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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1939
Page
9
Market notes from Baltimore and Philadelphia dated July 1. Livestock and produce prices show slight shifts across cattle hogs and calves with notes on market closures for July 3 and 4. Eggs butter and produce continue steady amid holiday timing, while Chicago reports a dull week with unsettled hog and cattle pricing.
The New York market shows timid buying and a firmer close as unease over European war talk eases. Trading is light with about 200000 shares moved in two hours and many players away for the Fourth of July. Sterling holds at 4 68 1 8 as senators aid devaluation and stabilization fund expires. Selected stock quotes include Am Rad 11 1 2 Am Smel 38 1 2 AT T 158 Anaconda 22 5 8 B and O 4 1 2 Bethlehem 52 1 8. Chrysler 67 7 8 Con Edison 29 3 4 Corn Prod 61 3 8 Gene Elec 33 1 4 Gear Motors 41 7 8 Goodyear 25 3 4 Int Har 55 J Manville 68 Kennecott 31 1 2 Republic Steel 14 Southern R 13 3 8 SO of NJ 41 1 2 Texas Corp 36 1 4 U S Steel 44 7 8 Va Car pid 19 7 8 Western union 18 Woolworth 46 1 2.
Notices announce bank closures on Monday July 3 and Tuesday July 4 as legal holidays. Maturing paper will be payable on Wednesday July 5, 1939. Signatories include J H Yost cashier Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co John I Sloat cashier Commercial and Savings Bank Harold G Brown cashier Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
The Star presents daily market summaries with prices and trends. Readers are advised that typographical errors are possible and no responsibility is assumed for such mistakes.
The notice lists Patent Brand bag prices by bag size and per barrel with a mix of feed types. It includes references to mixed young chickens Leghorn fowls and broilers with price figures such as 1.50 to 1.65 and 1.40 to 1.50.
Frederick County transfer records show Newton H Burkhart et al to N Obelia White for land on Woodstock lane with $10 and other valuable considerations. Mamie V Foreman and husband to Lee Rogers for two Shannon Hill addition lots near Winchester with $10 and other valuable considerations. The document also notes a Supreme Court claim about Bell and the telephone decided March 19, 1888 upholding Bell as the first inventor.
The Lake town plans an odor test by sending a committee to St. Louis Michigan to sniff around refineries as part of evaluating an $80 000 oil refinery proposal.
Frederick county farmers may obtain pulverized ground limestone at $1.65 per ton plus 70 cents delivery under the Agricultural Conservation Program. Eligible farmers can receive up to 90 percent of their soil building allowance with no cash outlay, deducting $2.35 per ton from the allowance and earning a $2 per ton credit for using the material. Details from the county agent.
The FBI states there are approximately 20 000 hotels in the United States across the country.
By virtue of an attachment in my hands in the matter of H. S. Larrick vs W. T. Hayden I will offer for sale at public auction at No 23 E Piccadilly Street Winchester Virginia July 10 at 10 A M the following described personal property of the defendant to wit 1 lot of dishes and glasses 1 ice refrigerator case 1 pair scales 1 cash register tables and chairs Terms of Sale CASH. Taylor L Barr City Sergeant. 7 1 3 5 7 8-5t
Chicago reports tumble in wheat and other grain prices as harvesting expands in the southwest and bearish estimates loom. Closing futures show July wheat at 69 7 8 to 70, with nearby contracts edging lower. cash grain in Chicago lists multiple No. 1 to No. 4 grades across wheat corn oats with varied prices.
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