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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
9
The name comes from Nahuatl where colin meant a ridge part. In Spanish the word was adapted with a soft c sound and a cedilla but the cedilla was dropped. It evolved into colin referring to the quail.
New York stock prices advanced at the open and then leveled, with gains of fractions to over a point. Chrysler jumped about two percent on strong volume after announcing a dividend increase to 1.25 a share following yesterday's close. Other leaders up included U S Steel General Motors Packard Montgomery Ward and several more. A history question asks when the United States first became a world power with historians citing 1898 after the Spanish American War.
Baltimore reports dull purchasing for apples and poultry with light receipts. Cattle quotations unchanged as supply remains tight. hogs and sheep show varied quotes with buyers cautious. Chicago and regional markets list top weights and price ranges for hogs cattle and lambs, reflecting broad market activity.
Agriculture Department Market Division reports U S Grade A extra large eggs at 87 cents, large 55, medium 48, standards 48, trades 41, pullets 41, and pewee prices. Live poultry prices show heavy breed hens four pounds and up at 29 cents, heavy breed hens four and a half pounds up to 32, leghorn hens and broilers around 23, roosters 24, young turkeys and guineas listed with varied prices for Winchester area producers.
More than 3,000 communities have enacted or amended curfew laws to keep children off streets at night in an effort to reduce juvenile delinquency, reflecting widespread adoption of nighttime restrictions.
Chicago grains opened mixed with corn slipping on disappointment over the government's reluctance to buy cash grain, while wheat and soybeans led with firmer bids. May wheat at 1 1 4 3 8, July 5 8, December 2 13 1 2. corn May 1.49 1 8 1 4, July 1.47 1 4 1 8, Sep 1.41 3 4. oats May 78 1 2, July 73 1 2, Sep 71. soy Mar 2.60 1 2 1 4. lard Mar 16.40.
Daily corrected market list shows prices for flour corn meal grain and animal feeds. The piece ends with a legal note defining next of kin as the closest blood relative for matters of inheritance.
Attorney in Fact for the Perry heirs offers 9 acre parcel near Armel along Wrights Run for public auction at the Frederick County Court House Winchester Virginia on Saturday January 15 1949 at noon Terms cash Auctioneer Coleman Dunn James P Reardon attorney in fact for William O Perry heirs.
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