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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1941
Page
3
Chicago and Omaha led a mixed cattle hog and sheep report with small test sales and slight weekly gains. Hogs around eight to eight eighty, cattle mostly steady to firm with top steers near twelve dollars, sheep varied by grade, and regional buyers noted stronger pork cuts amid government purchases.
Receipts and prices steady to higher from Friday last week with hogs 250 head total 900. Butchers under 250 lb mostly $8.40 to $8.60, sows $8.00 to $8.60, lighter weights 160-240 lb $8.25 to $8.60, 240-270 lb $8.40 to $8.60. Sheep and lambs: shorn fat lambs 25c higher, feed lambs $8.50 to $9.50, spring lambs $11.00 to $12.00, western wooled lambs $10.90, shorn 60-75 lb feeder lambs $7.50 to $8.00.
The local hog market shows higher quotes with good grades advancing five cents on Saturday and packers up ten cents. Prices are listed by weight ranges from 120 to 500 pounds, with varied rates for good hogs and packers and separate calf and sheep sections noting spring lambs and qualified weights.
A detailed mixed market report from Cedar Rapids lists prices for grain and feed such as No. 1 wheat at 82 cents and No. 2 at 80, corn shelled No. 2 yellow 62 cents, soybeans New No. 2 113 dollars, and assorted fruits vegetables with lemons 4.50, oranges 3.25 to 4.47, lettuce 3.85 to 5.25, and strawberries 4.25 a crate. Livestock prices show hides, calves, kip and horse rates, with specific grades and weights noted.
New York bond review notes a narrow trading path Saturday with more advances than declines as the bell nears. Several issues including Baltimore and Ohio convertibles and New York and Greenwood Lake 5s gain in active turnover, while U S government issues stay largely inactive.
Wisconsin cheese quotas for May 12 17 list brick cheddar and horn varieties with price fractions. Boston wool market shows firmer undertone with South American imports lifting spot wools and Australian and domestic wools active with steady to rising prices. Fleece wools for fine delaine and blood lines quoted at specific grease prices.
Steel shares led a vigorous rally as trading picked up after a dull start. United States Steel rose to 54 34, Bethlehem to 71 4, Youngstown Sheet and Tube to 33 7, Crucible to 39 1, with several others up as markets rebounded on short covering and news from Britain.
Chicago grain futures hit new season peaks as soybeans corn and wheat led gains on the board of trade. Profit taking trimmed most of the advance in the final hour with May July wheat near top levels and corn soybeans showing solid gains before late selling. Wheat closes down modestly. corn and soybeans up with mixed cash market quotes in Chicago.
Price and receipt levels for butter and eggs in Chicago show steady receipts at 1 089 912 with mixed creamery grades and various regional potato and commodity notes. Idaho russets and Bliss Triumphs dominate quality signals while futures quotes from Lamson Bros. provide storage and egg standards for November May.
Berkeley historian Dr. Oscar Halecki describes central Poland as an overseas colony of Germany on the Continent. He notes Poles uprooted from western Poland to the central area, where Polish industry is located, and forced to produce for Germany. He reports widespread passive resistance and mentions half a million Poles exiled to Siberia by Soviet Russia.
Notre Dame center Johnny McHale now plays first base for Muskegon in the Michigan State league. The 19 year old, nicknamed the Irish lad, is expected to be sent to Beaumont in the Texas league. His boyhood dream was to play for the Tigers.
Joe Benda, former Notre Dame football player and coach from 1937 until his resignation, declined an offer from St Mary's of San Antonio before taking the head coaching job in both football and basketball at St John's Collegeville Minnesota.
Juan Baronia a native evangelist and former Manila Bible seminary president will speak at Marion Christian church Sunday at 10 45 a m with Ben Allison also addressing the Bible school hour and music by the junior choir. Evening service will include baptism. The guests are hosted by Rev Vernon H Carter.
A consolidated list of worship times and sermon topics for Marion area churches. Baptist pastor Rev L W Inman leads morning service The Reverses in Life. Catholic Mass at 8 and 10 a.m. Various churches note Bible school hours, worship times, and youth group meetings with subjects such as The Maternal Heart and Can We Ever Get Something for Nothing.
Evanston NEA reports Ted Grete, star end of Northwestern University's 1939 football team, now serves as an ensign on the U S S Ward a destroyer with the Pacific fleet.
Classifieds list several lost items including a ten dollar bill on 13th Street, a tea rose colored skin item, a blue zircon ring, a cameo pin, a small white and black puppy, and a coat or jewelry repairs. Also notices for cleaning, repairs, catering, dancing events, and various services fill the page.
Classified notices list young ladies under 25 for travel jobs guiding trips to New England, housekeepers needed for elderly couples, capable maids aged 20 to 35 with various duties, cooks and dishwashers required, farm help and general housework positions, plus requests for waitresses, elevator and fountain staff, and a few automotive ads. Multiple employers and locations cited in brief listings with contact details.
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