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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1939
Page
11
Official estimated live stock receipts for Saturday show cattle 200, hogs 200, sheep 500. Furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company with Cedar Rapids office at 503 Merchants National Bank building.
U.S. Department of Agriculture market notes in Chicago Sioux City Omaha and Des Moines show hogs cattle and sheep receipts ranging into thousands with mixed, higher, and steady bids. Notable price ranges include hogs 5.00 to 6.75 per hundredweight, cattle 4.50 to 9.00, and sheep around 8.00 to 9.60 for various weights and classes.
The 1805 nickel advance lifts best hogs as high as 635 dollars for top lots. Good hogs and packers show varied but generally steady values across weights, with calves and sheep following market directions. Cattle quotes span prime steers 9.50 to 10.50 per hundredweight and yearlings near 8.00, while lambs run around 8.50 for 65 to 80 pounds.
Grain and produce prices listed for Cedar Rapids including wheat, oats, rye, barley, soybeans, hay, butterfat, and poultry. Wholesale fruits and vegetables with prices for lemons, oranges, celery, lettuce, onions, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, and pineapples are shown, along with meat hides and animal products.
AP market roundup covers Chicago live poultry receipts with pricing for leghorn hens and roosters, butter and eggs steady with unchanged prices, potatoes arrivals and U S stock movements, and California and Oklahoma green listings. New York shows eggs and butter receipts with steady to higher creamery butter and firm cheese markets amid mixed color eggs and storage packed firsts pricing.
The New York Pond Review notes light selling pressures edged bond prices lower in Friday trading with U S government issues dipping fractions. Treasury issues and Home Owners Loan bonds closed mixed amid subdued news and cautious activity by buyers and sellers.
The New York market showed nerves steadying as selling dried up and a modest rally began after four straight declines. Trading remained slack with about 400000 shares changing hands. Advancing issues included Chrysler General Motors U S Rubber Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward though many issues failed to revive.
Wall Street prices listed by J. E. Dennett & Co. show numerous equities with large blocks of entries from Aliska Juneau to Western Union. The page records midday values, earnings, and a wide range of industrial, utility, and consumer stocks with many price quotes and percentage changes.
Bearish crop news and weak outside markets pressured wheat on the Chicago board Friday with a firm open and losses near half a dollar. July wheat fell around 50 cents, corn and oats showed mixed moves while North American wheat sales totaled about 300000 bushels, Winnipeg and Minneapolis quotes drifted lower, and Kansas City slipped marginally.
The Cedar Rapids Tribune Publishing Co and Mrs. May G. Stewart reach a stipulation with Court Clerk Ed Lundquist settling accounts up to January 1, 1931. Mrs. Stewart receives 500 dollars and an assignment of unpaid accounts. Tribune gets a full release from claims. The suit also involved her claim for 25 dollars weekly under an alleged agreement, which the court did not recognize.
Trade on the Boston wool market was very slow with firm quotations for graded wools. Good French combing merino territory wools sold around 65 to 66 cents on a greasy basis, some firms quoting 67 to 68. Mixed three-eighths and one quarter blood fleece wools offered for shipment ranged 31 to 32 cents dressed, while grease delivered sales faced little demand.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for June 12 to 17 list the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange items including Twins 13c daisies 134c horns 133c cheddars 13c and dry basis 1234c. Farmers call board shows daisies 133¢ commodores 14c americas 134ac horns 132c cheddars 13c.
Attorneys for Kenosha Transport Co notify Justice Churchill of intent to appeal in district court. Five drivers were fined 25 dollars each plus costs for tandem trucking of four wheeled trucks, a method patrols say violates Iowa code. Company contends trucks are not trailers and not governed.
The Cedar River near the Third Avenue Bridge is allegedly polluted by a storm sewer on the west bank. The Cedar Rapids Fish and Game Club urged an investigation and named a west side industry as the source. City Engineer Frank Young was assigned to probe.
Announcements list offerings from Adensen Monuments and Brady Mortuary with contact details. Also notes a missing Pekingese dog near 17th St NE offering a reward and guidance to return to its owner. Public skating at Adesen Skating Palace features daily sessions and free beginner instruction, with private party availability.
A dense cluster of personal notices and business ads lists van deliveries in different cities, moving services, jewelry repairs, job requests, and cosmetic services. The items mention Allied Van Lines agency details, storage firms, a request for a driver to California, feather mattress cleaning, a housepaint book offer, camera shop promotions, and various beauty service prices and locations in the city.
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