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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1938
Page
9
Baltimore and Philadelphia market notes show produce, poultry, eggs, and dairy prices. Livestock in Baltimore and Chicago reflect steady to higher trades, with cattle, hogs, and sheep ranges and notable price spreads across weights and grades.
New York June 8 stock market edged higher on light offerings with gains to fractions and more than a point late. Aircraft and electrical equipment led buys while rails drifted in a mixed bond market as traders await mid year cues.
Local markets report daily prices with a note that the Star isn't responsible for typographical errors. Short wholesale market listing shows patent brand 24 lb bags per barrel and 112 lb bags per barrel with price £95 5.15.
Chicago wheat futures fall as late export prospects and clear loan signals cloud trading. Increased wheat arrivals from the southwest, notably Fort Worth, add pressure while cash grain offers list mixed No 1 and No 2 corn and soybeans with modest shifts.
A council discussion centers on a license tax for trades such as plumbing electric work heating masonry carpentry plastering and painting. The plan aims to protect individuals already paying the license while preserving contractor obligations and enforcement potential cited by C P McVicar revenue commissioner. The current law risks forcing workers out of jobs if applied rigidly and may be easily evaded by defining who is a contractor.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt heir to a vast fortune and racing enthusiast wed Miss Manuela Hudson in a Sands Point ceremony. The couple plans a Maryland home near Sagamore Farm as Vanderbilt continues his prominent role in horse racing.
The council approved first and second readings giving the city manager authority to grant building permits for frame structures within limits. Drainage concerns were sent to the street and sewer committees. Several permit requests and repairs were referred to committees for action, including sewer service for a new apartment and a packing shed project.
Destruction widened as rescue squads struggled to reach victims. Sirens and door-to-door alerts spared few, while hospitals lost power for refrigeration. Government buildings, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, and the cement works suffered heavy damage amid 31 raid planes.
Cattle supply normal with steers topping. fat heifers to 8.10 and fat cows to 7.00. Fresh cows and springers 40 to 78 per head. Veal calves top 10. Hogs include top butcher 9.40 and packer bulk. Shoats up to 10.25 cwt and pigs 3.25 to 5.00 per head. Lambs top 9.70 with light buck lambs to 17.85. fat ewes 2.75 to 3.50 per cwt.
The sixty sixth annual session of the Synod of the Potomac Evangelical Reformed Church convenes at Hood College Frederick Maryland starting next Monday evening. Retiring president Rev William J Lowe of McConnellsburg Pennsylvania opens with a sermon followed by communion and officer elections for 1938 39.
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