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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1954
Page
6
The Star lists classified reader ads at 4 cents per word per day with no limit on insertions. Display ads in classified columns cost 1.75 dollars per column inch per day with a minimum charge. Out of town ads require cash. Ads arriving before 10 am may appear in the same day issue.
A collage of sale notices and help wanted blurbs from a local classifieds page. Items include camp trunks plant nursery stock and furniture, household appliances, and real estate, with several help wanted postings for waitresses and office staff. Names include A N Store, Murray's Plant Nurseries, Shenandoah Realty, W. B. Snider & Son, and Greyhound Restaurant along with multiple contact numbers.
Have your fur coats restyled by Leddy Furriers for 39.50 with free estimate by Terminix Company a leading termite control service. Terminix highlights a million dollars in resources and bonded insured contracts with authorized rep E W Armstrong Co. Contact 4643 for appointments.
Lost yellow rimmed reading glasses near the A&P Store with return requested. A found small female Terrier on S Stewart Street described as black head and black with white spots, contact SPCA at 8616. Card of thanks from Marion H Anderson for get well and sympathy messages after wife’s death with date June 7, 1911.
Market tone steady for No 1 fowl f.o.b. farm and broilers. Demand fair to good with off quality discounted. heavy hens barely steady. Farm prices end noon today. turkeys, breeders, and young birds listed. Harrisonburg and Winchester egg markets show U S Grade A to C with variations in large, medium, small sizes and cracks noted.
Slight advances in a moderate early market as Diamond T Motor Car shares climb 5 8 points on 1500, Burlington Mills gains 1 4 on 3900, with U S Steel Chrysler Boeing and others higher. Losses include General Motors International Harvester United Aircraft DuPont and International Paper as corporate bonds hold steady.
Chicago Board of Trade trading opens with small price moves as traders await new crop wheat offerings this week. Prices shown for wheat corn oats rye soybeans lard and various futures reflect early breadth, while regional quotes for No 2 yellow corn and barley indicate modest shifts amid harvest expansion.
The Baltimore market notes fruit and produce prices with Stayman apples around four to five dollars for large lots and strawberries at 12 to 15 cents per quart. Potatoes and sweet potatoes show varied pricing by region and packaging. Live poultry trading is light. USDA cattle offerings total about 1,600 head with mixed prices for steers, cows, and calves, plus hogs with sparse sales and price ranges across weights.
USDA market report from Chicago lists hogs with weights 120 to over 550 pounds at 15.50 to 26.56 top, noting lighter weights and sows. Cattle and calves show salable totals around 19,000 with prime steers 26.00-27.00 and high choice at 20.75-25.00. Sheep and lambs price ranges include good to prime lambs 24.00-26.50 and ewe notes, with cull and utility grades included.
Brick 6 room house with oil heat and garage on Rt. 11 one mile south in good condition. Priced to sell. Browne Real Estate phone 7441 or 4269.
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