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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1938
Page
17
Chicago and other markets report expanding hog and sheep receipts with prices for hogs falling 15 to 25 cents. Top hog price dips to about 9.60 with buyers and sellers facing a slow market. Cattle and sheep quotes also ease, with varied bids across Chicago, St Paul, Omaha, Sioux City, and Des Moines.
Local hog prices fell Friday with top hogs at 9.10 dollars and packers 10 cents lower while the cattle market held steady. Wilson & Co lists prices for hogs by weight and type, plus calf, sheep and cattle prices across terms such as prime steers, yearlings, cows, and cutters.
Grain price list for Cedar Rapids area with No 1 Bic wheat at 85c, oats 25c, rye 5Sc, corn 42-45c, soybeans 54-56 ed, hay baled 9 0, straw 5 08. Produce prices include butterfat 32c, cream 31 and 29c, various weights for chickens and hides prices for beef hides to horse hides with manes and tails included.
Chicago produce notes show live poultry receipts at 23 trucks with hens easier, prices mixed, butter receipts at 750 435 steady, eggs receipts 22 052 with current prices steady. potatoes arrivals 69 with liberal supplies and slow demand. New York section lists egg, butter, and cheese prices with steady to higher trends. Futures show butter, eggs, and cheese activity for March through April contracts.
European war fever pushes Chicago wheat futures higher despite ample offerings. May wheat climbs to 88 cents, corn gains, oats rise, while domestic weather in the southwest and export activity influence prices. Liverpool and futures in Minneapolis reflect the market mood.
Friday trading in New York bonds showed a retreat with an orderly tone and scattered losses. Rails led declines of 4 to 6 points while several foreign issues and rail-linked issues fell. government bonds ended with mixed declines and some treasuries modestly lower.
A digest lists NY exchange quotes for European currencies with Poland Lithuania tensions. Also covers Boston wool trading, New York sugar futures, Mississippi River stages, and a 1936 stat on immigration and emigration frequencies.
In New York the stock market fell on war fears in Europe with major leaders dropping over 4 points at times. Heavy selling hit rails and utilities less. steel and chemical issues suffered while others steadied. Prominent losers included U S Steel Bethlehem Westinghouse du Pont GE Allied Chemical Chrysler GM Douglas Aircraft Sears Montgomery Ward J I Case International Harvester Kodak New York Central AT T Loew's Union Carbide and Philip Morris.
Fr iday quotations from J E Bennett & Co list numerous stocks with prices and changes including Adams Express, Alaska Juneau, Allied Stores, Johns Manville, Lehigh Valley, Libby Owens, Maytag, Parker, Phelps Dodge, Texaco, Union Pacific, General Motors, US Steel, Goodyear, and many others. The chart shows large and small cap names across industries with notable entries such as Bethlehem Steel, Pennsylvan ia Stationery, and Southern Pacific among the listings.
U S Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy introduced Mrs Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth in an informal audience at the queen's Buckingham Palace apartments Friday.
George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, cites business as his priority and London as his trade center. He notes English indifference to Ireland’s new Senate experiment led by de Valera and says he is too old to join, though was asked to join the former senate.
A Chicago report from the Midwest Association of Chiropodists warns that persistent dancing the big apple, shag, or Susie Q could enlarge feet. By 1945 the average woman's shoe size could rise by seven sizes due to the exercise.
In Vienna two renowned Jewish doctors, Prof Wolfgang Denk and Jonas Borak, killed themselves as Austria faced intensified Nazi takeover. Denk led the University of Vienna’s second surgical clinic and Borak was an X-ray specialist. The purge extended to cultural life including the Vienna Philharmonic, now Nazified and overseen by Wilhelm Jerger. Also noted: Wilhelm Miklas under custody, and the reichmark circulating alongside the schilling, with plans to replace the latter.
A 1768 George Washington letter to John Blair is shown at the William L. Clements Library Michigan. Washington asked Blair to intercede for Virginia traders over an Indian boundary line, found among Gen Thomas Gage papers, later held by the Gage family before sale to William Clements. Florida’s mills and plants are noted in a separate state listing.
Gov George H Earle calls in top Pennsylvanian medical resources to treat a newborn in Lansdale whose right eye is defective. Doctors warn the child Roger Laverty may lose sight without a corneal graft from another donor. Mrs Laverty offers her eyes and strangers volunteer, but the operation is only to be done as a last resort.
Multiple lost items announced with contact numbers including Atlas truck tire and wheel, black tool kit, washing machine wringer, suede jacket, Boston bull puppy, coin purse with name, and a child’s pet. Rewards urged with telephone contacts provided.
The Gazette invites persons wishing to advertise automobile transportation to provide references before publication. Readers and advertisers are urged to exchange references in automobile transport arrangements with others.
Several tiny classified notes advertise watch repair by Probasco Jewelers and H. K. Schaefer, storage by C R Transfer, tailoring by L K Rosenthal, and other services. The jumble mentions personal care, travel clubs, unclaimed diamonds, blinds, and a beauty perm with addresses and phone numbers.
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