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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1937
Page
10
Chicago market reports a drop in hog prices as supplies outpace estimates with first declines this week. Slaughter cattle and lamb values show limited movement while steer carcass prices edge down slightly amid steady wholesale demand.
Local porkers weaken with 15 cent drop in top grades. good packers down a dime to $9.75. Cattle market steady. oats and corn up slightly. Lambs and yearling steers show varied price shifts by weight. cows and bulls also listed with wide ranges.
Chicago grain quotations show May and July wheat futures with mixed highs and lows, including May closing around 2.98 to 2.97. Corn and oats prices appear with No 3 yellow and No 2 white futures. Minneapolis and Winnipeg market words appear with wheat and barley prices, while Chicago cash wheat shows No 2 and No 3 values. The text lists numerous price quotes and commodities with varying figures and trade notes. There are numerous misreads and garbled numbers throughout, but the core data reflect ongoing commodity pricing activity in wheat, corn, oats, rye, and barley across Chicago and related markets.
Published stock quotations and commodity listings show prices for Adams Express Alaska Juneau Allegheny Corp and other industrials. The page includes foreign exchange rates and market updates with numerous ticker symbols and banking names.
Milton trapper and forestry employee in North San Juan says the Black Widow spider is not a modern Lucrezia Borgia and has refused medical help after four bites, preferring to treat himself.
More than seventy five club women attended the City Federation of Women's clubs gathering at the public library. Miss Emma Klein announced that Marion clubs would host the county federation in April with a culinary program and a baking display.
Former heavyweight champion Max Baer arrived in Southampton and said he would fight the Foord Farr winner in London mid April. He expects a bout with the Braddock Louis winner in Chicago next summer if undefeated, amid plans and legal talk at Madison Square Garden.
Arthur Beech Grangaard, star of Luther's basketball champions, signs with the Milwaukee Brewers baseball club for the current season and leaves Luther to play pro ball. He will return after the 1937 season to finish graduation requirements and help coach Hamiey Peterson.
The Senate begins hearings on the presidents court program while the House considers public lands measures. Committees vote on neutrality debate, Panama Canal revisions, veterans and orphans bill, tenant agriculture issues, Bonneville project hearing, and consumer protection measures. Senate approves pure food and drug cosmetics bill and House debates coal control and price maintenance. agriculture extends soil conservation payments to 1942.
In Boston most of the limited trade was in spot foreign wool and a few new Ohio fleeces for May delivery sold at 43 to 46 cents per pound grease. Medium fleece quotations softened slightly as early shorn wools appeared at lower prices than scarce old wools. In Minneapolis carload flour prices rose for several patent grades with patents up 10 cents. standard patents higher. shipments around 314,027 sacks.
Members are asked to bring the usual picnic requirements for the luncheon.
Mrs Laverna Crew was elected president of chapter CS Pp BO at its annual meeting held Tuesday in the home of Mrs George Reichard. Other officers chosen include E J Miller as vice president Kenneth Murdock as recording secretary Lora Turner as corresponding secretary C B Vernon as treasurer E T Gough as chaplain Nevah Prior as guard A E Granger as program committee chair. The officers were installed by Marvin Edison the retiring president.
About 190 farmers participate in the Farmers Market Place trade through Want Ads listing buying and selling activity. The notice highlights the busy exchange as a regional agricultural marketplace.
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