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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1931
Page
7
Live poultry firm broilers by freight and express prices listed. Fowls by freight and express also noted. Eggs not quoted. Treasury and Liberty bond prices included with dated figures. Market figures reflect Aug 21 trading in New York.
Virginia crop shipments rise this week with 13 carloads of apples and 100 carloads of cabbage. Season totals reach 145 apples and 845 cabbage carloads, up from last year, while potatoes decline and truck hauling is not reported.
A cryptic line suggests the town’s population can be inferred from how many people observe a widow living out her days in quiet routine. Neighbors watch, count, and reflect on the scale of community life.
Chicago market notes show corn weakness spreading to cereals after a brief upturn in wheat. September corn fell 1-8 to 17-8 cents, wheat 1-8 to 3-8 off, oats mixed, and provisions mostly steady. Rain in the Ohio Valley and Canadian acreage data weighed on prices. government wheat swaps announced too late to alter today's trade. Cash grain quotes list various No. 2 red wheat and No. 1 yellow corn ranges.
The trustee will sell at public auction in front of the Winchester County Court House on Wednesday Sept 23 1931 at 11 o clock A M the property at 514 North Loudoun Street Winchester consisting of a frame dwelling on a 30 by 183 foot lot. One third cash at sale and balance in two equal annual installments with interest. Sale subject to existing deed of trust and a policy of insurance. Herbert S Larrick trustee A G Swanson auctioneer.
Richmond market prices list lard at 7.30, ribs and bellies at 6.87. Wheat No 2 red winter Va 45 50, No 3 red winter Va 43048. Corn car lots No 2 white 68, No 3 white 66, No 2 yellow 66, No 3 yellow 65, No 2 mixed 65. Oats car lots No 2 white 31, No 3 white 30, No 2 mixed 24, seed oats 40 50, Rye Abruzzi 50956.
Baltimore reports a price bid series for a red winter garlic variety labeled Whert No. 2. Noted bids include 51 at August 5 1-8, August 51 1-8, and September 51 5-8.
Baltimore August 21 report lists apples by region Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia in bushel baskets U S No 1 three inch up and price 7541.00 unclassified 40 60 varieties chicken prices Old medium 21923.
Washington market summary lists butter prints and tub prices, poultry prices for spring broilers leghorn broilers hens and roosters, with price ranges for dressed and live poultry across weights. Current receipts noted. figures reflect Aug 21 values in cents per pound.
In Philadelphia on Aug 21 dressed poultry prices list chickens at 32 40, butter at 29 91 with 26 1 2 29 and 86 88 24 1 2. Live poultry remains unchanged.
Regional market bulletin listing creamery butter, eggs, and poultry prices across Baltimore Lancaster Jersey City and Chicago. Includes cattle sheep and veal trends with steady to slower demand, top prices cited and per head or per pound ranges for each region.
On August 21 in New York the government bond market shows Liberty 3 1 28 at 102.10, Liberty 4th 4 1 45 at 104.27, Treasury 4 1 45 at 112.13, Treasury 4s at 108.7, Treasury 3 3 45 at 106.13, and Treasury 3 3 8 (1940-43) at 102.27, with quoted dollars and thirty seconds.
A fragmented passage discusses slang as a State Department code and suggests toll savings. It shifts to a controversial line about a girl harming herself and a man returning to his wife, with unclear context and no verifiable events or figures.
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