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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1942
Page
16
Local listings advertise Probasco Jewelers at 308 Av next to Palace Theater, with broader notices for mending, supplies, and moth repellents from Richards Lab. Also promotes beauty shops, r uh mage sales, and sewing services at 218 3rd Street and surrounding avenues.
Blairstown Iowa listings highlight Earl Howard and his 12 fine artists performing with girl vocalists. The feature showcases Midwest dance entertainment options in a local guide.
Miscellaneous help wanted notices include kitchen staff dishwasher barbers and farm helpers. Entries request meals farm labor general store work youth and married man positions with contact boxes and phone numbers across various Iowa towns and businesses.
A flood of small ads lists female help wanted positions including maid housework waitresses and salesladies. Several entries seek reliable women for part time or full time work with favorable wages and odd job shifts, some require dialing numbers or visiting shops for applications.
In Chicago, hog prices edged up about 10 to 25 cents as light supply kept bids firm. Top hogs hit 15.25 with most 220 to 280 pound hogs at 15.10 to 15.20. Cattle demand rose with choice steers firm and yearlings selling near 17.25 while cows and bulls gained 10 to 15 cents. Fat lambs opened higher and western lambs and ewes traded up to 15. Summary notes official receipts show hogs 8 000, cattle 5 000, sheep 4 000 for Thursday.
The livestock sale shows solid demand for fat cattle with higher bids on several classes. Slaughter cattle and yearlings rise, with heifers and steers advancing to around 14.00 to 17.20 per cwt, heavy cows near 12.50 to 13.00, and calves around 9.00 to 12.50 as buyers stay active and market tone firm.
Market report shows Good butchers pricing for different carcass weights. Prices range around 12.05 to 14.15 per hundredweight with variations for 170 to 500 pounds categories and specific pack totals.
Hog price listings from Ottumwa show various weights and price per hundredweight. The Good bng Mason and Mason C. Waterloo provide quotations including sow and barrow ranges with multiple figures such as 14.50 to 14.70 and around 14.60 for common weights.
Livestock receipts mix with cattle and hogs showing varied demand. Hogs steady to higher with top quotes around 14.85 per cwt and sow prices near 14.70 to 14.85. Cattle see steers and heifers advancing modestly while bulls hold steady, vealers steady, and stockers making up about one-fifth of the run. Lambs show softer tone with feeding lambs around 12.75.
Sioux City wire reports mixed cattle bids with Salable receipts around 3 000 head. Calves and beef steers show 12 to 18 cent gains with good and choice fed steers quoted near 13.75 to 18.50 per 100 pounds. Stockers and feeders varied with canners and cutters selling around 11 to 13 dollars.
Combined cattle and hog price reports from interior Iowa and southern Minnesota show 24 hour totals at 32 500 head, down from last week and year ago. Fat lambs and vealers traded with gains around 10 to 15 cents, with steady loading patterns and varied weights quoted for calves and hogs.
Receipts show limited variation in dairy and butter markets with no change in quotes. Cheese and butter readings note firm tendencies and specific price currents for various lots, including car and ibs counts.
Grain quotations furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company with H. R. Mowrey as Cedar Rapids manager at 503 Merchants National Bank building. Telephonic contact listed as 23141.
Potato arrivals total 870 with Idahos and Wburbanks shipments listed. Prices shown include Idaho russet Burbanks at 23.00 and washed varieties at 2.25 to 2.50, Colorado McClures at 2.35, Nebraska washed at 2.50, commercial and unwashed cones and sacks priced per type. Includes regional notes on varieties and quality terms.
Receipts show firm mixed colors and varying extras as market reports detail egg and poultry pricing. Pullet weights, turkeys and hens appear with grade descriptors and sentiment of firmness across weight classes.
Early gains in New York stocks faded as investors booked profits after a burst to near year highs. Industrials led by Air Reduction, Union Carbide, Crucible Steel, Dow Chemical, United Aircraft and Sears Roebuck finished generally down from session peaks, with United States Steel, Bethlehem, General Motors, Chrysler and others trailing late.
Hog prices advanced 15 cents across all grades in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. Top butchers bid $14.55, long haul $14.65, and packers $14.45, marking a continued uptrend with prices shown for multiple grades and buyers.
A Cedar Rapids classified item lists wholesale prices for wheat No 191 and No 2 yellow corn, eggs and hens, with quantities and various vegetables. The fragment shows prices like 11.00 and 12 cents per unit, indicating a miscellaneous grocery yard sale or catalog entry.
Bond market notes from New York show mixed activity with rails and rail-related reads advancing late morning. Rails and related groups led gains while select issues like Baltimore and Ohio and Denver Tuesday prices posted modest moves amid general market drift.
The Plymouth Wisconsin market quotes for October 1934 show cheddar prices at 30 cents per pound and junior cheddars at 22 cents per pound. These AP quotations reflect Wisconsin dairy prices in the period.
Chicago area market notes show corn prices falling as storage scarcity tightens supply. Prospective government rates and high livestock costs push producers to unload, with rye rising and soybeans steady to higher.
Market listing shows No 4 Cork and No 4 grade oats with various grades and prices. Includes values for white and red oat types, feed, special grades, and a total estimate alongside related notes.
Special services are held this week in the Salvati Army hall 1121 Third avenue led by Lieut Colonel J C Habkir of Chicago with extensive Salvation Army experience. He presents Four Things that Go Well and on Thursday night delivers the lecture Black Sheep recounting his experiences with prisoners and their lives behind bars.
A school assembly Thursday will mark the start of subscription sales for the 1943 Wilson High School yearbook. Roy Bonham serves as program chairman and five Wilson cheerleaders Ruth Ann Washburn Norbert Horak Betty Mrstik Richard Havlik and Donna Che will energize school spirit. Sponsors Nadine Shank Florence Leiter ava & fet. Staff member Serpoax jee Fiala on leave from Vanes Mood Texas spoke to the military club at Rocsevet High School Wednesday. Fiala a Roosevelt graduate in January 1941 is spending a leave with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fiala at 1021 Eighth Street NW. The military club was formed by Daryl Pendergraft boys' counselor to help students learn about armed services options.
Two breakins were reported to police on Wednesday. Patrolmen Waude Fellwock and Stanley Davis found a broken back door at the Bungalow Sandwich shop 111 Fifth Street SE with the door unlocked. James Dunn of 419 First Avenue attempted entry by breaking glass in a garage.
Rates listed for daily and multi day want ads with price per line and per word. Includes conditions on billing, mailing surcharge, deadlines, and restrictions on number exchanges.
A notice seeks a trained ad taker to relay a reward offer for a lost tarpaulin between two unnamed locations and a white coat sweater. a reward is offered and the finder urged to contact the listed party.
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