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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1937
Page
6
Chicago livestock market shows hogs steady as receipts stay light. Commercial hogs sold around 38.95 with few higher. fresh run small, about 3,000. direct boiling stock 2,500. Cattle and sheep prices steady to weak with limited demand and holiday effects noted.
A fragmented Cedar Rapids clipping lists items and prices from a market miscellany. Mentions include wheat corn oats rye and various farm goods with scattered prices and vendor markers. The illegible text blends product names with numeric values, suggesting an index of farm commodities and local trades.
Hogs are slightly higher on the local market with a 5 cent advance Saturday. Top price reaches 775 for the 170 to 250 pound grade while other local markets stay unchanged.
New York alumni discuss building a university theater in Stanford Memorial Hall. Funds from war memorials, Rockefeller Foundation, and Howard Frost supported the project, creating a 1700 seat main theater and a 200 seat studio. Plans show paid loans and ongoing fundraising to retire costs.
In Williamsburg on Friday Washington defeated Williamsburg 29 to 27. Washington's Troteving led with 7 points while Williamsburg's O'Neil Aastagh scorched for 8. A school band and intermission entertainment accompanied the close game as Williamsburg seeks to even its record after early losses.
Trading Saturday session extremely active as investors anticipate a Washington housing plan and tax reform. Utilities rally on a building boom view while major stocks like U S Steel, General Electric, and Du Pont power gains. Amsterdam market lifts American shares with volume near 1.2 million shares.
Chicago wheat futures edged within a tight band with prices ending modestly lower on the day. December contracts fell about 0.44 and nearby wheat held near the prior close as corn and oats showed smaller shifts amid mixed opening trade and slight gains late in the session.
A dense list of stocks and prices from Alaska Juneau to Chicago shows large and small caps, with many named corporations such as International Nickel Allied Stores Johns Manville Amalgamated, and American Can. The items include percentages, share counts, and closing quotes across industries, banks, and utilities, reflecting a broad market snapshot.
Chicago API-Cash wheat and corn bids show No 2 hard 5c No 5 hard 0c, corn mixed bids up to 51 60c, yellow and white varieties listed with multiple prices. Soybeans No 2 yellow 92c No 3 yellow 1.46 02 barber lime. Barley feed 38 60c, timothy and clover seeds priced, lard and bellies quoted.
Cir cuit Judge Michael Feinberg ordered a new trial for the $850000 Shanahan will case stating it should proceed at the earliest date. The prior trial ended in a jury deadlock over the will and the legality of Shanahan deathbed marriage to his secretary Helen Troesch. The case centers on whether the signature on the veteran Illinois legislator's will was forged and the fortune that was left to his former secretary.
In Marion at the Little Brown Church in the Vale, Miss Alice Stewart and Eugene Earl Daubenmier wed in a double ring ceremony read by Rev. William Kent. The couple will live on a farm northwest of Marion after March 1. Guests and local members attended various social events and Thanksgiving gatherings noted in the community.
A Mayne Island Indian, Dan Tom, is said in a Vancouver tale to have been carried off by a giant bald eagle in 1888. A white rescuer fired to frighten the bird, which dropped Tom into the sea where he was saved. The eagle’s cage was later stuffed and placed in the provincial museum at Victoria.
Sheriff Linn County issues a deed to Home Owners' Loan Corp of Washington DC for Lot 8 Block 39 J C May's addition with the amount C R 5 173 75 dated October 27 1937.
Miss Gilda C Murphy and Francis J Stark wed Tuesday morning at St Josephs church with Rev T J McElliott officiating. They will reside on a Marion area farm with Stark’s father.
The Seventh Corps Area of Omaha reports the CCC camp enrollment reduced to 175. Fourteen recruits returned to Arkansas on Saturday asking for discharge. Several local residents and visitors are listed as weekend guests at area homes, including Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sweet and family, Ed Allen of Des Moines, and others from Indiana Illinois and Iowa.
The notice lists Sunday school times and worship services for multiple churches including Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran, Seventh Day Church of God, Prairie Chapel, and Prairie Chapel events. It notes sermon topics, choir, youth groups, and midweek activities with dates and locations. Various pastors are named and community church activities planned through the week.
London reports claim Barbara Haugwitz von Reventlow’s Regent's Park mansion is bomb proof. The chief architect called such stories false, showing a ventilation hole and a damaged pane to prove the house is not bomb proof. He says press intrusion and baby Lance's nursery plans were exaggerated.
A series of brief loss notices include a small coin purse with a ring near Franklin School, a billfold from last Saturday, a red pencil case with keys, a TA pass with currency and reward, and a black and white female fox hound sought by dial 3 1706.
Classified notice seeking washings at a flat rate of five cents per pound. Contact dial 2 9306 for details.
The text describes a Georgian mansion with an upper half ledge for toys and books, an adjoining nurse's bedroom and private bath, invisible lighting, marble fireplaces, and panelling from a French château installed by notable French workmen. It notes Arabs prize sugar made from raisins for coffee.
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