Market Quotations Livestock And Produce Markets
Baltimore reports steady poultry prices with chicks and fowl mostly unchanged and roosters and ducks steady. Cattle and calves steady to firm, hogs mixed by weight with top around 14.70 and sheep untapped. Chicago and Pittsburgh listings show similar steady to firm trends across hogs, cattle, and sheep with varying weight brackets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimore Livestock
U. S. Dept. Agr
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
U.S. Dept. Agr
California
Pittsburgh
Cornell
Erante
Stock Market Advances Amid London War Mission Hype
Buyers gain confidence with select issues lifting fractions to two points or more. Fast trading waned at midday as low priced blocks lift volume. Quoted prices near the day’s peak after the fourth hour amid bullish sentiment sparked by London war mission arrivals. Major names cited include American Telephone Westinghouse Douglas Aircraft Bethlehem Dow Chemical Du Pont American Can Standard Oil NJ and Union Carbide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
United States
Wall Street
American Telephone
Westinghouse
Douglas Aircraft
Bethlehem
Dow Chemical
du Pont
American Can
Standard Oil
Union Carbide
Chicago Grain Quotations May 26
Wheat and corn futures opened unchanged to slight declines in a dull session. Soybeans slipped 1 to 2 cents at the start and continued to lose ground. Opening prices show small fractional moves across July, Sept, and Dec contracts for Wheat Corn and Rye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Italians Report Nine British Planes Destroyed in Air Duels
Italian high command states the Italian Air Forces destroyed nine British planes in a duel without loss. They also report a British submarine plane attack on a convoy failed. Bombs were dropped in Sicily near Messina wounding three soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
High Command
Selves
Messina
Sicily
Ban Raviera
Giardini
Mare
Inspector exits breech of 16 inch coast defense rifle
Leonard Emke of the Asay Ordnance Department smiles and shows a V sign as he leaves the breech after an inspection. The report notes sailors and gunners often enter gun breeches to clean these large weapons. Central Press notes this practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Emke
Asay Ordnance Department
Local Market Prices and Livestock Values Listing
Local market page lists 12 lb and 24 lb flour bags with prices around 6.9 to 6.20 per bag or barrel, 48 lb bag per barrel at 6.20, and cattle hogs and poultry values including roosters broilers heavy hens leghorn fowls young guinea and calves with varied price ranges. Includes butter fat butter creamery and general meat animal pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seetenees
pHelfere Lica Secseon Ee
Ceccvascses
Service men updates from Berryville area and beyond
Pvt Wilbur Whitlock returns home from a 15 day furlough to his parents at 364 National avenue. Pvt Garland H Baptist transfers to Lowery Field Colorado for Air Corps Technical School. Staff Sg t Wilfred B Trenary visits Berryville from A P Hill. Lieut Francis L Koenig leaves for foreign service after five years in Washington architecture. Pvt 1st Class Charles Meehan visits wife in Washington. Frank Yeakle Jr joins Marine Corps Reserve. Sg George Lee Baker returns to Dundalk after weekend with family. Pvt Howard H Stine spends 15 day furlough with his mother in Berryville. Creamery butter retail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pvt
Wilbur Whitlock
Shaw Field
S. C
E. W. Whitlock
National Avenue
Garland H. Baptist
Jefferson Barracks
Army Air Corps
Army
Lowery Field
Colo
Air Corps Technical School
Francis L. Koenig
Robert
Arlington
Sierra Vista Farm
Paul Koenig
M. Therese Koenig
Koenig
Engineers Corps
Washington
Charles Meehan
Washington, D. C
Harry Fisher
Stephensity
Frank Yeakle, Jr
Frank Yeakle
Valley Avenue
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
Yeakle
Potomac State
Keyser
W. Va
George Lee Baker
Dundalk, Md
A. L. Baker
Army Air Base
Martin
Howard H. Stine
Wil Field
Chandler, Ariz
W. B. Stine
Berryville Avenue
Col Pendleton Advanced To Brigadier General Rank
Col Randolph Tucker Pendleton of Norfolk has been promoted to brigadier general. He is stationed at Gatun on the Panama Canal’s Atlantic side and is married to Miss Curtis, daughter of the late Capt Curtis, U.S. Navy. Pendleton was born in Lexington and attended the Virginia Military Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk, Va
Randolph Tucker Pendleton
Laura Tucker Pendleton
Pembroke Avenue
Dier
Gatun
Atlantic Ocean
Panma Canal
Curtis
Clinton Curtis
U.S. Navy
Robert S. Perkins
Norfolk
Lexington
V! Military Institute
Pendleton Family Ties Noted in Early Military Institute History
General Pendleton's father B. Morgan Pendleton graduated from W.M.I. in 1878 and his fraternal grandfather Col. Edmund Pendleton belonged to the first class ever graduated at the military institute. William P. B. McGuire Sr. of this city is a cousin of Hunter, Mrs. Lewis Hryder, Mrs. R Awe, and Mrs. W. Nelson Page of Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Pendleton
B. ‘Morgan Pendelton
W.M.1
Col
Edmund Pendleton
The
Military Institute
William BP. McGuire
Hunter
Lewis H.ryder
R Awe
W. Nelson Page
Winchester
Family ties noted for General Pendleton in Winchester
General Pendleton has numerous family connections in Winchester and is a descendant of the late Mr and Mrs John Randolph Tucker who were the parents of his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Pendleton
Winchester
John Randolph Tucker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warwick
China
Thomas
Miss Kidd
Jewelers
N. Loudoun St
Stock Market Report
Chopin
Central Press
U. S. Army Signal Corpo
Navy
Marine Corps
Wilfred B. Trenary
A.P. Hill
Fredericksburg
Berryville
W. C. Trenary
Mary Ann Kidd
Cotton Knits
ETON
Cooking
North Cameron
Mervel W. Adams
Cameron Street
Col. Pendleton
Clarke County
Pine Motor CO
W. Boscawen St
Uncle Sam
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!