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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 19, 1940

Page

13

Hogs rise on top prices across midwest markets

Chicago and several regional livestock yards report hogs mostly 10 to 15 cents higher with top prices near 6.85 while cattle remain steady to weak and sheep mixed. Sales include numerous calves, steers, and heifers. regional yards show varied weights and prices with light to heavy weights noted.

Chicago Ats Amt Medicom US Dept Agriculture Idaho Sioux City U 5 Dept. Agriculture Omaha Omana St, Paul South ST Paul Fed -State Mkt Peoria U .S. Dept Agricultures

Local Hog Market Steady to Strong

Hog prices hold firm with good hogs at about 149-170 pounds fetching around 4.75 to 5.65 per cwt. Cattle listings show mixed to steady demand for steer and yearling classes with prices noted across several weights. Market quotations and industrials are listed with multiple firms and commodities referenced in a dense regional farm market column.

Iowa Associated Press Ottumwa Mason City J. BE. Bennett & Co Merchants National Bank Adams Hydro Chalmers Jonas Manville Kan City Kennecott Hide & L S'akresee Inia Kroger G & B M & Fdy Am Maracaibo Saaibbey Quens Am Metals Lig & Myers Amn Ts Saras.ag Cews. Inc Am Roll Mills Rate, Inc Raiilard Good Packers Sagan Am Steel McLelland Sabah In Marshall Mathiesen Armour & Co Kan Texas Aten T & S FP Atlantic Ris Aviation Corp 4A Murray Corp Si2 Baldwin Loco Nash Kelly Balto & Ohio Bellas Biscut Bayuk Ciears Bendix Sea's Beth Taza Ceeees Blaw Knox Pee Eee Baharatan Sued Settone von Ae O. Oren Co Borg Warner Usts North Amn Co Briggs Mig Nor Amn Bucestus Erle Ohio Budd Mis Otis Steel Packard Mursay Burroughs Paramount Calumet Zinc Utah Camp Wyant Patino Mines Canada Dry Penick & Ford Penna RR Caterpillar Penney JC Central Fdy Peoples Gas Pillsbury Cerro de Pasco Piyaeath Sr Ches Ches Corp Proctor Gamble Enz & Tee Chee RT & P Pullman Chrysler Motors Radio Corp Keith Colz Safeway Southern Schenles Sea Coty Crucible Steel Cub Amn Sperry Corp Cudahy Pke Gurtiss Gurls du Pont Gland Ashe Eastman Kodak Ma Stew Warner Eaton Elec Stone Webster Sucepaker Tex Corp Tex Tidewater Ford Ensland Gen Foods Tint Air Lines Gen Motors Tint Corp Gen Realty Gillette Gimbel Bros Goofrich Goodtear Tire Graham Paice S Realty Walworth Wessus Ward Bak Yowesstan S&t Liz Zenith Eta Chicago Flechshold Heileman Mdgland Bors Warner Jarvis Butler Bros Marsh Field Cherry Br's Chip Corps Swift & Co Swesewitz Edison Zenith Rad Mississippi Davenport Hastings la Crosse Muscatine Keokukwe St. Louis Case la Memphis Sm

Stocks Idle As Fuehrer Talks

The New York market paused as Hitler spoke to the Reichstag delaying rallies. Traders waited for developments in Europe with transfers around 250 000 shares. Notable drifted issues included U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler Sperry American Telephone and Kennecott as buyers and sellers sat on hands.

New York Hitler England John Bull U. S. Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler Sperry American Teleplone Kennecott

Cedar Rapids Grain and Produce Prices

Cedar Rapids market listings show mixed grain prices including Wheat No 1 and No 2, Oats White No 2 and No 3, Rye No 2, Barley, Corn shelled No 2 yellow, Soybeans No 2 yellow. Hay and straw values, poultry prices for hens and roosters, wholesale fruits and vegetables with oranges, grapefruits, celery, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, apricots, watermelons, and a local hide market with No 1 cured reel hides and kip prices.

Chicago Minneapolis Montana Minnesota South Dakota

Chicago Markets Summary Returns Mixed Prices Steady to Weaker

Chicago produce receipts show poultry flat to slightly higher for some lines with broilers down and hens steady amid 212 pounds and down. Butter receipts firming. eggs mixed with earnings uneven across grades. potatoes arrivals and shipments large with slow demand in western whites, while some regions report steadiness in other markets. New York prices echo firmer butter and mixed egg quotes with unchanged cheese.

Chicago Fapi Plymouth Rock White Rock California Idaho Bliss Lone Whites U Nebraska Virginia Missouri Kansas New York

Futures Report On Butter Eggs And Storage Standards

Futures, supplied by Lamaon Bros and Co, notes butter storage standards and egg refrigerator standards with items dated November and October. Mentions market waves and a secret 13.09 value across November readings.

Lamaon Bros. and Co

Wheat and Corn Rise on Heat Driven Demand in Chicago Market

Light buying amid high northwest temperatures boosted wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade with July up to 7 cents and corn stronger by 2 cents. Oats, rye, and soybeans followed gains as Minneapolis showed independent firmness and Winnipeg, Kansas City, and Chicago echoed the market.

Chicago Northwest Chicago Board of Trade Minneapolis Kansas City Mills Winnipeg

Bond Markets Drift as Investors Hold Steady Amid War News

New York markets show light trading and small price moves as bond prices fluctuate. Foreign issues edge up slightly on war news while U S government bonds end with minor gains and Dow Jones averages hover with muted activity across industrials rails and utilities.

New York API Tokin City Belgium New South Wales Nor Way Studebaker Pacific Gas Baltimore and Ohio American Telephone Columbia Gas and Electric Hlimois Central Railroad General United States U. S. Bonds IAPJ U.S Treasury Federal Farm ATGL Utis Ave

Wisconsin cheese quotas for the week of July 15 20

Wisconsin cheese exchange listing for the week shows daisies brick and cheddars prices in cents per pound with highs around 14 to 4. Farmers' call board adds daisies co odorers Americas horns and cheddars with varied cents values. Wool market in Boston reports light trading with occasional buyers for French combing wool and generally lower scoured prices for future offerings.

Wisconsin Cheese Plymouth Wis Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Farmers’ Call Board Americas Boston API U. S. Dept. Agricultures

Funeral services Sunday for Wallace N Shaffer

Funeral services for Wallace N Shaffer 253 Sinclair avenue SE will be at 1 p m Sunday in the Barta chapel. The Rev Dr J P Van Horn will officiate and the body will be taken to Wyoming Iowa for further services and burial after the memorial at Louisburg Kansas where the car he was driving overturned Wednesday afternoon.

Wallace N. Shaffer Sinclair Avenue Louisburg Kan Barta Chapel J. P. van Horn Wyoming

Obituary for Mrs Katerina Kacer of Cedar Rapids

Mrs Katerina Kacer 75 died at 1216 Second Street SE at 1 30 a m Friday after brief illness Born in Bohemia September 15 1864 she came to Cedar Rapids as a child Survived by daughter Clara a grandson Charles and great granddaughter Deborah Kacer all of Cedar Rapids plus several nieces and nephews She was active in Bohemian clubs Funeral at Kuba funeral home conducted by Rev Benjamin Paroulek at 2 pm Sunday Burial in Bohemian National Cemetery

Katerina Kacer Second Street Bohemia Cedar Rapids Joseph Clara Charles Deborah Kacer Prokop Velky, 137 C.S.A Ceske Vlastenky Zdenka Havlicek Pomnenka Vlasti Kuba Benjamin Paroulek Bohemian National Heme

Want Ads Rates And Deadlines For The Gazette

Classified ad pricing lists per day with daily and multi day rates. Out of town ads incur 10 cent box charge and Gazette not responsible for more than one incorrect insertion. Work Wanted ads have special low rates and ads accepted until noon for same day publication.

Gazette The Theazette Singer Singer Co 1St Ave E. Sat Bean Pickers Cannery LeRoy Farmer 5Th Ave Dial F Ave

Obituary Notes From Cedar Rapids Area

Obituaries list Mrs Elizabeth Eggermeyer 83 Solon died at home after long illness with funeral at St Marys Solon. Mrs Mary Swab died at her daughter’s home Cedar Rapids after short illness born Bohemia May 30 1855 survived by two sons and seven grandchildren. Gordon S Pulis died at 1417 Fifth Ave SE funeral at Moon chapel burial Linwood cemetery. Mrs Bridget Sullivan died at 1506 Fourth Ave SE funeral at Immaculate Conception church burial Holy Cross cemetery Anamosa. Friends may call at chapels and mortuaries with Rosary details listed.

Mary Swab John W. Eller Seventeenth Street Bohemia Cedar Rapids Louis Joseph Red Lodge Mont Barta Benjamin Paroulek Oak Hill Cemetery Gordon 5S Pulis Fifth Avenue SE Moon Chapel W. Glenn Rowley Linwood Cemetery E. O Ahlgren M. F. Cox William Carringer C. Stookey W. C. Jones L. B. Gray Bridget Sullivan Fourth Avenue SE Immaculate Conception Msgr John Molloy Holy Cross Anamosa Msgr. Molloy Women's Catholic Order of Foresters Brady Mortuary Stan Stanley Orchestra 2Nd Ave 16Th Ave McCoy 5Th Ave 4Th St K-V Cafe Marion KIT Eat Klub Dine Dancr—Fitchers Co Frank Kosina Mary Ann's Eat Shop 1St Ave Ce-Mar Marion Blvd Sun. P.m Slcpman Dick Mills Omaha Neb Stanwood Elton DeCamp Wieht Wapste Moon Wauheek Highway Jim Reeder Dial Dairydale Hall Walford Kula's or_chestra Hallwood Cafe

New Man Family Reunion and Local Events

City briefs announce the twenty first annual New man family reunion at Bever Park on Sunday July 21 and the Kolach Festival on 21st avenue and 2nd street SW. Also listed are a revival topic at the Church of Christ and changes to Shueyville Sunday school timing with no worship service. Police reports include thefts and speeding arrests with names and addresses.

Bever Park 21St Avenue 2Nd Street SW Shueyville United Brethren Sunday School Senior Christian Endeavor Ivor H. Dillon First Avenue Sixteenth Ninth Avenues Sixth Street

Special train carries CCC workers through Cedar Rapids

A special Rock Island train of fifteen cars carrying over 400 CCC workers from eastern points will pass Cedar Rapids around noon on July 28 en route to Montana Idaho and Washington.

Points Cedar Rapids Rock Island Railroad Montana Idaho Washington

Children hold carnival in Ellis Park district

A group of children in the Ellis Park district organized a small carnival to raise funds and provide community fun. They sold snacks, games, and crafts, attracting neighbors and local volunteers who supported the effort.

Ellis Park District

Red Cross fundraiser and town picnic scheduled

Children at the James R. Dunlop residence collected 2.58 for the Red Cross and turned it into the local office. A Townsend club picnic hosted by clubs No 2 and 4 is planned Sunday at Bever park with noon lunch and on site picnic requirements available. Speakers include L Lloyd R Smith and Rev H E Clark. Delegate reports to be given by Stella Suits Ira Edwards and Mrs H E Stevens. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for sympathy after a bereavement, signed by Mr and Mrs Hilary Skow and Ronald Dean.

James R. Dunlop Eighth Street NW Red Cross Donald Tom Dunlop Nancy Pealer Maxine Geneva Reed Robert Pierson Jimmy Usher Townsend Club Bever Park L. Lloyd R. Smith Forest City H. E. Clark Marion Stella Suits Ira Edwards H. E. Stevens Carl Krog Hilary Skow Ronald Dean

Funeral homes offer reward for lost leather folder

A notice states a $5.00 reward for the contents of a leather folder lost between Iowa City and Lake Machride. Items are valuable to the Iowa City Sea Scouts. contact Irving J. Schaefer at E Burlington St Iowa City or Notify of Love at 113 10th St SE. A separate loss: a billfold with money and a driver’s license seen near Bishop’s Cafeteria.

Iowa City Lake Machride Irving J. Schaefer E. Burlington St Iowa Bishop's Cafeteria 10Th St

Lovely Lady Oil Permanent and Beauty Services Ad

Advertises Lovely Lady Beauty Shop with oil waves and permanent waves priced from 1.95 to 5.00. Mentions Ruth Stourne at Stark's, Kennedy's and Paris Academy of Beauty with scalp treatments and open evenings. Also lists Novak Heating and Drew's lawnmower services with contact numbers.

Lovely Lady Oil Permanent Lovely Lady Beauty Shop Ast Ave Bishop's Delux Beauty Shop Ruth Stourne Stark's Lucy Rey Kennedy's Ave. E Paris Academy OF Beauty

Also Mentioned on This Page

If Financial and Market News Des Moines U & Dept Agriculture Austin Minne API Eibs Samson Brothers and Company H. R. Montey Tvestock Wall St Honeymead Products Co (Inc R P Andreas Fuehrer Tery Elizabeth Eggermeyer John Eggermeyer Solon Barbara Serovy St. Mary's Church Mrs. Mary Swab Gordon Putis City Briefs D. A. Sommer Indianapolis Church of Christ Eighth Avenue SW Hattie Hamilton Clarence Misel Eighth Street John K. Grubbs John Grubbs Salisbury N. C CCC Children Aid Red Cross Kuba Funeral Home Probarco May Kenwood Ambulance Service CO the Gazette Erarden Vincent Allied van Lines, Inc Lynch Transfer & Storage Co Calder's van & Storage Co., Inc Kriz Tent & Awning Co Kullander & Son 4Th Ave Eve FULD L. A Ind St. SE Morehouse Sands 2Nd ST. NE Calif HL. Meyers Sat P.m Bender Ky Schaefer Kresgo Ig Sopre Novak Heating CO Drew's 3Rd Ave Kutchera & CO Willman Tinners Tools Hawkeye Tin Shop 8Th St. Co Ul, Russell Ist Ave E. Cummins R. Butters Claire Morrow Gardner Ru Udesen St. SE Ginl Ee Cosmetic Clerks Fountain Boys Waltze Central Enployment AG CY. Granby Write Rapids School of Welding Marlon Cedar Rapids m Dodge Oldsmobile Handler Dodge and Plymouth Distributors Second Ave. SE First Ave Anne NEA Service HC. TM. Rec U.S. Pat By Galbraith Studebaker St Brudebaker Col Kadlee Bros. Studebaker Distributors Yeas Slab Wagoner Motor Co Third Ave Makibben Motor Co 2Nd St International Harvester Co 3Nd Ave
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