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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1937
Page
18
Chicago AP reports Friday's cattle receipts 1 560 head and sheep 8 000 as mar ket futures hold high. Steers and lambs touched seven year highs with scarce choice offerings limiting sales but demand remained strong for cuts and lower grade stock. Hog prices slipped slightly from early top while wholesale beef and pork steer stable.
The market notes weak hogs and falling calf prices with lambs steady. Beef cattle show mixed results with choice steers and medium grades down and cows, bulls, and canners trading lower across regions.
A fragmented list of street market items in CIDAR RAPIDS including grain Wheat Rye Barley Corn and No 1 No 2 No 3 prices for oats potatoes onions apples cranberries cabbages and various produce. The garbled text shows commodity names and irregular pricing in a local exchange setting.
Investors monitor bond markets as volatility reduces visibility on rates and inflation. Analysts at major firms discuss outlooks for yields and duration, noting uncertainty in fiscal policy and global trade impacting price movements.
Wheat prices remained near steady on the Chicago board of trade amid thin activity. Traders noted weakness in Liverpool and softer prices for winter wheat as production and demand factors appeared balanced.
Thompson lists broad market quotes from Adams Express to Zenith Radio with prices and changes. The column, published by J. E. Bennett & Co with W H Jump manager, includes numerous securities across sectors and notes Chicago and Mississippi River stage data for Davenport, Dubuque, Keokuk, and St Louis areas.
Agricultural market notes show hog receipts around 2500 with hogs mainly steady and 190-360 lb butchers at 9 to 10 dollars and up to 1060 for top hogs to traders. Sheep receipts about 1506 with fat lambs steady and wool orders strong with ewes and rams sold near 1100 dollars. cattle prices noted with steer bids around 1200 and various feeder and slaughter quotes across weights and grades.
In New York the market faded from leadership as major stocks pulled back after recent gains. Notable names including US Steel, Standard Oil, Goodyear and Boeing eased while metal shares rose on higher silver overseas prices lifting the New York bar rate to 45 cents an ounce, matching January’s yearly peak.
Three hundred police were ordered to storm the Deir el Muharraq monastery as monks staged a six day stay-in strike to press for reforms and a new abbot. Patriarch Yoannes urged restraint as clashes loomed and tensions spread to nearby monasteries on the Red Sea coast.
Jack Odland, 40, of 1123 Thirteenth Avenue SE, fined $10 and costs in police court Thursday for intoxication. Cecil Root, 421 Tenth Street SE, fined $10 and costs for speeding. Joe D. Rozek, route 5, Cedar Rapids, fined $1 and costs for double parking. Mullard Powers, 617 Sixth Street SE, assessed for parking in a prohibited zone. F R Simpson, 1561 Bever Avenue SE, fined $1 and costs for overtime parking.
MINNEAPOLIS (LP) University of Minnesota scientists test corrugated iron paving that emits a siren-like tone when tires roll over it. W E Davis of the mines experiment station suggests placing strips along edges and center lines to warn motorists when they stray from safe travel.
Boston report finds a three foot seam of oyster shells along the Back Bay from Public Gardens to Commonwealth Avenue and Berkeley Street as workers dug irrigation trenches in 1857. City records described Back Bay as smelling like a dump while shells were blamed for the stench.
In Cawnpore India a Hindu carpenter cut off his tongue and offered it to the Kal temple goddess seeking wisdom. He was found lying near the temple by early worshipers.
Mrs Mary Pflughaupt widow of Ferdinand Pflughaupt died at 2 30 am at the home of her daughter Mrs G S Myles near Robins after a lingering illness. Born February 26 1853 in Luxemburg Germany she came to the United States in 1878 and spent most of her life in Iowa. She is survived by her daughter two grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements to be announced. friends may call at Turner chapel.
Min ad two lines six average words per line. One day forty dollars. Three days ninety cents per line. Out of town ads payable in advance. Want ads may be telephoned or mailed to The Gazette. Hours 8 am to 5 pm weekdays. Saturday 8 am to 8 pm. Dial 2 1121. Ad-Taker ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Federal Judge Hugh D. McLellan notes bright sunlit courtroom while prosecutor Frank W. Tomasello says the docket consists of moonshine cases. The exchange highlights a day filled with minor alcohol law matters in Boston.
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