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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1944
Page
6
Chicago livestock market shows hogs holding at ceilings with tight receipts and steady to firm prices. Cattle and sheep also steady to higher with western lambs strong and native types mixed. grain quotations and Omaha Sioux City listings accompany.
New York market pullback follows Tuesday gains across sectors as leaders retreat from Monday's surge. Trading volume around 600,000 shares versus 792,000 prior day. many favorites resist decline while some improve. Stocks listed include Adams Ex, T and T, Libby McNeill, Lockheed, Anaconda, Boeing, General Electric, Coca Cola, Sears Roebuck, Procter Gamble, and others in a broad mixed session.
A wave of profit taking in Chicago grain futures pushed prices lower after Monday's gains. Wheat slipped 34 to 234 cents, corn dropped 25% to 338 cents, oats fell 254 to 3%4, rye down 15% to 2, barley 2% to 234 lower, with December contracts showing similar declines.
A historic seed price list provides figures for mixed heavy seeds at 1.05 dollars per unit, Timothy seed at 86 cents, and Red Clover seed at 3.50 dollars per hundredweight. Other nominal values include 65 to 105 per unit and 266.50 per hundredweight.
A shuffled page snippet reports Plymouth cheese market details with no bids on certain lots, New York bond market holding a steady undertone though gains slowed due to profit taking, and Mississippi River stage readings from Dubuque McGregor Davenport Keokuk with measured rises and falls.
Market notes show butter receipts at 5.231 tubs with steady extras and various standards prices. Eggs receipts 8.327 cases with firm extras and current receipts demand. potatoes in moderate demand with Idaho Russet Burbanks and other regions listed at U S No 1 prices. Live poultry steady to five cents up, with turkeys hens and roosters priced. cheese and dairy items particularly noted. New York Topi Dressed goods and live poultry prices include irregular roosters and ducks, with mixed colors and pigeons priced per pair.
The Cedar Rapids hog market held steady Tuesday with top prime butcher hogs at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Cattle and sheep prices are listed by grade from choice to common, including steers 11.50 to 15.75 and lambs around 12.50 to 13.50, with other weights and categories shown.
The Cedar Rapids market notes corn at 1.07 per bushel for shelled Old. soybeans listed at 1.86. oats quoted at 66c and 35c. wheat 1.40. rye 2. hay and straw prices given for baled straw 10 to 16 dollars and baled hay 14 to 16 dollars. eggs and other items priced. fruits and vegetables include celery at 1.40 per dozen or crate, lemons 7.84, California Valencia oranges 6.40, lettuce 5.53, onions 1.85, and apples Jonathan 3.95 or McIntosh 3.65. Hides and skins prices noted with varied grades. horse and kip values listed.
Charles Henry Akers 53 of Anamosa pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in Judge Hamiel's court. Sentence postponed to the November term. Bond set at 1000 dollars. Akers and brother Frank were arrested by Deputy Larry Condon after a Central City crash involving a truck driven by Charles Akers and a car driven by Glen Page. Frank Akers fined 10 dollars and costs on intoxication charge.
Harry Hanson a 33 year old of 271 Twelfth Street NW was sentenced by Judge M C Hamiel to not more than five years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison after pled guilty to assault with intent to commit rape He originally faced rape charges but on prosecutor recommendations pled to the lesser count Hanson was arrested Aug 4 after Mt Mercy academy complaints and his appeal bond was set at 2500.
Earl G. Jellison 31 of 500 Fifth Jevenue SE pleaded guilty to a felony in Judge Hamiel's court and was sentenced to five years at Fort Madison. His bond was set at 2000 dollars. He originally faced sodomy charges but pled guilty to the lesser count. Harold Sellars 21 pled innocent to carrying a concealed weapon and is jailed in Linn County with a 500 dollar bond after his arrest on Third avenue SE.
Marion News reports the engagement of Bernadine Morgan to Cpl. William H Auman son of the D R Auman. Cpl Auman recently returned to Lincoln Nebraska Army Air Base and was honored with a family dinner and a Wiener roast at local homes.
DES MOINES GOP chairman Willis York says Gov John Bricker will make seven rear platform appearances in Iowa October 5 with stops at Keokuk Fort Madison Burlington Mt Pleasant Fairfield Washington Muscatine Ottumwa Davenport and an event in Davenport. The roster includes national committee members and Illinois Governor Dwight Green among speakers while others board the train at Keokuk for the tour announcing tentative times and venues.
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