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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1937
Page
4
Across Chicago Sioux City St Paul Omaha and Des Moines markets hog prices rose as receipts fell short of estimates. Cattle and sheep trading varied with cattle steadier to higher and hogs top near 9.60 per hundredweight amid mixed demand from buyers and shippers. Representative sales show beef and lamb values near recent peaks with steady to higher undertones in most regions.
The New York exchange list shows Britain at 496, Frar 337, Itay 526, Belgium 1693, Germany 4719 with registered 2000 fase, 289% Houri 529, Norway 2494, Sweden 2550, Denmark 2297, Piciard 21tt, Japan unquoted 441, Greece 1803, Poland 1803, Iran 1975, and other varied rates. Montreal mentions $1001 in New York.
Chicago board of trade reports extreme dullness Monday with wheat, corn, and oats trading in narrow ranges. Wheat ends 1 4 to 1 2 cent lower, corn down 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 cents, and oats 14 to 75 cents lower as weakened demand and small export business weigh on prices.
Winnipeg Wheat shows open high and low quotes with May and July bids while Minneapolis and Chicago volumes list cash, futures, and commodity prices. Corn oats rye and soybeans are reported with bids and commodity terms. prices reflect market activity across Wheat and Grain sectors in North American trading centers.
The item lists market receipts and prices across commodities in Chicago and New York, including poultry, butter, and eggs. It notes steady or rising prices, varying freight and supply factors, and occasional price ranges for creamery products and meats.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions the Mississippi River, Davenport, and weather or market terms. It references local names and places in a damaged style, suggesting a brief, unsettled public or notes page item with scattered city and market terms.
In New York and toward the close Monday mild support buffered a late pullback as steel makers led a general market drift. The American Iron and Steel Institute pegged capacity at 48.6 percent, a 3.14 point drop from last week, its seventh straight decline to a new low since December 30, 1935.
Monday quotations from Wall Street show a wide list of issuers and prices including Adams Express Alaska Juneau International, Allegheny, Bethlehem, and many others. The report details stocks, bonds, and commodities with notable names like Johns Manville, Kennecott, U S Steel, and International Paper among a dense array of tickers and figures.
A compact listing of farm commodities and prices including grains corn soybeans oats rye and wheat with new and shelled grades. Also priced are hay straw produce butter fowls leghorns ducks geese and wholesale fruits vegetables and hides showing ranges for various grades and weights.
Linn county's grand jury began its November term at the courthouse with Judge C. J. Haas presiding. Foreman C. M. Barnes and six jurors will hear defaults in law and equity cases. equity case assignments set for Thursday. petit jury to report November 9. Judges Haas Ring Ellison Moffit will handle respective law and equity duties.
On petition from Milwaukee railroad the defendant with Charlie Rowe and Marion agent faced Melvin Sebrecht in a $10,000 personal injury case filed October 22. Judge H C Ring in district court ordered the transfer to the Cedar Rapids division of the federal district court.
Ernest A. Simpson former husband of the Duchess of Windsor arrives in New York aboard the Queen Mary on a surprise visit. He refuses to discuss divorce or his rumored romance with Mrs Mary Raffray and says he will visit his mother and conduct private business in London ship brokerage matters.
Moscow AP reports six additional individuals were sentenced to death on Monday for mismanagement of Soviet agricultural enterprises in Siberia.
Hogs gain 10 cents across all grades on Monday with top at 880. Wilson & Co and other buyers post bids for bulk hogs in various weight ranges from 140 to 600 pounds. Sheep and cattle markets show mixed moves with spring lambs at 8.50 and cattle across weight classes reflecting current demand.
New York bond trading opened softly with fractions shifting around a point in either direction. Rates in rails and utilities showed the most activity while Federal loans stayed narrow. Baltimore and Ohio 44s led gains, Remington Rand 44s and Rock Island 4s tumbled slightly, Japanese issues moved with limited gain, and South American issues were marginally higher.
L. A Frink was fined 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving after his car collided with Patrolman F. A. Ahring’s squad car at Second Avenue and First Street SE. The fine was suspended on paying costs and Frink agreed to straighten the fender. Patrolman cruiser use was noted for Halloween.
Three men faced $25 fines and costs for intoxication and disturbing the peace by fighting. Kenneth Knapp 22 of 317 Fourteenth street NE Victor Nebendahl 26 of 936 Eleventh street NE and J W DeWitt 31 of 509 Fifteenth street SE were ordered to pay $10 and costs with the remainder suspended for Nebendahl and DeWitt after a Saturday night brawl at 936 Eleventh street NE and a separate altercation involving Knapp at the Randa Woo beer parlor 1102 Third street SE. Also fined were Jimmie DeLay 21 found asleep on a porch 218 Sixth street SW Frank Williams 53 Negro of 918 Eighth street SE arrested entering a house believed to be his home and Roy Campbell 24 of Toddville.
Meriden Connecticut report states Ed Walsh son of famed Big Ed Walsh died at his home from rheumatic fever. He was 32 and joined the Chicago White Sox as pitcher in 1928 after Notre Dame graduation. He spent two seasons with the Sox, defeating the Yankees in his second major league game with seven no hit innings.
A jumble of lost and found notices cites items such as a patent leather purse between Woolworth and Neumode with a reward, a billfold with $31 and a driver's license, a Pi fraternity pin, a steel pole and reel, and various local services. Ads mention nursing home care, deliveries, window blinds, jewelry stores, a Christmas club, and maintenance offers with contact details and phone numbers.
Local notices include window washing storm screen installation chimney cleaning gutter work and furnace servicing. Ads list phone numbers for fertilizing hauling dirt coal and general odd jobs plus tree work junk removal and weekly ashes haulage with several contact numbers.
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