Hog Prices Fall While Market Faces Excessive Supply
Chicago livestock market shows lower hog prices amid ample receipts. Heavy hogs and sheep receipts eased as feeders and butchers reacted to the oversupply. Ohio and Cleveland studies note steady to higher trends for select lots. Representative sales report ranges and price movements across steers, cows, and lambs amid mixed regional activity.
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A. Butchers
Tattle
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
East Buffalo
East St Lous
Chicago
East St. Louis
Dust storms and grain markets fizz in Chicago trading
Reports of dust storms in the Southwest cooled buying as grain prices drifted lower in Chicago. Cash wheat and corn traded gently with substantial activity early, but overall demand remained soft.
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Chicago
Grain and Produce Listings From Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous
A garbled Cedar Rapids listing shows assorted grain and produce items with prices and quantities. The fragment mentions wheat, flour, fruit baskets, and wholesale items with scattered figures and codes. No coherent event or clear entities beyond generic produce terms are identifiable.
Studio Condemned for Planning Dillinger Glorification
A fragmented page notes condemnation of a studio for allegedly planning to glorify Dillinger. The document includes stock quotations and bank names, indicating a chaotic, mixed clipping with financial listings and references to broadcasting or publishing entities. The piece preserves dated style and period voice.
Chicago Produce and Market Receipts Report
Chicago market notes show mixed receipts across dairy meats and produce. Prices vary on fresh eggs butter dairy creamery goods and poultry with wholesale demand and stock levels influencing allocation and prices in New York and Chicago exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Prronuer
Uber
Areea
Local Hog Market Slips Further. Calf and Sheep Prices Shifting
Market notes show weaker local hogs with prime grades down by a few cents. Prime top declines to around 30 dollars per hundredweight, calves for good to choice 130 to 190 pounds range near 3.00 to 4.75, and fed lambs at 8.50 to 9.50 per hundred.
Wall Street Quiet as Stocks Open Mostly Steady
A steady but stagnant market Tuesday left traders cautious amid limited demand for rails. Industrials drifted. American Telephone, U S Steel and Southern Pacific held steady while Case and American Smelting lagged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pana Fe
Onilesachs
Douglas Aircraft
Southern Pacific
American Telephone
U. S. Steel
Case
American
Consolidated Gas
Puline Service
New Jersey
North American
American Tobacco
Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Motors
Contracts Awarded For Linn County Gas And Oil
Linn county board of supervisors awarded yearly gasoline and oil contracts to Linn County Co-Operative Oil Co of Marion and Home Oil and Gas Co of Cedar Rapids. Marion bid 140000 gallons of gasoline at one sixteenth of a cent below Chicago Journal of Commerce. Home Oil and Gas bid 4500 gallons of oil for 1250.50 dollars. Eleven gasoline firms submitted bids and twelve offered on all. Grease bids were rejected with 15 firms bidding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Linn County Co-Operative Oil Co
Marion
Home Ol and Gas Company
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Home Oil and Gas Company
Kidnap Plot Tails to Take Alvin Factor in Beverly Hills
Police disclosed a believed plan to kidnap eight year old Alvin Factor son of John Factor from his uncle Robert Cowan's Beverly Hills home. The boy was brought there after his father was allegedly kidnapped by the Roger Touhy gang in Chicago last summer. detectives recovered snipped telephone wires but offered no arrests. Alvin guards due to fear of reprisal while recovering from pneumonia.
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Los Angeles
Alvin Factor
John
Jake the
Factor
Beverly Hills
Robert Cowan
Roger Touhy
Chicago
Central Police
Alvin
Bella Factor
Conan
Thirteen Rescued From Jap Torpedo Boat Tomozuru
At Sasebo Japan a navy communique reports 13 crew rescued from water logged holds of torpedo boat Tomozuru. Rescue teams say 28 men recovered, 15 dead, two unconscious sailors taken to hospital. Many of the 113 aboard feared drowned.
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Sasebo Naval Base
Japan
Tomozuru
Naval Hospital
FTC Rules All Unsold Stocks Must Be Registered
Washington report says the Federal Trade Commission ruled that any stocks unsold before July 27 1933 when the Securities Act took effect must be registered before offering. The aim is to stop corporations from reselling own stock in the open market.
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Washington
LLP
Federal Trade Commission
Two Flying Cadets Killed In San Antonio Crash
AP report states Cadet Nelson C Samuels 22 and Cadet J W Carson 26 of Kelly Field died when their training aircraft crashed three miles north of Camp Bullis in Texas on Tuesday. Samuels' mother Mrs Kate Samuels resides in Severna Park while Carson's father J L Carson lives in Spartanburg South Carolina.
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SAN Antonio Tex
Nelson C Samuels
J W Carson
Kellyfield
Camp Bullis
Samuels
Kate Samuels
Severna Park
Mr. Carson
J L. Carson
Spartanburg
S. C
Phone Head Opposes Wire Control Bill
Walter S. Gifford president of AT and T testified to the Senate interstate commerce committee that the pending bill to create a federal communications commission would largely place power in the commission and lead to a regime of public management of private property.
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Washington (Ap
Walter 5. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Commission
Negress Arrested In Raid Given Six Months
Miss Madonna Burrell twenty two year old arrestee in a liquor raid at 1403 Tenth Street SE was sentenced to six months in Rockwell Citys state reformatory on a vagrancy charge. Judge John T Moffitt withheld the sentence during good behavior while the defendant remains out of state. Burrell hopes to return to Rock Island, Illinois, by Monday. Bud Jordan, a fifty five year old resident, faces a mayoral charge in district court for the sixth time since 1923. he pleaded not guilty on maintaining a liquor outlet and bond was set at one thousand dollars. Colonel E Taylor acts for the spouse of Jesse Sherwood Taylor in the Ruth Bouman property matter.
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Madonna Burrell
Bud Jordan
Tenth Street
Womens State Reformatory
Rockwell City
John T Moffit
Miss Burrell
Rock Island Tl
Jordan
F . Fliison
Mason City Bank Robbery Leaves Hostages In Turmoil
Bandits looted the Mason City bank vault taking 52344 dollars and fled with hostages. Police chased them eastward as the Buick with 1933 license 1777-1950s carried the captured civilians four miles south of town before the thieves abandoned the vehicle and scattered.
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Iowa
Town
Carroll D. Mulcahy
Howard Krieger
Francis de Sart
Hanford
Mason City
Bank Robbery Triggered Statewide Pursuit to Mason City
Albert Lea Minnesota sheriffs deputies and city police officers rushed by car to monitor routes into the state after word of a bank robbery in Mason City Iowa. A machine gun and other weapons were reported among the gear of the alerting party.
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Albert Lea
Minn
CAP
Sherif Helmer Myre
Freeborn County
Miles Norton
Mason City
Minnesota
Indictment of five in Kelley kidnapping case
Mrs Nellie Tipton Muench and four men were indicted in Clayton on charges of kidnapping Dr I D Kelley for ransom on April 20 1931 The accused include Felix McDonald Bart Davis Angelo Rosengrant and John C Johnson Also noted is Muench's bankrupt dress shop loss and Adolph Fiedler's earlier sensational exposure of the case
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ST Louis
Nellie Tipton Muench
Ludwig O. Muench
Clayton
I. D. Kelley
Felix McDonald
Bart Davis
McDonald
St. Louis
Angelo Rosengrant
John C Johnson
Clara Reddington Settles Damage Suit
Clara Reddington settles a $5 368 personal injury and damage suit in district court against Adolph Thousand by stipulation just before trial. The crash occurred Jan 6 1931 seven miles east of Freeport on highway 20 involving Grover E Reddington and Thousand. The defendant’s $500 counterclaim was dismissed with prejudice and the plaintiff agreed to dismiss with prejudice on payment of $650 plus a $368 car damage claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Reddington
Adolph Thousand
John T. Moffit
Reddington
Man Wanted Here Under Sentence In Louisiana
A man serving up to five years in the Louisiana state penitentiary is believed to be Paul Goodman known in Cedar Rapids for bad check activity. Edward E Reading, also called Paul Goodman, matches local descriptions and formerly ran a share-expense travel bureau here before leaving Cedar Rapids months ago.
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G K Thompson
James Galloway
First Judicial District of Louisiana
Shreveport
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Paul Goodman
Cedar Rapids
Galloway
Edward E. Reading
Goodman
Mrs. Conner Keeps Democratic Post
Mrs Catherine Conner a Kentucky committeewoman chose to stay with the Democratic National Committee amid a conflict with her government job The resignations from the federal surplus relief corporation were discussed and she still holds the committee seat effective April 1
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Washington
INS
Democratic National Committee
Catherine Conner
Kentucky
Conner
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Harry L. Hopkins
Marion Service club outlines plan for recreation center
At an open Marion Service club meeting plans were set for a proposed recreation center. A five member board will govern it, with representation from the club, high school alumni, education board, city council, and Federation of Women’s clubs. The city leases the ground for 10 a year for 25 years if built. Ground purchase arranged, CWA approval secured, work to start on Shockey’s hill. Financing via $10 loan certificates at 5 percent interest, sales to run a few days. About thirty citizens attended.
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Marion Recreation Center
Marion Service Club
The
Marion High School Alumni Association
Board of Education
Federation of Women's Clubs
CWA
Shockey’s Hill
Service Club
Marion
Mr and Mrs Austin Coon Honored at Household Shower
A miscellaneous shower for Mr and Mrs Austin Coon on March 8 was held in their new home four and a half miles northwest of Marion. About forty guests attended after a six table 500 game and refreshments. Attendees included numerous local residents and relatives such as Mrs John Austin Billie Ward Duval Munier Coons and Jordan families from nearby towns.
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Austin Coon
Marion
John Austin
Billie
Elsie Ward
John
Georganne
Glenn Platner
Pauline
Harriet
Harlan Dye
C. Q. Miller
Mary Smith
George Stark
Lucie Munier
Susie Berry
Albert
Myron
George Munier
Theodore
Harold
Virginia
Mattie Coons
John Coons
Ray Jordan
Albert Jordan
Mary Austin
Central City
J. Paul
Center Point
H. Simmons
Cedar Rapids
Ed Paul
Onalee
Decorah
William Mason
Joan
Laplata
Marion High Wins Third in Extemporaneous Contest
Marion High School placed third in the extemporaneous speaking contest held Monday night at West Waterloo High School with nine towns taking part. LeNora Dippel represented Marion finishing with 279 points. first place went to McDonald of Eldora Training School with 280 points. Dippel spoke on Should Congress Enact Further Pure Food and Drug Laws Covering Cosmetics Foods and Drugs. Each contestant had one hour to prepare.
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Marion High School
West Waterloo High School
LeNora Dippel
Marion
McDonald
Eldora Training School
Miss Dippel
Congress
Talk On Madrigals At Ivanhoe Club Meeting
Miss Catherine Adams of Coe College spoke on Poetry and the English Madrigal at the Ivanhoe club gathering hosted by Mrs. A. P. Munson. She explained madrigals from the sixteenth century and their life themes and noted their beauty for word and music lovers. Refreshments were served to about forty women.
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Catherine Adams
Coe College
Ivanhoe Club
A. P. Munson
Munsen
Joe Roeder
Doumergue Granted Dictator's Powers
Premier Gaston Doumergue gains constitutional dictator powers by decree signed by President Lebrun. The move allows budget cuts, tariff quota changes, and broad administrative authority to handle emergencies during the deputies' summer recess.
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Paris
INS
Gaston Doumergue
Lebrun
Roosevelt
Congress of
United States
Council of Ministers
Doumergue
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Lagerquist couple welcome son Carl Niel
Mr and Mrs H R Lagerquist of 946 Twelfth Street NE announce the birth of a son named Carl Niel on Saturday.
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H. R. Lagerquist
Twelfth Street
Carl Niel
Vanilla extract repels bandits in Chicago fronting heist
In Chicago the chemist Arthur Ford used vanilla extract to deter four gunmen during a robbery attempt. He hurled heavy vanilla bottles as shots rang out. six rounds missed, and a bottle shattered midair while the leader was drenched in the chaos.
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Chicago
Arthur Ford
Kemp Wins Re Election as Marion School Director
Elda Kemp defeats A R McElwain 111 to 93 to win re election to the Marion school board as McElwain’s ballots with his name not scratched are discarded. Total ballots cast 227. H F Lockwood is re elected treasurer with 183 votes.
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Elda Kemp
A. R. McElwain
Marion
McElwain
Elda J. Kemp
Miss Kemp
Mce Elwain
H. F. Lockwood
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Iowa Board of National Missions
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Huntington Park
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Elmer Cherry
Blairs Ferry Road
Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Excelsior Agriculture and Literary Club
F. M. Webber
Merle Stewe Art
Monroe Township
Toddville High School
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Fifth Avenue
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School of Instruction of Malta
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Matilda Sanborn
Sixth Avenue
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Perry
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Chester O'Shannon
Charles Dronberger
Palo
Addie Howard
Bufffalo
Wilfred Ocheltree
Bayard
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D. M. Beggs
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N. C. Drefer
Manchester
J. Frank Moore
W. L. Alexander
Walter Kennedy
Willis Jordan
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J. T Gallivan
Marion Linn
A. R
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Frank Keyser
W G. Koppenhaver
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Yosemite
Dan Bush
Fourth Avenue
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Independence
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Camp Fire
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Clyde Derflinger
Helen Bray
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Alberta Vorhies
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R. I. Hanson
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