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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1948
Page
5
The Winchester White Sox conducted a two hour practice with veterans Don ald Colan Lloyd Coffelt Garland Pingley Paul Anderson Donald Smith John Kendall Sam and Pete Purtlebaugh and newcomers Lloyd Smith Benny Ramacciot ti Harry Harryman Earl Kerns. Sam Ensogna announced Joseph Fisher will again serve as business manager as the Sox prepare to open the 1948 season on April 25 at Flint Hill.
For sale a five room house with outbuildings and one and a half acres land six miles from Winchester priced at 1500 dollars. Inquiries to Charles Conrad Route 3 Winchester.
A compact hearing device fit in the hand enables the deaf to hear faint sounds and enjoy sermons, music, and companionship. It requires no separate battery or bulky parts and can be self adjusted. Beltone offers free booklets and home demonstrations from Chicago Ill. writing Beltone.
In New York trading on April 5 isolated gains persisted amid light selling as tax cuts and European relief spending buoy sentiment. Coal miners’ stoppage cooled some nerves, fueling liquidation on fears of broader industry impact. Rock Island rose on dividend hopes, while Southern Railway and others showed gains and several names lagged on mixed signals.
Chicago grains started the session mildly higher with May wheat at 2.45 to 2.45 1 2 and May corn around 2.20. Oats, soy omitted. Lard May at 23.51 to 23.55.
Henry F. Seal Sr. was elected a Republican delegate to the state and district conventions, replacing John Seal, at a city and county Republican organization meeting. An advertisement offers 50 boxes of greeting cards for 26 dollars with samples on approval from Merit at 70 William St Newark NJ.
Baltimore prices show dull apples with mixed quality across Md Pa and Del. poultry eggs and butter receipts modest. Cattle steps show slaughter steers 25 to 30 with stocker and feeder cattle 22 to 25, hogs mostly 18 to 21 and sheep around 25, all ringside with varying grades and weights.
Market notes show salable hogs 9 200, 170 to 230 lb 20.75 to 21.50, 240 to 260 lb 19.50 to 20.50, cattle 12 000, calves 600, yearlings and light steers 27 to 29.50, top 30.50, two yearling lots 360 lb average, sheep 5500 with lambs 22.75 to 23. Medium to good 89 lb wool sheep also listed.
Agriculture Department Markets Division notes U S Grade A eggs at 44 cents per dozen for extra large and 42 cents for large in Winchester. Medium eggs 40 cents, standards 40, bullets 37, cracks and checks 27. Live poultry prices list No 1 quality at plants, heavy breed hens 32 to 33 cents, leghorn hens 18 to 19 cents per pound, roosters 15 to 16, rocks and cross boilers 31 to 31.9 cents per pound, red broilers 2 1/2 pounds and over not fully shown.
Leghorn broilers priced at 24 to 25 cents per pound. Old roosters and stags 16 to 17 cents. Guineas variable with young and old at 8 cents. All hen turkeys 45 cents. Young toms 35 cents. Also note a mention of a hundred thousand varieties of plants identified by scientists, indicating a surge in botanical discoveries.
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