Market Quotations Share Downtrend Amid Mixed Activity
New York trading March 9 shows a continuing downward trend with overall lack of real pressure. Early dealings were active then quieted, with scattered mid day gains and widespread declines in fractional points.
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New York
United Fruit
International Nickel
Anmanconda
Texas Co
North American and Radio Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Chrysler
Firestone Tire
Sears Roebuck
Woolworth, Deere
J.s. Case
Douglas Aircraft
Boeing
U. S. Gypsum
International Telephone
Kennecott
Santa Fe
Illinois Central
Chesapeake and Ohio
Twentieth Century-Fox
Paramount Pictures
Loew’s
Local Markets Notes and Historical Inquiries
Local markets corrected daily. Star not responsible for typographical errors. Nathan Leopold, prisoner at Illinois State Penitentiary Joliet, and Richard Loeb, killed in 1936, were convicted in 1924 for the murder of B. Franks. Why does a V‑2 rocket become a flaming meteor in the atmosphere at high speed.
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The
Star
A. Nathan Leopold
Illinois State Penitentiary
Joliet
Ill
Richard Loeb
B. Franks
Leopold
Loeb
SSS Tonic Health Claim Promises Stronger Blood
An advertisement touts SSS Tonic as a remedy for low blood strength from non-organic nutritional anemia. It promises energy, appetite, weight, and sleep improvements, notes increased gastric juice, and claims broader benefits from vigorous blood flow. Millions of bottles sold.
Baltimore Produce and Livestock Markets March 9 Report
Produce prices vary as apples and fruit rise slightly with demand light across Md Pa Va WVa. Cattle, hogs, and calves show mixed shifts with steady to uneven values at Baltimore and Chicago markets, while eggs and butter move to easier undertones amid heavy receipts.
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Baltimore
U. S
MD. Pa
W. Va
N. Y. Cortlands
Chicago
Prices for Winchester area poultry and eggs released
Agriculture Dept Markets Division reports live poultry and egg prices in Winchester area. No 1 quality O B producers’ farms paid for heavy breed hens and roosters with per pound figures between .15 and .30. grade A eggs and various broilers listed with specific cents per pound and per unit prices.
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F. O
Winchester
U. S
Grain futures fall at opening on Chicago Board
Near by grain deliveries opened sharply lower at the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat dropped as much as 6 3 4 cents, corn fell 7 5 8 cents, and oats were down three cents. Opening prices listed for May July and September futures.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
FAMILY WELCOMES TRUMAN HOME AND PARTS DATES
A collage of dated commodity prices and agricultural terms appears with mentions of Corn Oats Soybeans and Lard alongside a note that Australia and South Africa have set up Antarctic outposts on Prince Edward and Beard Islands. Short Q A section discusses puberty voice changes and a science answer about rocket atmospheric passage.
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Canberra
Australia
South Africa
Prince Edward Island
Beard Island
River across all clues puzzle entry
Crossword style list of across and down clues with numbered entries and clues for a daily puzzle. Includes themed items such as German River a flourishes and various wordplay prompts.
Havermale backs Chiang Kai-shek in China talk
Dr. Lewis Havermale, pastor at Market St. Methodist, spoke to Brucetown Methodist at Welltown Church about Ten Thousand Years in China. He urged that China won t become Communist as long as Chiang Kai-shek retains loyalty and noted Chiang s strong leadership and Christian faith.
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Lewis Havermale
Market St. Methodist Church
China
Brucetown
Welltown Methodist Church
Chiang Kai-shek
Havermale
Chiang
Methodist Church
SCC
Fine Weather Aids New Hampshire to Poll Heavy Vote
Concord New Hampshire March 9 Gov. Dewey of New York and Harold Stassen former Minnesota governor matched strength in the states first Republican presidential primary. Clear weather could boost turnout to about 55000 as Dewey and Stassen push to win eight delegate seats with full slates while Truman faces no opposition in the Democratic primary.
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Concord
N. H
Dewey
New York
Harold EB. Stasen
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Arthur H. Vandenburg
Truman
Stassen
Market Quotation Highlights Cattle and Livestock Prices
Monday market report lists cattle by category with price ranges for steers stockers and feeders heifers cows and bulls. Dairy cows stocker cows and hogs and lambs show weighted price bands while a note adds irrigation land in India as context.
Czech Parliament Purge Imminent
PRAGUE March 9 State press says a Communist led government forms a parliamentary action committee to weed out deputies not pledging loyalty. The plan targets all 1946 elected deputies still seated. An Adak Aleutian Islands note reports clear skies about one percent of the time.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Parliament
Parliamentary Activy Committee
Comunist
Nome
Adak
Aleutian Islands
Unusual Gulf Lights Seen From Maracaibo Mountains
Mountains around the Gulf of Maracaibo glow with brilliant lightning displays visible to ships at sea. Experts attribute the spectacle to warm air rising from the gulf meeting cool mountain air and generating electrical activity.
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Maracaibo
Venezuela
Gulf of Maracaibo
Th Gulf
War impact on personal crisis reports in the United States
The Twentieth Century Fund reports that war did not reduce personal crisis reports in the U S Americans read more newspapers than people in other countries with over 40 percent of those over ten following newspapers.
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United States
Twentieth Centuy Fund
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Wheat
Washington
Margaret
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Constellation
Mulberry
Music Note
Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Ralph E. Badger
Detroit
Commission
Cheaspeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Virginia
Badger
Investment Counsel Corp
Farmers Livestock Exchange, Inc
India
RED Cross
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ostermoor
Winchester Furniture CO
Main St
Maine
Miami
Winchester’s Fashion Center
FORD
EaquipMent Equipme
Shenandoah Motor CO
Handley High School
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