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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1949
Page
7
Classified brief lists several room rental options including a single or double vacancy at Fairfax Inn. Also notes large front furnished heated room for a woman, a bedroom with board, and rooms with or without meals. Contact numbers and box write-in details provided.
An ad notes a concrete stove silo in Marietta designed to endure with a refrigerator style door always in place and directs readers to contact agent R. Lee Barney of Gainesboro Virginia. Also lists a stray cattle notice: five cattle strayed to Bailey Farm at Stephenson.
Consignment very heavy with prices for cattle and hogs varying by grade. Dairy cows top at 250 per head, stock cows up to 190, hogs 21 to 21.45 for choice weights, lambs up to 26.10, calves to 34-36 for weights, and cattle mostly steady to higher on good quality stock.
Agriculture Department Markets Division lists U S Grade A extra large eggs at 43 cents and large at 41 cents with other grades shown. Live poultry prices include heavy breed hens at 32 to 34 cents, leghorn broilers high, rock cross and red broilers varied, and young turkey hens at 51 cents and toms at 50 cents per pound, with additional items noted for No 1 quality and fob producer farms.
The listing shows daily corrected prices for flour corn meal grain and feeds at retail. Items include 25 lb bags of flour prices around 6.30 for corn meal 10 lb and 5 lb bags and various per bushel values for oats barley and yellow corn alongside egg mash cracked corn and turkey feeds with ranges from about 1.30 to 5.00 per unit.
Chicago markets report opening grain prices softer with wheat corn and oats bidding lower. Soybeans fall across contracts, while lard shows weakness at the start.
Market notes show steady apple prices with several varieties up to 4.00 per box and receipts liberal. Poultry and eggs are barely steady with mixed weights and colors. Cattle, hogs, and sheep quotes are listed across markets in Baltimore Chicago and other hubs with limited demand and mid to lower bids.
Faint revival signs appear as gains and losses mix in early trading. General Motors dips on 3000 shares then trims losses. Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, U S Rubber and others rise. Losses include Goodyear, Farnsworth Television, American Telephone, Kodak and Barnsdall Oil amid a downbeat note.
Prices for cows, cutters, and mixed stock ranged 12.50 to 15 for cows and cutters, 15 to 15.50 for mixed grades, and 19.25 to 21.50 for medium to good bulls. Vealers brought 28 to 34, with several loads 800 to 850 pounds in breeding steers at 19.50 to 20.25. Salable sheep numbered about 3000 with bids around 22 to 22.50 for choice wooled lambs, ewes at 11.50 to 13, and heavy fat ewes 8 to 9. bucks 8.50.
Attendees included Rev William Eisenberg Mr William Stine Rev Harry H Schmidt and Mr B H Hamman of Winchester. The service at St James Lutheran church near Fisher's Hill was led by Rev D W Zipperer with assistance from Rev R H Anderson of Roanoke. Interment followed beside her late husband Dr Charles A Freed former Grace Lutheran pastor in Winchester.
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