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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1944
Page
7
A lengthy redemption tax sale listing details numerous properties across streets and avenues, naming owners or claimants such as Beatty, Corliss Realty, and others. The dense catalog records lot numbers, block designations, and vacancies, reflecting a municipal process to redeem or liquidate parcels amid urban redevelopment.
Stocks posted uneven gains in a cautious session with Sinclair Oil reaching a new 1944 peak but failing to sustain the advance. Granite City Steel also hit a new year high as war news remained constructive for sentiment. Major issues like General Motors and U S Steel led the upside while many names drifted with mixed turnover and modest gains.
Canyon City reports a 50 year old tree with walnut sized sour apples that refuse to drop. The tree stands 12 inches in diameter and bears hard apples each year that stay on the branches through spring before turning brown and sweet. Birds flock as locals react to the unusual fruit and its persistence.
May 20 New York price report shows flour steady with spring patents at 3.65 to 4.15 per 98 pounds, rye flour 3.33 to 3.63, cornmeal 2.85 to 3.39. butter firm with OPA prices for bulk butter in cartons and creameries. eggs weak with mixed color wholesale ranges and various grade quotations.
Readable fragments show a stock and poultry market roundup with numerous tickers and percentages. Highlights include Chrysler, Gen Motors, General Foods, DuPont, Goodyear, Boeing, Union Carbide, and US Steel, with prices and percent changes. The text lists many company names, values, and categories, plus poultry live and dressed prices and a general average.
A curb market report quotes Foster and Adams noting mixed conditions. sharp advances in certain produce amid slow temperatures. Prices show tomatoes, cabbage, radishes, and celery fluctuating. various fruits and vegetables listed with bid and asked ranges and units.
The Price Panel of Renase County Troy City Rationing Board announced a survey of 30 retail outlets to determine if bottled soft drink prices exceed the frozen level. Attaches noted no price increases are allowed for bottles kept on ice, including junked bottles, with enforcement aimed at preventing overcharges.
Michael Sailsoury aged Ave months has been chosen as a model for baby clothes in the Montgomery Ward catalogue. His parents Mr and Mrs Virgil Sailsbury notify his grandmother Minnie Clark that he now holds a Social Security Card and pays income taxes.
Fayetteville Arkansas coach Bud Tomlin, assistant football mentor at the University of Arkansas, demonstrated a hole in one during a golf class. He urged players to imitate his swing, then struck the ball on the third tee and watched it roll toward the distant green.
Hoosick Falls sends 37 selectees to service. Army group to Fort Dix. Navy contingent to Albany awaiting assignment. Leaders John A Bolbrines and Francis J McEvoy coordinate. Recipients include Walter J Herald, Thurman White, and others from Hoosick Falls area. Banquet plans for Hoosick Falls High alumni discussed. Benning St Fort Fisher sailor on furlough. obituary for Frank Brown. farewell party for Victor Sluzas joining Navy. Clean-Up Week announced with ward-by-ward schedule.
A school group touring the Metropolitan Museum of Art paused in the Egyptian Hall as a student stared at a princess mummy. The harried teacher urged the class to move on to lunch, remarking that mummies can wait but lunch cannot.
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