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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1935
Page
13
Hog prices trend upward with receipts far below expectations. Chicago and Des Moines reports show steady to higher bids, with best medium weight hogs around 9.15 to 9.25 and top values near 9.45. Cattle and sheep markets mixed, receipts light, buyers active despite limited supply.
Grain markets on the Chicago board of trade closed mixed with wheat down about a cent and corn and oats little changed. May wheat ranged, cash houses favored May buys while July sells, exports from Argentina to the United States had a light dampening effect, and hogs supported provisions as lard stocks fell at western points.
The report mixes grain prices and receipts with a NY stock market summary. Grain details mention wheat, corn, oats, and soybeans with price figures and tonnage, while the New York market highlights gains in Chrys ler, Du Pont, American Can, Coca Cola, General Motors, and steel stocks amid firm trading and a silver rally in London.
Hog prices edged higher on the local market with another nickel gain. Sinclair HOG MARKET lists top hogs at 875 with various weight brackets and packers paying for truck hogs across ranges. Calf Sheep and Cattle markets show steady or improving prices with selections for good to choice weights and common stock.
Local Cedar Rapids listings show wholesale fruits vegetables and produce with prices for oranges grapefruit lemons potatoes bananas strawberries head lettuce celery cabbage onions and oysters. Meat and hides are priced including hogs beef hides calves and horses with various grade distinctions and discounts noted.
Chicago receipts and prices for butter eggs potatoes show steady demand amid unchanged rates. Wisconsin and Michigan whites, Idaho russets, and other staples move with modest shifts. poultry steady. New York reports mixed dairy and cheese prices. fresher futures note varied creamery butter and cheese sales with regional activity.
Market briefs note raw sugar and wool prices and exchange rates. Sugar futures show varied gains and losses with May and September settlements contrasted by regional wool pricing. Foreign exchange lists numerous country rates, with bids in euros dollars and other currencies across markets.
In New York trading on Friday bond prices moved in a subdued range across departments as callable issues, notably a 110 callable, attracted attention amid a company refunding plan. Treasury securities showed small declines while Japanese and Norway loans edged forward fractions and other European issues posted modest losses.
Belton Montana residents learn how Glacier Park winters keep husbands home. Superintendent E T Scoven jokes about wives needing stay at home plans as a park ranger fights extreme cold with 40 degrees below zero wind and heavy drifts trapping a car.
Denver postmark records show a dime-letter chain erupting from a friendly game into a nationwide craze. The scheme sent five letters, added names to a bottom list, and triggered waves of mail to unknown recipients, followed by dollar and ten dollar variants. Post officials warned of arrests as mail volumes surged with 183 pouches inbound and 190 outbound in a single day.
TOPEKA Kan UP Dr Beaudry director of the Topeka Reptile club argues harmless snakes aid farms by killing rats and pests. He says a snake near buildings usually preys on rodents and, though rare food scarcity may lead to a small chicken loss, a rat or weasel will cause far greater harm, making snakes valuable for pest control.
Boston tourists flock to the Old North Church tower to see the lantern signal used by Paul Revere in 1775. In Lexington 18,000 visitors visited the Hancock Adams house where Hancock and Adams were warned of the British approach.
Edmonton ship builder John Matheson testifies planes aid Far North development yet dog sleds remain popular. Each winter he shifts his plant to sleds for trappers traders and miners, usually 200 to 300 orders, but this winter 600 were built setting a record.
Mrs. Helen A. Anderson died at 11 15 p m Thursday at her parents 1430 Fourth Avenue SE after a lingering illness She was born November 14 1911 in Chamberlain South Dakota and had lived in the city fourteen years She is survived by her husband an infant son David Lee her parents three brothers Merritt J Thompson Neil A and Allan W Thompson and two sisters Shirley Ann Thompson and Mrs Leon R Vesely The Rev Charles F Edwards will officiate at 2 p m Saturday funeral in Turner Chapel burial Cedar Memorial Cemetery. She was a member of St John Episcopal Church and a Washington High School Cedar Rapids Business College graduate.
The body of Alfred Lowery, former Cedar Rapids resident, lies in state at Mrs. T. H. Montgomery’s home 1339 Tenth Street SW from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 30 p.m. Saturday. Services are at Mount Zion Baptist Church Saturday at 2 p.m. with Rev. A. M. White officiating. Burial follows at Linwood Cemetery with Masonic Lodge conducting rites.
Funeral services for Mrs Hela Anne Gable will be held at the First English Lutheran church Sunday at 2 pm with Rev John J. Gent officiating. Burial follows in the family lot at Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at Turner chapel.
Funeral services for Henry M Blitsch will be held in the Rohn chapel Saturday at 10 a.m conducted by Rev J F Uhlenhop. The body will be taken to Muscatine for burial in Greenwood cemetery. The funeral party will leave the chapel at 1 p.m. Saturday. Friends may call at the chapel Friday evening.
Funeral services for Frank Shea will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the city lot in Oak Hill Cemetery.
A California legislative commission spent over two years and more than 100000 in public funds studying the high cost of sickness. The survey covered 20560 families, 192 hospitals, 97 clinics, and 1112 physicians, finding heavy physician unpaid bills and low incomes among doctors. It urges payroll based health insurance for those earning 3000 or less.
Heirs Adam Baldwin and Irma C Vos deed to Clara K and Edward Kvitek as joint tenants or the survivor. Property described as Lot 1 Block 20 Hulls 3rd addition. Consideration one dollar and value. Dated April 18, 1935.
The Forty-sixth Iowa assembly ends after ten extra days, passing 225 bills including mortgage moratoriums and highway patrol while rejecting liquor by the drink and direct livestock buying. The session cost about 340000 dollars with legislators paid for 100 days.
Joseph Gresenti, 37, inventor from San Francisco, shot to death at his brother John’s Denver home after arriving from Cheyenne by plane. Police say Gresenti, who claimed a million dollar invention auto clutch, feared enemies and warned that “The gang is after me.” John was captured after claiming the revolver used was unloaded.
A listing of advertising prices per line for various ad lengths and sizes with charges for additional lines and an 10 cent surcharge for out-of-town readers. It notes that readers may respond to Gazette Want Ads by mail or phone and directs out-of-town readers to write to the department.
BLUE SPRINGS Missouri based on an INS report a housewife Lucy McGuire forty was elected police judge as a joke and plans to perform duties from her home while doing housework using a sink or ironing board as the bar of justice No one filed for the office in the last election but she won by write in votes McGuire vows to tackle speeders careless drivers and drunk drivers.
Flood waters uncovered a section of spindles from the Maxfield woolen mills in Batesville Arkansas. The spindles hold wool still in manufacture when the May 9 1881 flood on Sullivan's Creek destroyed the mill. The water powered mill was among the region’s largest industries.
Multiple venues advertise meals, music and drink specials with live bands tonight and over the weekend. ATLAS and Miller beer promos mingle with Bohemian Kitchen and Little Bohemia venues offering steaks, fishbowls and 24 hour service. Government notices warn against improper use of Gazette want ads while merchants push trunks, trusses and discounted goods.
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