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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1947
Page
7
Classified notices advertise real estate including 22.2 acres near Middletown and various houses with prices from 2 300 to 6 600. Also listed are trailers, autos, tools, and miscellaneous goods with contact details in Winchester Virginia area during June 1951.
Multiple short notices list items for sale and rent including an ice refrigerator a oak logs a coal and gas range a 46 Chevrolet truck a Dodge pick up an upright piano a baby carriage a 38 Ford pick up a bedroom a large furnished bedroom a pasture with running water and contact details with dates and locations in Stephens City White Post Winchester Berryville and local phone codes.
Produce and livestock prices at Baltimore markets show steady to firm trends for fruit vegetables and eggs. Cattle hogs sheep and calves move with varied demand and weights, with prices listed for multiple classes and sizes.
In New York on June 10, stock trading showed caution with several major industrials falling while a few issues edged up. The market moved in a stalled pattern as dealers awaited news on coal wage talks, foreign unsettlements, and potential tax and labor policy actions. Prominent movers included Chrysler, GM, Bethlehem Steel, Dow, and International Paper, with resistors like Kennecott and International Harvester among the laggards.
Local market prices for flour corn meal grains and feeds are listed with notes on packaging and moisture. A question asks which is the best example of Grecian architecture in the United States, answering Girard College’s main building in Philadelphia designed by Thomas U. Walter.
The Berryville Millwood baseball team moved within a half game of the Blue Ridge League lead as The Plains upset Upperville 8 to 3 despite Sunday rain. Clarke Nine was set to play Paris. The Plains travel to Berryville next Sunday for a 2 30 p m game.
Mrs. W. H. Ritenour of 1293 Berryville Avenue has a coin collection found in change. A 1305 half cent, an 1884 penny, 1864 two cent piece, 1857 dime, and an 1857 quarter were noted along with a Liberty Head nickel with an unreadable date and a possible 1873 three cent piece.
Grain futures opened steady with wheat easing, corn mild, and oats higher. Wheat Jly 2.20 1 2 2.21 Sep 2.17 2 3 4 Dec 2.16 3 4 May 2.14 1 4. Corn Jly 1.87 1 8 1 2 Sep 1.73 5 8 1 74 Dec 1.58 1 8 1 4 May 1.55 1 4 Oats Jly 96 1 4 1 8 Sep 88 3 4 Dec 86 1 4 May 83 1 4 1 8 Lord Jly 1.905
A man reports ten years of stomach distress with a persistent lump of undigested food. After taking INNER-AID the symptoms vanished by the next day and bowels are regular with less gas and headaches. The product is described as a twelve-juice plant formula sold at drug stores.
Agriculture Department Markets Division lists prices paid for Federal State graded eggs F O B Winchester and prices at dressing plants in Winchester area for No 1 quality heavy hens 28c per pound leghorn hens 22c per pound heavy breed broilers 30c leghorn broilers 20c old roosters and stags 14-15c turkeys young toms 22c old hens 28-30c old guineas 2 3/4c per pound.
William Makepeace Thackeray, prominent English novelist, was born in Calcutta, India, in an event noted for literary history. The reference highlights his birthplace linking India to British literature.
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