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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1964
Page
8
Nylon net or mesh ideas cover kitchen straining uses bed and hair styling tips and household hacks. It suggests framing covers, bundling vegetables for cooking, cleaning corners, and repurposing old stockings for hair nets. A reader note shares an extra long bed hack and a metal goop cleaning trick.
The grain futures market faced heavy stop loss sales on the Chicago Board of Trade. Soybeans led losses due to large open interest and continued liquidation, with open contracts dropping to about 298.4 million bushels from a peak a month earlier. Wheat and corn exports were brisk at times but soybeans lagged, and January 1963 shipments abroad were hindered by a dockworkers strike.
New York AP reports the stock market rose for three straight days, with the Dow at 783.04, the AP 60 at 291.6, and the S and P 500 at 77.11 for record closings. Turnover was $71.2 million, blue chips led gains, and several major equities hit 1963 64 highs.
New York cotton futures closed Friday up 1.35 a bale though 0.70 below last week. Mill price moved slightly higher on fixing and short covering. Commission houses traded on both sides as market faced lingering doubts over new cotton legislation and continued heavy loan entries.
The New York Cotton Exchange Service Bureau estimates loan entries at 7,239,000 bales as of Jan. 17, near the 1955 peak, with pledges expected to climb to 8,250,000 bales. Government holdings are placed at 12.4 million bales vs federalized stocks of 10.2 million a year earlier.
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