants in Cleveland and Pittsburgh held steadier. Representatives note overall market pressure from record volumes arriving for sale.
Local page lists miscellaneous prices for fruits vegetables and staples in Cedar Rapids. Items include California Valencia oranges at 450 per case, grapefruit at 4, bananas 96, potatoes 1.00, peaches 1.00, and other produce with varying cents and dollar amounts quoted.
Reports of worsening drought in the American and Canadian northwest lift grain prices on the Chicago board of trade with some gains later eroding. wheat futures rise amid dry weather and crop worries, while oats and cash prices show mixed to modest changes as traders wait for weather updates and receipts.
Grain and livestock receipts mixed as hogs, cattle, and sheep show varied demand. Hogs lower top sows 160-180 lb range around 45 dollars with feeders 200+ pounds majority around 210 pounds, cattle receipts moderate with steers and yearlings weak, feeders dull, vealers strong to 400 dollars, heavy bulls up to 265, lambs steady with some topline prices near 690, feeding lambs quoted at 550, combined hog and cattle movement dispersed across Des Moines and Omaha markets with several packing plants noted.
A young newspaper seller died in a car crash in South Bend Indiana with few readable details. The report notes a teen victim and local authorities responding to the incident.
U S Smelting rose about four points and Du Pont gained three as General Motors and U S Steel moved higher. Banks and chemical shares paced gains while trading volume hovered around 375000 shares. overall sentiment improved after coast strike news.
Federal agent Reed is suspended from duty after a shooting near St Jesus that injured Mrs Dessie Massey during an early Saturday raid. The Department of Justice stated Reed requested his own suspension pending disposition of the case.
Birth notices listed include a nine pound daughter to Mr and Mrs F oJ Duff s il at A avenue NE on a Sunday, a six and a half pound daughter to Mr and Mrs Melvin Dochterman at 1033 GF avenue NW on Tuesday, a son to Mr and Mrs Hershel Turner at Meics hospital on July 37, a son to Mt and Mrs Fels Sim- Favity at 1621 Els boulevard on July 18, a daughter to Mer and Mobs Anthats Mehchar at 3210 Mis.reer SW on July 18, and a daughter to Mroo and Mrs Sheldon Fidlenworth at 27 Twenty-first street NF oat Mercy hospital on July 18.
In Elkader Leas won rock surfacing contracts for three Clanton county roads with a total bid of 21 803 00 The Shellsburg McVey and Roth families held annual reunions with attendees and officers elected for continued gatherings in coming years Delhi and Troy Mills reported school bus routes and wills Lowden celebrated a 52nd anniversary with family all across the county’s tightly packed notices of local civic and family events.
Chicago reports William A Green president of the American Federation of Labor states the San Francisco strike was neither ordered nor authorized by the AFL. He says the event is local in character with no national significance and that the federation sought an honest settlement rather than comment or interference.
In Seneca Falls New York a local veterinarian Dr W L Clark displayed a bizarre animal described as half pig and half horse at his hospital. The creature born to a mare on a nearby farm has a pig like head that breathes and snorts while its legs and body resemble a colt. It is black with white markings on its head and nose.
Mrs. Charles Nash aged 73 dies at 1910 Tenth Avenue Marion after a long illness. Eva Huffman, doors, ties, and grandchildren noted. Funeral at Yocom chapel with burial in Oak Shade. numerous local families cited in obituaries and village notices. Concerts, visits, clubs, and social events fill the week.
In a Bucharest inn a man, Michael Petculap, 66, laughed at a local notice of sextuplets. Ten minutes later his wife gave birth to quadruplets and the town doctor’s assistant found the man dead, mother and babies reportedly healthy.
Chicago report says Marvin Pedersen 26 was not abducted but taken to police station on disorderly conduct charge after two men took him from Lou Wold’s Ottawa farm. Pedersen, former divinity student and St Olaf’s football star, had been linked to Mrs Binder.
Tony Mancini known as Jack Natyre pled not guilty to hammer murder charges in Brighton England. He is remanded to jail for a July hearing after Mrs Violette Kaye a 42 year old dancer was found murdered and her body stuffed in a trunk in a lodging house cellar. Police also recovered a second torso fragment from another trunk.
A long OCR fragment lists NBC CBS and related stations and a vast line of radio orchestras, hosts, and programs. It references personalities like Vallee and Rider along with multiple city stations and time blocks. The piece reads as a catalog of broadcast offerings with many station call letters and concert names.
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