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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1935
Page
11
An assortment of local ads. Northern Gravel promotes graded sand and quick delivery. Swuellen’s offers free Cedar-Pakt bags with winter garment cleaning. Schreurs Radio Store in Long Beach NJ advertises new 1936 Philco radios. Joe Savoldi from Michigan scores over Rube Wright in a three fall match. Chocolate Shop runs peach sundaes at 10 cents and limeades at 5 cents.
Chicago brokers report a three week upturn lifting hog quotations to 10.50, the highest since 1930. Heavy and medium hogs traded around 10.30 to 10.50 as demand strengthens and supplies stay tight. Cattle demand remains steady with better light heifers and yearlings firm, while fat lambs stay largely steady with modest declines.
Iowa markets show varied hog prices with multiple weight classes and regional listings. Ottumwa Mason City Waterloo and Cedar Rapids report shifts of up to ten to twenty cents, noting higher values for lighter and midweight hogs and packers, with regional spreads across several weight ranges.
The Associated Press reports 24 hour hog receipts at 8,100 across 22 Iowa concentration yards and 9 packing plants in Interior Iowa and Southern Minnesota, down from 11,900 a week ago and 24,600 year ago. Prices rise 10 to 15 cents with strong undertone. lists by weight range show values from 8.40 to 9.90 for various 140 to 350 pound hogs and 7.60 to 8.60 for very heavy sows.
Local grocers pay 19 to 21 cents for market goods. Hens bring 10 to 18 cents, springs 1 to 15 cents, old roosters 8 cents. Hog prices by weight range from 140 pounds to 300 plus with top around 10.00 per hundredweight and sows from 3.80 to 8.45 per pound in various ranges.
A fragment notes that items bought based on shipping point weights are excluded from quota quotations, indicating a specific method of calculation or exclusion in pricing rules.
Chicago market notes show mixed livestock activity with 8,000 head cattle and 6,000 sheep receipts. Cattle steady to higher on select grades, hogs and lighter weights firmer, sows up as demand improves. Prices cited include choice steer averages around 12.00 and sheep at about 8.25 to 8.50 for natives and Idaho lambs near 8.50.
Kansas City market report shows hogs receipts 1500 head with prices advancing to 19.05 for 200 to 240 lb hogs and mixed quotes across weights. cattle receipts 2500 head with calves 700 head and vealers steady, steers and yearlings around 10.25 with feeding cattle around 8 to 10, cows 3.25 to 5.50. sheep receipts 3000 head with lambs around 7.50 to 7.75 and ewes around 5.35 to 5.50.
AP reports U S Agriculture data from Sioux City market: cattle receipts 1,200 head with yearlings to 10.25, heifers to 9.50, cows 4.50 to 6.00, cutters 3.75 to 4.35. Hogs receipts 4,000 head steady to 10 cents lower, 17 to 279 pounds 9.75 to 10.00, top 10.00. light hogs up to 170 pounds 9.25 to 9.70. sows 8.75 to 9. Show lambs 7.75 to 8.00 with 550 direct. Sheep receipts 1,000 head steady.
Hogs receipts 5000 head with steady ranges 170 to 190 pounds at 9.60 to 9.90, 159 to 170 pounds around 9.79, pigs up to 9.00, packing sows 8.90 to 9.90. Cattle receipts 2500 head with calves steady to up 1 cent, steers 8.25 to 9.50, heifers 8.00 to 9.25, cows 4.50 to 6.00, cutters 3.50 to 4.25, bulls 5.75 to 6.25, vealers 8.00. Sheep receipts 3500 head steady, lambs 7.00 to 7.55.
In New York on July 18 the bond market showed some irregularities yet overall trade supported moderately higher levels. Utility loans were largely inactive after the Louisiana federal court decision upholding the Tennessee Valley Authority, while selective industrial liens rose on moderately active bids. Rails were uneven, U S governments stayed in a narrow range with a steady tone, and leading foreign groups improved slightly.
New York reports foreign exchange demands in cents for nations and cities including Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Japan Argentina Brazil and Switzerland with various percentages. The list covers Europe Asia and the Americas and notes figures for Tokyo Shanghai Hongkong and Montreal and New York related rates.
July 18 reports show eggs receipts at 13,289 cases with mixed colors and varied prices, butter receipts at 14,748 tubs with no change, cheese at 199,544 pounds steady, live poultry irregular by freight with fowls 14 to 19 cents and turkeys 12 to 19 cents, other grades unchanged.
A broad list of industrials and consumer goods firms show mixed performance with notable gains for Anaconda Atchison Chrysler Gen Motors General Electric and Westinghouse while names like United States Rubber and U S Steel hover mid ranges Investors track the up and down shifts across the day with several issues quoting fractions or percent changes across multiple sectors including autos steel and chemicals.
Large arrivals of red winter wheat for September delivery pressured Chicago prices late in the day. Traders cited ample red winter supplies in Ohio and aggressive selling from southwestern linked houses. Wheat closed 7-8 to 13-4 lower, with September at 84 1-4 to 3-8. corn, oats and provisions also moved variedly.
Commodity notes from Chicago show mixed grain prices with wheat ranging from No 2 red 86 4 to No 3 red 85 85 for bid. Corn prices include No 2 mixed 85 14c and No 4 mixed 83 c. Oats list No 1 white 38 4c and No 2 white 35 36c. Soybeans No 2 yellow 60c. Seed and lard prices also listed with various weights and grades.
Chicago lists poultry and butter prices with live receipts at 37 trucks and 13,525 butter tubs. Hen and chick en markets steady to firm, various breeds priced per pound. eggs and potatoes show light demand. Regional potato prices include Idaho russets and Bliss, cobblers, and blues with U S No 1 grades and July futures noted.
Nine scattered heavy hits as Tasena Mulford and Heinz power past DeMolays and Zion Lutheran tops Presbyterian by wide margins. Box scores show heavy hitting from Axel and Wincor, while Maulford and James pitched to limited hits for their teams.
Des Moines reports that Rock Island cancelled its game and withdrew from the Western league, leaving the future of the circuit uncertain with eight seven or six teams as options. Rails await Bramham decision, while Keokuk and Davenport pressed losses as Cedar Rapids edged Des Moines.
Eight survivors from the opening rounds advance toward the Missouri Valley tennis tourney quarterfinals in Des Moines Iowa. Senior singles see No 1 Harris Coggeshall of Des Moines and Robert Riggs of Los Angeles win into the next round with easy victories as the day features top seeds Bill Kiley Kenneth Black Ed Davis and John Van Der Zee.
Barn sale notice lists horses and mules, cattle including four purebred Durham bulls and Guernsey yearling, Jersey cow, hogs with belted boar, furniture for a five room house, stove, hedge posts, farm machinery, veal calves and lambs. Whittaker and Son auctioneers set sale at the Muscatine Bank and Trust Co. Clerk. Truck rates offered. contact numbers provided.
In Des Moines Corbin defeats Dick Rugg 6-1 6-2 while in Waterloo Kiley beats Dr Julius Swartz 6-2 6-2. Coggeshall ousts Dick Sewell after a 10-8 second set comeback and Bret Paul contends with a question of fortune and jealousy as Miss Daryen faces a dinner interruption from a Japanese houseguest.
The narrator recalls Bret Paul with uneasy guilt as memories surface in a troubling wave, questioning whether she can blame him for past actions while dealing with unresolved feelings.
N. G. Baker rejects practicing medicine personally or via an agent in an answer filed in Des Moines to the Iowa supreme court contempt citation for practicing medicine without a license.
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