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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1935
Page
9
Chicago market updates show hog prices 10 to 20 cents lower with top at 9.70 as demand remains weak. Arrivals total 13 000 hogs and 5 000 cattle with light stockers and heavier hogs shifting price ranges. Cattle futures strengthen with steers up to 12.25 and sheep market active on 8 000 arrivals.
Prices for various hog weights at Iowa markets are listed, with shifts noted in Cedar Rapids Ottumwa Mason City and Waterloo. Readings show 140 to 550 pound ranges from about 5.75 to 9.10 dollars, reflecting market variation and packer rates.
Iowa hog market data show combined receipts at 22 concentration yards and 9 packing plants across Interior Lowan and southern Minnesota for the 24 hour period ending at 8 am today. Associated Press reports market activity and supply levels affecting prices and hog flows.
Market reports show hog prices vary by weight from light to heavy categories with weekly changes. Poultry prices decline slightly while overall trading remains slow and uneven. buyers focus on snipping point weights and shipments, with weights 140 to 550 pounds showing assorted quotes.
U S Department of Agriculture market data from Chicago shows overall lower hog prices with receipts of 13 000 head including 6 000 direct and varied weight classes. Cattle receipts reach 5 000 head with broad gains in stronger weight steers and vealers while sheep receipts total 8 000 with spring lambs higher but natives softer.
Sioux City cattle receipts 1500 head steady with steers 9.75 to 10.25, cows 4.00 to 6.00, cutters 3.50 to 4.25. Hog receipts 2500 head slow, tops 9.20, 190–270 lb 9.00 to 9.15, 150–190 lb 8.50 to 9.00, sows 7.90–8.25, pigs 8.50. Sheep receipts 2000 head steady with 77 lb yearlings at 5.60.
U.S. Department of Agriculture reports hogs totaling 2,000 head with top prices around 9.30 and various weights selling between 8.50 and 9.30 per 100 pounds. Cattle receipts run 3,500 head with calves steady to 50 cents higher. steers 5.00 to 11.75, heifers 4.50 to 10.75, cows 4.25 to 7.50, vealers 3.50 to 8.00. Sheep receipts 4,000 head show lambs 5.50 to 8.00, wethers 4.50 to 6.00, ewes 2.00 to 4.00.
Omaha June 1 AP US Dept of Agriculture reports hog receipts 4000 head with mixed declines and gains. Prices show 190 to 260 lbs at 9.20, 260 to 310 lbs 8.85 9.10, 150 to 170 lbs around 8.50 to 9.75, pigs 7.75 8.25, packing sows 8.0 8.30. Cattle receipts 3000 head including calves 250 head. steers 9.00 10.75, heifers 8.29 10.25, cows 4.75 7.25, vealers 2.50 4.25, bulls 4.75 5.50, yearlings 8.00 8.50. Sheep receipts 3500 head including 525 direct. lambs 5.50 8.40, yearlings 4.75 6.00, ewes down from 2.50.
New York reports a generally adequate bond market with not much eager buying in corporations or U S governments. Some second grade issues showed activity producing fair sized gains such as American & Foreign Power Ss and International Telephone Ss reaching new year highs. A mix of prime corporate bonds remained mixed with minor movements across Shell Union Oil Good year and Bethlehem Steel issues while Western Union and Northern Pacific saw small gains.
New York stocks show mixed moves across industries with gains in Am Power and Light and Am Steel while several rail and consumer names edge lower. Major names like Gen Motors, IBM, and Woolworth appear with fractional changes amid closing quotations and curb listings including Ford Motor Ltd and United Gas.
Late session selling pushed wheat about 2 cents lower than the previous day. Traders shifted from bid to sell as crops reports mostly favorable for spring wheat, with some concern for North Dakota and Saskatchewan. July wheat finished 1 1-8 to 1 7-8 lower, with corn and oats also down and provisions dropping 7 to 30 cents.
Chicago market notes cash wheat and corn prices by grade including No 2 red 83c No 2 red weevily 24c. No 2 dark hard rf 86c. corn No 2 mixed 4c No 3 mixed 2 1 2 c. No 2 yellow 86c. other yellow and white varieties listed with small cents per bushel. oats No 2 white 43c No 8 white 40c No 4 white 39c. soybeans No 9 yellow 8c nominal. barley seed and Timothy Clover seed per cwt with prices.
Live poultry receipts indicate 34 trucks unsettled with varied prices for hens, leghorn hens, Rock fryers, roosters and turkeys. Butter prices ease with 18,951 tubs receipts. eggs steady as creamery and cheese markets show mixed scores and fluctuating wholesale values.
New York market notes show butter receipts at 16 354 tubs with weak demand and creameries higher. cheese receipts at 460 683 pounds with prices unchanged. eggs receipts 38 661 cases, steady. mixed colors packs from fresh receipts 25 276c. live poultry by freight with varied prices for broilers fowls roosters turkeys and ducks across ranges.
New York reports irregular demand across markets with exchange values for Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Switzerland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia Austria Hungary Romania Argentina Brazil Tokyo Shanghai Hongkong Mexico City and cross rates for Montreal and New York exchanges.
The Boston wool market saw moderate spot sales this week with fair activity through Boston houses on new wools. Medium fleeces drew steady to stronger demand and Texas wools remained active, with users buying at 60 to 65 cents scoured basis delivered east for eight months and 70 to 75 cents for twelve months.
U S governments were steady though inactive as foreign issues drifted within an irregular range. Variations remained fractional amid a cautious trading mood.
A dense listing of radio programs and orchestras with times and station affiliations. Notable entries include Hal Kemp and Ted Fiorito orchestras, Burns and Allen, Guy Lombardo, Ray Noble, Isham Jones, Joe Haymes, and Frankie Masters, across CBS NBC and mutual networks. The guide also lists baseball game coverage and a Salvation Army band segment.
New York trading saw a modestly heavy sell off in metals and sugar as the market fluctuated. Utilities provided lift with advances toward two points in power and light shares as the holding company bill moved to the interstate commerce committee, while grains and cotton weakened and bonds steadied under utility leadership.
The Muscatine high school hosts the county teachers institute closing event with an indoor program Friday afternoon led by E D Bradley. Cedar township women directed by Mrs Clark Shellabarger demonstrate home school cooperation to promote good reading, with refreshments served after.
Clarence Baird of Morning Sun will join 55 other forestry students from Iowa State College at Ames for two months at the foresters annual summer camp in Bend Oregon. Classes opened this morning with four instructors and a doctor supervising field work, timber estimation, forest type sampling, logging and milling studies.
Classified notice invites the public to a Moose Hall dance on Saturday night featuring Niebling's orchestra with admission of 25 cents tax included. Also listed are lawn mowers from Ideal Lawn Mower Shop on East Fourth Street and a lathing and plastering contact, Chas. Hester of Monroe Street.
The Zion Lutheran congregation celebrated Pastor Rev. P. W. Happel and his wife’s 25th wedding anniversary in Wilton on June 2 with a 7:30 service led by Rev. Julius Friederich of Iowa City. Elders P. J. Wacker and Henry Moeller escorted the couple to seating. A parish hall program followed with gifts, readings, vocal and instrumental numbers, and interchurch congratulations from Davienport.
Former Atalissa residents Vern and Vern Oepping visited relatives in town with their father Henry Oepping returning home for a few weeks. Nearby gatherings included Mr and Mrs Archie Staley Fern and Robert with Mr and Mrs William Butsler at Silvis and Mrs Ralston a niece of Eutsler hosting dinner with Joe Anash Anta Staley Oris Connely and Phillip Zimmerman. Ronald Schafnit spent the week with grandparents Fred and Mrs Schafnit. George Morrison and Mrs Morrison with her mother visited Muscatine. Will Arnold and daughter Gretchen shared Sunday lunch with Mrs F H McGowan. George Arnold and son Alfred attended a dinner for Mr and Mrs A B Klepper’s wedding anniversary hosted by Mr and Mrs George Voge. J C Miller of Cedar Rapids was a Monday business caller.
10 percent discount offered for ash or payment within five days from the date of final insertion of the ad. Minimum charge set at 25 cents for a 6 point ad and 30 cents for a 12 point ad.
Muscatine county applicants for government CCC camps will be enrolled at the U S army recruiting office in Davenport Monday at 8 am Miss Clara Schwandt relief director said from state director E H Mulock A quota of 35 men has been allotted Muscatine county and about that many are expected to enroll The candidates must carry a certificate of selection signed by the candidate and a local official
Notice states Barry Company of Muscatine Iowa has renewed for twenty years from March 17 1935 and adopted new articles including a five member board and authorized capital stock of 500 shares at 100 each. Articles cover business scope, powers, and corporate structure with directors named.
Downey Mrs C R Gates entertained about 30 guests Friday afternoon for Evelyn Gates eleventh birthday. After games, refreshments were served. Several Ames visitors joined later for dinner at J C Kirkpatrick home in Tipton. Others enjoyed Sunday dinners and visits across nearby towns with multiple households listed.
A reader overhears talk of youth as fun, but a knife scar and grim prayers mark a protagonist’s despair. Katharine clings to routine as a car glides white roads, while a companion seeks escape. The true ache centers on Michael, shadowing any joy. To Be Continued.
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