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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1940
Page
9
Mixed livestock results with cattle and sheep depicting steady to firmer bids in late session trade. California springers highlighted at 1125 dollars while native springers traded around 12 dollars. several figures and farm terms appear alongside commodity prices and market notes.
Chicago market bulletin shows hog and cattle prices with wide ranges for weights and grades. Reports include hogs steady to higher, cattle steady to lower, and vealers and cows showing mixed shifts across regions like Ottumwa Waterloo Mason City with detailed price quotes.
Combined hog receipts at 16 concentration yards and 10 packing plants in Interior Town and southern Minnesota for 48 hours ending 4 am Monday totaled 32 500. Compared with 43 800 a week ago and 40 600 a year ago. Prices varied by weight class with barrows and gilts mostly steady to higher on lighter to midweights and lower on very heavy hogs.
Salable cattle receipts 3 800 calves 100 beef steers and yearlings slow to weak some kids steady heifer calves steady cows scarce stockers light strong bulk fed steers around 8 2569 50 dollars. heifers up to 9. cows 6 50 7 50. canners 4 25 5 75. Hogs receipts 5 200 top 5 40. 180 260 lb 35 25 40 . 260 320 lb 5 00 5 25. 220 400 lb 4 70 5 00. sows 4 40 74 00. feeder pigs 63 50 74 25. Sheep receipts 2 5 0 percent fat lambs quiet. Idaho springers around 11 50. new shorn ewes 3 25 down.
HOGS salable receipts 6,000 with higher bids across weight ranges. good and choice 180-270 lbs at 5.30-7.75. 270-300 lbs 5.10-5.38. 310-370 lbs 4.90-5.10. lighter weights 4.06-5.25. food sows 4.35-4.50. feeders 4.00-4.50. CATTLE salable receipts 4,300. fed steers and yearlings steady to weak. top weights 9.10-10.00. heifers 8.00-9.25. beef cows 6.25-6.50. bulls 4.25-6.65. vealers 6.00-9.25. Sealed lambs strong to 20 cents higher. bids steady for fed and medium lambs.
Hog prices rise with all grades up ten cents top at 5.35 dollars. Cattle and calf sectors show mixed gains and declines across prime steers yearlings and heifers, with ranges noted for weight classes and packer grades. Sheep market lists spring lambs around 9.00 per hundred with quality-based variations.
A period list of Cedar Rapids market prices covers grain and hay oats butterfat poultry eggs fruits vegetables and live stock values. Items include No 1 and No 2 grain prices oats rye barley corn buckwheat hay and straw priced per unit lambs calves and horses offered with varying prices and notes on delivery and weights.
In Boston on Monday mills and tanners stayed out of the market as buyers offered no strong bids. Prices for midwest fleece wools eased to 36 to 36 1/2 cents per pound with delivery to users, while overall sales were reported as moderate and no heavy selling pressure appeared. Wisconsin cheese prices edged lower on the Plymouth market with daisies and brick around 12 to 13 cents and cheddars near 13 cents as farmers quoted milk product prices Decent demand persisted for various varieties.
Officials report major corporations including Bethlehem Steel, DuPont, Sears Roebuck, Anaconda, Kennecott, and United Aircraft engaging in a broad market realignment. The discussion centers on cross investments and potential steel and chemical collaborations amid rising wartime production needs.
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Fragmented OCR text outlines commodities and prices including eggs and potatoes, with references to New York and California markets, various grades, stocks, and shipments. Mentions retail items, farm products, and freight data, but specific events or clear outcomes are not identifiable.
New York bond market edged higher late Monday with limited sections showing losses. Foreign dollar towns and a few issues fell, while Belgium 1 1/28 jumped on selective sales and Australia 4 1/25 steadied. Government issues and several corporates posted modest gains amid thin trading and ongoing reorganizations.
Mrs. R. D. Taylor will chair the Red Cross committee to sponsor the Mannerchor concert on June 15. Red Cross executive secretary Mrs. Wells C. Peck announced the list of volunteers includes Mrs. Clark Beems, Mrs. Guy Mc Kibben, Mrs. Carl Ettinger and Miss Maurine Hamblin. The concert will benefit the Red Cross fund for European war relief.
City council, in a resolution of necessity, votes to establish curb and gutters on Eighteenth Street NW from First to B Avenues and on A Avenue NW from Fifteenth Street to Highland Drive. A petition for curb gutter and paving on Seventeenth Street NW from B to C Avenues and on C Avenue NW from Seventeenth to Eighteenth Streets is referred to the engineering department for checking. The petition is signed by M F Harmon and 15 others.
Census figures list New Hampton with 2 936 residents in 1940 and 2 458 in 1930 while New Albin records 600 in 1940 and 556 in 1930 and a few nearby places show small changes in population.
Rain interrupted the Mount Mercy academy May crowning Sunday. The ceremony is moved to tonight at 6 30 with a contingency for Wednesday at 5 p.m. The public is invited.
Six hundred persons excluding children attended Sunday’s open house from 2 to 5 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Catholic church parsonage 2306 First avenue F Cedar Rapids. Visitors also came from Marion Walford Fairfax and the Stark settlement three miles north of Fairfax, said Rev. J D Kearn pastor.
Ernest B. Lyon aged 52 residing at 1726 Fourth Avenue SE suffered head lacerations after a fall while carrying a box upstairs. He was treated and released from Mercy hospital. Jane Hauskins, 3, of 1518 Avenue NW, fractured her right forearm after a fall in her yard and was treated at Mercy hospital.
Police received three garden theft reports on Monday. Eldon Martin said 150 feet of hose used for greens on holes four and six at Ellis Park course were taken. Pansy plants were stolen from the gardens of Bill Kasner and Mrs. Mike Burak. Kasner valued his loss at 50 cents and Burak at $3.
The Assembly Room of the Air will air a 125 piece McKinley district orchestra on Tuesday at 4 15 p m over WMT pupils from Johnson Jackson Buchanan and Tyler perform under director Paul Anthony Dale Howard sings Give A Man A Horse He Can Ride accompanist Betty Jean Stephenson Sally Peck a Buchanan second grader tells the story Topsy Turvy
Army applications are being accepted at the federal building for all branches following recent defense plan announcements. Openings now available in various Army service roles across headquarters recruitment.
Debatable arrest at Drapart Inn near Cedar Armids follows officers finding an open bottle of whisky and a beer in use or consumption in a public place. The suspect was fined 323 dollars and costs, with the fine suspended on payment of costs.
Mrs Frane Hale Overholt died at 1744 D avenue NE after a long illness. Born January 22 1867 in Columbus City Iowa she lived in Cedar Rapids 11 years. She leaves two daughters Marion Hale Britten Arlington Virginia and Mrs Robert Davis Cambridge Massachusetts two sons Mac Farland Hale Long Island New York Grafton B Hale Cedar Rapids ten grandchildren a brother S D MacFarland Cape Girardeau Missouri and two sisters Mrs S L Close Los Angeles and Mrs Winifred Nichols Tacoma Washington Private services were held at the Moon family chapel at 10 am Monday with Rev H Blackstone and a Masonic committal.
Horace Edward McNeil 74 lifelong Linn county resident died at his son George McNeil's home 422 Second street SW at 9 30 p m Sunday after a long illness He was born near Center Point June 28 1865 Survived by son three daughters Mrs Elsie Timms Mrs Myrtle Kitts and Mrs Leona Kirk eleven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 230 p m in the Christian church Lafayette with burial there Friends may call at Sargent funeral home Center Point
Funeral arrangements are set for Mrs. Nellie Strub of 804 Fourth avenue SE who died Saturday in an Iowa City hospital. Services will be at 9 am Tuesday at Immaculate Conception Church, conducted by Msgr. John Molloy. Interment follows in Shiloh cemetery. Rosary at 8 pm Monday in Beatty chapel. friends may call.
Funeral services for Thomas J. Miller 57 who died at his home 362 Eighth Avenue Marion will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Beatty chapel conducted by Rev. Charles QC Lee of Chicago and Revs R. N. Coolidge and F. H. Ward Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Donald La Verne Dodge infant son of Mr and Mrs Milo Dodge will be held at Beatty chapel at 4 p.m. Monday with burial in Shiloh cemetery in Marion area attended by local family and community members.
Fragmented notice reports authorization of water works superintendent construction power by Connell. Text shows garbled names and references to payments, parties, and committees, with unclear location and dates.
The program presents a student musical evening at seven with performances by I C pupils and a large group including dancers and instrumentalists. Names such as Theresa Beyater Garlands and Maureen Patricia Morehead are listed among performers, with works ranging from Ave Maria to ardent salon pieces.
The city council granted permission to Oi company to remove 450 gallon gas tanks and to lay steam mains on several streets. Notices filed for seven days include openings on Eighth street and various avenues. Merklin Grocery petition to remove gas tank referred. Cedar Rapids Gas approved to lay gas main on Seventeenth street SE. Transfer of 4660.26 from water works to sewage rental fund approved for April.
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A garbled transit item describes pedestrians and a turning car with rights of way. The fragmented text references street safety, cues about a parade, and pedestrian protection but lacks clear details, dates, or locations.
Local drive in Linn County accumulates nine hundred twelve dollars as volunteers report progress. The effort continues with community support and upcoming solicitation efforts to boost donations for Red Cross relief.
In a court session before Judge C Haag, Fetter pleaded not guilty to charges related to a residence arrest. The docket mentions parties including Martin Rasane Push and Miartan Rasane, with references to marriage details from Lincoln, Nebraska, dated June 6, 1932.
Fouibae of Henri Vacs S90 af Rompoet adacien to appear on patire qatet Monday in areser em hiess do tor charges ree teed thes acetate oo am. Thomas Ro Powell wsued a ware ant for Vaclav when he failed to answer a summons. The case was rescheduled for Tuesday and Vartax remained in the city for Charges against Vaclav were filed by Starrs Engelman Sif B avenue NE, who charged that Vaclav cut a corner so sharply that he was nearly struck by the car. Engelman maintained Vaclav was driving fast and in a reckless manner.
About 827 NYA youths in Iowa hold private jobs under the National Youth Administration program. Officials say the drive may exceed 1000 by June as youths in Linn County and other areas find work. Iowa is among three states sponsoring the campaign to assist youths in self reliance.
Sir Stafford Cripps a Labour MP and former British envoy to Moscow heads to Moscow on an economic mission. Soviet circles report welcome of the proposal and say chances for improved relations seem quite favorable.
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