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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1934
Page
7
Baltimore market reports wheat prices with No 2 red winter at 96 1 4 for May and June futures. Richmond notes cautious retail sales for potatoes and fruits, with mixed vegetable receipts and steady butter eggs and poultry markets, listing specific pack and price ranges.
The ad promotes Marian Martin Pattern 9043 in sizes 14 to 42 with fabric suggestions shantung pique linen or seersucker and a required yardage. It explains ordering by mail for fifteen cents per pattern, plus book and pattern together for twenty five cents, and lists the Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department in New York.
Baltimore section lists prices for apples and winesaps Winesaps and other varieties with per bushel and per sack quotes for apples potatoes and sweet potatoes. It also gives early to mid sized young chickens and ducks prices by breed and weight. Washington section notes Eggs prices in brief.
Market report lists wholesale prices for shelled corn cracked corn mixed feed and dairy and pig feeds. Corn meal and scratch feed show per 100 pound rates, with separate entries for country butter and eggs and dairy cow prices. Local tail market column provides similar feed costs and standard grain rates.
New York poultry market report lists graded eggs in white and brown categories with extras and standards, live fowl including Leghorns and Plymouth Rock, turkeys old toms and hens, butter prices per pound in prints and tubs, squabs per pound, and rabbits per pound. Names Keats and Island Ducks appear among items.
Poultry prices show hens at 12 to 16 cents for Leghorns and 13 to 16 cents for colored heavies with lights at 16 to 17 cents. Broilers and Leghorns 18 to 20 cents, Reds at 20 cents, cross breeds 22 to 25 cents, Barred Rock spring broilers 22 to 26 cents. New York butter and eggs see receipts of 11 537 pounds of butter and 27 842 cases of eggs with butter firmer by a quarter to a half cent and extras at 23 1/2 cents.
The market shows 80 tubs at 23 3 4 cents and 80 tubs at 90 cents with scores at 22 3 4. Eggs firm. premium and StanDar specials raise 1 1 2 and 1 4 cents respectively. Firsts sold at 17 1 4 cents. 150 cases of firsts at 16 cents. Stan dards bid 18 cents at 17 1 4 cents.
In Kashmir in northern India repeated fires occur as people use embers to stay warm under clothing. Officials note the danger from live coal carried close to the body and urge safer heating practices for residents.
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