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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1937
Page
3
The market summary covers Baltimore cattle hogs sheep and calves with price ranges and trends. Notes include July 5 closing for Independence Day and regional quotes from Philadelphia and Chicago with weights and top prices for hogs cattle and lambs.
The Star lists wholesale flour prices by bag weight and brand and current feed mixes. Prices cover patent and intermediate flours, cracked corn, corn meal, egg mash, scratch feed, starter and grower mixes, dairy feeds, mixed feed, and poultry stock including old Leghorn hens and broilers.
The listing shows Patent Brand bag prices by barrel for 4 and 8 pound bags, plus 12 and 24 pound bag options. It also details assorted feed items including corn products, bran, screenings, mixed feeds, and various dairy and poultry feeds with per bag or per barrel pricing and percentages.
New York July 1 stock market gains lifted by steel shares extending a mid year rally. United States Steel led with a near two point rise while National Steel Inland Youngstown Sheet and Tube Bethlehem Republic posted fractional gains. Allied Chemical jumped over six points as broad gains spread across industrials utilities and rails with notable movers including Western Union Public Service of New Jersey Great Northern Northern Pacific Paramount Allis Chalmers American Smelters Cerro De Pasco and Pure Oil.
Chicago deliveries of wheat jumped to the limit for July contracts, up eight cents a bushel amid worries over Canadian crop damage and U S black rust. The market also showed firmer prices for corn oats soybeans and rye with July through December bids.
Market notes list lard values for July September October and December contracts and belly prices, with wheat and yellow corn quotes from Baltimore and Winchester grain markets. Wheat No 2 red spot notes domestic price and mill deliveries, while Winchester reports wheat at 1.12 per bushel and yellow corn at 1.15 per bushel.
The Inland Steel strike truce, praised by SWOC as the best settlement, is described as two parts: a faith statement restoring strikers and non-strikers, and a labor policy Inland announced. Inland claims no concessions, and notes no signed agreement, while SWOC leader Fontecchio says victory for labor. The dispute still goes to a Wagner Act hearing in Chicago.
ROANOKE July 1 State bar exams completed at Jefferson High with 172 candidates from across the state including several colored applicants. Aubrey G Weaver of Front Royal head of the board plus M B Watts of Richmond supervised. Weaver begins 26th year on the board having been appointed in 1912 by Gov. Mann. Papers will not be graded locally. results to be reviewed in Richmond. Interior of the new courthouse addition described with steel structures and fireproof vaults and offices.
The Shenandoah rivers near Riverton Va are described with South Branch muddy and North Branch cloudy indicating varied water clarity on July 1 from Front Royal observers.
Construction details show damp proof interior, steel reinforcement in floors and roof, monolithic cement floors, hand burned American brick, dry cement concrete fill on the roof with composition roofing. Three coats of interior plaster, steam heating, modern lighting and plumbing fixtures installed. Windows removed and replaced with deep new wooden units, basement added to cover.
A magistrate found the picketing at the Washington Hotel not guilty. The mayor and city council adjourned the special meeting to 2 PM to consider an ordinance regulating picketing. If approved the ordinance takes effect Monday.
Crowd at the Los Angeles central police station shouted hang him as Dow, arrested yesterday, entered the hall in manacles. He carried a woman’s handkerchief resembling one of the slain Everett girls’. A rusted roller slate key linked to the suspect was shown by Don Oliver. Jenny Vice and Mrs. Helen Diard identified him as the man seen with the victims. Funeral services for the three girls are planned today with an inquest tomorrow.
A glimpse of New York greeted a ship arriving from abroad as it neared the bay and Hudson River. The article notes the vessel surpassed the 1936 37 immigration quota by a single day, reflecting strict limits on entry.
In memory of Emma Gaskins who departed this life one year ago today July 1 1936 God speed her home but in our hearts we love her still Memory is dear today as when she was with us Daughters and Son
Magnolia Ford owner of Peggie's Beer Garden in Winchester Virginia seeks a license to sell beer and ale over 3.2 percent at 420 North Kent Street. She will appear before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on July 10 1937.
Subguards say if you do not receive the Evening Star in Winchester there is no charge for the re delivery through Postal Telegraph service.
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