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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1952
Page
6
Classified ad fragment listing Walter Hughes moving service at 114 No 6th Street with phone 2699. Also dogs boarded by Mae Callander and later by Happy's Pet Shop at No 26th and Richview with phone 4283. For sale items include Snow white Spitz puppies and produce at 821 George St Chas Overturf.
Railroads showed progress while the broader market faded with gains and losses spreading over about a point. Volume reached about 1.2 million shares, rising as the market advanced then turned downward. Leaders shifted. declines included Bethelem Steel Chrysler American Cyanamid General Electric Texas Co Johns Manville. Higher prices appeared for Goodrich Boeing Kennecott Copper Cities Service and Santa Fe. Government bonds in over the counter trading remained quiet.
Butter market steady with two day receipts totaling 1 107 764 and wholesale prices unchanged. Grades AA 93, A 68 75, B 66 25. C 65 50. Eggs also steady with wholesale prices unchanged except U S standards up 1 2 cents a dozen. U S extras 38 39 U S mediums 36. Current receipts 32 5, dirties 31 5, checks 30 5. Live poultry USDA Chicago market steady to weak with US standards data noted.
Receipts show 1,646 coops and prices held firm with heavy hens at 21 to 22, light hens 19 to 20, roosters 28 to 29, fryers or broilers 28.5, old roosters 18 to 19, and ducklings among the offerings. F. O. B. terms noted as paying prices unchanged.
Cash wheat none. Corn prices range No 2 yellow 1.7342 to 1.78, No 4 1.685 to 1.76, No 5 1.69 to 1.7145, sample grade 1.4344 to 1.59. Oats No 4 heavy mixed 0.114, No 4 heavy white 0.84, sample grade heavy white 0.8212. Barley nominal 1.25 to 1.65, feed 1.20 to 1.30. Soybeans none.
St Louis wholesale produce report lists live poultry and eggs with grade ranges. Entries cover standards unclassified nearby pullets and regional references Iowa with price bands across multiple lines. The fragment notes no grades and miscellaneous categories, indicating a market snapshot.
A catalog of poultry and fowl prices showing ranges for various breeds and weights. The list covers sumer prec AA large and A large categories, medium and B large grades, Butter and score tallies, heavy breeds over several weights, leg horns, No 2s, commercial fryers, broilers and roosters, crosses and whites, reds, nearby whites, leghorns, barebacks, ducks, young white and dark or small birds, turkeys including breeder hens and toms, spring weights, roosters and old cocks, and guineas with age notes.
Trading quieted after last week's activity with hogs steady to 25 cents lower cattle steady to weak and sheep steady. Hog butchers graded choice 19.00 to 21.00, sows 16.25 to 118.50. 11 000 hogs sold, 2 500 shipped out. Prime steers 34.25 to 35.50, most at 30.50 to 33.75. good to low prime heifers and yearlings 28.00 to 33.75. Cows 20.50 or less, bulls 26.50 or less, vealers 32.00 and up. Native spring lambs 24.50 to 27.50, top 28.00. ewes 7.50 and below. old-crop lambs unsold. Other receipts: 12,000 cattle, 300 calves, 500 sheep.
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