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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1933
Page
11
Unofficial Monday receipts show hogs at 000 head, cattle 16 000, and sheep 26 009. The Chicago hog market remained largely steady for heavies at 2.60 to 3.00 per cwt, with some 3.10 top for light weights, while light hogs were scarce and few sales occurred for reshipment.
Des Moines reports combined hog receipts at 41.7 thousand head for 24 hours ending 8 a m. Compared with 480 thousand a week and 30 million a year ago. Quotes show mixed but mostly steady with spots firm and active demand. Prices listed for various weight classes and packing sows, with notes on long haul shipments and weight shrinkage.
Hog prices across Iowa markets show mixed levels with Mason City reporting ranges from 1.80 to 3.30 per pound depending on weight class and grade. Ottumwa Waterloo Cedar Rapids Des Moines each list varied prices for light to heavy hogs, sows, and packers with several declines and increases noted in the report.
Cattle prices mixed with yearlings and light steers up to 25 higher while weighty steers gain 10 to 15 cents. Heifers advance 50 cents to 1.25 with light types rising more. Bulls, vealers and heavier cows show gains. hogs and sheep show varied moves with many prices listed and notable weekly totals.
Hogs receipts 2,000 with direct and billed lots. average costs around 2.73 Friday, with various weights and cuts listed. Steers yearlings steady to 25c higher, heifers up 25c, beef cows down 25c, stockers and feeders firm to 25c higher. Sheep receipts 1,000 with feeders up, best lambs and yearlings noted. overall mixed shifts vs prior week.
Local markets report a sharp drop in wheat with selling pressure from professional traders. Prices closed unsettled with May at 47 5/8 to 3-4 and July at 47 3/8 to 1-2. Corn fell 1/4 to 1/2, oats steady to slightly down, and pork provisions rose modestly.
The New York market absorbed end of week profit taking in a short session ending with a steady tone. Most changes were narrow with a few up or down as much as a point. Procter and Gamble cut the quarterly dividend, Continental Can and others fell, Eastman and tobacco issues rose, rails stayed steady, weekly car loadings rose 28,873 from the prior week, and December cotton consumption looked favorable.
New evidences of taking appeared in the bond market with uneven moves in the secondary groups. Highest grade investment maturities hovered near 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 percent levels while railroad liens showed little cheer. Losses of fractions to a point touched several issues including Aluminum Co of America and Stutz Motors, with oils dull and unchanged.
The Bureau of Agriculture Economics reports farm real estate taxes per acre in 1932 were 20 percent below the 1929 peak but still about double the 1913 rate. Prices of major farm commodities remain below 1913 levels, with a 6 percent per acre drop from 1930 to 1931 and more cuts in 1932. Delinquencies rose as many farmers struggled to pay taxes, suggesting actual per acre taxes fell over 20 percent. New England shows less decrease, while 1932 trend moved downward nationwide.
William Jessup, 27, of Freeport, Illinois, injured when the plane he was piloting crashed from 1500 feet, is expected to leave the hospital in a few days after suffering a concussion. James R. Jackson Jr., also of Freeport, died from injuries in the crash.
AP dispatch from Minneapolis notes market trends with 122 cars compared to 59 last year and mixed price changes. It lists prices and percentages for durum varieties and corn and oats standings, reflecting grain market volatility and shipment figures.
Wheat and corn prices shown with various grades and cents per bushel. Oats rye barley timothy and clover seed also priced. figures reflect No. 2 red wheat, No. 4 mixed corn, No. 2 white oats, and other grades.
Minneapolis AP notes flour prices down for carload lots and family patents at $4.05 per barrel with 15 cents savings. Details include shipments of 19 and 9 Pure Bran at $0.50 and Standard Middlings at 38 cents per unit.
Receipts show eight trucks of hens and leghorn stock with assorted prices for chicks and broilers. Butter and eggs receipts listed, with creamery specials and various grades, plus potatoes and US shipments, amid weak or dull trading and rising futures readings for fresh and storage classes.
A foreign office spokesman called Hoover’s warning about a foreign invasion if the Philippines were freed nonsensical and said Japan’s eastern Asia policy is misunderstood. He argued that Philippine freedom will come after a decade as Japan’s motives in Manchuria clarify to Americans.
Effective Sunday the eastbound Rock Island No 30 departs at 3 p.m. instead of 7 07 p.m. The through service shortens Kansas City to Rock Island running time by over one hour and No 30 will connect at Rock Island with No 10 bound for Chicago at 4 15 p.m.
Closing quotations show varied moves across names like Chrysler, DuPont, Eastman, and Gen Motors with notable percentage changes. Freight and energy stocks show gains while several industrials slip as trading ends on January 14.
A long list of scores across colleges and high schools includes Boston 29 Yale 42 Pitt 25 Duquesne 26, Washington and Jefferson 20 Carnegie Tech 31, Florida 38 Clemson 28, Tulane 21 Vanderbilt 35, and many more games with numerous regional teams and venues listed.
Brighton beat Wellman 31 to 18 to tighten first half of Ke-Wash schedule. Keota defeated Richland and Kalona triumphed over West Chester 25 to 13 as Brighton moves to four wins and one loss, leading the conference. Box score.
Thirty days are added to the open season for red fox in several Iowa counties Cedar Scott and Iowa per G C Parks county recorder and state fish and game department The season ends February 15 and an additional 19 days are allowed to dispose of red fox furs.
Burlington Five defeated Muscatine 36-12 as the Greyhounds pulled away 14-7 in the second half. Sam Korb led with five field goals and a free throw, while Ahlf topped Muscatine with seven points. Box scores follow.
Wilton teams defeated Muscatine rivals on Friday night. Earl's Grocers beat Atlas Special 23 to 21 while Wilton Junior High edged Franklin School 26 to 15. The Wilton win featured a strong second half and victory from the free throw line.
Grace Donovan of Iowa City was commissioned honorary cadet colonel of the University of Iowa ROTC. She received a two gun salute at the annual military ball, introduced by Lieut. Col Converse R. Lewis and University President Walter A. Jessup. Donovan is active in Pi Beta Phi and Phi Sigma Iota, and a Mortar Board member.
100 acre dairy farm 6 miles west of Muscatine on Conesville road with pasture and water. Many rental listings include furnished and unfurnished rooms apartments flats and houses with contact numbers and locations in Muscatine Iowa. Also advertisements seeking agents and salespersons for monuments and trucks.
Electa Chapter of Eastern Star will install officers over 16 at 8 p m at the Masonic Temple. The meeting is open to all Masons Eastern Star White Shrine and their families. Wilma Ziegler W M presides. Iowa Lodge No 2 announces work in the second degree per order W M.
Maternity and adoption related notices from Fairmount Hospital Kansas City Missouri invite information on services and support for girls. Employment ads seek bookkeeping or office work part or full time with contact via phone. Doll buggy appears as a separate classified item with a phone contact.
A dense list dated January 15 outlines hourly NBC and other network programs from 9:00 to 4:45 with performers such as Gordon String Quartet Billy Sunday Moonshine and Honeysuckle Jane Froman and the Waldorf Astoria Orchestra plus various talk and religious shows, concerts, and weather forecasts.
Radio guide lists January 15 schedule with CBS programs from 3:09 p.m. to 12:12 a.m. featuring Irene Beasley Tenor Frank Wilson Flanagan's Sport Review and Ben Pollack's Orchestra among others. Timed segments include The Band of Distinction The Four Norsemen and Harriet Cruise with multiple orchestras.
Elgin Illinois reports six men halted a truck carrying eggs to the Chicago market. The crew, led by Arthur Mentzal and Helmer Halvorson, were ordered out near Bensonville, the vehicle was driven away, and the truck was later found abandoned.
By virtue of a Special Execution the lands of Gladys Wiegand in Muscatine County Iowa are set for sale February 15 1933 at the Court House door Muscatine. The west 54 feet of Lot 5 Block 23 Smalley Addition to South Muscatine will be sold to satisfy The Muscatine Building and Loan Association. Sale hours 9 to 4 with 11 am listing. Muscatine Iowa January 14 1933 F B Nesper Sheriff Muscatine County.
Midway Sale Co. offers a mixed sale at 12 o'clock featuring 5 year old horses, 1200 to 1600 pounds, 20 bred spring gilts, 3 fall gilts, 1 spring boar, 150 fall pigs, feeding shoats. Also Duroc gilts, sows with litters, bred ewes, fresh cows, fat cattle and heifers, calves and yearlings. 200 steel posts, farm implements, rugs, linoleum, tools, gloves, socks, shoes, and 2000 ft of 1x6 lumber.
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