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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1934
Page
7
Market demand is slow and prices for various apple varieties show small shifts. Listings include U S No 1 and Yorks apples with 2 percent minimums, Carload rates around 3.85 and 3.00, and bulk per cwt values for Ben Davis and Stayman types, with handpicked and orchard selections noted.
Markets show wholesale flour and corn meal prices with various bag sizes. Also listed are dairy prices, butter, creamery butter, and live livestock quotes including steers heifers and hogs. A separate note reports Catholics’ records being mutilated in a congressional hearing investigation.
November elections show no major news. Call money at 1 percent. Grains rally then ease despite gains in Liverpool and Winnipeg. Cotton fluctuates. U S government securities strengthen. other loans steady. Foreign exchange quiet with sterling slight decline. Selected 2 p m stock prices include Allied Chemical 124 American Can 97 1 2 American Smelters 33 56 Arch Topeka & S F 49 Bethlehem Steel 27 Chrysler 33 Consol Gas 28 Corn Products 62 1 2 General Electric 17 3 4 General Motors 28 4 2 Harvester 29 4 2 Manville 45 Misery Ward 26 4 4 Central 21 Penny Railroad 22 Stand Oil N J 41 U S Steel 32 Woolworth 47
Cattle volumes at noon show many unsold lots as prices drop 25 cents across classes. Hogs top at 6.90 with varied weights. sheep and lambs active and higher by 25 cents. A Philadelphia poultry and dairy update notes steady poultry and eggs with mixed butter scores. The piece closes with a biographical note on Henry Morgan the Welsh pirate turned Ja maica governor.
Miss Mary Sherbourne of Washington DC left her car to await arrangements after a collision on U S Route 50 near Carpers Valley. She was fined 10 dollars and costs and ordered to pay the repair bill. Evidence showed she attempted to pass a big truck on a sharp curve, colliding with Gerard Sterling's car as both traveled east. She claimed to have followed the truck from Middleburg and denied the truck’s placement on the road.
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