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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1948
Page
2
The ad promotes Modern Writing a new guide showing model forms for business social and children's letters with a table on addressing important personages. Send twenty cents postpaid to the Information Bureau Winchester Evening Star Washington D C for a copy.
Grimes Virginia reports a funeral in nearby W Va and social visits around Winchester. The White Hall church site society met at the Orndorff home with several local residents visiting and moving between Apple Ridge and Lerore areas.
Sales directory listing postponed sale for Marjorie I. Shreck Greenspring on Road household items. February 12 1 p m H Ray Butler Route 522 West Alb in Machinery harness hay. February 25 10 a m Gilbert Roy stone half mile east of Berryville Route 7 horses cattle hogs sheep farm machinery.
In New York today small price movements dominate in early trading. Big names like American Telephone, General Electric, and National Distillers led gains while Bethlehem Steel, Illinois Central, Radio Corp. and Northern Pacific lagged. Commercial paper rates rose to 1 3 8 to 1 1 2 percent.
Local markets list daily corrected prices for flour corn meal and grain products. No. 2 red winter wheat delivered in city at 5.00 per bushel. No. 2 yellow ear corn 2.50 per bushel. Barley 1.75 per bushel. Soy beans 2.40 per bushel. Feeds and butter prices shown with wholesale and retail ranges.
Baltimore market reports cattle hog sheep and calves with price ranges for steers heifers cows bulls and feeder stock. Chicago observations note weekly changes and bid levels for fed steers yearlings calf-club stockers and vealers.
U S Grade A extra large .48 per doz for eggs and Grade A large .46 with standards .42 and pullets .42. Live poultry prices in Winchester area include heavy breed hens 30-31 cents per lb, Leghorn hens 20-21, broilers various weights from 24 to 36 cents per lb, old roosters 16-17. Guineas 35 each, hens 48, young toms 38. Star subscription discount ends January 31.
A humorous New York column shares a child freckle missing from a girl and the narrator juggling predicaments with other people’s kids. It includes reflections on childhood imagination and a dachshund named Hal and Charley and a tale of freckle longing.
William C. Foster outlines calls for an oil embargo as a remedy to the fuel crisis. A committee report urges banning imports to curb shortages while noting the United States relies heavily on foreign oil. A stray personal riff appears in the text about mailing a freckle and a chocolate bar.
An advertisement from R. G. Hengeveld General Insulating Corp touts BLOWN ROCKWOOL as a solution to cut heating costs by up to 40 percent. It offers no obligation estimates and a 36 month payment option.
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