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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1938
Page
7
Readable market listings show October 17 figures for produce and livestock. It lists prices for potatoes apples chickens eggs butter and various livestock categories in Baltimore Chicago and Washington markets with specifics on weights grades and ranges.
The Star lists daily local market prices for wholesale flour rice corn and related products. Prices include flour bags 24 48 98 pounds and patent brand 12 and 24 48 98 pound bag rates as well as shelled corn course cracked corn corn meal in 5 and 10 pound sacks and mixed heavy fowl.
The market opened erratically with heavy buying in aircraft and utility shares amid profit taking. Large blocks traded as 950,000 shares moved in the first hour and totals neared 2,500,000 shares by mid session. Notable drones and defenders including Douglas Aircraft and United Aircraft lagged while armament hopes buoyed power and aircraft stocks. Copper moves fell as export quotes dipped, with domestic producers fearing rising world output.
Prices per 100 lbs hogs practical top 8.45 feed er steers 7.65 to 7.75 butcher heifers 6.30 to 7.15 butcher cows 3.70 to 5.60 bulls 6.50 calves top 11.25 to 11.85 culls 7.35 lambs 7.70 to 8.10. Prices per head pigs 3.50 to 6 sow sows with pigs 48.50 stock steers 37.50 to 40.50 stock ewes 6.75 to 8.25 bucks 7.50 to 16.
State entomologist G. T. French warns moving beetle inspection stations could exclude Winchester and Frederick County next spring. Twenty five beetles found in Winchester last summer underscore the issue. treatment of about 15 acres with lead arsenate might avert a quarantine.
The advantages of turning the festival project over to the Junior Board of Trade include a year round organization to sustain public attention. Dr. Allen says staging the spring frolic belongs to younger, energetic hands. Kenneth Robinson mailed invitations for a meeting Tuesday night, but President C Ridgely White announced it would be moved to Wednesday due to members being out of town.
Frederick Circuit Court issued divorce decrees in three cases. Audrey Gay vs William Gay cites desertion. James F Curry vs Louveannie Curry cites desertion. Catherine C Bowley vs Andrew L Bowley cites desertion. Decrees forbid the principals in each case to remarry.
The note specifies a period of six months from the date on which the decrees were issued, indicating a deadline or during which actions must occur. No additional context or entities are provided in the fragment.
Lena Dyke Nicholson was sentenced to one month in jail and $17 in costs by Trial Justice A J Tavenner after being charged with stealing $60 from Glenn Bowman of Harrisonburg Virginia. Several witnesses testified about the circumstances of the case.
Former junior board members say they will not sever ties with the festival and will stay involved in an advisory capacity. The note signals ongoing connections beyond the main event and hints at future governance changes.
Chicago and Baltimore markets report closing grain prices for wheat corn oats soybeans and rye with futures and cash quotations. Prices list Dec Mar May and other month contracts along with cash grain levels for No 4 red No 3 hard No 1 yellow hard mixed corn No 1 white and oats classifications. Local notes include timothy seed red clover and red top prices.
Winchester Martinsburg and nearby points report slow demand and steady market. Carloads and barrel and basket lots list Us No. 1 grades with sizes, prices, and storage notes for Winesaps Ganos Yorks Delicious Staymans Grimes and Stayman boxes and baskets.
Washington reports Gadler testified that the Communist party shifted policy between 1934 and 1936 under Moscow orders and grew friendly toward Minnesota's Farmer-Labor party while portraying Governor Benson, Congressman Bernard, Congressman Teigan, and Mr. Williams as friends to the cause.
Berlin October 17. Special decrees publish a general ban on Jewish lawyers with only 175 permitted to practice until further notice. The 175, chosen from 1,600 Jewish attorneys still in Germany, may serve Jewish clients after December 1.
Insurgent air squadrons raided the Government coast. A lone seaplane dropped eight heavy bombs on Gandia at dawn and later four missiles on Denia. No casualties reported in either attack.
In Vienna on October 17 1938 Dr Sigismund Waitz Archbishop of Salzburg was relieved of his school functions by state order as part of Nazi pressure on Catholic clergy amid church state negotiations and a Vienna address by Nazi commissioner Josef Burckel for Austria.
In Washington on October 17 the American Legion announced its new national commander calls for a navy second to none a larger army and a greatly expanded air force. Stephen F Chadwick urged that costs would be small compared to the potential losses of life and treasure from delaying defense buildup after war was declared.
The report shows 24 hour rainfall ending 8 am with October to date 0.19 inches and year to date 20.02 inches. It lists monthly averages from 1913 to 1937 with values for January through December and notes the average annual rainfall over the 25 year span as 35.36 inches.
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