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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1942
Page
8
Ad copy for a hair salon offering a permanent wave service at 108 E. 4th with phone number 254. The message promises a younger look and easy care with every snip, highlighting a shining halo effect from the hairstyle.
An advertisement for Anderson's Gardens promotes Candy Crisp Carrots as a premium product. The short ad emphasizes quality and appealing visuals to attract customers to the garden shop.
A blend of classified items includes land for lease 25 acres irrigated and ready for planting, personals and help wanted entries for painters and cosmetics sales, room rentals, lost item, and a political rant. Also notes Chicago dairy and poultry market details with price bids and receipts listed.
New York June 17 grease wool futures closed unchanged with July at 94.5 cents and certificated grease wool spot at 94.3 cents. Wool top futures rose 1.3 to 2.1 cents with July at 118.5 and December at 120.45. Certificated spot wool tops traded at 116.6 cents. B bid and N nominal.
This week offers a four piece blonde finish bedroom suite for 39.88 with a 48 inch plate glass mirror priced at 89.88. Hurry, sale ends this week at Watkins Furniture Store located at 129 West 2nd.
Claude Simpson addressed Ad Club members on the War On The Home Front praising Main Street merchants as unsung war heroes. He said retailers faced war-like financial wounds while civilians sustain the war through daily actions and American industry. Andy Kemper, now a second lieutenant at Fort Benning, Georgia, attended. meeting was led by John McBoyle.
Hogs salable 2 700, uneven gains 5 15 higher. Top 14.25 for 190 lbs plus. 140 180 lbs 13.60 14.10. Sows 13.00 13.85. Cattle salable 3 200. calves 600. Fed steers uneven, early sales steady with some lighter grades down. Heifers and yearlings steady to 15 higher. cows steady. Bulls firm with weight. Stockers steady. Light weights 25 lower. Steers 13.75 at 1057 lb. 12.25 13.25. heifers 13.70 13.50. yearlings up to 13.50. Vealers 12.00 14.00. Sheep salable 5 000. spring lambs opening sales 25 lower. top 15.00. good to choice 14.50 15.00.
New York stocks end with varying results as industrials show gains and rails and shippers slip. Major names include AmAir, AmCan, AmLoco, NatCash, USSteel, GM and Boeing among others with quotes in fractional points.
Cotton futures in New York rose by 1.35 to 1.45 a bale, with July at 18.31, October 138.60, December 18.73-74, January 18.80, March 18.92-93, May 19.02, and nominal middling spot at 19.84.
On June 17 Wall Street rose fractions to over two points with a broad advance led by steels motors and oils. DuPont Sears Roebuck American Telephone and Standard Oil of New Jersey climbed. Volume reached 383,700 shares as miners and energy names rose and bonds mixed.
Chicago grain notes a close with Wheat for July at 1.21 1/8, September at 1.23 3/4-5/8, December at 1.27-1.26 7/8. CCIN shows July at 1.37 1/8.
U S government bonds show Treasury 3 1/4s at 46 44, 104.7 in the unquoted list. Curb Market listings include Alum Co at 89 3/4, Carrier Corp at 5 3/8, Cities Service at 2 3/8, Humble Oil at 49 3/4, and Rem Co N Am at 67 1/2. Record want ads promise results.
Moscow reports say Soviet counter-attacks on the Kharkov front forced the German forces to abandon several lines in a sector where they attempted new positions. Red Army counter-attacks were also reported in multiple Kharkov sectors.
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