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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1952
Page
7
The notice excerpt shows multiple classified items including for sale furniture and appliances, room rentals with conditions, a dog adoption request, mortgage offer, lost purse, and tire services. Contact details and dates hint at a 1930s newspaper classifieds page with terse lines and neighborhood notices.
Market quotations show steady to barely steady conditions across produce and livestock. Apples, potatoes, and sweet potatoes display limited gains and broad quality ranges, while poultry and eggs show modest supply and demand. Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep prices vary by weight and grade in Chicago and Baltimore reporting regions.
The New York Stock Market was slightly higher with light trading. Gains led by Union Pacific, Sinclair Oil, United Airlines, American Telephone, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, and American Tobacco while declines occurred for Southern Railway, Deep Rock Oil, American Can, Goodrich, and Schenley Industries.
The page lists Wheat Corn Oats and Rye futures with December March and May figures, plus map prices and miscellaneous notations. It ends with a bizarre question about human quintuplet birth frequencies and an answer estimating a one in forty-one million chance.
A compact feed and dairy products notice lists items including 36 lb oats, egg mash with 20 percent, bran broiler mash, mixed feed in 10 lb bags, cracked corn in 100 lb bags, batter and batterfat, and wholesale butterfat and butter. The fragment illustrates a rural trade catalog style with product names and unit notes.
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