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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1935
Page
9
Financial markets started October with cautious optimism led by automotive stocks and select specialties. Grains and cotton firmed while bonds were uneven. the dollar and foreign exchange edges improved slightly. call money at 0.25 percent. Oil and several industrials showed strength amid scattered declines.
Baltimore trading shows cattle mostly steady with a few low cutter cows. calves strong, hogs slow and cheaper. sheep and lambs about steady with some good ewe and wether offerings. Philadelphia poultry unchanged. butter and eggs mixed with regional trade activity noted.
The Star lists daily market notes for local wholesale and retail flour and feed. Prices cover patent brand flour in 98, 48, 24 and 12 pound bags, various meals and feeds, and dairy products with quoted per barrel and per hundred weights, alongside live poultry and butter figures.
Shipping points report slow demand and dull markets for apples in Winchester Virginia Martinsburg with U S No 1 barrels 2 1 2 to 3 4 inch min priced 2 35 to 2 50 and 2 30 to 2 40 for larger sizes U S Utility 2 1 2 inch min 1 60 to 1 70 Ganos and McIntosh U S No 1 1 4 inch min around 2 15 bushel baskets 75c for U S No 1 2 1 2 inch min and 60c for U S Commercial 2 3 4 inch min Grimes U S Utility 2 1 4 inch min 50c Benton Harbor Michigan car loads and truckloads f o b usual terms McIntosh U S No 1 2 1 2 inch min 82 1 2c 2 1 4 inch min 65c Equivalent 9 cars passed over Benton Harbor cash market.
Chicago and Baltimore markets show closing grain prices for wheat corn oats rye and barley with various delivery months and cash bids. Cash wheat ranged around 1.05 to 1.16 for No 2 grades while corn priced near 80 to 82 cents per bushel in Chicago. Baltimore listed spot wheat at 97 1/4 cents and corn near 90 cents per bushel with barrel prices provided.
Nine people were in custody over a fatal tenement fire that killed ten people including six children. Frank Vitale, a grocery owner on the building’s first floor, confessed offering an arsonist $100 to set the blaze. Police say seven others have given statements. Joseph Di Chiarie alias Mateo denies being the torch. The motive cited is a $3,000 insurance payout.
Chicago crowds jam ticket windows as World Series tickets go on sale. Officers struggle to keep order while park staff report 10,000 fans in line by midnight and about 15,000 by mid morning at Wrigley Field.
More than 200 laborers returned to public works projects in Somerset Pennsylvania after a week of idleness. PWA officials had claimed pickets blocked their return but a steady rain did not stop workers from resuming tasks. No pickets were on duty at mine projects where work had halted.
A five man board appointed by the White House acts to aid states in ending unfair competition from prison made goods and to abolish contract labor by prisoners, under the Prison Industries Reorganization Administration.
Clarence Delager was held for trial today for manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Wilbur Coe. Delager said he mistook Coe for a deer in a Mont. thicket. A coroner's jury exonerated him, but Lincoln county authorities pressed the charge.
Report notes William Penn buried in the Jordans Quaker meeting house cemetery in Buckinghamshire. His gravestone is described as barely knee high and marks the founder of Pennsylvania.
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