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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1940
Page
15
Financial and market notes show hogs mostly steady to higher on light receipts amid mixed retail demand. Cattle and sheep trade remains quiet with steady to higher bids, noting balanced supplies and interest from shippers.
South St Paul cattle prices open steady with bids around 750 to 900 dollars for medium terms. Hogs show receipts and sale prices near 500 dollars with weights 180 to 130 pounds.
An itemized market ledger lists receipts and prices for various goods and feeds. Entries show modest discounts and small lot sales including a $9.00 mention and multiple price figures around $650 and $928.374 with miscellaneous identifiers.
Local hog market shows slight change with hogs 240 pounds and up higher while others, including packers, are unchanged. Top calves at 900 pounds. sheep market notes genuine spring lambs at 7000 pounds with racks $9.00 and others by quality.
A Cedar Rapids list of grain bids including Wheat No 1 at 89¢ and No 2 87¢, Oats White No 2 39¢, Corn shelled No 2 yellow 49¢, No 3 41¢, Soybeans No 2 yellow 68¢, and various feeds. Poultry prices show hens, Leghorns, and other fowl with weights and prices. Vegetables and fruit include lemons 25¢, oranges 3.00, grapes 7.50, celery 5.75, lettuce 4.25, onions 1.00 to 1.25, tomatoes 1.80 per carton, cabbage 2.35, apples 1.75, and other listed items. Hides and animal products priced by grade and weight, with horses and other animals noted.
A detailed summary of receipts and prices across cheese butter eggs and vegetables in Chicago and New York markets. Notes include steady butter creamery prices in Chicago, unaltered egg and cheese receipts, and varying potato and tomato supply dynamics with regional price ranges and stock levels.
New York bonds edged higher with utilities and industry issues leading, while several names fell. McKesson and Robbins 1950s traded near 83 for the first time since 1938 suspension amid the Philip Murica case. Government issues showed light activity.
New York stocks finished with modest gains as steels and utilities lead a cautious recovery. Trading hovered near 800000 shares with better performers including US Steel Bethlehem Consolidated Edison American Water Works Electric Power and Light Anaconda Lockheed Loews Boeing Cluett Peabody and Gulf Oil among others while weaker issues lagged.
A chaotic wiresheet lists numerous equities from Adams Express to Wool Market with prices and activity. Investors mulled cautions as brokers reported limited demand and selective buying, while export and domestic wool dealers described tentative demand and steady prices at Boston wool houses.
The Chicago wheat market weakened Friday as outside market setbacks pressured futures. May wheat closed 32 to 4y cent lower, with soybeans largely unchanged and corn down slightly. reports showed scattered exports and liquidation by commission houses amid mixed cash market activity.
Minnesota and Wisconsin dairy prices show quotas for March 25 to 30 with cheddar and brick bids. Bond markets close steady with U S government issues and Home Owners Loan rates, while Jones averages rise slightly in bonds and utilities.
A Friday morning hit-and-run crash left Josephine V. Miller with a head bruise after a car struck William Blazek near First Avenue and Fourth Street East. Police traced a license number to an Iowa county vehicle and widened the search to Cedar Iowa and Johnson counties as Eva Soles Clarke recovers at St Luke's Hospital.
At 6 15 p m Thursday on highway 30 ten miles east of Cedar Rapids a car driven by Rev O E Ghere Tipton passed a semitrailer and collided with a westbound car driven by Lloyd Stewart Moline Illinois. No one was seriously hurt and the Ghere car owned by Merle Ghere Independence carried his wife and their 11 year old child.
Daughter Irene with Merle and Mrs Ghere and children Betty Billy and Patty traveled with Stewart and Beverly Jean, two and a half, as occupants. The only injured were Beverly Jean Stewart and Betty Ghere, both with slight head bruises.
The Dies committee ordered James H Dolsen of Pittsburgh cited for contempt for refusing to answer questions. He declined to identify who issued a communist party card bearing Franklin D Roosevelt’s name found in his possession. Dolsen faces up to one year in prison if convicted.
Judge Hi C Ring allows 600 toward receiver's fees for Stark Construction receivership. Henry G. Suehrstedt remains receiver with weekly bookkeeping and stenographic expenses plus travel costs approved. Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co files tentative claims totaling 19626.94 and 298447 for labor and materials on Morrison and Newanee public works. City of Morrison retains 9122 and City of Newanee 1844 of contract sums.
W Bates receiver of Linn County Savings Bank of Center Point was authorized by Judge H C Ring to sell receivership assets at public auction April 11 at 2 pm. The sale at the Commercial Bank building in Marion will offer assets both separately and collectively, with power to settle or adjust claims beforehand.
Parties agreed 32 head of cattle be sold at public sale in Anamosa with sale proceeds deposited with the clerk while the suit to settle the farm operation agreement proceeds. Other items include a $2000 personal injury suit, a $31278 truck taxicab case demurrer, a seduction charge pending, and maintenance and judgment actions in various Iowa cases.
A jumble of lost and found notices and small ads from The Gazette includes a Swiss wrist watch lost in Kenwood, various personal ads, medical and tonic promotions, luggage repairs, moving services, and ambulance and transportation notices. Multiple names, phone numbers, and businesses appear amid miscellaneous classifieds and notices.
Various old ads advertise hair care products and services including shampoo wave rinse and permanent waves. Listings show prices and contact numbers for salons such as Roosevelt Salon and DebLux Shop with discounts and weekly specials. Also mentions livestock sales and beauty education offerings from Paris Academy of Beauty.
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