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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1950
Page
7
Market rounds up farm produce and livestock notes from Baltimore and Chicago. Prices cited include peaches potatoes eggs and butter with measured changes, plus cattle calves and hogs trading at varied levels across regions.
The New York market edged higher but trades moved slowly with gains mostly under 50 cents. Rails and motors drew interest yet overall progress remained limited as Congress wrestles with war tax and controls. Notable gainers included General Motors Studebaker U S Steel and Dow Chemical while bulky decliners featured Packard Sears Consolidated Edison Gulf Oil and Philip Morris. BondObligations rose slightly with U S Governments steady in OTC dealings.
A jumble of 1921 style classified notices requesting female help sought for travel jobs and sales work, house care, child care, and light domestic tasks. Additional postings seek a home, a dairy buyer, a trailer, a wheel cart trailer, and a purebred stud finance. Listings include contact details and times.
Classified notices show multiple job ads in Winchester and Staunton areas. Listings include a car required sales post at Sherwin Williams 28 E Piccadilly St Winchester VA, wage offers near 100 weekly, bricklayers at Fireproofing Co Staunton VA, farm or orchard help by January 1, and cashier clerk positions. Also notes on male aggressive sales rep and a hospital plan staff representative.
The listing shows prices for corn meal white and yellow 5 and 10 lb, 1.21 to 0.55, various feeds and butterfat wholesale, plus a stray Q&A noting most birds have eyes on the sides except the owl whose eyes face forward.
G and M Music Center at 38 West Boscawen Street Winchester invites 25 students to join day or evening accordion classes starting immediately. Private instruction offered to beginners and experienced players.
Salable cattle 13,000 and calves 400 with steady loads. steers mostly 29.50 to 32.00, medium to low good 25.00 to 29.25, heifers 24.00 to 32.00, cows 16.50 to 23.50, bulls 23.00 to 32.00. Salable sheep 1,000, lambs 27.00 to 28.00 top, yearlings firm 22.00 to 23.75, slaughter lambs 27.00 to 28.00, slaughter owes 9.00 to 11.50.
More than fifty musicians bore the Bach name. Johann Sebastian Bach was the greatest of them all.
Opening prices show mixed signals across grains with Whet Sep at 2.2414 and Dec 2.28, soybeans around 2.51 for Nov and 2.55 for Mar, and lard futures near 14.4 to 14.85 with various Sept Oct positions. Market activity appears muted as traders assess early levels.
The Agriculture Department and Frederick County Farm Bureau publish tomorrow’s egg market rates with U S Grade A eggs priced 48 cents for extra large and 46 cents for large. Medium at 38 cents and B large at 38 cents. Poultry prices in Winchester area include heavy hens at 60 cents, leghorn hens at 40 cents, broilers up to 54 pounds at 34 to 37 cents, and turkeys duck and other fowl priced per pound. The article also notes sugar storage questions noting aging hardens sugar and does not improve quality.
The Patent Office of the U S Department of Commerce keeps a public register of patents available for license or sale. It currently lists about 70 000 patents across a wide range of classifications.
The fishing settlement that grew into Atlantic City dates to 1780. In 1854 the Camden and Atlantic Railroad reached the city and it was incorporated that year as Atlantic City.
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