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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 27, 1933

Page

11

Swine Prices Move Higher Amid Strong Market Demand

Chicago reports hog receipts 5 000 head smaller than expected lifting prices 5 to 10 cents with top at 4.80 in active trading. Supplies reach 16 000 with only a quarter to packing plants. Good medium and heavy hogs mostly 4.65 to 4.75, top 4.80. lard prices higher while dressed pork demand stays indifferent. Outside markets show shortages versus recent receipts, aiding the rise. Possibility of regulatory measures is noted as a bullish factor.

Chicago

Peoria Cattle Prices Mixed Despite Higher Market

Peoria Illinois cattle market shows 2 000 head with gains of 5 to 100 higher and bulk at 4 50 to 4 70. Receipts include 150 cattle and 150 calves with steady tone and top price around 6 25.

Peoria Hoy Market Peoria, Ill

Iowa Hog Prices in Cedar Rapids Mason City Waterloo and Des Moines

Market prices show prime hogs from Cedar Rapids at 3.90 to 4.15 per pound for 180 to 340 plus weights. Mason City lists hogs from 3.40 to 4.15 for various weights and sows. Waterloo reports 3.20 to 4.20 with ranges by weight and lean packers. Des Moines notes 3.00 to 4.15 for 120 to 400 pound hogs, with good packers at 3.50.

Iowa Cedar Rapids Mason City Waterloo Des Moines Good Packers

Market report shows hog receipts fall from prior week

Des Moines AP reports U S Department of Agriculture data for hogs at 4 iplayer concentration yards and packing plants in the Midwest ending at 8:00 am. Receipts totaled 4,300, down from 33,600 the previous week and 17,100 a year ago. Demand was fairly active with price advances and varied by weight class from light to heavy hogs with quoted ranges and packing sow prices.

Des Moines U. S Minnesota

Kansas City Hogs Meet Higher Prices on Strong Receipts

U S Dept of Agriculture reports 2,500 hogs sold at Kansas City receipts. prices 10 to 20 cents higher than Wednesday. Top at 4.40 for 190 to 250 lb hogs. 140 to 160 lb at 3.10, 160 to 180 lb at 3.75 to 4.40, 180 to 300 lb at 4.20 to 4.40, 200 to 220 lb at 4.25.

Kansas City Livestock Kansas City U. S. Dept. of Agr Muscatine

Market Report Lifts Grain Prices and Livestock Ranges

Grain futures surged with wheat up 7 3 8 to 8 cents as speculative buying spread nationwide. Corn and oats followed with gains while livestock prices climbed for various weights and classes in Muscatine area markets and Chicago trading.

Market Summary of Cattle Sheep Receipts and Prices

Receipts: cattle 3,000 head, calves 500, beef steers and yearlings slow, most bids lower. Top cattle prices: 900-1100 lbs at 5.35 to 6.65, 1100-1300 lbs at 5.35 to 6.75, 1300-1500 at 5.50 to 6.75. Veal and stocker prices shown. sheep receipts 2,000 head, lambs strong, top native lambs 7.75, good and medium 90 lb lambs 7.00 to 7.75, ewes 1.25 to 2.25.

Wits Bcsee Aenee Asnee Wean Oregon Chicago U. S Omaha Neb U. 8 Avareoe Wyoming

Livestock Market Report From Chicago and Omaha

Cattle and hog prices steady to higher across Chicago and Omaha markets. Receipts include thousands of head with varied weights. best hogs 4.65 to 4.80 at Chicago, steer and heifer values quoted, lambs steady to firm with range for feeders and breeding stock noted. Calves and bulls show mixed demand as markets adjust.

Flour Prices Rise Sharply in Minneapolis Carloads

Minneapolis AP report notes flour prices jump 15 cents with carload and family patent orders totaling $7.60 per 7. Fea barrels weigh 98 pounds per cotton sack. Standard Middling priced at 20.00 to 20.50 dollars.

Minneapolis Minn

Rail bonds buoyed by June gains and carload data

June earnings strength and rising carload figures supported active trading in secondary rail bonds while other market segments stayed quiet. Transportation issues led with bullish momentum, Youngstown Sheet & Tube slid on light selling, and foreign securities moved irregularly amid sterling and franc weakness.

New York Ceme Youngstown Sheet & Tube

New York Stocks and Quotations Tinied for Closing

Closing stock quotations feature prices from Gillette Goodrich Goodyear Grahm Paige Heinz Wiles Lorilora May Mekess Mont Ward Morrell Shell Un Pac Studebaker Tex Am Founders Ark Nat Gas Cities Service Ford Motor United Founders United Gas U and E Power. Market movements show varied percent changes across multiple firms on the New York curb.

IHE WEW York Curb Am Founders Ark Nat Gas A Cities Service Ford Motor Ltd Nia Hud Power New Ind United Founders United Gas U& Elec Pow

Wheat and seed price report from Chicago markets

Chicago market notes list assorted grain prices for wheat and oats, including No 2 red at 1.00 and No 2 white around 58 cents, No 4 rye at 75 cents, barley and timothy seed values, and clover seed priced near 8 dollars per cwt, reflecting commodity trading figures.

Chicago Nvo eseCs

Poultry and dairy market report from Chicago AP

Chicago AP notes receipts for poultry and butter and unsettled eggs prices, with live poultry values including hens Leghorn and Rock varieties, turkeys and ducks. Butter and eggs show large unsettled inventories, while potato shipments and U.S. market quotes for cobblers and triumphs detail regional prices and futures.

Butter and dairy market notes from New York AP

Butter receipts total 15 260 tubs with weak demand and creaming prices up to 23 24c. Cheese receipts at 210 528 pounds remain firm with little change. Eggs receipts 19 505 cases show weakness with mixed colors and selections at 17 21c for standards and 11w 16c for standards, firsts 14 15c, seconds 13 14c, dirties No 1 12 9c, average checks 1012 10c.

Chicago Rock Springs U. S Kansas Missouri New Jersey Idaho U.S Maryland Virginia New York

Stock Market Ends Firm After Late Softness

The New York market closed fairly firm as late softness in gold mining issues did not unsettle equities. An abbreviated session with steady to firm closes saw a ceiling flurry in the final hour and leaders rally as 2 700 000 shares changed hands.

New York

United States Bond Prices and Yields Report

New York AP notes bond market closes with Liberty first 4s at 101.20 and Liberty fourth 4s at 102.27. Treasury securities offer 44s 47.110, 40-43 at 100.8, and 4s 51-55 at 98.25 with varying maturity details.

New York United States Liberte Liberty Treasury

Dr Drennan and the Emerald Isle Poem

Dr Drennan first christened Ireland the Emerald Isle in print. He lived 1754 to 1820 and used that nickname for the island in a poem attributed to him.

Dr. Drennan Ireland Emerald Isle Island

Russell Circus Returns to Muscatine for August Show

Russell brothers’ circus, six years in operation, tours the middle west and will perform in Muscatine on Monday August 7. The show features three rings, a hippodrome, athletic acts, trained animals, and a 76 year old star contortionist with over 50 years in circus life. The troupe promises a high class, moral show with plenty of spectacle and music.

Russell Brothers Muscatine Middle West Daddy Whitlock

Decorah hearing continues for Gratten charged with murder

Preliminary hearing for 85 year old Decorah horseman Marvin T Grattan charged with murder in the shooting of Claude Meade 53 continued as witness Wesley Meade son of the victim testified. Grattan seeks private hearings for himself and grandson Henry Grattan 23 also charged with murder. Coroner s jury found felonious shooting and recommended murder charges. Other notes mention train length versus fruit supply and historical mail delivery dates.

Decorah Marvin T. Gratten Claude Meade Wesley Meade Fairgrounds Grattan Henry Grattan

Flashes of Life and Other Local Notes

A parliamentary gallery incident in Budapest sees a long haired youth throwing poems at deputies during the Budget debate and claiming the alias Sandor Berek after declaring hunger. In Greeley a jack rabbit survives a chase when an auto slows to let it hop aboard a car running board for a short ride. In Mansfield a 32 year old fire chief’s son faces jail for four false fire alarms with his father to be subpoenaed. In Bismarck North Dakota a law requiring four words on public notices does not apply to marriage licenses, as the state aims to promote Dakota Maid flour from the state mill.

Associated Press Budapest Sandor Berek Greeley Neb Wheeler County T. H. Murphy Mansfield Theodore Seeburger Charles J. Seeburger Bismarck N. D North Dakota Grand Forks

Boys Band Presents Seventh Weed Park Concert

Mascatine Boys band staged a seventh Weed park concert on Wednesday night during a food merchant picnic at the new ball Diamond. The program featured Jean Lemkau and Clifford Klein in a baritone horn duet and included marches, waltzes, a concert waltz, a polka, and selections from The Spring Maid.

Jean Lemkau Clifford Klein Mascatine Boys Weed Park Victor Grabel Karl King Johann Strauss Colorado Light Cavalry Fillmore Dillon

World Wheat Parley Delayed to August Twenty First

Negotiations among wheat delegations from the United States Canada Argentina and Australia on acreage restrictions adjourned today until August 21. The four nations continue talks on commitment limits and market outlook amid weather and supply concerns.

London United States Canada Argentina Australia

Strike for Increase at Eclipse Lawn Mower Plant

In Prophetstown Illinois an Eclipse Lawn Mower employee went on strike Wednesday over wages. Workers demand a minimum of 35 cents an hour for a 40 hour week, up from 19 to 22 1/2 cents and 53 hours. The note adds the United States paid Panama 10 million dollars for Canal Zone rights, excluding an annual 250 thousand dollar rental.

Prophetstown Ill Eclipse Lawn Mower Company United States Panama

Help Wanted And For Sale Classified Teaser

Help wanted male workers and sales position. Pickle picker ad and a first class salesman needed with experience. Also spring chickens for sale at 17 cents per pound alive. Call 27 for details at 1114 Syca.

Accident halts Atlantic flight near Dublin during plane recovery

Australian aviator Capt. Charles Ulm and three companions escaped serious injury when the plane sank in sand at Portmarnock airfield. Five hurt, two others treated, guards and bystanders aided the stuck crew as repairs were estimated to take several days.

Dublin Irish Free State Charles T. P. Ulm North America Portmarnock Airdrome Here Ulm Ee Sam Michael Rooney Associated Press

Probate Notice in Muscatine County Iowa

The state of Iowa Muscatine County announces a hearing on August 22 1933 at the District Court to prove the last will of Henry H Herlein deceased. Anyone interested may appear to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. Clerk C Erwin signs.

State of Iowa Muscatine County District Court Said County Henry H. Herlein A. D Muscatine C. Erwin

Carthage Man Shot by 14 Year Old in Family Conflict

In Carthage a 14 year old boy, Donald Griffith, killed Ellsworth Schenck after Schenck attacked the youth's father mother and sister with a cattleman's tool. The killing occurred at Carl Griffiths home near Colusa where Mrs. Schenck was staying. Griffith, president of the Hancock County Farm Bureau, was not held by the coroner. Schenck had called for his son before the violence.

Carthage Ellsworth Schenck Donald Griffith Schenck Carl Griffith Colusa

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