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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 28, 1942

Page

2

Livestock Prices Steady Amid Monday Estimates In Chicago

Chicago market notes show unofficial livestock estimates Monday with cattle about 13 000 head, hogs receipts around 300, and sheep near 10 000. Hog prices closed up with good and choice hogs driving a weeklong advance to 13.80, highest in 15 years, while cattle and sheep saw modest to notable gains including top steer and yearling prices near 16.00 and lambs around 12.75, reflecting general strength in the week’s trading.

Chicago INS

Sioux City Livestock Prices and Receipts Summary

Receipts at Sioux City Livestock show hogs 600 head with average weights 240 to 300 pounds, prices down 10 to 20 cents to about 13.40 per hundredweight for barrows and gilts, sows firm, feeder pigs steady. Cattle receipts 100 with fed steers mainly 12 to 14 dollars per hundredweight higher, top ranges 12.75 to 14.25. cows and stocker calves mixed gains. calves scarce. Sheep receipts 350 with lambs steady to 10 cents lower, best woolly lambs around 11.50 to 12.15, ewes and shearling lambs steady to 11.50.

Sioux City Dent Omamna Livestock Omaha Dept. Agriculture

Omaha Hog and Livestock Receipts Mixed in Market Weakness

U S Department of Agriculture reports salable hog receipts in Omaha and Des Moines lending a weak undertone. Prices for barrows and gilts 240-300 lb range around 13.25 to 13.90, while calves show mixed gains and steers reach up to 15.75 for prime grades. Sheep and lambs also show varied shifts with fat lambs easing slightly and ewe demand firm.

Chicago Produce Markets Update From Receipts to Prices

Market reports show butter receipts 576,984 lbs with firm tone and various price scores, eggs receipts 33,290 cases with steady market for extras and firsts, cheese with Twins and Longhorns at around 21 to 22 cents, and potatoes with Idaho russet prices plus assorted regional lots. Dressed poultry and live fowl markets in New York Front exceed, with fowls unsettled and chickens irregular, turkeys varying by region and weight.

Chicago Idaho Minnesota North Dakota Red River Valley Bliss Wisconsin Green Mountains Florida New York Far Western

Produce Futures Furnished by Lamson Bros and Co

Futures for produce are supplied by Lamson Bros and Co in a brief notice indicating storage standards. The item outlines general expectations for storage and handling practices without detailed figures or dates.

Lamson Bros. and Co

Bond Markets in Narrow D2019ow Activity

New York stock and bond markets opened with uneven activity. Rail bonds showed limited firmness while industrial and utility issues were quiet. Government securities posted minor moves and many mortgage issues were mixed. Prices for some issues rose fractionally amid a cautious trading session.

NEW York Bond Review Wrew York (Ap Pacific Pere Mgraudtte Misgouri Pacific Beef

Hogs Unchanged On Local Market Survival on Hog Prices

Hogs steady on the local market with no changes in all grades and long-haul top at 1360. Good hogs 140-150 lbs 11.85 to 11.90, 150-160 lbs 9 to 12.25, 160-170 lbs 12.70 to 12.75, 176-180 lbs 13.20 to 13.25, 180-300 lbs 13.45 to 13.50, 300-330 lbs 13.35 to 13.40, 330-360 lbs 13.25 to 13.30, packers 275-360 13.05 to 13.10, packers 360-400 12.95 to 13.00, packers 490-450 lbs 12.85 to 12.90. Cattle market lists various steer and yearling prices and notes.

Iowa Associated Preas Biason Co Waterloo Geo Des Moines U. S. Dept. Agriculture Minnesota Austin, Minn

Cedar Rapids Miscellanieous Grain and Poultry Prices

Cedar Rapids market notes list grain including No 2 white oats four to five cents, rye No 2 sixty cents, yellow corn seven to eight cents, soybeans 1 60, hay and straw values, poultry prices for hens leghorns cocks ducks geese turkeys and market assortments. Wholesale fruits vegetables hides and calf hides prices for celery lemons oranges lettuce onions cabbage carrots potatoes and related items with varied per unit or per dozen figures.

Colorado

Cheese and Wool Market News From Wisconsin and Boston

Plymout h Wisconsin reports cheese quote ranges for the week ending March 30 to April 4 on the Wisconsin cheese exchange. In Boston a sizable sale of fine and half blood territory wools from the new clip occurred, with limited demand for fleece wools and firm asking prices for graded fleeces in grease.

Plymouth Wis Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Twins Boston U.S. Agriculture Department

Pupils Turn Out War Supplies in Classes in Woburn

In Woburn Massachusetts about 300 high school students in wood working printing and domestic arts classes produce war equipment under state blueprints. 100 night sticks were made and given to the auxiliary police on an assembly line. Six stretchers and 150 splints are ready for immediate use plus two movable gun racks.

Woburn Mass INS Woburn High School William E. Kane State Committee On Public Safety

Zimmer Caps Hoops Lead With 134 Points

Bloomington Indiana NEA reports Captain Andy Zimmer led Indiana basketball scoring with 134 points across 17 games and shot at a 41 percent clip.

Bloomington Ind NEA Andy Zimmer Indiana Nets

Stocks Lacking Definite Trend on Saturday

New York AP Stock summary shows a subdued trading session with no clear direction. Blue chips fluctuated with minor gains and losses, many failing to sustain Friday's closing levels while a few like Zenith Radio reached new yearly highs.

New York United States Steel General Motors Chrysler Pennsylvania American Telephone Consolidated Edison Westinghouse General Electric Montgomery Ward International Harvester United Aircraft

Wall Street Stock Quotations From Alaska to Zenith Radio

Wall Street quotes list numerous corporations and securities including Alaska Juneau Intl Paper Allied Stores Johns Manville Allis Chalmers Kennecott Copper Amoco Kroger Libbey Owens Amoco Tobacco Martin G L Mont Ward Ark Nat Gar Nash Kelv Atchison Natl Bellas Atlantic Ark Natl Cash Reg etc. The Chicago stock page shows J E Bennett Co as publisher and a broad roll of industrials, utilities, railroads, oil firms, consumer goods and tech names with varied price figures. The dense ledger reflects mid century market activity with many familiar names such as Boeing General Electric General Foods DuPont Goodyear and Westinghouse among others.

Je, Bennett & Co Jump Manuser Telephone Merchants National Bank Alaska Juneau Intl Paper Allied Stores Johns Manville Allis Chalmers Kennecott Capr Amn Ca Kresge S Slit Amn Hide & L Kroger G & B Amn Loco Ays Libbey Owens Maracaibo Lig & My's Link Belt Lockheed Stec Fdys Locws, Ince Lorillard Mont Ward Ark Nash Bendix North Amn Co Boeing Avi Gs Orden Bors Warner Packard Mtrs Breas Burreyeny Remlek Camp Wyant Penne Peoples Gas Rem Rand Gomi Solvents Heph Steel Conti Motors Crucible Steel Grand Gas Ind Curtiss Ala Erie R. R. S Tex Corp Erie C. T Eastman Gen Foods Uni Air Lines Btn Uni Corp Uni Drus Gillette's Oodich Gas Corp Bane Rane Nor Ore Gt Nor Ry Gt Wes Sur Greyhound Ibs Stee Hayes Warner Bros Houston Wes Union Hudson Mtrs Westghouse AB Hupp Mtrs Westghouuse Sana Tis Central Willys Ovid Indus Rayon Wilson & Co Inspiration Woolworth Yellow Truck Int Nickel Younsston Sapa Zenith Radio Chicago Edison Jarvis Quaker O Swift & Co Swift Helleman Zenith

Jail Means Home to World War Veteran

Joe Kosicki, a World War I veteran, prefers jail to civilian life after ill health ended his barber trade. He requested arrest via his wife, spent a prison sentence, and chose to stay when allowed, serving as inmate worker, car washer, and unofficial jail chambermaid. He calls the jail his home.

Erie Joe Kosicki Joe Matthew Hess Hess K. P

Grain Futures Climb Amid Broad Market Strength

Grain futures showed a firm uptrend with wheat up 1 to 1.44 cents, corn gains of 4 to 4, oats rising, rye up to 1.58, and soybeans advancing to 4.44 as short covering and cross-market firmness in corn and cotton boosted sentiment. Cash grain markets displayed several price points for No. 2 wheat, No. 1 yellow corn, and soybean values in Chicago.

Chicago

Winthrop Good Friday prayer hour closes towns

OWA News in Brief lists Winthrop close ups for Good Friday from 2 to 3 pm with union services at the Methodist church and other services at St Patrick’s. The report also notes multiple local civic updates across Clayton and nearby towns including military promotions, church cantata plans, and civic election tickets.

Marion News Highlights Local Social Events and Contests

Local social calendar features a shower for Miss Anna belle Oxley ahead of her April 4 wedding to Norman Brown of Colorado Springs, with 20 guests. Marion high school music playoff results name Richard Awbrey and Wayne Manson as soloists for district contest in Monticello on April 11. Card club celebrations, birthday gifts, and club meetings are noted along with volunteer egg donations for Easter and other community activities. Regular updates include residents visiting, moving, hospital notices, and a large Prairie Chapel church reception for new neighborhood residents with over 100 attendees.

William Walker New London Jerry Lesher Annabelle Oxley Harrison Oxley Norman Brown Colorado Springs Marion High School Monticello Richard Awbrey Jean Scott Barbara Seger Wayne Manson Marion Robert Palmer Hal Kinser James Kemble Robert Hanson Paul Anthony Cedar Rapids

Marion area church service schedule list

A consolidated church listings page notes multiple congregations with pastors and service times. Baptist led by Rev. Shaw, morning worship at 10 45, evening at 7 30 with subject Songs of Silence and The Race of Life. Catholic Masses at 8 and 10 a.m.. Christian church with Rev. Carter, Bible school at 9:45, services at 10:45 and 7:30 p.m. with sermons on Christ the King and Man's part in God's Plan. Evangelistic and Thursday supper. Congregational with Rev Venard McLaughlin, church school 10 a.m., morning worship 11, sermon The Triumphal Entry, choir pieces and candlelight vesper. Free Methodist led by Rev. Guy James Jr., services 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 p.m.. YPM, prayer. Methodist with Rev. Henke, Sunday activities including baptism and open hymn solos. Presbyterian with Rev. De Jong, Sunday school 9:45, worship 10:55 and 7:45, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services. St Paul Evangelical Lutheran led by Rev. Krog, confirmation, worship, and Maundy Thursday service. Seventh Day Church of God Sabbath school 10:30 a.m. and preaching 11:30. Prairie Chapel with Rev. Clyde, Sunday school 10 a.m., worship 11, Epworth league 7:30 p.m.

Benjamin H. Shaw Bible St. Joseph’s Catholic T. J. McElliott Vernon H. Carter Christ Venard McLaughlin J. Franklin Parsons Lord Wilson Donald B. Christie The Palms” Missionary Fellowship Group Free Methodist Guy James Arthur W. Henke Mildred Gillmore Temple Ruth Ostrander Parlor Henke C. V. R. de Jong St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Carl E. Krog Seventh Day Church of God Sixth Street Ninth Avenue Prairie Chapel J. B. Clyde Epworth League

Reds Pitcher Ival Goodman to Try Left-Handed Throwing

Ival Goodman of the Cincinnati Reds, a right hander all his career, plans to switch to left handed throwing this season to ease the strain on his other arm.

Cincinnati NEA Ival Goodman Cincinnati Reds

Want Ad Rates and Information

Rates and rules for classified want ads. Five to six word minimums per line with two lines required, plus options for 3 to 6 line placements and daily rate breakdowns. Additional line and box number counts, out of town charges, and payment terms included. Advertisement ends with a sample listing for a furnished 2 room apartment Miller apartment.

Miller

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