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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1955
Page
5
Market reports show mixed fruit vegetable and livestock prices with Maryland and Pennsylvania apples and staymen varieties up 1.25 to 3.25 per box. Poultry and eggs soft with fryers in slow trading and hens modest. Livestock futures list cattle hogs and calves with varied bids across Chicago and Baltimore markets.
Wall Street opened with slight declines in the rest of the market as aircraft stocks led a modest upturn yesterday. General Dynamics, Rockwell, Douglas, and Grumman posted gains while Sunray Oil and Mid-Continent Petroleum softened amid a mixed session.
Local market listings show grain and feed prices for Rockingham and Augusta counties with items such as No 2 Yellow Corn and Wheat per bushel along with retail flour and mash. A shooting match is announced for Mrs. Harry Fisher on January 29 near Opequon Creek with 12 gauge guns. In Memoriam notes the passing of Harry L. Settles on January 23 1944 with a message from his wife Leila Settles.
One year old female white with black spots tan around eyes. Responds to Skippy light blue collar. Last seen Sunday morning near Berryville on Senseng Road about one mile west of Millwood Pike. Reward offered. Mrs Richard E Byrd Berryville 233-1.
Local ad seeks a man with a panel truck or ability to buy one who can provide strong references for a wholesale food enterprise. J Showalter lists P O Box 223 Harrisonburg Va. 1-19-61. Also memorial note for Annie E Pugh dated January 25 1924 and written by Jesse J Pugh and Mary E Oe. 1-25-11
Chicago grains opened firm on the Board of Trade and continued to rise in rapid trading. Prices listed include Wheat Mar 2.32 3 4, May 2.21 4 3 4, Corn Mar 1.54 7 8, May 1.57 1 2 5 8, Soybeans Mar 2.77 1 2 77 1 2, others shown for different months. Lenting notes show further edge in oats rye and soy futures.
Apple movement remained fair at Appalachian shipping points on Monday with prices holding steady. Most sales were stock packed in 5 lb bags, favoring film packaging. smaller stock in 2 1/4 to 2 3/4 inch sizes, harder to sell in larger bushels but meeting export demand under the British order. Bushel Yorks fetched 2.45 and Fancy stock 3.90, with heavy unloads in 15 eastern and midwestern markets totaling about 400 thousand bushels for the week ending Jan 21. Unloads by rail approached 147 thousand and truck arrivals 245 thousand, slightly up from the prior week but down from a year ago. Yakima prices remained high with less competition from Appalachian stock.
Scientists say the human brain took at least a billion years of evolution to reach its current 3 pound mass.
Agriculture Dept notes market steady with fair demand and moderate receipts. Prices at farm for 24 hours ending noon today list live poultry entries including broilers under three pounds at 24 25 cents, over three pounds at 25 26, and various U S Grade A and B egg and turkey items with small type breeder hens and large white brown categories priced per standard units.
The article lists four U.S. Senators identified as bachelors: Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island, Richard B. Russell of Georgia, Warren Magnuson of Washington, and Henry M. Jackson of Washington.
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