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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1935
Page
13
Hog prices climbed to a new top of 10.65 at Chicago availability. Receipts were light with 5,000 head arriving, 2,000 sold to big packers direct. Market was active with 10 to 15 cent gains for butchers and 5 to 10 cent gains for packers sow fat and light hogs varied in price across categories.
Notice offers dead animal removal service by John Pace with phone contact 453. Also advertises Fresh Peach ice cream and ten other flavors at 15c pint 25c quart from Chocolate Shop.
Iowa hog market report shows regional price ranges by weight and class across Cedar Rapids Ottumwa Mason City and Waterloo. Good hogs and packers priced from about 7.75 to 10.05 per 100 pounds with varying quotes by weight bands and market.
Combined hog receipts for 24 hours ending 8:90 a m at 22 yards and 9 plants in Interior Iowa and Southern Minnesota totalled 21 00 and were down from a week and year ago. Prices ranged 8 55 to 10 05 for various live weights with most gains 10 to 15 cents and trading moderately active at the advance while loading remained slow.
Chicago market wrap reports U S Department of Agriculture figures with 5 000 head cattle hogs including 2 000 direct per market. Hogs 10 to 19 cents higher with top 10 55 and bulk 10 35 to 10 50. sows 5 to 19 cents higher. Cattle receipts 2 000 head with uneven trade 25 cents lower, few good loads sold. grass cows and cutters weak. Sheep receipts 7 000 head lambs slow and down up to 25 cents. yearlings scarce. native sheep steady with top around 8 50.
Receipts total about 1 000 cattle with 1000 hogs and 2090 sheep reported. Hogs show sparce light weights and steady to slightly higher bids with tops near 10.10 for choic es. Cattle mostly steady in a cleanup trade with stockers slower and vealers up to 7.85 on some lots. Lambs up about ten cents with several loads around 7.75.
Hogs sold steady to 25 cents higher with 180 to 270 pound hogs at 10.15 to 10.20. 150 to 180 pound hogs at 9.95 to 10.00. Cattle and calves sold firm to higher with steers 8.25 to 9.25, heifers 8.00 to 9.00, cows 6.00 to 7.00, bulls 6.15 to 6.35, vealers around 8.00 to 9.00. Sheep receipts 2,000 head steady with lambs at 7.75 to 8.00.
Sioux City reports show cattle receipts strong to 21 cents higher with beeves around 10.50 and cutters 3.75 to 4.25. Hog arrivals near 2,500 head rise slightly with prices from 9.50 to 10.15 for various weights, while sheep receipts total 1,500 head. New York bond market edges up modestly with rails and utilities gaining. several governments steady. Boston wool prices hold steady with French combing and territory wools trading around 63 to 72 cents scoured.
Foreign exchange is listed as easy with bid and ask figures in cents for multiple nations and cities. The report shows rates for Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Netherlands Norway Sweden Denmark Switzerland Finland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Austria Hungary Romania Argentina Brazil Japan China and other pairs.
New York trading shows mixed activity with moves in Allegheny Allegh, Am Pow, Am Smelt, Am Steel, and Am Sugar among others. Industrials like Chrysler Gen Elec GM and IBM peers edge, while utilities and consumer names show varied gains and losses.
Wheat prices rose in Chicago trading on July 19 as reports of smaller domestic crops, winter and spring, supported gains. Weather favored rust development but no reliable estimates of total losses were available. Wheat closed up 4 cents overall with Sept at 84% to 84 3/4 cents. Corn fell to 4 cents up, oats steady to down, provisions mostly flat.
Prices for wheat, corn, oats, rye, soybeans and barley listed by quality and class. No. 2 red and hard wheats range from 85 to 94 cents for cash delivery, soybeans at 60 to 62 cents, oats around 34 to 36 cents, barley near 34 to 45 cents, and seed prices per cwt at 3.80 for Same Seed and 12.65 to 17.75 for new Glover Seed.
Chicago markets report Butter receipts at 19 2638 titles with varied scores and prices. Poultry live receipts total 62 trucks with price ranges for hens, turkeys, ducks, and geese. Potatoes show 131 on track with U S shipments 506, prices by grade and region. Futures mention storage standards and oct contracts.
New York prices restate receipts for eggs 9 096 cases with mixed colors and firsts about 24 cents. Butter receipts 12 002 pounds firmer with creamery higher, 92 score extra 24 cents and firsts 88-91 scores around 23 3/4 cents. Cheese receipts 95 849 pounds steady. Live poultry dull. All freight grades unchanged.
The Future Farmer club will convene at Hillandale Farm near the city next Tuesday at 7 p m. Charles Hendricks will discuss showing high grade cattle and Earl Purdy will direct cattle exhibitions and prep for championships. Lindley B Hoopes urged fathers and all members to attend, weather permitting outdoors.
A dense listing of radio programs for tonight and Saturday morning through late evening. It catalogs times, performers such as Ruth Etting Dick Powell Henry King and Claude Hopkins, plus stations NBC CBS WGN WLW WMAQ WBBM WHAS and others across multiple markets.
Market activity cooled as investors took profits amid mixed price action. Gro ups showed uneven gains with Case, Johns Manville, Motor Products and Radio Preferred rising about a point while corn products fell over three points. The dollar strengthened versus major foreign currencies and freight car feedings showed little impact on overall stock gains.
Los Angeles based aviator Wiley Post plans a new round the world style journey starting July 22. He will depart with his wife in a large monoplane aiming first for Alaska and Siberia then Moscow. The project may survey a trans Pacific air route linking America and Asia.
Gilbert Raby a 15 year old son of the Rev Raby pastor of the Full Gospel Assembly church drowned today in the Mississippi river at Rock Island Ill He with Ira Standbaugh obtained a boat rowed out into the river then Raby decided to disrobe and enter the water as police continued to gather details of the incident
He clung to the side of the boat but the strong current dragged him off. A search for his body was begun as rescue crews scoured the area.
Delegates to the state convention of the American Legion auxiliary to be held in Iowa City August 13 to 15 were named at a local auxiliary meeting.
Helen McDermid Nellie Allen and Coralie Fischer were elected delegates with Odette Grimm Oretta Sutter and Vera Shoemaker as alternates after a potluck on Thursday night. They discussed attending a district meeting at Mt Pleasant on August 25 when the Berean quartet will accompany a Muscatine auxiliary delegation. Mrs McDermid led the session.
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