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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1945
Page
10
Cattle receipts total about 12 000 with activity steady to strong though quality softer than recent midweek trades. Hog tonnage near 22 000, up about 5 500 from last week, while sheep hold steady with lambs listed around 14.25 to 14.50.
Salable hogs receipts steady with barrows and gilts active, choice fed steers commonly in the 15 to 16.25 range, heavy heifers near 17.65 ceiling, cows up to 13. Lambs and ewes show firmness with good and choice lots selling around 12.50 to 14.00, slaughter lambs steady to strong and western lambs near 5.25 for light weights. Overall receipts near 5,000 to 5,008 head with varied feeding classes.
AP dateline Sioux City reports cattle receipts with steady to strong demand. Fresh western fed steers around 17.65, feeders mixed. hogs 2,500 market active and steady with barrows at 14.50 and sows about 13.75. Sheep receipts 4,100 with 2,500 salable and some mixed western lots. early action light.
U S Department of Agriculture reports combined receipts at Iowa concentration yards and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8 a m Wednesday total 51 200 versus 36 100 a week prior and 46 600 last year Moderately active to slow prices mostly steady with loadings heavier than 36 000 ago Good and choice barrows and gilts sold 45 180 360 4 given good and choice sows 0 70 high quality sows 100 550 per cwt a s 13 30
In a desultory listing from Des Moines police records figures show seized cash amounts and itemized values. The garbled OCR notes various sums such as 14. 6S and 13.90 with accompanying codes like 160-710 and 170-360, indicating monetary totals and line items.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market stay at ceiling levels Wednesday with prime butchers at 14.45 and packers around 14.00 to 14.45, while steers show varied quotes and a broad range across meat categories. Sheep, wool lambs, hides, hay, onions, and celery prices are listed, along with Mississippi River stage readings showing rises and falls.
New York AP reports a choppy session with many low priced utilities and realty shares, rails, and selected industrials edging up fractions while the overall market tone remained irregular. Notable names and sectors fluctuated, with a broad range of small gains and losses across listings.
The Chicago market reports no cars, 31 trucks at the twin markets, with butter and eggs prices varying. Butter receipts show firm notes and unchanged prices around $2.40 to $2.90 per unit, cheese and eggs also listed with standard wholesale ranges. Potatoes and other produce show mixed demand with steady to moderate buying, U.S. and regional varieties priced per sizes and grades.
Kansas cattle receipts total 6 500 with market activity across slaughter classes. Steers and cows show varied prices from around 11 00 to 17 65 with quality tiers noted. Hogs and heifers are listed with mixed quotes, including feeders and yearling steers, while cows and bulls display several price levels and ceilings.
The Chicago wheat market fell as rye trade restrictions and word that the Thomas parity bill in the Senate Agriculture Committee is dead spurred liquidation. Wheat closed unchanged to a penny lower, corn steady near $1.18, oats up 5.5 cents, rye unchanged near $1.80, barley down 3.5 cents.
In Chicago market data, wheat prices show no drastic gales with sample grade yellow around $1.08 to $1.10 per unit and mixed white and heavy white varieties about 78 to 79 cents. Barley malting listed near $1.21 per unit with feed barley at around $5.50 to $11.50 per hundredweight. Hay and clover prices appear for red top $11.00, sweet clover $10.75, alsike $28.50, and alfalfa $33.50 to $36.50 per unit.
Market report notes butter and cheese cubic pricing near 23 1 2 c a pound for a large shipment around 40 000 pounds. Items lost include a black leather purse with ration books and a reward offered. Numerous other lost items listed with contact numbers across Iowa and surrounding areas.
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