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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1941
Page
11
A Navy recruitment ad promises a strong future with free meals board travel medical and dental care free training in skilled trades and good pay while learning. It urges readers aged 17 or older to request the illustrated booklet Life in the U S Navy from the Navy Editor and to enlist.
Potatoes and vegetables show steady prices in Baltimore with U S market quotes. Livestock values inch higher in Chicago and Baltimore shows champions at the annual show with Hereford and Angus entries and per pound bids for hogs cattle calves and sheep summarized.
A dense list of stock names with prices and fractions per share, including Am Can, AT&T, General Electric, Bethlehem Steel, Ford, Union Carbide, Penn RR, Philco, Texaco, and U.S. Steel, among others. The page reads as a market table showing bid or close values with fractional quotes.
Baltimore market closes with No 2 Red Winter wheat at 1 1 2 dollars per bushel and No 2 Yellow corn at 89 to 91 cents. Winchester market lists wheat at 1.08 dollars per bushel and barley at 88 cents. Year ago prices show wheat 84 cents and corn 78 cents per bushel.
The Boston wool market was quiet as buyers waited for government contract decisions. Several houses sold moderate amounts of original bag fine territory wools at 1.02 to 1.03 dollars per pound scoured, while small lots of graded bright three eighths and quarter bird combing fleeces moved at 48 to 50 cents per pound grease.
Virginia Livestock Market on North Kent Street held Tuesday September 30 showed butcher steers mostly 8.75 to 9.25 with some above and common half fat steers under 7.00. Feeder steers 8.00 to 8.75 while fat heifers around 8.50 and light plain heifers down to 6.50. Fat cows 5.75 to 6.25 with cutters 5.00 to 5.65. Bulls 6.75 to 8.50, veal calves mostly 9.50 to 13.95 for best. Hogs top 11.40, sows 8.25 to 9.00, shoats weaker.
The sale saw hogs selling over 12.00 with good shoats from 11.00 to 11.75 per cwt and pigs mostly 3.50 to 5.00 per head. Fresh cows weak with top sows at 108.00, bulk cows 60.00 to 80.00. Lambs active. top 11.55, good to choice 11.00 to 11.50, medium 9.56 to 10.00, culls to 7.00. Extra 4-H calves brought 16.00 cwt top and 14.32 average.
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