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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1949
Page
12
A muted New York session left most stocks barely moved with fractional changes. Spiegel Inc and Bigelow-Sanford hit year highs while Farnsworth Television & Radio reached a new low. sales for the year to Feb 28 were about 11 percent below prior year.
Livestock prices in Cleveland on March 21 show cattle steady with various classes priced from 11 to 27 dollars. Calves hold 28 to 32 dollars, sheep and lambs demand strong with 10 to 29 dollars, and hogs up 25 cents with heavy weights around 20.50 to 21.75 dollars.
Chicago cattle hogs and sheep markets were steady. Hogs ranged mostly 18.50 to 22 with top 22, cattle buyers saw steers 23 to 29 and cows 15 to 20, calves 17 to 29, stockers 19 to 24, and sheep 25 to 30 for common to good lambs.
Salable cattle 350 head steady with ranges for steers 23 to 25 dollars for good to choice, and 20 to 22 for common to medium. Heifers 21 to 23, bulls 20.50 to 23, canners 12 to 16. Salable hogs 500 head active and up about 25 cents, with per hundredweight spreads across 100 to 350 pounds from 17.75 to 22. Calves 125 head steady with good to choice 29 to 30 dollars, medium to good 22 to 23, culls 10 to 13.
Grains opened mixed with light trading on March 21. Wheat slipped modestly while corn held a steady undertone. May futures showed wheat at 2.16 and corn at 1.30 with oats mixed in today's early session.
Department of Agriculture composite market report for Cleveland lists egg prices per case for consumer grades Large AA white 59 brown 53 Large A white 52-53 brown 50-51 Medium A white 47-48 brown 45-47. Wholesale FOB Cleveland prices include Extra 1 and 2 large white 42-45 brown 42-44, medium white 40-42 brown 39-41. Live poultry FOB Cleveland: fowl colored heavy 43-45, fowl leg horn light 35-36, heavy fryers broilers 35-37, stags old roosters 22-27.
Pittsburgh rates list multiple egg grades and sizes with price ranges for Grade AA and A large and medium whites and browns, pullets, trades, dirties and checks. Prices span 40 to 56 cents per dozen across categories including extra large 55, large 51 to 56, medium 48 to 52, and pullets 42.
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A father’s complaint about two sons aged 17 and 14 returning home intoxicated led Alliance police to arrest two men. Lee Richards, 19, and Lowell Hoskins, 31, are jailed on $300 bonds. Hoskins pleads not guilty to selling liquor to a minor. Richards held for furnishing liquor to a minor. Police say Richards bought three gallons of back beer for a group of minors. one gallon drank, two gallons found hidden near Route 80. Officers praised parental cooperation in the investigation.
The Canton Junior Chamber of Commerce postpones the Bosses Night banquet at the Onesta Hotel due to illness of main speaker Leonard E Read of the Foundation for Economic Education. Read was hospitalized in Irvington on Hudson New York. Banquet will be rescheduled within a few weeks.
Perry Township officials will hold a series of meetings to explain the proposed zoning system. The first meeting is April 8 for Genoa residents at Genoa School, with a second session April 11 for Whipple Heights and West Manor residents. The zoning commission also defined classifications and clarified that zoning is not a building code. Stuart Rila of Genoa replaces Ken Hartwick on the commission.
Nancy I. Fisher, 10, of 1011 19th St NE, sustained a possible wrist fracture and severe strain after a fall at Skateland roller rink. She was treated at Aultman Hospital on Sunday, police said.
A historic look notes skating as a sport with a lineage stretching back at least a thousand years. The piece surveys early uses and the evolution of ice and roller styles.
A Canton market listing shows shares from Cobbey Shiv Dime Savings Bank First National Bank Harter Bank and Trust Ohio Ferro Al Cor Ohio Power and other local firms. Bid and asked prices range with nominal values and percent figures, reflecting a snapshot of regional finance activity.
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