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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1942
Page
26
Chicago market reports salable hog receipts for Wednesday with top price of 15.40 a bushel per hundredweight, the highest in 22 years. Hog, cattle, and sheep receipts listed across Chicago and Omaha markets, noting steadiness and varying bids for different weights and categories. Prices for prime cattle, sows, and yearlings also reported with regional figures from Sioux City, Des Moines, Peoria, and Austin markets.
Chicago market notes show heavy hens and white spring stock steady as receipts of 1 car and 42 trucks move in. butter prices firm with several price points noted from 43 to 46 cents per pound and varying scores. potatoes and other produce arrivals total 23 925 with Idaho Russet and Minnesota lines cited. U S No 1 unwashed priced around 2.05 to 2.15 per hundredweight for certain lots.
The page lists dairy and poultry prices with firmness despite varying scores and markets. It notes unchanged prices for butter and eggs and details ranges for dressed poultry including spring hens and frozen young hens, with live poultry grades and regional offers. It also lists produce futures and storage standards for November and December.
Butchers steady at Cedar Rapids market Tuesday with all packers up 10 cents. Top hog prices reach $14.70 for long haul and $14.60 for packers. Hog weights span 140 to over 330 pounds with varied prices. Cattle and calf sections list ranges for steers, heifers, cows, and sheep across quality tiers. Lambs and ewes priced per weight class, cattle and hogs shown with market shifts.
Grain prices include Wheat No. 1 at 1.03 and No. 2 at 43 to 50 cents. Soybeans No. 2 yellow at 1.57 per bushel May, hay and straw values listed, poultry prices by weight and species, wholesale fruits and vegetables with items such as Michigan celery at 75 cents per dozen and lettuce at 4 dollars per crate. Hide prices quoted No. 1 cured hides 12 cents, No. 3 hides 9 to 10 cents, calf hides 12 to 22 cents, pelt terms and miscellaneous items like horse and pony prices noted.
Rail bonds led Tuesday’s trading in New York with many system loans under reorganizations showing gains. Rock Island and St. Paul issues saw large totals as carriers rallied after a Monday price rise. U S governments held steady despite plans for 4 billion dollars in October borrowing.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for Sept 28 to Oct 3 show U S 1 cheddars at 23% bid with state grade cheddars 2234 bid and other varieties at 2414 to 2444 cents bid. Boston wool market notes prices steady with Northern California original bag wool at 110 per unit and New Mexican fine staple wools around 181 to 186 cents, plus French combing wools at 115 to 112 cents. scoured low quarter blood wool at 97 cents.
The fragment notes two major services in the paper era. It highlights community programs and public notices. Details are sparse but imply coordinated efforts by local organizations toward civic improvement.
Santa Fe led the stock market with about a three point rise to a five year high after a $2.50 dividend declaration. Other rails including Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific gained while New York Central Great Northern and South Pacific posted modest increases. Turnover totaled around 400 000 shares with notable activity in Pittsburgh Coal Pennsylvania Coal Distillers American Smelting duPont and North American. weaker performers included United States Steel Bethlehem Chrysler Public Service of New Jersey United Aircraft Kennecott Texas Company and Woolworth.
Wall Street stock quotations list numerous companies and prices headed by Alaska Juneau paper, with quotes for Allied Chem Allied Stores St Johns Manville Libbey Owens Anaconda Armour & Co Mont Ward Atchison Nash Kelv Atlantic Rie Natl Biscuit Aviation Corp Baldwin Loco North Amn Go Beth Steel Union Carbide Coca Cola Colgate Palmolive Chrysler Radio Keith Seabord Cotton? Seaboard etc. The page records daily bid prices for many industrials and consumer firms, indicating market activity and notable price levels across sectors.
Boston man John Laxton towering six feet 11 and a half inches repeatedly fails to enlist in the army navy coast guard and other services due to his height. He posts daily bulletins at work to keep friends informed with a sign reading I really tried. Laxton once earned the title the world’s tallest bartender.
Grain futures moved within a slim band as traders stayed on the sidelines awaiting the anti inflation bill vote. Wheat corn and oats were steady to up slightly while rye held steady and soybeans gained about a cent per bushel.
The Concrete Material and Constructions company is named defendant in suits filed by E A Beenblossom and Neil Hill over a Aug 30 1941 collision near Richland. Beenblossom seeks 1440 for truck damage and Hill 500 for injuries. Judge Moffit suspended Joan Norton’s sentence, giving six months in a reformary on a vagrancy charge. Harold Whitson pled innocent to a Walker drunk driving arraignment after a Saturday arrest.
Willis D. Helms, a lifelong serviceman from Toledo, Ohio, first entered in 1905 and served until 1910 as a sergeant. He rejoined in 1915 as a lieutenant, later became an air corps captain, and remained until 1922. At age 54 he enlisted again, serving as a private first class stationed somewhere in the Pacific.
Mrs. Emil Klumpar, ill at Mercy hospital, now can receive visitors there. Annual St Wenceslaus Parish dinner on Sunday October 4 from 11 30 to 3 15. St Elizabeth's Guild luncheon Wednesday at 1 pm. Mrs. Howard Churchill returned from Washington visiting her son on Bolling Field. Food and faith meeting postponed to avoid conflict with St Pauls dinner. Nutrition class postponed to Oct 7. enroll at YMC A volunteer services. Cub Pack 24 meets Wednesday 7 30 at Garfield school with talks by Mrs Seigle. Cedar Rapids visitors Eldon Thompson training at Curtiss-Wright Ohio. Tax lien notice of $888 for employment tax filed against ED Wahl of Victor.
Miss Helen Main daughter of Mr and Mrs Otha N Main route 1 Cedar Rapids has joined as a student reserve nurse and expects to be called into service soon. She is a 1942 graduate of Mercy Hospital.
Harold Jackman, 16, of Rock River Wyoming survived three nights and two days lost in the Sandlake mountains by killing and eating squirrels with a slingshot. He cooked one glimpse with a fire he made by striking his knife on flint but said it was too much trouble.
A voluntary bankruptcy petition was filed in Cedar Rapids for Eugene Bonum Laurer of 2041 Eastern Boulevard SE. The schedule shows assets of 1100 dollars with claimed exemptions and liabilities totaling 41948 dollars and 47 cents.
Thirty Gazette newsboys and street circulation manager Alex Fidler visited the Paramount theater Monday night. They attended a showing of Wake Island starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston now showing at the Paramount theater.
CEnted advertisement urges readers to prepare Christmas toys a teddy bear lamb and a flop-eared dog soft crafts. It notes pattern 2988 with transfer design, stitch illustrations, and required materials. Send eleven cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department 82 Eighth avenue New York NY with name and address.
Three new sound films loaned by Ray Allen were shown at the Roosevelt hotel during the Cano pus club Tuesday noon gathering. The programs titled America Prepares for War The Battle of Coral Sea and Midway Island and Washington in Wartime highlighted wartime events and planning.
War Production Board district manager Bill Ogden was among speakers at the purchasing agents meeting held Tuesday noon at the Roosevelt Hotel. Other attendees and topics were noted in brief during the session.
Davenport and W. K. Evans, a WPB regional consulting analyst, met at the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday to discuss priorities and WPB rulings.
Cleveland officials announce women will soon operate street cars to meet service demand with reduced staff. The plan aims to test women conductors during daytime hours before considering one man crews in off peak times.
Syracuse police cars carry kitchen brooms after Chief William E. Rapp orders brooms on all units to curb broken glass on streets. He says conserving tires is essential due to rubber shortage and asks officers to sweep intersections and roadways.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and relatives for kindness and floral offerings during illness and death of Molle Binoek and husband. Also thanks Marion friends for support at death of father and husband. Lost items include a car seat cushion, a nurse’s watch, a brown billfold, papers, a collie dog, keys, a beagle hound, a wallet, and a gold wrist watch with various reward contacts.
The ad page lists buyers paying cash for cans, jewelry, watches, diamonds, cameras, tools, instruments, and more. It promotes Katz Jewelry & Loan and Iowa Loan Co along with various services from cleaning watches to laundry, printing, beauty services, and needed trades. Also includes used car offers, rentals, and employment notices.
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