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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
5
Baltimore market notes show potatoes unchanged and poultry steady, with eggs, butter, and produce quoted. Philadelphia reports mixed colors and standard prices, while Baltimore livestock quotes indicate active hogs and steady to higher steers and cows with varied weights and sale totals around 13,500 live.
Boston June 26. Options on sizeable territory wools pending award of new government contracts for wool goods. Prices for options were 3 cents, secured basis, for combing three-eighths district territory wools. Spot sales of similar wools closed at about the same prices named on options.
W M C voices from the poem satirized The Winners.
The market rose slightly with no strong news. gains were modest and broad. About 500000 shares traded as mixed early quotes firmed, with many stocks posting advances by 2 p.m. including AT T Anaconda Sears Woolworth and Union Pacific amid a cautious session.
Chicago grain quotations show wheat advancing to 1.05 1.06 and nearby contracts at high levels. Closing prices list values for wheat corn oats soybeans rye and barley across July September and December deliveries with cash grain quotes and mill delivery basis.
A radiophoto caption notes confusion as the Shell Company is Dutch while oil wells refineries and storage tanks in Russia are described as the property of the Soviet government. The caption highlights mismatched national ownership claims in the era.
Kiwanis Club luncheon featured Vice-president F Grove White describing Kiwanis International convention in Atlanta. Wendell Goode brought his father Berkeley Goode as guest. W R Strader won attendance prize. Leonard Miller named a committee for the annual picnic at Pifers cabin.
The piece notes Soviet Ambassador Constantine A. Dumansky in Washington predicting Hitler’s attack on Russia will be crushed by a mighty nation of 193,000,000 people and prepared defenses. It also lists various grain and feed prices and local market items, including oats, corn meal, creamery butter, and livestock prices.
The Star states markets are correct but not responsible for typographical errors. Local wholesale market listings include a short patent Stara bag per barrel and price figures like 5:90.
A fragmentary reminiscence questions whether a real Camille inspired The Lady of the Camellias. It recalls Alphonsine Plessis, a French courtesan who died young at twenty three, with a funeral address by Gautier and a monument at Pere la Chaise cemetery.
The patron saint of the press is St. Francis de Sales. He is honored as the patron of journalists and those who work in communications.
Clarke Farmer Charles Castleman of Wickliffe was yanked from his feet and dragged when a team pulled a binder through a barn yard gate. The horses became frightened, bruising his legs as the binder rolled over him. Dr. F E Tappan treated his injuries.
The fragment references the Hawaiian Islands and a cryptic phrase about the Poalet Gwe R. B. A. with an 80 designation. No clear event or identifiable entities are readable to form a coherent news item.
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