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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1936
Page
7
Baltimore and Chicago livestock prices mixed with steady cattle and higher beef cow values. Hogs 35-50 lower. good to choice 140-260 lb hogs 9.65-9.75. calves 7.50-13.50. sheep steady to firm with feed lambs 9.75 down. market notes include poultry and grain prices with various small lots and commodities.
The Star lists local wholesale and retail prices for flour brands Crystal and Magnolia, including 98 lb and 48 lb bags, corn meal, scratch feeds, and dairy feeds. It covers prices per barrel or per 100 pounds, plus butter and meat product prices for market calves, sheep, cows, and veal, with retail rates for 98 and 48 and 24 and 12 pound bag sizes.
Market mixed with gains in lead, nonferrous metals, mining, gold, oil and farm shares while utilities and blue chips faced profit taking. Foreign exchange rose against the dollar as Bank of France cut discount rate to 4 percent. 2 p m quotes list industrials and tech names with notable moves in Am. Tel & Tel, Gen Electric, Chrysler, General Motors and Woolworth.
Chicago and Baltimore grain markets show May wheat down modestly as talk of ample July carryover weighs on pricing. May wheat near 1.01 1/8, July around 0.88 3/4 to 0.89, corn and oats easing, with lard and belly futures mixed. Cash quotes report no May wheat sales in Chicago, while grain prices vary by grade and delivery region across Chicago and Baltimore markets.
The Virginia House of Delegates received notices of contests to the elections of H. M. Sutherland and H. M. Bandy, both Democrats, filed by Republican opponents. The session also announced appointments to various state offices and commissions, including a proposed $100 monthly minimum salary for all state office employees and expansion of the secondary highway system to smaller towns.
Free Vicks Colds Control plan distributed in Winchester for homes with a three step guide to building resistance warding off colds and shortening illnesses. Tested in clinics among 14702 people and used by millions. request a free trial package by writing to Wicks 603 Milton St Greensboro N. Adv.
A five member Senate committee, three from the majority and two from the minority, is formed to study all executive branch activities for overlaps and potential consolidation or abolition. It may hold hearings, compel witnesses, and report by 1937 with recommendations while spending up to 50,000 dollars from the Senate contingent fund.
Miss Helen Paine of Edison Nebraska trials 1936 fashion at a milliner counter. Her quick look changes and a fresh design impression headline the scene as the parade of new styles unfolds.
Judge Williams in the Frederick county circuit court appointed Dorothy McCann Rice and W H Edmonson as deputy treasurers. The two will serve under the county treasurer in Frederick. The action formalizes their roles and outlines their new duties.
Sherman and others conducted a sale of horses cattle and a small amount of farm machinery netting about $500 in total.
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