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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1944
Page
1
Chicago AP reports a light Saturday run with only about 500 hogs sold. Prices remained nominally steady with the top at 14.75 dollars. Sale of cattle sheep and other stock was described as nominally steady.
Cattle receipts 2,300 calves 56 steady to $0.25 lower for most classes. Good beef steers and select heifers steady to $0.25 lower, grass cows up to $0.25, other cows steady. Vealers and calves steady to weak. Week’s top steers $18.00, vealers around $14.50 to $16.00, yearling stockers about $13. Bulls $12.00 to $16.50. Sheep receipts 3,500, spring lambs $0.50 lower to $0.75, ewes steady, choice western feeding lambs around $12.50 to $13.50, fat ewes up to $5.00, broad safety stocking noted.
Salable cattle receipts about 500 with a wide spread in grades. Choice to prime steady-to-lower, with feeds and stockers fluctuating. top steers near $18.35 and yearlings around $17.65. Sheep receipts about 100 with spring lambs 50 to 75 cents lower, top natives around $14.65 and quality feeders around $12.25.
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ended 8 am Saturday were 21,800, down from 22,100 a week ago and 21,300 a year ago. Active, fully steady. Loadings slightly lighter than last weekend. Barrows and gilts included in price ranges from 160 to 550 pounds with nominal bids of 13.30 to 14.45 per hundredweight, reflecting good to choice grades and market activity.
Readable fragments show pricing data for meat packs from Des Moines area butcher shops. Entries mention Mason Goresee Ottumwa Austin and various weight ranges with price figures, though text is garbled and partially indecipherable.
Chicago AP reports irregular grain futures with rye fluctuating sharply while wheat held a narrow range. At close, wheat rose about one percent and oats edged up, rye eased, and barley slipped, with prices listed for September and July contracts amid a unsettled session.
Chicago dispatch lists ash provisions and grain prices with figures for cash wheat and oats, various quality grades, and feed and seed categories. It notes prices per cwt and mentions withered samples, white and red varieties, and field seed costs.
Chicago produce market report notes receipts and steady tone for butter eggs cheese and potatoes. Butter receipts and standard grades listed with 90 score cars and 83-85 ace c. Eggs show 6 838 cases on hand with currents, dirties, and checks priced around 38 to 45 cents. Cheese items Twins daisies prints Longhorns noted. Potatoes arrivals 114 on track with U S shipments totals and prices around 3.45. Wisconsin Blass Triumphs mentioned. U S No 1 reference.
Plymouth Wis misc ad notes 12 cars offered under the U S S no bids uncovered. sản phẩm appears as a brief listing for car sale with unclear details and no bids recorded.
John Albert Brown 59 president of Socony Vacuum Oil died Saturday while visiting Canada for a vacation after undergoing an abdominal operation last month.
New York follows a holiday weekend with a weak market showing. After Saturdays session, broad indices drift lower while volume remains notably light, with several leading issues posting irregular declines and turnover around 250 000 shares.
Cedar Rapids hog market held steady Saturday with top prices for prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Includes mixed yearlings and calves with varied bids from common to prime, plus figures for cows bulls and lambs. Prices expressed per hundredweight and reflect weight or quality adjustments.
New York bond prices drifted within a slim band on Saturday with some issues showing strength. Rall loans led gains in the short session while other divisions moved less markedly in the irregular market.
Greenville reporters describe Army classification officers at Camp Reynolds using a mix of stern discipline and humor. Pvt Wolf heads the cleaning detail in the nurses quarters while WAC officers run operations at the station hospital, reflecting everyday duties behind the front lines.
Looks Like Applique offers a cross stitch themed set of six fruit and vegetable motifs for linens and garments. Pattern 958 includes six motifs about 8 by 10 inches, plus a rework of decorative motifs. Send 15 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept. Chicago Illinois with your pattern number name and address.
Market list shows corn at No 2 68c No 3 65c soybeans 4a yellow oats white No 2 wheat 1.40 rye hay and straw prices per bale current receipts fruit and vegetables with Michigan celery 1.25 per dozen bunches lemons 7.84 California Valencia oranges 6.41 lettuce 5.53 onions 2.35 apples 0.75 Idaho Russet potatoes 4.00 California U S No 2 potatoes 3.70 gravefruit 5.37 calf hides prices No 1 13.2 No 2 12.5 and notes about lane full tail and glue half price
Five and a half year old Garry Haworth son of Mr and Mrs W R Haworth 242 Twenty-eighth street drive SE was struck near a crossing at Twenty seventh Street and First Avenue while returning from Arthur school with kindergarten companions. The driver halted but the name was not obtained Garry escaped with only dirty clothes and no injuries.
Iowa City rent survey done by five interviewers across 60 blocks. Findings will be sent to Washington and future ceilings depend on this confidential report from the Department of Labor Bureau of Statistics.
An Iowa mother of six sons in military service and a seventh fallen will christen the U S S Shakamaxon, a navy net tender, at Leatham D. Smith Ship Building in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. Her husband, a Burlington Zephyr locomotive engineer, accompanies her.
A child was strangled to death late Thursday in Decorah when his neck became caught between boards in a grain eye during play. Authorities reported the accident details and are reviewing the scene for safety factors.
Frank B. Miller Jr 36 died suddenly at 5 p m Friday at his fathers home south of Alburnett services at Yocorn chapel to be announced Mrs Minnie M Heren buys 657 Fifth Avenue residence and other local items including ads and residents contacts in Marion Iowa with new births and transfers reported.
The bulletin lists sermon times Bible schools and morning worship for Marion churches including Baptist Catholic Christian Congregational Free Methodist and Presbyterian. Notable items include Rally Day at Wednesday Ist Church and broadcast of services into church parlors for the How Much Is Your Debt sermon. St Pauls Lutheran notes a vacancy pastor and Sunday school details. Prairie Chapel and Seventh Day Church of God also noted with Sabbath times.
Services for Lt. California will be held Monday at 3 p.m. in the Olin high school auditorium. The body arrives Sunday in Anamosa, accompanied by his brother-in-law Lt. Carl Gustafsson and six officers from the Sioux City air base serving as honor guard and pallbearers.
Police investigated the Friday night incident involving John Koury 42 of 716 Eighth Avenue SE. He suffered a possible skull fracture after a blow to the head and a car strike near Seven Avenue and Tenth Street SE. He was treated at Mercy hospital in fair condition.
Technician Harry C Vernon son of Jess Vernon of 928 Fifteenth avenue SW has been awarded the Purple Heart. A 25 year old corporal with over seven years service he was wounded in action in the St Lo area France on July 26 and is hospitalized in England after two years overseas.
The goldfish farm of Fred C Corneliussen near Story City Iowa will be sold at auction on Wednesday. The property includes about 100000 goldfish two large ponds six artesian wells producing 300 gallons a minute and 85 acres of land located three miles south and a mile east of Story City. Corneliussen started with eight goldfish in 1930 and now sells between 250000 and 300000 annually as he plans to retire.
Lost items include a navy peckerchief stencilled C N W for C M Wil ford lost near Stepanek's Tail shop. A 12 pearl Lavalier with one drop pearl is lost with reward offered by Mrs L C Stewart Center Point. A white wall tire and wheel was lost on Shaver Road with reward offered. Also notices about loans on valuables, jewelry stores, watches and musical instruments, home repairs, and services with various local business names and contact lines.
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