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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1941
Page
10
Livestock and produce markets compile price ranges for produce potatoes sweet potatoes poultry eggs butter and meat. The report notes steady hog and cattle prices with mixed gains and declines across regions including Baltimore Chicago and Philadelphia.
Stock quotations at 2 PM show values for Al Chem 160 Am Can 91 1 2 Am Rad 7 Am Smel 42 AT and T 166 7 8 Anaconda 25 1 4 B and O 4 1 8 Bethlehem 83 1 2 Chrysler 66 3 4 Con Edison 22 3 8 Corn Prod 46 Genl Cigar Genl Elec 34 1 2 Genl Motors 45 Goodyear 19 1 8 Int Har 50 1 4 J Manville 61 Kennecott 34 3 8 M Ward 37 1 2 Natl Dairy 13 3 8 N Y C 13 7 8 Packard 3 1 8 JC Penney 84 1 2 Penn R R 23 3 8 Republic Steel 20 1 4 Sears Roebuck 76 1 2 Southern R 12 5 8 SO of NJ 34 Texas Corp 37 5 8 Union Pac 82 U S Steel 65 3 4 Va Car Chem 2 1 4 Va Car PFC 26 Western Union 21 1 4 Woolworth 33 1 8
Chicago today sees wheat near 81 cents for new crop contracts July and September, lowest this year and down from last year. Cash grain shows varied bids across wheat corn and oats while Baltimore lists prices for wheat 94 cents and corn 60 cents per bushel with mill deliveries. Laurel root touted as substitute for French briar in pipe making in western North Carolina.
Classified listings show numerous rental offers including rooms and apartments at addresses such as 411 N Loudoun St 382 National Ave and 20 Peyton St plus small houses and bungalows like 309 S Braddock and 321 S Kent. Additional notices include an auction sale of registered hogs at Winchester Stockyards and listings for typewriter welding gear and poultry farm sales and offers from Virginia Apple Storage and Trail's End Poultry Farm.
Manufacturer seeks married local man to sell a new safety device line to customers, schools, and public institutions. No high pressure required. Earnings include commissions plus service-based regular customers. Write details of experience to Manager, Factory P O Box 983 Dayton Ohio City.
The account notes Ponce de Leon landed in Florida in 1513 while seeking eternal youth. He failed to find a magical spring and died unaware the land would later contribute to longer life and industrial progress.
Duell Glover and Miss Jean Shryock won first and second prizes in Turner Ashby Chapter contest for essays and poetry. Both seniors at Handley. Exercises at 2:45 p m honored General Lee and General Jackson. Turner Ashby members attended. This year主题 focused on Stonewall Jackson.
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