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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1935
Page
6
Chicago livestock markets show a sharp hog price advance with top quotes at 12.15 dollars as receipts remain light. Hogs moved 1190 to 1210 with some spots 50 cents higher while feeders and cattle varied amid thin offerings at the yards and western centers.
Wall Street opened higher on Monday but soon softened as profit taking trimmed gains. Major shares advanced included Paramount second preferred Warner Bros. International Nickel Kennecott and Consolidated Gas while American Telephone U S Steel General Motors and Chrysler lagged. Trading slowed after the first two hours with about 1 500 000 shares changing hands and bonds holding steady in a narrow market atmosphere.
Hogs climbed on the local market Monday with a 15 cent gain across all grades. The top price reached $1160 while good cattle held steady. other grades eased up to 25 cents. Sheep and lamb markets show similar adjustments with prices weighted by weight and quality.
A grain and produce listing from Cedar Rapids shows prices for Gratin Wheat 874 at 88 cents, oats and beets noted with unit prices, shelled corn and vegetables including Whalevate Jeruits Veertables with per unit costs. Cured Sides are listed at a rail price of 4.
Unclear OCR text states Chiocugo Produce futures at 4P acuter futures fide standards drop by 25 percent. Names and details are garbled. no definite entities or events are verifiable.
War rumors send wheat prices higher on the Chicago board of trade as locals and commission houses bought amid strong foreign markets. September wheat rose to 95 cent, corn mixed, oats up with firm undertone, receipts listed.
Grain receipts and shipments data from Chicago Minneapolis and Kansas City markets with prices, grades, and lots. Includes No 2 yellow corn No 3 red wheat No 2 white oats and assorted cereals with bids and requests for bids across port and rail lines.
Fragmentary AP wire notes fluctuating flour prices and related commodity terms in Minneapolis. The readable bits mention cents per kilogram or bushel and several numeric figures, but the context and full events are unclear.
Charles Thompson 26 of Anamosa was arrested at 11 p m on larceny charges after thefts from parked autos were reported at Viola watermelon day. Sheriff James Smith and Deputy Dick Preston recovered items including a radio and tools in Thompson s car and bound him over to the grand jury with 1500 bond.
A. G. Lobbe, 54, of Portland Oregon, was taken to St Luke's hospital at 4 30 pm Sunday after a car overturned on the Lincoln highway west of Cedar Rapids. Lobbe suffered cuts and bruises. His companion, also from Portland, was not hospitalized and was driving. The men were en route from Detroit to Portland.
President Roosevelt selected Franklin D. Hoyt of New Hamburg New York to head the new federal bureau in the treasury for control of alcohol. Hoyt, a New York City judge for twenty five years, met Roosevelt with Joseph B Choate the retiring head of the old administration which was eliminated after the NRA ruling. Hoyt is a grandson of Salmon P Chase and won the 1929 Hearst temperance contest with twenty five thousand dollar prize.
Orville Vail of 129 Ninth Street SW was taken to St Luke’s at 11 a m Sunday for bullet removal from his right leg after his gun fired accidentally during a Tipton area hunt. He was later released. Duane Baumgardner, 22, of 120 Twenty-ninth Street SE, fractured his right index finger while playing ball and was treated at St Bee hospital at noon.
Foreign exchange rates in New York cover currencies including Great Britain France and Germany with varied demand and bank rates. Wool prices in Boston stay firm with strong western sales and 64s and finer wools steady around 72-75c scoured. Sugar markets in New York show unchanged spots and mixed near months with refiners steady at $5.10 per unit and varying bids.
In New York early trading, bonds moved little from Saturday quotes with Baltimore and Ohio and other rail issues up to a quarter to half a point. Utilities softened slightly amid thin volume while some bond groups such as Columbian Gas and Northern Pacific 4s held firm. European tensions over the Ethiopian dispute fueled Italian obligation selling as Liberty bonds and Treasuries posted modest changes.
In Dallas Texas a 15 year old, G R Underwood, waved from a street car window and his arm broke after another car passed in the opposite direction. Police report unclear injuries and sequence.
Fred Walter Prior 1853 192? Marion resident died at his home 956 Thirteenth street on Sunday at 7 40 pm He would have turned eighty two on Wednesday A locomotive engineer for Milwaukee railroad for over fifty years he was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trojan lodge He is survived by daughter Nevah and son LaRue Burial at Oak Shade Cemetery Funeral at Yocom chapel with Rev H O Allen officiating
Humboldt Iowa reports L. W. Housel 61 former Democratic candidate for governor died Sunday in Rochester Minnesota hospital from a heart ailment. He ran for governor in 1928 and 1932 and suffered heart attacks in the last two years. He had lived in Brownsville Texas for six months last winter and returned to Humboldt last May before his health declined.
Mr and Mrs H F McCalley entertained thirty friends and relatives at a buffet luncheon to honor their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on Sept 14. Out of town guests included J E Ives R C Toms and families from Cedar Rapids Anamosa and Walker. A gift of silver candleholders a serving plate and buffet scarf was given.
Mrs. Fred Bebee and Mrs. Nelson Bebee hosted a miscellaneous shower for Mrs. Fred Taylor with prizes awarded to Mrs. Art Shores and Mrs. Dick Zimmer. The Jolly Dozen club met with Arline Guz zle. plans included a wiener roast. Golf club and bridge events, parish society postponements, family visits, a milk bottle accident, a stolen car recovered, and obituaries noted Mrs. Frank Holmes and others.
The Linn County Veterans Association will hold its annual reunion at Memorial Hall in Marion on September 25 with Rev. A A Brooks of Cedar Rapids delivering the 1 30 p m address after a luncheon Eugene Allen of Cedar Rapids serves as association president The event includes officer nominations by Marion Post 298 American Legion and Legion Auxiliary elections later tonight following a 6 30 p m picnic supper in Legion Hall Various local meetings and visits are noted including club gatherings and university visits by area residents.
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