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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1940
Page
11
Prices list for short patent flour and multiple feed goods including 12 and 24 pound bags per barrel. Also shows live livestock quotes such as turkeys, cows, calves, hogs, lambs, and eggs with varied percentage ranges and unit weights. Local detail notes price points for creamery butter and various grain products.
Judy Garland shares a personal salad recipe featuring green peas and olives with French dressing. The instructions describe mixing olive oil vinegar and salt, then adding chopped garlic and seasonings, letting it rest, and shaking before serving with a wooden fork and spoon.
Market quotations from Baltimore Chicago and Philadelphia show mixed cattle hogs and sheep with steady to firmer tones in various categories. Pricing details list dozens of weight classes for hogs calves sheep and poultry along with butter eggs and poultry prices in early trading.
Chicago and Baltimore grain markets show futures demand reversing trend with near day highs for corn. Wheat futures closed near the day’s best. cash grain quotes list various No. grades for wheat corn oats barley and soybeans plus seed and price ranges in Baltimore and Winchester markets.
Stock market activity was uneven with leaders unable to gain momentum as prices drifted lower on balance. Transfers ran around 700000 shares for the session while selected quotations at 2 pm showed mixed results across major issues including U S Steel Goodyear Sears and Union Pacific.
Boston on December 17 reports very little demand for new domestic wools with slow activity in Worsted foreign wools. Domestic quotations remained nominally steady as odd lots of original bag and territory wools sold occasionally at about 97 cents to 1.00 per pound scoured, with some lots as low as 0.95 to 0.97.
Judy Garland in a bright kel ly green wool dress with unpressed pleats and a flared skirt wears a black suede belt and bonnet shaped hat. Diana Lewis models lucite pumps with red trimming and matching bag for Go West. Ruth Hussey favors midnight blue tailored suit with jeweled lapel motif.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1303 B offers a loose fitted house dress for sizes 36 through 52 with back belts and side belts. The pattern promises easy assembly in a few hours using percale chambray or seersucker with ric rac trim. Also announced is a new Spring Fashion Book arriving in two weeks, 15 cents for the pattern and 25 cents forPattern and Book together.
The practice traces to ancient Greeks and Chinese rites where salt signified sacredness and misfortune followed its spill. The superstition influenced Leonardo da Vinci who sets an overturned salt cellar before Judas Iscariot in The Last Supper as an ill omen.
Harold Schaefer of Baltimore arrived in Winchester to take over as manager of J. W. Grove Furniture Co. Pecps at 123 125 South Loudoun street. C. B. Hess, the former manager, is no longer connected with the firm.
Justice A avers heard three cases at the county courtroom. Oscar Schaubode and Charles Hechtiog faced charges. Ibert Brumback and William H. Williams appeared on separate matters including speeding with fines noted as nine dollars and twenty five cents.
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