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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1940
Page
10
Baltimore dated report lists livestock and produce quotes with apples and potatoes unchanged. cattle and calves steady to strong with top prices noted. hogs mostly steady across weights. sheep and lambs weaker from week ago. Poultry and ducks marked with varying regional prices and limited sales.
Stocks close mixed with Al Chem near 148 and Woolworth at 31.14 while Penn R R slips to 18 and U S Steel at 54. Prices for Philadelphia produce list flour at 4.40 to 5.60, butter 28 to 31 cents, and eggs firm at 4.868 cases. Chicago hog values hover near six year lows as market conditions test supply. Poisonous snakes noted as few in Maine New Hampshire and Vermont.
Chicago markets show wheat closing fractionally higher after wandering through a wide range. Cash grain reports list No 1 yellow corn 65-66, No 2 64-64½, No 1 white 76, with July wheat 80 to 79½, Sept 80½-44, Dec 81½-12. Maryland scene notes soprano Mary Garden born in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Burial rites for Miss Janie Holliday daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Robert Holliday will be held at Mount Hebron Cemetery tomorrow at 3 o clock. She died yesterday in Bedford Virginia and was raised in Winchester where her family lived for many years.
Lawrence C. Hollis advertised a first mortgage loan on improved Winchester real estate. Publication date June 15, 1931.
The city had roughly 360,000 residents when the 1906 earthquake and fire struck. About 250,000 people were left temporarily homeless, with many displaced by the disaster.
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