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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1942
Page
28
Chicago market activity shows hog receipts at 18 0810 to 20 000 with top prices around 15.40 a hundredweight, the highest in 22 years. Traders note demand strongest for 240 pound plus butchers while lighter weights and sows steady, cattle and calves mixed with steers firm and lambs barely steady.
Markets in Chicago show receipts for poultry and cheese with heavy hens at 32 cents and White Rocks at 23 1/4 cents per pound. Butter receipts 699 351 by market, price currents list 93 score at 45 46 cents and other grades around 43 4 cents. Potatoes arrivals 97 shipped 643. Idaho Russet washed at 2.75 to 3.00, Minnesota Over Valley Blixs Triumphs at 89 1082.15 with various prices noted.
Packers gain ten cents on Tuesday across all hog grades in the Cedar Rapids market with packers at 14.60 and top butchers at 14.70 while hogs range by weight. Cattle prices show choicest steers up to 15.50, mediums near 13, and yearlings around 11 to 13 with several weight tiers and luxury cuts listed.
Grain and straw prices range from No. 1 wheat at $1.03 to hay straw bids of $9.00 to $11.00. Poultry and eggs list various weights and prices, fruits and vegetables show Michigan celery at 75 cents per dozen, lemons seven dollars, oranges five dollars, lettuce 4.25 to 25.00 per crate. Hides and animal byproducts cover No. 1 cured hides 12 cents, No. 2 hides 11 cents, calf hides up to 33 1/3 cents, horses priced at $6.23 and $5.75, with manes and full tails included.
New York bond review reports strong volume in API rail loans and carrier issues. Prices rose fractions to a point or more as Rock Island and St Louis pasties contributed to gains. several railroad and utility issues reached high quotations amid a broad rally.
Wisconsin cheese exchange quotations for Sept 28 to Oct 3 show U S No 1 cheddars at 23% bid, Junior grade cheddars 22 31 bid, state brand daisies and horns 24 9 cents per pound, and wool prices steady with modest activity. Northern California original bags sold at $1 10 per ounce basing, New Mexican fine staple wools at grease $1 16, French combing wools $1 15 4¢ to 1 12, scoured low quarter blood wool 97 cents.
New York trading showed Santa Fe as the standout stock rising about three points to a five year high after a $2.50 dividend declaration. Other rails gained modestly while some major names drifted and overall turnover neared 400000 shares amid a spotty market mood.
A dense list of day’s stock quotations from Alaska Juneau to Chicago. Companies include Allied Stores, Anaconda Copper, Armour, Beatrice Creamery, Coca Cola, General Electric, Union Carbide, General Motors, Gulf States, Sears, Swift & Co and many others with varied percentages and prices. The report reflects widespread activity across multiple sectors and regions.
Grain futures fluctuated in a fractionally narrow range as traders waited for the anti inflation bill vote. Wheat corn and oats closed unchanged to up 4 percent with rye steady to off 4 percent and soybeans up 1 cent per bushel.
The item lists Chicago cash provisions for corn oats barley and related grains with no. 2 mixed at 1.31 and No. 3 dark northern at 1.23 suggesting a commodity price snapshot. It also includes white and sample grades for corn oats and barley along with lard and hog products at various dollar amounts.
Lawsuits filed by E. A. Beenbl blossom and Neil Hill target Concrete Material and Con structions after a Aug 30 1941 crash near Richland. Beenblossom seeks 1440 for truck damage while Hill seeks 500 for injuries. County attorney moves. Judge Moffit suspends sentence for Joan Norton after six months in reform school. Harold Whitson pleads innocent to drunk driving arraignment after a Saturday Walker arrest.
Willis D. Helms, who first joined in 1905 and served as sergeant until 1910, rejoined in 1915 as a lieutenant and rose to air corps captain before 1922. At 54 he enlisted again as a private in February, now a private first class stationed somewhere in the Pacific.
Harold Jackman, 16, of Rock River, disappeared for three nights and two days in the Sandlake mountains. He survived by killing and eating squirrels with a slingshot, eating them raw and cooking one on a fire he built with his knife.
Fun easy needlecraft transfer pattern 2988 features cuddly bear lamb and flop-eared dog toys. Includes toy illustrations and stitches. Send eleven cents and pattern number 2988 with name and address to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department 82 Eighth avenue New York NY.
Boston resident John Laxton, six feet eleven and a half inches tall, has been rejected by the army and other services for his height. He posts daily bulletins at work to inform friends of his ongoing attempt, signing at the top “I really tried.” Laxton was once known as the world’s tallest bartender.
Mrs Emil Klumpar recovers and may receive visitors at Mercy hospital. St Wen ceslaus Parish to host annual dinner October 4 from 11 30 to 3 15 with tickets for sale. St Elizabeths Guild luncheon January at 1 pm hosted by Mrs V F Lenzen. Mrs Howard Churchill returns from Washington to visit son Bob on guard duty at Bolling Field. United Brethren food and faith meeting postponed to week after religious education week dinner at St Pauls. Nutrition class postponed to Oct 7 with signups at Y M C A volunteer room. Cub Pack No 24 meets Wednesday 730 pm at Garfield school with Mrs George Sergie speaking. Cedar Rapids visitors Eldon Thompson trains in Ohio at Curtiss Wright service school. J J Hervert calls for surgical dressings workers and knitting support. Tax lien notice filed against E D Wahl of Victor for employment tax April to June 1942.
Miss Helen Main daughter of Mr and Mrs Otha N Main route 1 Cedar Rapids has signed as a student reserve nurse and expects to be called into service soon as an army nurse. She is a 1942 Mercy hospital graduate.
A voluntary bankruptcy petition was filed in Cedar Rapids on Saturday for Eugene Bonum Laurer of 2041 Eastern Boulevard SE. Listed assets total 1100 with exemption claimed. liabilities total 41948.47.
Thirty Gazette newsboys and street circulation manager Alex Fidler visited the Paramount theater Monday night as guests of manager Orville Rennie to see Wake Island starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston.
Three wartime interest sound films were shown at the Cano pus club meeting held Tuesday noon at the Roosevelt hotel. The films loaned by Ray Allen were America Prepares for War The Battle of Coral Sea and Midway Island and Washington in Wartime.
Speakers at the purchasing agents meeting held at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday noon included Bill Ogden district manager of the War Production Board office at.
Davenport and W. K. Evans, regional WPB consulting analyst, attended a Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday to discuss priorities and WPB rulings.
Cleveland transit officials plan to hire women conductors as the system faces staff shortages and higher service demands. If successful, women will operate daytime shifts while one man crews would run during off peak hours.
Syracuse police patrol cars are equipped with regular kitchen brooms after complaints of broken glass on streets. Police Chief William E. Rapp ordered the brooms to conserve tires during a period of rubber shortage.
Expressions of gratitude to friends neighbors relatives and Marlon friends for kindness flowers and sympathy during illness and death of husbands fathers Moile Blasik and Joseph Bena. Stella Bena and family note appreciation for support at time of loss.
A jumble of missing items and contact numbers: car seat cushion between Belle Plaine and Cedar Rapids. gold Bulova nurse's watch. brown billfold with registration and license. brown collie dog. two keys in a feather case. black and white beagle hound. black billfold. Westfield gold wrist watch. Rewards offered. contact numbers include 7331 2 3809 3 0209 3 1258 3 744.
A dense page of classifieds lists cash offers for valuables including cans rifles watches diamonds and cameras. Businesses such as Katz Jewelry and Loan Probasco Jeweler Iowa Loan Co and Ward Bids advertise loans repairs and pawn services alongside appliance laundry and dry goods promotions and beauty salon specials.
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