Market Report and Commodity Prices Mix From Chicago to New York
Receipts light and trading slow with scarce livestock supplies. Hog prices rise on 180 plus weights while lighter weights steady to firm. Cattle and calf offerings moderate with steers and heifers up to 50 cents higher. sheep market not established. New York stocks edge higher amid coal settlement and mixed sector moves.
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New York
Chesapeake , Ohio
Chrysler
U. S. Steel
American Telephone
General Motors
Goodyear, Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
J. I. Case
U. S. Rubber
Air Reduction
Commonwealth Edison
Homestake Mining
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Lockheed
Emerson Radio
Consolidated
Vultee
Caterpillar Tractor
Dow Chemical
Goodrich
Kennecott
Livestock and Produce Prices from Baltimore Market
Livestock prices show total cattle at 950 with holdovers salable 1100 and loads 16. Canners, cutters, and common heifers 13.50 to 20.00. Good cows scarce 17.50 to 20.00. Stocker steers 24.50 to 25.75. Calves 300. Feeder and stocker notes: good and choice cattle 27 to 31. common 20 to 27. sows mostly unchanged. Sheep 25. Produce also steady with apples and potatoes. specific apple prices listed for NJ Romes, Staymans, and others. old potato market firm in PA.
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Chicago
USDA
Baltimore
Ucla
Eastern
NJ Romes
Staymans
U. S
Fair Quality
Turleys
Yorkings
Old Market Firm
Gangster Gach Shot Dead in Detroit Incident
Detroit police report Johnny Gach a Purple Gang associate and ally of Harry Fleisher was shot dead during a house invasion attempt. A young auto worker fired a shotgun wounding another man. a third suspect fled. Gach had recent arrests in Michigan and Ohio linked to prior gambling and burglary cases.
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Detroit
Johnny Gach
Purple Gang
Harry Fleisher
Gach
Fleisher
Cincinnati
Michigan
Local Markets Feed Grain Prices and Packaged Staples
The snippet lists prices for corn meal in 5 and 10 pound and 25 to 100 pound bags, wheat and barley prices with moisture notes, an egg mash feed, and FOB yellow corn. Values show per bag and per hundredweight style pricing, reflecting regional market quotes.
Egg and poultry price report from Agriculture Dept
The Agriculture Department lists Federal State grades for eggs and live poultry prices. Egg grades show U S Grade A extra large 33, A large 33, A medium 29, B large 28, C small 15 cents per dozen. checks 21. Live poultry prices at Winchester area dressing plants for no quality, producer farms include heavy breed hens 22, heavy cock 12, leghorn hens 16, leghorn broilers a, rock and cross broilers a, red broiler 28, young guineas 30 cents per lb, old hens turkeys oe.
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U. S
U. Ss
Winchester
Rock & Cross
Chicago grain prices open with mixed tones on board
Soybeans decline while soybeans fall. wheat and corn show irregular openings. Wheat March 2.22 May 2.15 July 1.96 Sep 1.96. Corn May 1.2914 May 1.20 1 1.2844 Sep 1.24 Dec oats May 70 63 Sep 62. Rye May 1.3442 Sep 1.38 Mar 2.43 43 May 2.42 July 2.37 36 Nov 1.98. Lard May 10.77 July 10.90 Sep 11.10 Oct 11.10.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Jly
HD Club Will Not Meet
The North Frederick Home Demonstration Club meeting scheduled for Wednesday will be postponed indefinitely.
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HD Club
North Frederick
Wednesse
Old 30-room Leesburg house on Harrison estate burned
In Loudoun County a 30 room, 150 year old house on Walter J. Harrison's estate nine miles south of Leesburg was destroyed by fire. Tenant Lester Middleton and his wife escaped as volunteers battled four hours with scarce water. The landmark boasted brick from England and famed floors and mantels.
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Leesburg
Walter J. Harrison
Here
Lester Middleton
Loudoun County
England
Middleton
Tax levy ruled invalid by circuit court in Virginia
Circuit Judge Elliott Marshall ruled the levy amount bears no relation to costs, finding the ordinance was revenue driven. The Virginia law cited does not cap taxes while license taxes must relate to regulatory costs. American Trailer Co. challenged the ordinance as unconstitutional.
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Circuit Court
Elliott Marshall
Marshall
Virginia
American Trailer Co., Inc
Alexandria
Groups Announced for Virginia Midcentury Committees
Col. Richard W. Copeland announces welfare education recreation mental hygiene health and religion research groups for the Virginia Committee for the Midcentury White and Youth. The committees will study facts for presentation at the White House conference later this year in Richmond.
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Richmond
Virginia
Richard W. Copeland
State Department of Welfare and Institutions
White House
Copeland
Escapee Caught in Texas After Jail Escape
Fairfax police report the escapee Ray Longer beam, a 26 year old Clifton carpenter, who fled from Fairfax County jail last October, has been captured by Texas authorities. Lieut. Grafton L. Wells stated no further details available.
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Fairfax
Ray Longerbeam
Clifton Carpenter
Fairfax County
Texas
Grafton L. Wells Wells
Triplets and Twins Born at King's Daughters Hospital
Ten babies welcomed at King's Daughters Hospital over the weekend including a set of triplets and a pair of twins. One daughter born to Beetesr Pugh of Route 1.
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Staunton
King’s Daughters’ Hospital
Eetesr. Pugh
Route 1
Twins Born to Ma Billy Stoner in Staunton
The snippet notes the birth of twins and a girl to Ma Billy Stoner in Staunton, highlighting a local family event from the area.
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Ma Billy Stoner
Staunton
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