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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1949
Page
7
Agriculture Department Markets Division lists U S Grade A extra large eggs at 53 cents per dozen and Grade A large at 51. Grade A medium 44 and Grade B large 44. Heavy breed hens at 41 to 22 cents per pound. Leghorn hens and broilers priced to 18 cents per pound. Young turkey hens 30 cents and old toms 25 cents.
A scanned market page lists retail flour and feed prices including 25 lb bags at 1.65 per unit, corn meal 10 lb and 5 lb bags, and various poultry feeds. It also includes notes on butterfat and egg mash prices, plus an entry on polygamy in Mohammedan peoples and a historical tidbit on Senator Blount's impeachment.
Public auction set for Friday July 22 1949 at 11 a.m. in the Frederick County Court House Winchester Virginia for a brick residence at 315 South Loudoun Street fronting 39.75 feet with 10 rooms bath basement and hot water heating. Terms require one third cash and two thirds via notes due one and two years later with 5 percent interest, or all cash. Prospective buyers may inspect keys and plot at Harrison Benham and Thoma 33 East Boscawen Street. Auctioneers Coleman Dunn.
New York July 7 The stock market edged ahead with a clear majority of gains though not decisive. Commonwealth & Southern steadied at 4 while U S Steel slipped 1%, a possible sign of a looming strike. Higher prices were paid for Bethlehem Steel Packard Goodrich Sears Roebuck Woolworth Anaconda Copper American Smelting Air Reduction Dow Chemical General Electric Johns Manville Southern Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Pacific Western Oil Transcontinental & Western Air. Minor losses hit General Motors Montgomery Ward J I Case Schenley American Telephone Nickel Plate and Texas Co.
Baltimore July 7 market news shows apples barely steady with slight price uptick and mixed figures for poultry including fryers and fowl. Eggs and butter receipts listed. cattle saleable at about steady to slow with varied weights and grades and stocker calves around 20 dollars.
Calves sold steady to 1 lower with top $1 below prior, vealers 22-25 good to choice. Hogs slow. light weights steady to +25c, 170-230 lb hogs 21.25-21.65, 240-260 lb 20.25-21.00, sows weaker, 350 lb and up 14.75-17.50. Sheep steady to 1 higher. spring lambs 24-25.5, 64-73 lb lambs 20, shorn ewes steady. Chicago market notes hog top 21.75, cattle 28.75 top for load high-choice. Colorado-fed steer 25.5-27.75, vealers 23-25.50. Overall salable stock totals listed with varying weight classes and price ranges.
Chicago July grain prices show wheat and oats firm as corn starts mixed. Wheat futures rise while corn displays volatility with July and September contracts quoted.
Manassas reports that John Roseberry the former manager of the Prince William Electric Cooperative will appear in Trial Justice court tomorrow to answer charges of embezzling more than 19 000 dollars. Meteor Crater near Winslow Arizona is large enough to provide space for 20 football games at once with 2 000 000 watching from the sloping sides.
The Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona spans about 750000 acres and contains the largest stand of virgin timber in the world.
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