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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1938
Page
10
Receipts and price ranges for hogs cattle and sheep in Omaha amid mixed demand. Hog top at 9.00 for 220 lb weights with various price bands. cattle and sheep showing lighter activity and mixed bids. Sows and feeder stock listed with multiple weight classes and prices.
Chicago וה St Paul reports show hog prices dropping 3 to 25 cents as demand stays steady but buyers hold back. Slaughter totals dip, with February hog kill at 2,833,046 head and cattle slaughter near 716,147 while wholesale pork prices barely move despite higher live quotes.
Hog prices at Wilson & Co drop with top good hogs down to 9.00 and bulk hogs listed at varying cuts and weights. Other local markets hold steady while packers’ bids for good hogs range around 8.50 to 9.00, with calves and cattle also showing mixed figures across yard categories.
Market notes show grain prices for wheat oats and corn with new and No. 2 grades. Animals and dairy quotes include butterfat hens and leghorn varieties with weight-based pricing. Produce items list lemons oranges grapefruit apples lettuce bananas onions cabbage carrots and hides with assorted prices and weights.
In Boston the Wool Market shows scattered domestic sales with small lots of combing bright fleeces. Delaines brought 27 to 29 cents grease, lower crudes 26 to 28 cents, with 39 blood and other grades priced accordingly. New York reports a steady raw wool market and no major shifts in futures as Cuba line sales were recorded.
NHUTTER receipts steady with mixed egg prices and fresh items. Live poultry and potatoes show steady supplies but slower demand. Idaho russet and other regional varieties listed with prices. New York eggs butter and cheese prices mixed amid large receipts.
Wheat futures fell sharply on the Chicago Board of Trade as Liverpool failed to follow Tuesday’s rally, wet winter belt rains and weak export demand weighed on markets. May wheat about 88 to 89 cents, corn down a bit, oats mixed, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires prices also softening. Export activity remained light as traders awaited developments while rainfall swept winter wheat areas.
New York AP reports the rail bond sector showed only modest reaction to the ICC decision denying full 15 percent freight rate hikes. Several secondary rails ticked up slightly while others slipped, with Erie 5. for 1975 and Southern Railway issues among the gainers. losses included Nickel Plate and New York Central. Treasury notes and U S government bonds posted scattered moves amid overall light activity. Mississippi River stages show varied changes with several locations down or up modestly.
ACCOMAC Va UP Sheriff E P Parks said a 13 year old boy who claimed he was kidnaped from Philadelphia Tuesday morning confessed he was an escaped inmate of a Baltimore industrial school.
Reports from the British Methodist mission at Chao-Tung in Yunnan province say Chinese bandits looted the mission and murdered the Rev. R. Heber Goldsworthy of Bristol, England.
Rep Shafer of Michigan introduced a house resolution calling for an investigation into payroll tax funding. The resolution accuses the administration of financing new deal spending with 1.569 billion dollars collected under the social security act.
New York stocks moved higher at times then fell back as the session wore on amid tax selling and profit taking. Leaders faced fractional or single-point losses. rails and other groups fluctuated. Some gains faded while resistors like Sears Roebuck and du Pont held. Transfers topped 650000 shares as bonds mixed and foreign markets stayed uneven.
Wall Street quotations list numerous stocks led by Adams Express and Kennecott along with Alaska Juneau and various chemical and steel firms. The page details prices for Allied Stores, Libby Owens, McKesson Robins, Anaconda Copper, Armour, and many others with many percent figures interspersed, reflecting a wide market snapshot. The chaotic OCR entry also records Chicago stocks and various closing notes, referencing corporations such as General Electric, General Motors, Sears Roebuck, and others in a dense dealer bulletin style.
Iowa City reports George Coan proprietor of Red Ball Inn a popular University of Iowa night spot was fined 450 dollars and costs for illegal liquor possession. He may serve 135 days in jail if unable to pay.
In Columbia, lawmakers rejected a proposal to mandate a state referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow divorce on grounds. South Carolina remains the only state without any grounds for divorce.
Washington AP reports the Agricultural Adjustment Administration will withhold subsidy payments from farmers who permit land to blow into wind erosion hazards. The regulation targets areas prone to serious dust storms and notes one careless farm can harm neighboring well managed fields.
Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon investigated break ins at three Linn county homes near Mount Vernon and Chain Lakes. At Harold Smythe’s residence four miles west of Mount Vernon jars of meat and preserved foods were stolen from the fruit cellar, entry by a skeleton key noted. Walter Peterson’s home on Palisades road west of Mount Vernon reported Tuesday night thefts. John Cook’s cabin near Chain Lakes reported Tuesday night or Wednesday thefts including fishing tackle and silverware.
State police bulletin from Cedar Rapids says 14 year old Betty Lou Playman of Decorah has been missing since March 2 after leaving home to hitchhike to Mason City. She is five feet two, 106 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair, wearing a red knit cap grey tweed coat and brown shoes. She carried a small black suitcase and rode a brown coupe west on highway 9 toward Mason City at noon.
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