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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 16, 1939

Page

6

Hog and cattle market reports show modest weekly declines

Chicago hog receipts for Saturday totaled 2 000 with 2 500 direct to packers market steady but 25 to 40 cents lower than a week ago. Cattle steady while steers and cows fall 25 to 40 cents week. Lambs steady. top steer price 1160. Furnished by Lamson Brothers and Co. H R Mowrey Cedar Rapids office.

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

Chicago Livestock Market Mixed as Receipts Rise Across Regions

Reports from Chicago and Omaha show rising salable hog, cattle, and sheep receipts with steady to higher demand for select grades. Prices vary by weight and class, with heavy steer and heifer activity lifting in some regions, while cows and bulls trend lower.

Iowa Hog Prices and Market Reports Collate Across Cities

The AP summarizes hog and cattle pricing by weight class and region, listing prices for Iowa markets Waterloo Mason City and Austin. Prices cover numerous weight brackets from 140 pounds to 550 pounds, with figures for barrows, gilts, sows, and packing hogs, alongside cattle values and regional variations.

Iowa Associated Press Waterloo Mason City Vackers Austin

Cattle Prices Mixed at St Paul Market Report

Slaughter cattle and fed steers saw varied bids with prices quoted near 25 cents lower Friday. Reported values include choice fed steers and yearlings around 11.00 to 99.040 dollars, with heifers and bulk cow prices noted, and cannery bids in the 7 to 8 dollar range.

ST. Pale ST. Paql AP. Fed S Mit

Livestock Market Report Mixed Prices on Receipts

Cattle and hogs show varied quotes with stockers and feeders steady. salable calves and western steers fetch around 880 and 904 dollars, while hogs and sheep receipts near 4 000 and 500 head respectively. Slaughter lambs and native feeders noted at 7 dollars per hundredweight, with range feeding lambs around 8 45 to 9 25.

Avernees Smaughter Tarly Omaha Livestour Omaha Dept Aericulture Atio Sons Wiesher Siouncy Sioux City Dept Asricultures Lord Idahos Texas Washinston Springers Washington

Local hog market shows nickel advance on Saturday

Local hog prices firmed slightly with all grades up three cents. Top hog price listed at $7.60. Cattle market remains steady with varied yardage for steers, heifers, yearlings, and bulls across light to heavy weight ranges.

Thyseus Fancy

Cedar Rapids Miscellameous Grain and Produce Prices

A Cedar Rapids misc item lists prices for grain and produce including No 1 wheat 95c, oats 29c to 56c, rye 88c, barley 35c, soybeans 6e per bushel, bale straw 7.00, butterfat cream prices, poultry weights and prices, lemons 6.25, oranges 3.00, grapes 2.75 to 3.00, celery 3.00, lettuce 4.25, onions 1.00 to 1.25, apples pears peaches and hides prices, with miscellaneous freight notes and sales terms.

Lizharns Michigan Barnlett Ony and Aize Place

Bond Markets in New York Drift Amid Mixed Activity

The New York bond market showed mixed movement with small declines and few gains as government securities stayed quiet. Bethlehem Steel and other issuers posted losses while some issues edged up, with industrials and rails drawing attention in late trading.

York Bond Rey New York Canada Younsstown

War Markets Slip then Steady After Weekend Bend

New York AP reports stock markets opened with profit taking hitting war babies and led to declines of one to four points before support helped. The early drop hit steels aircrafts coppers and specialties while rails held steady and utilities posted modest gains amid a weekend trading mood. Major losers included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors Douglas Aircraft Anaconda American Smelting Westinghouse Du Pont Allied Chemical US Rubber International Harvester and Texas Corp.

New York US. Steel Bethlehem Chrysier General Motors Douglas Aircraft Anaconda American Smelting Westinghouse du Pont Allied Chemical US. Rubber International Harvester Texas Corp JE. Bennett & Co W. HH. Tap Mianhiteer Merchants National Bank Adams Espress Alaska Ota Alleeheny Corp Allied Chem Ind Allied Stores Johns Manville Allis Chalhners Kennecott Corp Krease Kroger Ehiel Valley Libby Owensdale Bie & Meyers DB Amn Int Cornage Ain Loco Ocw M & Ty Lot. Inc Amn Metals I Lottaid Palin Amn Rat ’ McLellan Stores Amn Roll Marshall Mont Ward Gts Ark Armour& Co Murray Corpn Aly Nash Kel Bis Atchison T S PF Bellas Atlantic Ba Aviation Corp Olio Barnsdall Corp NY Central Bendix Nor Paca Reth Steel North Ann Co Blaw Knox Nor Amn Avi Ohio Oil Bolyn Alun Otis Strel Eordeen Co Packard Murs Bors Warner Paramount Tn Brisgs Migatin Air Utah Sy Buestus Erte M Penick & Fd Penn R Burroughs Ads Penney Jf C Peoples Gas Wits Phillips Pet Canada Dry Plymouth Oil Procter Gamble Elo Pullman Co Cerro de Pasco Conti Motors Sou Railway Corn Products Sperry Corp Coty Tuc Crown Drug St Joe Lea Standard Brnds Civlerite Steel Calif Cudahy Pke Cunrtiss Wright Curtiss Wr Stey Warner Deere & Ca Stone Webster Studebaker Douglas Air Tex Autolite Elec Oatie Fox Film Elec Pow & L O's Union Carbide Eric Union Pac Fisk Roig Gen Motors Walworth Nor Ore Ward Warner Bros Greyhound Es Union Hat Corp Estahse AB Hell Hecker Houston Owl Willys Ovid Wilcox Ty Wilson & Co Hudson R XM Totors Woolworth ’ Sa Hupp Motors Yellow Truck Ils Central Yueston_S É& T Tnaus Raven Zenith Radio Inspiration Eoed Zenite Harv Cincago Telleman Pes Taotn Lion Imty Elles Laughlin Alldwest_ Corp Butler Dros Quaker O cm Chicago Corp Rcr Comwy Edison Swift Cons Biscuit Walgreen

Wall St. Stocks A weird haul at Quimper harbor

A fishing boat arrived at the French port of Quimper with an unusual catch. The net pulled in a wild boar, astonishing the crew and local observers.

Quimper

Wheat and Corn End Mixed on Chicago Board of Trade

Wheat closed up about 1 percent, corn down around a half to one percent, oats and rye small changes as traders moved slowly. Hedge selling tempered gains. imports and government stockpiles influenced prices and arrivals, with about 72 000 bushels of corn purchases and over 450 cars of local arrivals.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Winnipeg Minneapolis Kansas City

Wheat and grain futures and cash prices linger in market notes

Market brief shows futures for wheat and corn with open interests and lows and closes. Cash grain in Minneapolis and Chicago markets lists receipts, No. 1 and No. 2 grades, protein content, and assorted prices for oats barley and timothy seeding.

Minneapolis Montana

Wisconsin Cheese and Wool Market Notes

Miscellaneous Wisconsin cheese prices for the week of Lent and farm call board figures. Boston wool markets show wider advances with lower sales volume. graded combing wools move from 37 to 40 cents and delaine and combing half bloods around 39 to 40 cents, with three eighths and quarter blood trends noted.

Boston Dent Agricultural

Markets CHICAGO Potato and dairy price report

Propter Chicago market notes arrivals on track total US shipments moderate demand steady to slightly weaker for potatoes with Idaho russets and Washington and Oregon lots. Butter and egg receipts steady to easy with creamery butter higher in NY and cheese firm with unchanged prices.

Chicago S. Dept. Agricultures Idaho Bliss Triumphs U. S Minnesota Sandland North Dakota Red River Valley Wisconsin New York Qtc

Funeral Rites for Katharine Drahos and John Krejen Taylor

Funeral services are announced for Katharine Drahos of Bertram who died at her daughter's home near Mount Vernon. Services will be held at Polansky chapel and St. Wenceslaus church with burial at St. John cemetery. Msgr. August Vojacek officiates. A daughter Mrs. Jane Scedlak predeceased her father, John Krejen Taylor, who died at his daughter's Center Point home. Burial at St. John cemetery follows a Sunday chapel viewing.

Katherine Drahos Bertram Joseph Pospisil Mount Vernon Polansky Chapel St. Wenceslaus Msgr August Vojacek St. John John Krejen Taylor Rose E. Cary Center Point Road Forty-second Street Polansky Jane Scedlak John Wehren Virginia Weirend Estherville Adel Dallas Center Des Moines Weirend Fred Kromminga Monticello A. L. Barton

Davidson funeral for Mrs Neltie Pringle Davidson

Funeral services for Mrs Neltie Pringle Davidson wife of Thomas Davidson of 393 Seventeenth street SE will be held at Turner chapel Sunday at 2 pm Rev James H Blackstone Jr will officiate burial is Woodland cemetery Toledo Iowa Friends may call at the chapel

Neltie Pringle Davidson Thomas Davidson Seventeenth Street Turner Chapel James H. Blackstone, Jr Woodland Cemetery Toledo Iowa

Funeral services for John Skaecl of Lawton Oklahoma

Funeral services for John Skaecl of Lawton Oklahoma were held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Jancba funeral home with the Rev B J Paroulek officiating. Burial was in the Bohemian National Cemetery.

John Skaecl Lawton Okla Jancba B. J. Paroulek

Marion women elected delegates to state King's Daughters convention

Mrs. A. E. Fairhurst and Mrs. B. Earl Beiber were chosen as delegates to the state King's Daughters convention Oct 10 11 and 12 in Cedar Rapids. Fidelis circle discussed plans with guest Mrs KK E Cornell. Numerous local visits and hostings noted including entertainments at Mrs. John Christie and many Marion residents visiting relatives across Iowa and beyond.

A. E. Fairhurst B. Earl Beiber King's Daughters Cedar Rapids Fidelis Circle of King’s Daughters

Destructive German Raid Hits Vilna and Molodeczno

London reports one of the war’s deadliest air raids as 18 German bombers strike Vilna at 4 pm Friday, dropping 200 bombs and causing massive central destruction with civilian casualties. Bombs also fall on Molodeczno as Polish planes target a German air base at Posnania.

London INL Vilna Exchange Telegraph Agency Molodeczno Reuter Warsaw Posnania

Marion area church services and schedules

Local church notices list service times and sermon topics for Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, St Pauls Lutheran, Seventh Day Church of God, Prairie Chapel, and Alburnett Methodist. Highlights include Bible schools at 9:45 a.m., morning worship around 10:45 to 11 a.m., evening services, and various youth activities and choir rehearsals.

L. W. Inman Pastor Bible School Christ St. Joseph’s Catholic T. J. McElliott Methodist Episcopal E. T. Gough Seremon Epworth League Norma Biddick Vaughn's Pasture Nethe Tenth Street Sam Jackson C. VR. de Jong St. Paul's Lutheran Carl E. Krog Alburnett Methodist J. B. Clyde

Reward offered for information on crime in The Gazette

Classifieds list numerous ads from hats watches jewelry and services with a reward offer for arrest and conviction of anyone obtaining money under false pretenses. It mentions DowntOWN Fortage Courteous H Schaeefer Allied Van Lines and various beauty shops and services in the area. The mixed ad collage reflects a late era newspaper classifieds page with commercial notices and contact details.

The Gazette Probasco Jewelers 2Nd Ave Dillon H. K. Schaeefer Ikkresge Dial Allied van Lines, Inc Lynch Transfer d& Storage Co New York McGregor Omaha Kenwood New Women's Exchange 3Rd Ave Los Angeles Packard Wat 2Nd St Richards Pharmacy Calder’s van & Storage Co., Inc P.O Griffith Feather Mattress Co

City Briefs and Personals Summary

Fairfax St Patrick Chicken Dinter event advertised as 11 45 a m to 2 15 p m Friday. Jack Geiger 14 fractured soft collar bone while playing football Friday evening. Ruth Spencer reports three boys stole two plants and a towel, dropped a garbage lid, and tried to take her dog. Theft of a $30 light meter and service assembly from 1112 Ellis boulevard NW reported by Howard Jones of the Hedges company.

Fairfax St. Patrick's Jack Geiger J. A. Geiger Washington Avenue Footall Ruth Spencer First Avenue W Spencer Ellis Boulevard Howard Jones The Hedges Company

Grand Rapids girl improves after Cedar Rapids crash

Ruth Sullivan, one of two Grand Rapids, Michigan girls badly hurt west of Cedar Rapids Wednesday when a man was killed, is reported in improved condition at Mercy hospital. Jean Ann Fritz, the driver, remains in critical condition.

Ruth Sullivan Grand Rapids, Mich Cedar Rapids Mercy Hospital Jean Ann Fritz

Model plane entered in en durance contest in Iowa City

Arnold Zimmerman of 415 Twelfth Street SE will enter his model airplane in an en durance competition at a model airplane contest in Iowa City on Sunday. His rubber band type plane placed fourth in a competition of over 75 entries sponsored by the Ames Lions Club last Sunday. Zimmerman formerly worked as a Gazette carrier.

Arnold Zimmerman Twelfth Street SE Iowa City Zimmerman Ames Lions Club Gazette

Exhibit on head on crash abandoned after objections

A planned Greene exhibit near the square showing two cars involved in a Wednesday head on collision was scrapped due to objections from Edward Fritz, father of Jean Ann Fritz, one driver. Capt. Gordon Hughes said the exhibit aimed to reduce highway deaths and involved the highway patrol and Linn county Safety council.

Greene Edward Fritz Jean Ann Fritz Gordon Hughes Police Highway Patrol Linn County Safety Council Hughes

Local Pastor and Family Return From Kentucky Trip

The Rev W Greer McCrory pastor of First United Presbyterian and Mrs McCrory with son Albert and daughter Alice returned Friday from a brief motor trip through Kentucky Ohio and Pennsylvania. Another son Charles accompanied them to Muskingum College where he entered the freshman class. The party visited Ezel and Frenchburg mission centers and met Rev J M McMains formerly pastor here now connected with Frenchburg faculty.

W. Greer McCrory First United Presbyterian Church

Bickel Showcases Canoe River Tale to Rogers Farm Bureau

Robert O. Bickel of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce spoke to about 50 Rogers Farm Bureau members at the Rogers Crossing schoolhouse. He presented his motion picture One Thousand Miles of Eastern Town Rivers by Canoe, with Marvin Selden and Paul Hansen operating the projector.

Robert O. Bickel Cedar Rapids

Revenge Motive Sparks Doctor Slaying and Wounding

In Pittsburgh a disgruntled patient named Mike Koski, 46, came to a physician's office seeking revenge. He killed Dr. F. G. Leslie and fatally wounded physician Joseph Cerra after attempting to kill him, according to Detective Captain Franklin T. McQuaide. The two doctors had treated the patient for 15 years.

Pittsburgh Franklin T. McQuaide McQuaide Mike Koski Joseph Cerra F. G. Leslie

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