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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
4
Baltimore market report lists potatoes, sweet potatoes and eggs with steady to unchanged quotes. Poultry prices show hens, toms, and ducks with minor variations, while cattle, hogs, and sheep quotes at Chicago and Philadelphia markets reflect mixed movement and steady to lower trends.
New York markets opened with speculative caution as leading stocks traded on a tight margin. Gains appeared in scattered favorites while many issues slipped fractionally. full-day transfers totaled around 600000 shares with domestic news providing little momentum.
U S Department reports South American and Australian wools of fine and half blood breeds sold at fair to strong prices in Boston. Domestic wools were mostly slow with most activity in mixed territory clips. Bulk half blood wools and some fine and three eighths blood lots sold around 97 cents to $1 per scoured pound. An accompanying Q A notes the first transcontinental bus trip in 1928 took 5 days and 14 hours from Los Angeles to New York.
Local markets show daily prices for mixed feed middling corn meal horse feed and various poultry and livestock items. Prices include creamery butter and bagged patent feeds with per bag and per hundredweight figures, followed by a quiz on the Titanic sinking and its iceberg collision details.
D A Tucker assistant horticulturist at Virginia Tech will be the guest speaker at the Mt Airy Agriculture Group meeting tonight at 8 oclock. He will discuss orchard management problems. The planned moving picture was not shown.
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