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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1931
Page
7
Chicago prices rose today with wheat leading gains as buyers expected action at the White House. Corn and oats followed wheat, while hog futures pressured grain values. No. 1 yellow hard wheat and other futures quotes are listed, with mixed delays in several grains and feeds.
Virginia wheat bids for No 2 red winter No 4 red winter and white varieties range to 57 cents. Virginia bag lot and car lot prices for oats and corn shown. Fruits vegetables and dairy prices include potatoes 2.00 per 150 lb sack, apples 0.90 to 1.00 per bushel, butter around 34 to 35 cents per lb, eggs 24 to 27 cents, poultry steady, hogs down about 10 cents, cattle and veal mixed with steers 4.00 to 7.75, cows 5.50, sheep and lambs 4.00 to 4.50 per unit.
Market notes indicate egg prices in New York with fluctuations for different grades. Firsts offered at 24 24 1-2 cents, while other lots remained unbid with prices varying by quality.
New York market reports hen and large fowl prices, with roosters, broilers and color varieties listed. Nearby eggs hold steady at 43 4%8 cents per dozen, while live weights range from 12 to 19 cents per pound for broilers and other birds.
In Philadelphia on October 6 prices for butter, cheer, live and dressed poultry remained unchanged as market trading continued.
Baltimore produce report dated Oct 6 lists prices for butter eggs potatoes and live poultry. Dressed poultry includes spring broilers several weight classes with 18 to 39 cents ranges and duck and turkey quotes. Eggs show steady current receipts with candled quality noted. overall market described as unchanged.
Baltimore and Lancaster hog receipts ease with top hogs 6.25 and 7.00 on sows. Chicago hogs 5.55 top. Cattle and veal vary with steers near 7.75 and calves to 11.00. Sheep slow with lambs 5.75 to 6.75. Government bonds listed include Liberty 4 1/4s and Treasury 3 3/8s with latest quotes.
An elderly Texan asks the El Paso Times if dropping poker for golf would improve marriage. The sporting editor replies that golf may not make life happier, but it can teach a man to improve a bad life.
A Charlottesville Albemarle Chamber of Commerce group of Virginia apple growers led by Vernon Kemp aims to charter a ship to Liverpool for a November tour of English markets. The trip seeks to promote Virginia apples, discuss export issues, and provide a vacation for a limited number of Albemarle growers.
A terse line notes that many seek easy comforts during hardship. It frames social fatigue as a reply to collective stress, implying a critique of craving soft solutions in tough periods.
A line from Kin Hubbard is cited and criticized for its harsh portrayal of a character named Bink Ley arriving at a poorhouse in a $3,000 limousine too late to see his mother die. The remark is discussed as a notable example of Hubbard's sharp wit.
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