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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1941
Page
10
AP reports hog prices dropped 10 to 15 cents with extreme top around 3.79 to 3.90, despite moderate receipts at Chicago and Sioux City. Cattle and sheep trading varied as early bids held while late sales showed weaker demand across major livestock centers including Omaha Des Moines and Austin with packers buying selectively.
Sheep receipts 1500 with mostly trucked-in lambs in early trade down 15 to 25 cents per hundredweight. Hog prices steady to lower in Waterloo and Mason City with varied live weight brackets. Cattle receipts at Peoria and Calumet report slow demand, with calves and steers trading around $900 to $1,100 for lighter lots and higher weights near $1,250 for top offerings.
Local porkers show broad price declines with all hog grades down ten cents. Reports list various weights from 149 to 500 pounds and packers buying patterns. Cattle and sheep sections note steady to varied pricing for steers heifers yearlings and spring lambs with quality affecting quotes.
A miscellaneous Cedar Rapids list shows wholesale grain prices for No 1 and No 2 varieties of wheat and oats with multiple grades and cents per bushel, plus prices for corn rice soybeans and hay. It also details wholesale fruit and vegetable prices including lemons oranges grapefruit California cherries lettuce onions cabbage potatoes cauliflower and Winesap apples. hides and animal byproducts prices are listed, followed by incomplete notes on livestock and miscellaneous items.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for March 3 to 8 show values for Daisies horns and cheddars with slight variations. Farm market notices list same items with minor shifts. Boston wool market was quiet with some demand for small lots of fine wools. substantial new clip contracts already contracted in western states. demand for finer South American wool remained firm.
New York reports a listless stock market with fractional declines at the close after an initial hour of small gains. Traders confined to testing transactions due to indecisive war news, with Bethlehem Steel General Motors Chrysler and Harvester among offside issues.
A dense rundown of listed stocks and quotable prices from Adams Express to utilities, metals, and manufacturing firms. Names include Alaska Juneau Allica Chen Allica, Kennecott Copper, Boeing, General Electric, and Union Carbide with numerous price points and percent changes across Wall Street listings.
Chicago receipts show steady market for poultry and eggs amid steady to firm butter and cheese prices. Potatoes face heavy demand with supplies monitored. New York markets reveal firmer eggs with mixed color varieties and steady dairy prices across creamery butter and cheese segments.
A brief ledger entry notes items labeled PRODUCE FUTURES and GGS-Refrigerator standards. It references Lamson Bros. and Co and storage standards with figures 28.50 29 30. The readable text is fragmented and lacks clear event or outcome.
Moderate losses appeared in wheat in the final hour in Chicago with May prices slipping to around 8238 to 821% cents as corn briefly rose then retreated. Corn was little changed to up, oats and rye drifted, and soybeans barely moved amid light demand and bulge selling by commercial interests.
U S government bonds held steady while rail issues moved upward in midweek trading. Prominent gainers included Rock Island generals New York Central 5s and Southern Railway 4s as U S bonds closed with modest shifts and the Dow Jones averages showed slight gains across sectors.
Marengo elects Mrs J L Swift as president of P E O with a full slate of officers. Elkader hosts the Northeastern Iowa junior college conference speech festival with Maquoketa Tipton and Waukon participating and Don Eyssen judging. Funeral services for Mrs Lorimer Denzler are set in Marengo with a Davenport hospital death. Moses McIntyre and wife celebrate 43rd wedding anniversary at home with family guests.
Six University of Town coeds were announced as finalists for the engineering college Mecca queen by Gerald Hirt Riverside chairman of the selection committee. The list includes Florence Healy Cedar Rapids Coast house Fern Eggen Charles City Kappa Kappa Gamma Betty Hagman Huron S D Currier hall Mary Callahan Osceola Delta Delta Delta Lucille Ho-
Rates for consecutive days with two to seven line ads, out of town blind ad surcharge, advance payment, and same day publication cutoff. Includes special work wanted and classified notices. Cedar Rapids Gazette office contact details and funeral home ad lines included.
Lost items include a Kappa Key pin and fraternity pin with chain, a steel trussel, an Elgin wristwatch, a P.E.O pin, a money-containing billfold, a tan collie named Lassie, with multiple contact numbers. Also listed are free subscriptions, insurance offers, jewelry repairs, and various service ads from The Gazette and local merchants.
The Mecca ball in Iowa City will feature a queen presentation. An art exhibit by Fletcher Martin and Emil Ganso opens in the Iowa Memorial Union lounge for March with 17 Ganso watercolors and Martin oils and lithographs. A Methodist church jubilee dinner honors 50 year members. Iowa City bus drivers strike support grows with local council and students aiding. A woman pickets with her husband urging students to support strikers. R P White named special administrator of Albert Burkley estate with $10 000 bond. estate includes a hotel and apartment buildings. Dr. Thomas L. Waring joins Campbell Orthopedic clinic in Memphis as associate.
A scanned newspaper fragment lists rates for small ads including work wanted notices and short job requests. It highlights restrictions on truthful employment depiction and advises readers to report misrepresentations to The Gazette while including sample lines for a public stenographer and housework inquiries with contact numbers.
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