Market Slump Hits Major U S. Industrials And Automakers
New York stock losses exceed $1 a share as most issues fall. Only a few gains appear. Notable declines include U S Steel Republic Steel General Motors Chrysler Studebaker Montgomery Ward Boeing Zenith Radio Radio Corp American Telephone Dow Chemical Du Pont General Electric International Paper Santa Fe Sinclair Oil Gulf Oil. Railway bonds steady and U S Governments move narrowly in over the counter dealings.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Republic Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Studebaker
Montgomery Ward
Boeing
Zenith
Radio
Radio Corp
American Telephone
Dow Chemical
du Pont
General Electric
International Paper
Santa Fe
Sinclair Oil
Gulf Oil
U. S
Agriculture Dept. Today’s Egg Market Report
The Agriculture Department releases today’s egg market update amid farm trade activity. No further details are provided in the readable fragment.
Baltimore Market Report Shows Mixed Prices Across Produce and Livestock
Produce markets show limited supplies with quotes barely steady for potatoes and Jersey and Porto Rican sweet potatoes. Egg and poultry demand remains light with receipts moderate. wholesale butter and egg prices listed. Cattle and hog markets steady to higher with varied cattle prices and strong feeder activity. hogs see gains in early trading and mixed weights.
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Baltimore
Eastern Shore
Usis
N. J
Bkts
Bu Hpr
N. C
Livestock Prices Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep Reported
Chicago market shows hogs active and higher for butchers with top at 23.75 for short loads and various weight ranges. Cattle volume 11,000 with steers and heifers steady to higher, top steer price 33.00 at 1,185 pounds, cows and bulls scarce with gains. Sheep 1,000 with native lambs firm to 50 cents higher, top 28.50, ewes steady and yearlings weak to lower.
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Baltimore
USDA
Chicago
Regulation fixes hunting season for mink opossum raccoon
The Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries adopts a statewide open season from October 15 to January 31 for mink opossum and raccoon. In National Forest areas season runs November 20 to January 5, with Grayson County raccoon season starting November 20. All conflicting regulations are rescinded and the rules take effect July 15, 1950. Beverley W. Stras Jr., Chairman.
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Richmond
Virginia
National Forest
Grayson County
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Beverley W. Stras, Jr
Local Market Prices From The Star Listing
Daily corrected retail market items include flour corn meal in yellow and white varieties, corn meal in multiple quantities, No 2 yellow corn, barley, cracked corn in 100 lb bags, mixed feed, egg mash, bran, butter and butterfat, with prices noted in list form. The column presents retail and wholesale figures with occasional typographical errors.
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The
Star
Manseeaane
Teighety Cigs Broilerman
Grain prices surge at opening on Chicago Board
Chicago grains rise sharply at the opening bell with wheat soybeans corn oats and rye showing notable gains. Futures across the board advance with July and September contracts posting higher prices and several grains trading mixed within ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Trade
Bernard Shaw Shuns Birthday Celebrations
London report says George Bernard Shaw, turning 94 on July 26, asks friends and readers not to celebrate or mention his birthday. He is mailing unsigned cards urging recipients to avoid letters cakes telegrams or flowers, stating he cannot acknowledge such greetings and fears a yearly barrage.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Three Die, One Critical in Warren Love Triangle Shooting
In Warren Ohio a love triangle ends in death and injury. Donald Snyder killed Helen Bokan and Michael Bokan before taking his own life. Michael Rowan, the surviving former husband, is in critical condition as details unfold.
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Warren, O
Michael Rowan
Helen
Donald L. Snyder
Michael E. Cristo
Snyder
Bokan
Bokans
Parade Watcher Survives Narrow Fall During Springfield Parade
Henry Lefeave, 46, watching a parade, fell from a third floor hotel window but clung to a flag pole and sign bracket before dropping ten feet to a chain support. He was rescued through a second story window as hundreds looked on from 40 feet below during the Ameets state convention parade.
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Springfielde Mass
Henry Lefeave
Lefeave
Pluto size compared to Earth by Kuiper measurements
Pluto's diameter is about 3 600 miles while Earth's equatorial diameter is about 7 926.7 miles. Pluto's mass is roughly one tenth that of Earth.
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Pluto
Earth
Gerard P. Kuiper
Britain Moves Toward Atomic Energy for Industry
Britain advances atomic energy plans with Harwell laboratory conducting reactor component research. In a House of Commons reply, Strauss notes progress over four years in preliminary reactor planning and the completion of high voltage machines to test materials. A program for the first experimental power reactors is being prepared. prospects will be clearer with early experience.
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Harwell
Strauss
House of Commons
Miss Mary Gray Rites Planned at Centenary Church
Funeral services for Miss Mary Gray will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at Centenary Reformed Church with Dr. G. L. Flickinger officiating. Interment follows at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Survivors include her brother Charles W. Gray of Memphis and several nieces and nephews. The body will be moved to the late home at 9 a.m. tomorrow for visitation.
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Reformed Church
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Order of Eastern Star
Charles W. Gray
Memphis
Tenn
Robert L. Gray
London
Engle
Harry C. Stouffer
Winchester
Alexandria
Allen B. Gray
Inchester
F. Carlin Gray
Ashington
D. C
E. Louise Gray
Wyatt Richard
Centenary Reformed Church
L. Flickinger
Mount Hebron Cemetery
William Hollis
George Swartz
J. H. Yost
John L. Kater
Wilbur Johnston
Harry Copenhaver
Bank Promotes Miss Leona Krouse to Assistant Cashier
Miss Leona Krouse has been named assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Berryville. She succeeds Norman C. Scott, who resigned to become cashier and trust officer for the Mountain National Bank in Clifton Forge Virginia. Miss Krouse has 20 years with the Berryville bank and has held clerk and bookkeeper roles.
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Leona Krouse
First National Bank of
Berryville
Norman C. Scott
Mountain National Bank
Clifton Forge
Krouse
Berryville Bank
Pope
Ernest Bowers Buried Today
Funeral services were held today at the Conkcville Church for Ernest Bowers 46 brother of Milton Bowers Middletown who died Friday night at his home near Mount Clifton The text notes this obituary placed amid a report on the first western irrigation project completed by the U S Bureau of a leading into a different topic
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Conkcville Formed
Ernest Bowers
Milton Bowers
Middletown
Mount Clifton
U. S
Bureau of A
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Nehi Bottling CO
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