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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1939
Page
5
Market quotes cover live poultry and eggs in Baltimore and Philadelphia noting steady or unchanged prices. Beef, hogs, and sheep markets in Baltimore and Chicago show mixed movement with cows steady, hogs lower, and lambs softening due to storm-related activity.
A reader guidance piece explains constipation from lack of bulk in meals. It urges eating high fiber foods like Kellogg's All-Bran for breakfast, drinking water, and choosing foods that form a soft bulky mass in the intestines to ease bowel movements.
New York traders trimmed early gains as profit taking and short covering shaped a volatile session. Heavy turnover of 1.2 million shares featured steels, autos, rails and aircrafts while European markets improved on peace signals from Chamberlain and Hitler.
Chicago on January 31 reports wheat prices slipping over a cent as European political tension eases and domestic precipitation looms. Gains noted from hedge liquidations tied to government subsidies. Prices for corn oats soybeans rye and lard listed with nearby contracts.
An advertisement warns that backaches and night trips may mean kidney trouble and promotes RIS sold by Winchester, Virginia druggists. It urges not to accept substitutes and lists several Winchester stores as sellers.
New York January 31 testimony in the James J Hines policy racket trial faces a key twist as George Weinberg who shot himself last Sunday is to be discussed in court. Judge Charles C Nott Jr ruled Weinbergs prior testimony admissible and the jury will be told how he died.
Charles Edison testified before the House Naval Committee that fortifications on Guam should be unnecessary though harbor dredging and development would materially strengthen fleet defensive power. The Navy seeks 5 million dollars for Guam improvements amid questions about creating a major base near Tokyo.
Chicago cash grain prices dated January 31 show No. 2 red wheat at 73 1 2 cents, sample grade red 69, corn No. 2 mixed 50 1 4, No. 1 yellow 57 1 2, oats No. 2 white 31 1 4 to 32, soybeans No. 2 yellow 82. Baltimore market notes wheat No. 2 red winter garlicky spot 77 1 4, Winchester Wheat 75c per bushel, New corp 55c. Year ago wheat 96c, corn 60c delivered at mine.
The Ansbacher Southern Chemical Corporation passes to Central Chemical Corporation of Maryland at year start for $10 plus other terms. The deed secures $12,000 with $10,500 unpaid. includes land east of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Frederick County near the station and all rights and easements.
The court ruled the defendant's rights were not displaced by the evidence and that the parties may not have formed a legal contract. Lemley and Lockhart pursued a deal with conflicting views on terms and timing, concluding the greater weight of evidence does not prove the plaintiff's contract claim and judgment enters for the defendant.
Chamberlain urged support for the British Italian accord while praising Hitler and reporting on his Rome visit. He said no talks with Germany were planned now though commercial discussions had occurred and Mussolini sought peace to stabilize Europe. The Rome-Berlin axis remained central to Italy’s policy.
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