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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 25, 1939

Page

9

Hogs and Cattle Market Notes Across Multiple Midwest Yards

Livestock prices show mixed steady to lower trends with tops in Chicago at 7.00 for hogs and varied cattle quotes. Receipts near 18,900 across interior yards with hogs $6.00 to $6.50, cattle mostly steady, and sheep markets steady to weak. wide regional quotes reflect local supply and demand conditions.

Chicago Livestock Chicago Uo Os Dept Agriculte Odes Grarlings Drum Weiphis St Heifers Montana Omaha Maha US Dept. Agriculture Fed Fieifers Sioux City Toux City Dept. Agri- Kture Alce ST Paul South ST Paul Strouz Mesota INS Tors Cep Ansas City St St Louis Jose Ux City Julia

Local Hog Market Shows Slight Gains Across Grades

Hogs strengthened slightly on the local market Wednesday with most grades a nickel higher and light hogs steady. Top price reached 8650. Calf market steady with ranges 140 to 199 pounds at 8.50 to 9.50. Lambs and sheep prices posted mixed gains and declines by weight and quality.

Pancy Selects

Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Market Prices Listing

Grain and produce prices posted for Cedar Rapids include No 1 and No 2 wheat at 68 cents, oats and rye ranges, corn and soybeans quotes, straw and hay values, butterfat prices, poultry rates by weight, wholesale fruits and vegetables with multiple item prices, apples, pears, grapes, cabbage, tomatoes and other produce. hides and meat byproduct prices also listed.

Lamson Brothers and Company R. Mowrey Cedar Rapids Merchant National Bank May

Markets New York and Chicago Produce Prices Mixed and Steady

The report details egg and butter receipts and prices in New York and Chicago with mixed color egg grades, creameries higher on some items, butter steady, and egg prices unchanged. It notes potato arrivals, quality impacts on demand, and regional price ranges for Russets, Nevada, and other varieties, with several freight and sack price references.

New York Chicago Idaho Russet Burbanks US Nebrasta Colorado Red McClures US North Dakota Red River Valley Ceetian U. 5

Bond Prices Edge Higher In Mixed New York Session

New York traders focused on corporate issues with small gains for Bethlehem Steel and Anaconda Copper. Government securities closed uneven with Treasury notes and Federal Farm Loan bonds showing modest activity.

New York Tap Bethlehem Steel Anaconda Copper Chesapeake and Ohio Central New York Central Ss Standard Oil New Jersey Canadian Pacific Treasury

Steady Buying Lifts Stocks in Quiet Wednesday Rally

New York AP reports a quiet market rally with steady buying lifting leading issues fractions to two points. Heaviest activity occurred at open and mid-morning with steels rails and aircraft favored. later motors and auto accessories rose. About 1.6 million shares traded. Up leaders included U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler Electric Auto Lite Briggs United Aircraft Glenn Martin Santa Fe Anaconda Paramount Loew s Twentieth Century Fox and American Telephone. Aluminum Heyden Quaker Oats and Waco Aircraft rose modestly in the curb market.

New York U. S. Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler Electric Auto Lite Briggs Mfg United Aircraft Glenn Martin Santa Fe Anaconda Paramount Loew’s Twentieth Century Fox American Telephone Curb Aluminum Company Heyden Chemical Quaker Ante Waco Aircraft

Wheat prices edge fractionally higher amid sympathy move

Wheat markets rose on the Chicago Board of Trade as investors blamed weather in the southwest for bullish signals. December futures gained about 0.75 cent, corn followed with modest gains, and oats also rose slightly. Cash markets showed solid demand from shippers, with export inquiries for U.S. corn and steady cash corn pricing, while Winnipeg markets lagged behind.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg United States Minneapolis Kansas City

Wisconsin cheese and wool market notes for Oct 23 25

Wisconsin cheese quotations show varied prices for brick, daisies and cheddars across the Farmers' cooperative. Boston wool market reports scattered sales with finer domestic wools at 39 to 43 cents per pound fleece and 1.05 to 1.08 scoured, plus graded combing wools at 1.00 to 1.03.

Wisconsin Plymouth Wis Wiscon·sin Farmers’ Coll Board Boston

Dow Jones Averages Rise Across Sectors

The Dow Jones averages show gains across multiple sectors with utilities and industrials posting notable climbs. Overall indices reach around 90 to 107 in various groupings with modest advances.

DOW Jones Arades

Polish Legion Ready to Join Front in France

Paris report says General Wladislas Sikorski left for France to inspect the Polish legion ready to enter battle alongside British and French forces. Accompanied by General Denain, the move underlines a new foreign policy aligning with France and Britain and notes a Geneva delegation of Stanislas Strackacz Strovace.

Paris Wladislas Sikorski France Victor Denain Britain League of Nations Geneva Sikorski Stanislas Strackacz Strovace United States Josef Beck Rumania

WPA Allots $23 000 For Labor In Rock Surfacing

Public Improvements Commissioner Dave Williams said WPA labor supports a Cedar Rapids dirt street project. The first section runs from K street SW to about four blocks southwest from Sixteenth avenue and will continue while the $23 000 WPA allotment lasts.

Cedar Rapids WPA Dave Williams K Street Sixteenth Avenue

Dr Macy to Speak on War Economics to Young Men's Bureau

Dr C Ward Macy professor of economics and commerce at Coe College will discuss Some Aspects of War Economics to the Young Men's Bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce. The talk is Thursday at 6 15 p m in the Chamber building. Macy is a Grinnell and Stanford graduate and head of Coe division of social science. Seven junior chambers of commerce from northeastern Iowa attend the district conference in Cedar Rapids Sunday Nov 5 from 2 to 8 p m with Bud Stepanek in charge.

C. Ward Macy Coe College Young Men's Bureau Chamber of Commerce Junior Chamber of Commerce Bud Stepanek State Junior Chamber of Commerce

Russell pleads innocent in Chicago murder case

Oklahoma desperado Jack Russell pled innocent in federal court on a charge of kidnapping and murdering William Hamilton on July 14. Judge Charles E. Woodward set November 13 for trial.

Chicago Jack Russell Oklahoma Desperado William Hamilton Charles E. Woodward

Court House News: Divorce Petitions and Probate Actions

Cross petition divorce cases heard with findings for defendants. Mabel Matejka and Henry Matejka case cites cruel treatment. marriage dated May 19, 1919 in Marion. Peter J Ernst will probated. executrix Augusta Wagley named. beneficiaries include relatives. Gladys McCollister seeks divorce from Raymond S McCollister with custody and alimony terms. Marriage in Cedar Rapids Aug 5, 1936. Cedar Rapids Savings Bank receiver seeks demolition orders in Carpenter's Addition. Chester Barr and Melvin Leinart cited on truck overload. September district court term to adjourn next Monday noon. Delavan Hotel Co sues A H Matchett for $123.71. Omar Mills, Inc. seeks $287.50 in two-count suit. Benjamin Lapham named defendant.

Mabel Matejka J. E. Heiserman Henry Matejka Marion Peter J Ernst Cedar Rapids Ernst Augusta Wagley Gladys McCollister Raymond S. McCollister

Finds Copy Of 1800 Newspaper Items And Ads Bring Chuckles

A Cedar Rapids man discovered an Ulster County Gazette from Kingston New York dated January 4 1800. He and friends chuckle at old style ads and news including a racist slave advert and funeral reports with notes on censorship and exaggerated battlefield losses.

Ralph Lee Cedar Rapids Ulster County Gazette Kingston N. Y Leo

Navy Day Observance Plans Highlight Cedar Rapids Event

Cedar Rapids marks the eighteenth annual Navy Day with window displays at the public library Morris Sanford store and Newman's, an open house by the U S naval communications reserve, and two radio talks. E E Moon outlines Navy Day concepts Friday on WSUI Iowa City at 12 30 p m and Lieutenant Edward Haase hosts a 9 to 9 15 p m program on WMT.

Cedar Rapids Navy League E. E. Moon Morris Sanford Newman‘s U. S. Naval Communications Reserve Federal Building WSUI Iowa City Edward Haase Naval Reserve WMT

Funeral services for Thoms L Power at Immaculate Conception

Thoms L Power died at his home 1412 Third Avenue SE Tuesday morning. Funeral services will be held at Immaculate Conception church at 9 a.m Friday conducted by Msgr John Molloy. Burial will follow at Holy Cross cemetery Anamosa. Rosary at home Thursday 8 p.m by Msgr Molloy and 7:30 p.m by Knights of Columbus.

Thoms L. Power Third Avenue SE Immaculate Conception Church Msgr John Molloy Holy Cross Anamosa Msgr. Molloy Knights of Columbus

Funeral services for Anthony LaVelle

Funeral services for Anthony LaVelle will be held in Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Friday with Rev Ira Edwards of Central City presiding. Burial follows at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.

Anthony LaVelle Turner Chapel Ira Edwards Central City Linwood Cemetery

Iowa State Tops National Dairy Judging With Three Firsts

In San Francisco the Iowa State College swept three first places at the National Dairy Show dairy judging contest winning milk butter and ice cream prizes while Wisconsin took the cheese award. The event also awarded dairy fellowships to Iowa State Wisconsin and Mississippi State. Highest individual all products honors went to Donald E Sherman of Iowa State with Ocrel M Russell and Raymond J Nelson, also of Iowa State, placing second and third.

San Francisco Iowa State College University of Wisconsin Mississippi State College Donald E. Sherman Iowa State College Ocrel M. Russell Raymond J. Nelson

Williams thanks Roosevelt school for support after bereavement

Mrs G A Williams and family express gratitude to Roosevelt school students faculty coaches and football squads Waterloo and Bubuauc squads and many friends for sympathy assistance and floral offerings during recent bereavement.

Rummage Sale and Beauty Services Announcements

Rummage sale listings include 1100 2nd SE and 1123 ard St SE with times. Beauty shops advertise Lovely Lady Beauty Shop with 98 cent permanents and Paris Academy of Beauty offering shampoo and fingerwave services.

Thurs Christian Aantee St. Anthony's Club Lovely Lady Oil Lovely Lady Beauty Shop 1St Ave Dial Bishop's Paris Academy

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