Hogs Prices Slip as Large Chicago Run Influences Market
An unusually large hog run in Chicago Friday pushed prices down 25 to 50 cents while cattle and sheep held steady to higher. USDA reports show hogs trading lower across most classes, with receipts around 300 cattle and 100 sheep and continued strong demand for select slaughter hogs. Cattle receipts total about 1,000 with steady to firm prices for steers and heifers and bulls holding firm, while calves and cows varied by class.
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Chicago
Sioux City Livestock Market Report
cattle receipts 500, calves none, slaughter steers and heifers supply hardly sufficient. sales scattered, mostly on shipping account. cows slow and weak. prime loads around 1.254 lb. beef around 29.00, commercial heifers 27.50 to 31.50, cows 23.50 to 27.50, canners 19.00 to 23.00. stock steers 29.00 to 23.75.
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Sioux City
USDA
Omaha cattle receipts show varied prices across classes
In Omara Livestock Omaha cattle report receipts reach 600 calves with slaughter classes steady to weak. Fed steers bring 32.50 to 34.50, commercial cows 28.00 to 29.50, utility cows 22.50 to 25.50, canners and cutters 18.50 to 22.00, commercial bulls up 2. Prices reflect a generally cleanup trade with stockers and feeders scarce.
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Omara Livestock
Omaha
INS
Iowa Hog Receipts and Price Trends in Des Moines Area
Receipts Friday estimated at 40 000, down from week ago 49 000 and year earlier 53 500, with Thursday unloads at two packing plants in southern Minnesota and about 12 plants plus 30 Iowa concentration yards. Demand slow to moderate. prices 25 to 75 cents lower, mostly 50 to 75 cents. Barrows and gilts vary by weight with specific price ranges for 160 to 360 plus pounds. sows and boars show declines consistent with overall trend.
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Iowa
Des Moines
IINS
Minnesota
Ottumwa Hogs Market Sags Across Weight Classes
Hog prices in Ottumwa slide 60 cents overall with top at 20.25 per hundredweight for top weights. Rates vary by weight from 160 to 550 pounds, ranging from 17.75 to 20.25 per hundredweight depending on size.
Cedar Rapids Hog and Market Prices Slip Half a Dollar
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market fall by 50 cents with a quarter added to base quotations for delivered and weighed hogs. The table lists Good and Choice cattle, yearlings, cows, bulls, calves, and sheep alongside wholesale fruits and vegetables with various regional figures.
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Cedar Rapids
Egos
Arkansas
California
Michigan
Washington
Texas
U. S
Minnesota
Stock Market Closes Mixed As Final Hour Recovery Occurs
New York stocks end with a mixed pattern after a late rally in the final hour of trading. Investors gauge gains and losses across major indices amid list of corporate results and market jitters.
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New York
Market Averages Stand Steady Amid Broad Quote List
Friday quotes show Dow Jones at 249.33, 249.65 prev close with mixed moves across utilities, industrials, and rail stocks. Notable names include Adams Express, International Harvester, Boeing, General Electric, General Motors, Coca Cola, Procter Gamble, and Union Carbide among a wide array of blue chips and foreign listings.
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Sfelephons
SeGustriats
Sawn Ok
eRee
Adams Express
Barnieed
Hydro
Alleghany Corp
Iail G & E
Allied Chem
Intl
Paper
Allied Stores
Allis Chalmers
Johns Manville
Am'n Air L
Jones Laughlin
Am'n Steel Fays
Lockheed
Tel & Tel
Loews, Inc
McKesson & R
Tobacco
Marshall Fld
Armco Steel
Mathieson Co
Armour and Co
Atchis
T&sf
Moline
Baldwin Loco
Murray Corp
Balto & Ohio
Nash-Kelv
Bendix Av
D. Cash Reg
Beth. Steel
Dairy P
Blaw Knox
Ostirs
Boeing Airp
Gypsum
Borden Co
N. Y. Centr Borg Warner
Pac
Canad
Penick & Ford
Penna. RR
Caterpillar
Penney. JC
Pepsi-Cola
Philco
Cerro de Pasco
Phillips Pet
Ches
Ohio
Chego Corp
Procter Gamble
Bubee NJ
Com
Credit
Rexall Drug
Reyn Tob B
Fdison
Schenley Oil
Cons Edison
Sears Roebuck
Simmons Co
Sunclair
Socory
Crewe
Diana
Std Steel S
Douglas Air
Studebaker
Swift
Fastman Kodak
Tidewateer
Timken
Wranne
Fox Film
Union Carbide
Union Pac
Gen Electric
Uni Aircraft
Gen Foods
Uni Air Lines
Gen Motors
Oo Gillette SR
Glidden
Goodrich
S Rubber
Goodyear Tire
Steel Graham Paige
Gt Morone & 4
Walworth Gt Nor Rv Pr
Warner Bros
Ierhound
Wes Union A
Hayes Mie
Westehouse el
Hershey
Houston Oil
Willys Ovid
Homestake
Wilson Co
Hudson
Chicago Produce Market Report
Live poultry markets steady with turkey toms at 33 cents and hens at 35. Butter and cheese prices vary. eggs firm with multiple quality grades listed. potatoes arriving in mixed supply with whites slightly weaker and reds stronger. Major prices include Alabama Triumphs around 3.60 to 4.00, California long whites 3.75 to 4.50, Idaho russets 3.65.
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Chicago
U. S
Alabama
California
Idaho
New York Produce Prices for Cheese Butter and Eggs
NY wholesale prices for cheese show Cheddars at 41 to 43 cents, cured 49.50 to 54 cents. single daisies 43 to 45 cents. Butter receipts at 792,374 lbs with market softening. creamery and grade prices around 68 to 70 cents. Eggs receipts 17,789 cases. wholesale prices range from 49 to 56 cents per dozen for various grades and weights.
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New York
Midwest
Penick and Ford's Corn Derivatives Prices Brief
Penick and Ford's corn derivatives prices are listed with a figure 51 and 7.3 in a concise market update. The note provides minimal context beyond the quoted numbers and the firms involved.
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Penick & F Ford
Buying Rush Set Off in Soybeans
A buying rush in soybeans sparked by crude bean oil sales to Germany emerged in a dull grain market. Wheat led declines early on a crop forecast revision, with soybeans rising as the session ended and July futures around 3.27.
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Chicago
Germany
C. M. Galvin
James E. Bennett and Company
Chicago cash provisions mixed for wheat oats and barley
The Chicago cash market shows No 1 hard red spring wheat at 1.78 to 1.80 a bushel and minor variations across other wheat grades. Oats and barley prices appear nominal with feed oats around 1.20 to 1.50 and barley near 1.35 to 1.60, soybeans listed as none.
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Chicago
Kansas City Livestock Cattle Receipts Light Calves
Kansas City market receipts show 100 cattle and 25 calves with too few units of any class to test demand. Trade limited by sparse offerings and uncertain demand.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
INS
Waterlo o Hogs Prices and Weight Categories
Waterloo hog market reports a 50 cent decline with top at 20.50. Butchers priced by weight from 160 pounds at 18.00 up to 550 pounds at 17.00, with various brackets listed including 330 and 360 to 400 pounds around 18.50 to 18.75.
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Waterloo
INS
Primary Task of Salesmen Curing the Blues
New York AP report on the National Sales Executives convention. It quotes NSE president Robert A. Whitney and Fen K. Doscher arguing salesmen should fight downturns by finding untapped markets, boosting demand, and treating selling as a profession rather than mere pitching.
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New York
NSE
Robert A. Whitney
Fen K. Doscher
Sales Executives Club of
Doscher
Former Riverside Man Promoted by Pillsbury
MINNEAPOLIS IS Paul S. Gerot 48 assumed the post Friday as executive vice president of Pillsbury Mills. Born in Riverside Iowa he attended Wesleyan Academy and College at Mt Pleasant. He was elected a vice president in April 1950 and a company director last December. Pillsbury Mills head P W Pillsbury praised Gerot for leading entry into home baking mix and for guiding the company into leadership in this field.
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Minneapolis
Paul S. Gerot
Pillsbury Mills
Gerot
Riverside
Wesleyan Academy and
Mt. Pleasant
P. W. Pillsbury
Mills
Pillsbury
Jailbreaker Jones Begins One Year Term at Fort Madison
Daniel Stanley Jones, 33, who escaped the Dubuque county jail Oct. 4 1949, started a one year prison term at Fort Madison after pleading guilty to the jailbreak charge. He was fined 300 dollars by District Judge Milton J. Glenn and returned to Iowa on April 20 after completing a New Mexico sentence. Jones, from Tennessee, twice attempted suicide after his return and dug a two foot deep hole in his cell while in Iowa.
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Dubuque
INS
Daniel Stanley Jones
Fort Madison
Jones
Tennessee
Milton J. Glenn
Iowa
New Mexico
Leo J. Martin
Veteran lawyer dies from crash injuries in Murray
A. B. Miller 82, of Murray Iowa, longtime attorney, died in an Osceola hospital after injuries from a car train crash Tuesday at a crossing in Murray. He was alone in the car which struck a Burlington work train. the vehicle was demolished. Surviving are his wife and son Alfred M. Miller of Newton, former mayor.
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Osceola (Ap
A. B. Miller
Murray
Iia
Osceola
Miller
Burlington Railroad
Alfred M. Miller
Newton
City Briefs Highlight Local Living and Service News
Residents return home after surgery at Mercy hospital while polio insurance and agency notices surface. A marine furlough ends as Cpl. Robert Deason transfers to Camp Pendleton. Graduates and scholars announced for Augustana and Coe College linked work. Community events include a church family picnic and Young Peoples Night at Cedar Rapids Sunshine Mission.
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Cpl
Robert Deason
Rebert Nelson
Sixth Street
Camp Pendleton
Oceanside
Calif
Hawthorne
New
Sunshine Mission
Cedar Rapids
William Dykhuizen
Mary Esther Templeman
Anna Dykhuizen
Semi-Trailer Plunges Through Bridge at Woodbine
WOOD BINE I AP reports Joseph Pirrone, 39, Omaha, escaped serious injury when his semi trailer plunged through a bridge on highway 30 at Woodbine. The truck owned by Union Freightways of Omaha carried miscellaneous merchandise bound for Fort Dodge. Pirrone swam to shore and was treated at St Catherine's hospital for minor injuries. Traffic from Denison to Council Bluffs was detoured via highways 59 to 64 after the bridge failure following heavy rains.
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Woodbine
Joseph Pirtrone
Omaha
Union Freightways of
Fort Dodge
Pirrone
Boyer River
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Denison
Council Bluffs
Waterloo Deere Union To Take Strike Vote
United Auto Workers at the John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works plan a strike vote on June 9 amid a dispute over piece work. CIO president Carl Dahl says five grievances are arbitrable while the company argues they fall outside arbitration. About 5,000 workers are employed at the plant where a lengthy strike occurred last winter.
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Waterloo
INS
United Auto Workers Union
John Deere
Waterloo Tractor Works
Carl Dahl
CIO
Two Hurt in Crash West of Sigourney
John Pfeister 75 of Sigourney and Ray Oberley 37 of Delta injured in a 5:45 p m Thursday collision at the junction of highways 21 and 92 eight miles west of Sigourney. Pfeister in critical condition. Harold Saltzman driver of a Fagan Elevator Company truck from Keota not hurt.
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Sigourney
John Pfeister
Ray Oberley
Delta
Here
Sigourney Hospital
Pfeister
Detour Bulletin: Roads Closed Across Iowa State System
Detailed detour notices across Iowa list many routes closed from Brighton to Washington and beyond. Detours routeVia Ia 78 77 92 and various county roads with mixed surfaces. several segments show 2 to 38 mile detours, weight restrictions, and alternate U.S. and Ia routes to bypass closures.
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Iowa
Brighton
Washington
U.S. 59
Qdebolt
Ict
Grinnell
Sioux County
Paullina
Corydon
Lucas Co
Ia 2
U.S
Tama
U.S 63
U.S. 63
U.S. 6
Carroll
Cherokee Co
Hopkinton
Delhi
Payette Co
Ato Tss
Oakland
Tme
U.S. 61
Us. 61
Ledyard
U.S. 169
Griswold
Delta
Iowa 111
Brittle Crystal Lake
Ia. 11
Crystal Lake
Iowa 139
Protovin
Cresco
County Peass
Ia. 9
Moulton
Imi
Cule
Iowa 215
Union
Eldora
Mt. Union
Martelle
Mt. Vernon
Irwin
Soren
A. Bettour Or
Drakesville
Arcadia
Ia 9
Spillville
Onover
Poppy sale nets $368 and local notices in Marion area
Memorial day poppy drive chaired by Mrs Jack Shinault reports 36874 dollars raised Saturday across Marion Viola Alburnett and Springville. Kathryn Moroshek won top poppy seller prize with others earning placements. Also listed are building permits for six projects in Marion, Bible school enrollment at St Pauls Lutheran, and recent Mayor's Court fines for speeding drinking and intoxication.
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Jack Shinault
Marion
Viola
Alburnett
Springville
Kathryn Moroshek
Donna Eveland
Donna Hall
Jimmie Luense
American Legion Auxiliary
Camp Fire Girls
Legion Hall
Carl T. Wuerffel
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Leonard Grabau
Fred Jons
Arlie Jons
Gerald Ozburn
Ray Drenkhahn
Harriet Bruce
al Fred Schmid
Carl Schuettpelz
Wuerffel
M. H. Biddick
John Henry Evans
Bruce P. Frederickson
Cedar Rapids
Robert W. Jamieson
Delno
Calif
Local Residents Note Hospital Treatments and Visits
Harmon Bailey at St Luke's hospital with a right leg infection. Mr and Mrs W L Burress of Moline guests of relatives. Mrs Walter Bigger hospitalized at St Luke's. Ernest Weaver and family of Savanna were Memorial Day guests of Lulu Liddle. Sara Nott visited Iowa City with Henry Kruse family. Rev H E Trimble and family stayed with son Harvey near Marion for grandson Jon Trimble's Springville high school graduation.
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Willard Haak
St. Luke’s Hospital
John R. Ingleman
Champaign, Ill
John
Dean
Harmon Bailey
Eleventh Avenue
Ernest Weaver
Savanna, Ill
Lulu Liddle
Sara Nott
Iowa City
Henry Kkruse
H. E. Trimble
Dixon, Ill
Harvey E. Trimble
Marion
Jon Trimble
Springville High School
Iowa Draft Calls 400 Men for July
Iowa state selective service confirms about 400 men called for military duty in July, the smallest monthly total since the draft resumed last September. The 11 month total nears 10,700, with January through April seeing 1,350 men each, and totals declining thereafter.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Selective Service
Gazette Want Ad Rates And Tiny Classifieds
A scanned early 20th century Gazette page lists advertising rates and misc. notices. It includes price tables for 2 to 10 line small want ads, payment terms, deadlines, and sample notices for obits lost items and services. The page mentions monument firms J V Novak & Son Betz Monuments and several lost item notices and service ads.
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Gazette
Sunday Gazette
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SF Ann
Lamson Brothers
H. R. Mowrey
Merchants National Bank
C. R. Markets
Vrourr
Leghorn Springs
Eavy
Whipple Insurance Agency
Iowa Theatre
Telerisé
Mississippi River
Hastings Vg
la Crosse
Portage
Prairie du Chien
McGregor Cessese
Gordons Perry
Cedar River
C. Riae
F.O.B
Cedar Raptte
Waterloo Hogs
Sam Dawson
U. S. Dept
Agriculture
Edward F. Dose
Mercy Hospital
Polio Insurance
Ray Moore Agency
Adv
Century Cab
Mariners of Sinclair Memorial Church
Bever Park
Earl E. Yanecek
R. A. Galloway
Ellis Boulevard
Vance Air Force Base
Oklahoma
Roosevelt High School
Iowa State College
Kenneth D. Dolan
J. Ray Dolan
C Avenue NE
Thomas Macbride
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
Dolan
University of Iowa
Karl A. Stiles
Coe College
Robert W. Hegner
Stiles
Michigan State College
Lansing
Paul Myers Company
Avenue NE
M. E. Brown
First Avenue SE
Waterloo Deere
Detour Bulletin
Marion News
Norman B. Rice
Twenty-sixth Street
H. J. Hazewinkel
al E. Fensterman
Eighth Avenue
Lyle Stimson
Paul Coon
Tenth Street
Walter Schlotterback
Ninth Avenue
Frank Marek
Fifth Avenue
Harold Hollingsworth
Fort Riley
Kan
Goodrow’s
Madison, S. C
Charles Klemme
Irvin Miller
Sherry Hopple
Indianola
Lorenzo Hopple
Mrs. R. N. Turner
Topeka, Kan
Robert Nielson
Max Crittenden
Indianapolis
Rochester
Blanche Mullin
Rochester, Minn
Matt Mullin
Mayo Clinic
Mullin
Internal Revenue
Mason City
Clear Lake
John C. Mullin
Pfc
Kenneth Bailey
Korea
Bailey
Naval Hospital
Yokosuka
Japan
Presbyterian Church
Camp Fire
Bluebird Girls
Sally Ross
Rollins, Wyo
Milton Arnold
Cornell College
Arnold
Route 3
Joanne Byse
John W. Byse
Blair’s Ferry Road
A&h
Kelvinator
W. L. Burress
J.L. Papes
Walter Bigger
Seventh Avenue
Mr. C. Ritchison
J. V. Novak & Son
2Nd St
BETZ
3Rd Avenue
Symorice
First Ave
E. J. King
Park Ave
Waveland Drive
Detective Service
Buresh Rental Service
3Rd St. SE
Probasco Jewelry
Palace Theater
Hertz
2Nd St. SE
Burmal
Iowa Investigations Bay Dial
Happy Nursing Home
Iss
Peralids
Helen Randall
WATC
Swartzendruber Jewelers
ROSEN
Dial
Dave Was
Silverware
Third Street
2Nd Ave
5Th ST
Kenwood
Bigelow
Harris Jr
Taft Hotel
Wa Nation Dept
Fe J Smith
Roosevelt Hotel
3Rd
Karl Manz
Iano
B Avenue NE
Agre Ee
Lisbon
Mayvu
Ellis Park
Zika Ave
Bob Zeman
Danceland
MR. PA
Les Hartman
Swisher Pavilion
Tom Owen and
His Cowboys
Melody Inn
Ite
Hiawatha
Ken's
Airport
Inn
Ken Whipple
Hunters Airport
Iowa Foot
Kilroy
Dueces Cafe
1St ST
Paramount A
Danny KA
Corinne Calvet
H & S Cape
5Th Street
Renee
1St Ave
Baulson Electric CO
Third Ave
Kutchera Excavating Co
Lawrence
Kenneth C
B Ave
Olson
Olson Co
Ralph A Sharf
LEAR
Dair
Thor
Kratchmer’s
Reliable Furn. CO
Economy Bug CO
Ed Wharf General Contracting
A. Gee
Call Hill
Christ Anderson
Dick Alexander
Ee Blind Service
Rollie
Kinkead Construction Co
Eton Te Rse - Ose
Orvin Martinson
M. R
Ann and Country
E. E. McElwain
Kramer
Rte
Onnie
C. Hayes
Ave
Junkelasa
Cariton Latta
Bill Leibrand
Clark
Breneman
H. Booth
Bornschmidt
Merchants Bank
New and Nebair
William ‘Turner
Cemen
Bruce Paul
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