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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1947
Page
9
The United States Military Cemetery at Blosville France is not permanent. Interred bodies may be removed to a military cemetery in France or returned to the United States.
New York stock market on October 1 shows gains from leaders like American Distilling Schenley International Harvester J I Case U S Rubber Bethlehem DuPont Union Carbide J C Penney Montgomery Ward Western Union and Southern Railway. By contrast Sears Roebuck Caterpillar Allied Chemical United Aircraft Water Works Westinghouse Standard Oil (NJ) Northern Pacific Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad lag during profit taking.
Fat steers and heifers priced by quality from 8 to 29.50 with adds for head counts. Cows bulls veal lambs sheep hogs shoats pigs feeder stock and calves listed with ranges and special lots including top rates for fresh cows and springs and heavy calf feeder accounts.
Baltimore market notes October 1 show weaker undertone in produce with prices for apples including Delicious and Jonathan varieties, poultry steady to slightly weaker, eggs ungraded to wholesale values, and receipts of butter and eggs recorded. Cattle and hogs at Baltimore steady to firm with mixed feeder activity. Chicago and other markets report higher hog quotes and strong sales across weights.
Calf offerings 500 salable, total 700. medium fed steers and yearlings firm to up 50c, many up 25c. Good and choice steers and yearlings 32 to 50, top 36.35 on 1371 lb. Light steers to 35.75. medium and good 23 to 29. Heifers scarce, up 25c. good and choice 26 to 30, latest top. Cows steady around 20.50, cutters 13.75 down. Bulls 15 to 18, beef cows 19 up to 25c higher. Wealers strong to 27 down. Sheep salable 3,000, total 4,500. slow to develop, scattered early sales. native spring lambs steady at 23.
Chicago opening on October first shows grains easing as traders absorb selling. Wheat futures mix with December at 2.82 and May 2.75 while Corn and Oats decline. Lard prices edge with Oct at 23.02 and Mar at 26.00 as initial quotes.
Agriculture Department markets report prices paid by dressing plants in Winchester for No 1 quality eggs and various poultry. U S Grade A eggs range 0.58 to 0.69 per dozen with pullets and checks at 0.30. Heavier birds, broilers, leghorn birds, and roosters are listed per pound with turkeys pending sale.
The roots of foxglove are poisonous and the leaves yield digitalis, a heart medicine. This traditional plant based note explains how the drug derives from the plant parts and their medicinal use.
Burke named as candidate in Cleveland race as May or Thomas A. Burke's sweeping nomination gains momentum.
The winner secured a decisive primary win and enjoys Democratic party backing as the main favorite for reelection next month. The article notes the cornflower symbol being called Kai serblumen in Germany as the late Emperor Wilhelm’s favorite flower.
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