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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1944
Page
18
Friday's salable hog receipts in Chicago totaled about 500 head with cattle also around 500 and sheep near 1,000. A 230 pound hog load sold for $14.45, ten cents above the prior session tops. Cattle prices showed firmness with some choicest loads at $18.40 while lambs remained steady.
Furnished by Lamson Brothers. Phone 2 3141. H R Mowrey, manager, Cedar Rapids office at 503 Merchants National Bank building.
Hog sale totals reach 19 000 with 2 000 salable. prices around 13.50 to 14.25 for 230 lb hogs. Cattle: 800 salable calves. steers steady near 18 dollars. weights 1 129 and 1 248 pounds cited. Canner cows weak. cutter cows 6 50 to 6 75. Sheep: native lambs 14 50. bucks 6 discount. ewes 4 50 to 6 00. Montana sorts 5 00 to 5 10. Overall week shows 4 600 stock cattle moving country. demand mixed, market slow to steady.
Salable hog receipts around 2.2 thousand show mixed trade with most weights 180 to 270 pounds ruling $14.00 to $14.25 and feeders around $14.00. Sheep receipts near 2.7 thousand remain fully steady with good to choice lambs around $14.50 and ewes $5.75 to $5.80. South Dakota feeding lambs at $12.35 and yearling feeders about $10.00.
Combined hog receipts across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota reached 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants for the 24 hours ending at 2 am. Prizes—prices—fell from 41,000 to 40,000 head week to week with yearly comparisons down from 49,700. Weights 160 to 550 pounds seen with varying bid levels. key lots include 180-200 lb pigs at 11.90 to 14.00 per cwt and 270-300 lb at about 13.30 to 13.70.
Sioux City market data show hog receipts 3200 with 2400 salable. prices steady to 4.10c lower, heavy butchers 14.15, 13.70 ceiling. Cattle receipts 1600 salable 1200. cows steady with good cows around 11.56 to 11.66 per 100 pounds, stock steers 8.00 to 11.25, few choicest. Sheep receipts 509 salable. western lambs lighter, fed yearlings around 11.25 to 12.50, feeding lambs strong at 11.50.
Hog prices held firm on Friday after earlier fluctuations. Prime butchers top at 13.90, packers at 13.50, with various weight ranges listed from 160 pounds to over 600 pounds. Cattle and calf sections show mixed beef values and shedding figures, including cutter cows and bulls and lamb categories with noted price bands.
Grain and produce prices from Cedar Rapids show corn grades No 2 and No 3 at listed values including shelled corn and oats. Also listed are hay straw fruit vegetables potatoes apples oranges and russet potatoes with multiple regional market prices and a section for hides.
The four enlisted men are Robert Donald Williams, Norman James DeLany, Dennis Patrick Hoy, and another recruit living at 1250 Fifth Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids. The group represents a full week of local recruiting activity ending in Cedar Rapids.
Henry Haegg of Cedar Rapids was named chairman of the Linn County Veterans Service and Information Center executive committee. Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman was named vice-chairman with Howard Hail and David G. Bleakley as treasurer and secretary.
New York stocks drifted with a recovery unevenly priced throughout Friday trading. Leaders held back or moved to neutral as near closing trends appeared irregular and total dealings hovered around 700000 shares.
The item lists quotations published by J. R. Bennett & Co with Jump as manager at 9151 Mos Merchants National Bank building. The notice appears as a brokered financial quote section for the day Friday reflecting market price observations.
CHICAGO AP favorable war news and slow demand caused grain futures to fall early Friday then mostly recover. By session end wheat was unchanged to 1/4 lower, December at 1.65. corn up 13 to 1.0744. oats steady to 1/4 lower. rye down 1/2 to 1.075-1.12. barley steady to 2 lower, December 1.05.
Chicago market notes show No 2 red wheat at caiting terms and corn values around 98s to 1.00 per unit. No sales listed for oats while barley and timely field seed prices are given as nominal ranges. Timothy and clover seed values appear in modest figures.
War Minister Sir James Grigg told the commons that at least one in five British prisoners captured in Singapore and Java died under horrible conditions in Siam's jungles while building railways for the Japanese. He based the figure on survivors from a sunken Japanese troop transport. He praised U S submarine crews for rescuing Britons after the sinking.
Police blotter recounts Ludwig Vrba of 97 26th Ave SW trapping a nuisance skunk in his yard. With no gun he appeals for help. Officers Funcke and Sheppard respond as witnesses describe a first shot killing the skunk and the pair fleeing the scene.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to neighbors friends and relatives for kindness sympathy and floral offerings during illness and death of a wife daughter and sister with thanks to Rev Clems Good man and McElieney. Numerous LOST notices list bracelets coins a watch a purse a dog a ballfold and other items with rewards and contact details. Local ads include services from jewellers watch shops cleaning hauling and general classifieds.
In a Friday trading session New York bond issues drew higher bids across a wide front. Corporate issues moved steady in quiet dealings near the close, while U S and government securities held about steady.
Chicago butter prices show a range with 92 score A and 41c standards. Eggs receipts total 9 057 cases with dirties at 30s 34c and checks at 301 433s c. Live poultry shipments steady with turkeys at 32 341 34 3c and hens 22 024c. affidavits note eastern stock demand firm and western stock supply light.
John Myers O’Hara 70 a former stock broker who received a medal from the Academie Francaise for translations of French verse died Thursday at his home. A Cedar Rapids Iowa native and Northwestern University law school graduate he practiced in Chicago and retired in 1931.
Market notes show wholesale egg prices with mixed colors from No 1 to No 4 sizes. Prices vary by weight with 45 lb and over consignments listed around 41 to 45 cents per dozen, while per-unit figures and checks appear in mixed figures and incomplete totals.
Wisconsin cheese exchange at Plymouth reports sales of two cars or cheddars and a 1600 S. Daisies listing with bids and ameanian offers.
George L Matte son died Wednesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Barta chapel with Rev W A Jacobs and Herman Ic dige No. 263 A F and A M officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial Park. Master Masons to meet at lodge at 1 30 p.m. Friends may call at Barta's.
A Berlin dispatch in Tidningen says a new decree bars selling Hitler pictures for less than 45 reichsmarks. The measure follows plentiful offers to sell Hitler photos, with officials framing the move as a price floor.
A congressional move to appropriate large funds for public works was disclosed by Sen. Thomas in Washington. The plan would delay project start until Germany is defeated, with steps already taken by the Senate Appropriations War Department subcommittee.
Lawrence Machalek 55 a former Cedar Rapids resident died at his Berwyn Illinois home Thursday morning after a lingering illness. Survived by wife Bessie two daughters Anna Husek and Mildred Javurek and two grandchildren all of Berwyn. Body to be brought to Cedar Rapids for services. Funeral at Janeba 8 30 am and St Ludmila 9 am officiated by Rev Frank R Hruby. Burial in St Johns Cemetery Pallbearers M L Hromadka Charles Vyskocil Frank Kindl Jerry Drahovzal. Friends may call at Janeba Friday evening.
Four Cedar Rapids teenagers aged 17 passed physicals in Omaha and traveled to Manhattan Beach New York for boat training. They are Fodes Santos son of William Santos and three others not fully named in the readable excerpt.
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