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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1940
Page
7
Fairly active on most classes with steady to higher bids. Slaughter cattle top around 11.50 for good beef. vealers and cows vary. hogs slow with limited sales. lambs steady to higher on feedlots. market quotes reflect broad activity at Chicago and Baltimore outputs.
Market notes list assorted bag and barrel pricing for bulk goods. Price entries include 24 lb and 48 lb bags with per barrel values, alongside 98 lb bag quotes and incomplete entries. Local traders reference fluctuating figures amid terse marks and unclear annotations.
Chicago March 7 futures rose about two cents to the best level in two months on pessimistic crop reports. Closing prices show May wheat at 1.04 5-8 to 1-2, Sept at 1.01 5-8. Corn May 57 1-8, July 57 5-8, Sept 58 1-8 to 1-4. Cash grain prices list No 2 northern wheat 1.06, mixed corn 59 1-4, yellow corn 59 to 59 1-2, sample grade white 42 to, barley 55-64 for malting.
Helsinki reports the Finnish government mobilizes the 1920 military class, mainly 19-year-olds, with others to reexamination this year. observers say Red forces delay as Viipuri siege continues, but Finnish lines east and west hold. Baron Mannerheim’s health is denied as rumor.
Reports say Sweden may have submitted peace terms to Helsinki as talks on a Russian demand for the Karelia Isthmus and adjacent areas continue. Unconfirmed accounts cite involvement of Swedish, Finnish, and German officials and diplomats with prospects of a broader European mediation.
Ralph E. Mills Company of Frankfort Kentucky submitted the indicated low bid of 335,742 dollars for an 844 mile segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Public Roads Administration. The project covers Rockbridge and Amherst counties in Virginia.
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