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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
32
Auction sales advertised with regular events in Wampum on Tuesdays and Pulaski on Thursdays. Managed by A. Phillip. The notice dates 1865.
Bids sealed for about 3700 tons of coal for 1940 41 at New Castle PA School District office by July 10 1940 7 30 pm. Bids on district blanks with 500 dollar certified check. bids may be lump or nut coal. John B Bechtel secretary notice dates June 18 25 and July 2 1940.
The School District of the City of New Castle Pennsylvania invites bids for science department supplies including drugs chemicals and physics and chemistry apparatus and for mechanical drawing supplies. Bids due noon July 9 1946 at the board office 116 East Street. Specifications from the secretary. Right reserved to reject any or all bids or to select a single item. John B Bechtel Secretary. Joel Hewe and Gite July 18 25 July 2 1946.
City Clerk invites sealed proposals by 10:00 a.m. June 27 1940 for materials to repave N Mercer Street between Grant Street and Lincoln Avenue. Bidders must supply a $100 certified check and enclose bids in sealed envelopes marked Street Materials. City reserves right to reject all bids. ED Brown City Clerk Legal News June 17 22 25 1940.
Auditor Charles W. Ross will hear matters in the dissolution case of Popular Catholic Union at 322 Union Trust Building New Castle Lawrence County Pa on Monday July 15 1940 at 10 00 AM Interested parties may attend and present testimony or claims in the matter heard in Lawrence County.
Executors James McConnell and Sherman J McConnell of Washington Township Lawrence County Pa announce themselves as executors of John M McConnell deceased. All debts to estate must be paid and all claims presented promptly. Hildebrand and Hildebrand attorneys New Castle Pa. Legal News May 21 28 June 4 11 18 25 1940.
Bids for maple flooring and for white lead oil and turpentine due at 7 30 P M July 10 1940 at 116 East Street. Specifications obtainable from the secretary. Legal News June 11 18 25 1940.
The County Commissioners invite sealed bids to furnish and install two electrically cooled water fountains for the Lawrence County Institution District. One fountain will go on the second floor and the other on the first floor of the courthouse. Bids due July 8, 1940 at 11:00 A.M. Eastern. Each bid must include a $50 certified check. The county may reject any or all bids. Signed Frank W. Hill, County Controller. Legal-News-June 25, 1940.
Pennsylvania announces sealed bids for two contracts Class 101 Paper Products and Twine and Class 101 Supplement A Typewriter Carbon Paper. Contracts run Aug 21 1940 to Aug 20 1941 with openings July 11 and July 10 1940. Bids due and information available from Property and Supplies office. Commonwealth may reject any bids.
County Commissioners invite sealed bids to repair cork floors in two hallways and several rooms of the Lawrence County Home including the hospital room. Bids due July 1940 with $100 certified check. contract contingent on signature and bonds. district reserves right to reject all bids. Frank W. Hill signs.
Lawrence County seeks sealed bids to buy a six cylinder four door sedan fully equipped with heater and fog lights. Bid must name maker and year and offer trade of two older Olds cars plus removal of sirens and lights. Bids due July 8 1940 at 9 06 A.M. EST with $100 certified check. county may reject any bid.
Wholesale quotes from Pittsburgh show oats No 2 white at 45 to 46 cents per bushel, corn No 2 yellow shelled 77 to 78 1/2 cents, wheat No 2 red winter 88 to 89 cents, and hay ranges for standard timothy 14.50 to 15.00 dollars with lower grades from 10.00 to 13.50 dollars per unit.
New York June 25. The stock market weakened late in the forenoon with many leaders down one to two points. Trading grew from quiet to brisk as profit-taking followed yesterday's rally. U S Steel fell two points, Bethlehem and National, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube slid, while coppers oils rubbers rails and motors stayed below last night’s close. Commodities eased with stocks. Grains slipped and cotton dipped. bonds barely moved.
Prices furnished by Kay Richards Co Union Trust Building show market movements at the noon to afternoon interval with notable shifts across several rail and industrial shares as traders react to late morning developments.
A fragmented list shows percentages tied to numerous companies across sectors including Electric Bond and Share, Electric Power and Light, Firestone, General Motors, AT and SF Assd Dry Goods, Allied Chem and Dye, Anaconda Copper, Chrysler, General Electric, Inter Harvester, Johns‑Manville, Kroger, Libby Owens Ford, Packard, and Republic Steel among others. The tally suggests varying ownership or investment figures across utilities, manufacturing, and materials firms.
The bulletin lists stock percentages for multiple firms including Reynolds Tobacco and Socony Vacuum, with percentages and figures for Std Oil brands, Studebaker, Sears Roebuck, Westinghouse, Woolworth, and others. It also details pack prices for vegetables such as Carolina 6x6, Louisiana 6x7, and Ohio produce with ranges for crates, baskets, and sacks and notes potatoes steady with various regional crop figures.
International News Service reports Pittsburgh on June 25 noting wholesale prices for poultry butter and eggs with limited supplies. Poultry ranges include heavy hens 15-18 cents, leghorn hens 13-15, leghorn broilers 18-20, old roosters 11-12, dux 13-15, young tom turkeys 14-16, red broilers 20-22, rock broilers 22-24, geese 12-14, young turkey hens 18-20. butter and eggs steady with varied grade prices and regional tomato boxes at 6x6 and 6x7 packs.
Live Stock details from Pittsburgh listing salable cattle hogs sheep and calves with price ranges and changes. Then a note from New Castle about Lord Lonsdale eighty third birthday and anecdotes of his youth and boxing.
The Carinthia, a one time luxury liner converted into an armed merchant cruiser, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U boat. The location of the sinking was not released. The admiralty reports all but two officers and two seamen were saved.
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