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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1948
Page
2
J R D of the Perfection Garment Co Martinsburg urged a rebirth of citizenship possibilities and ethics in building up the nation. The talk titled Business Ethics addressed demoralizing labor conditions as harming business. Virgil Strader introduced the speaker at the Kiwanis luncheon.
A claim states Canada surpasses the United States in size. The text compares national areas and implies Canada is the larger country.
The Thurmond Wright ticket and electors of the States Rights Democrats of Virginia qualified for the November presidential ballot. Frank P. Burton Jr. filed petitions to prove the party means business and plans to submit 50,000 names by October 3. Thomas D. Odom outlines plans for the Virginia State convention October 8 and 9 with an invitation to Gov. Thurmond to speak.
Four members of the North Madison Young Democratic club of Richmond traveled to Washington to arrange a campaign engagement with President Truman in Richmond.
Local markets update with wholesale and retail prices for grains and feeds. Items include corn meal, wheat, barley, soybeans, butter, egg mash, cracked corn, broiler and turkey feeds, bran, scratch, and starter feeds with per bushel and per bag figures.
The Agriculture Department Markets Division lists priced F.O.B. Winchester for eggs and live poultry. Egg grades show U S Grade A extra large 58 dozen, large 56, medium 49, standards 49, with crack and checks 30 and Peewees 40. Poultry prices include young hens 45, young toms 38, No 2 toms 33, No 2 hens 40, old and young guineas 35, Leghorn cox 14, roosters 17, broilers 34, red broilers 35, Leghorn hens 27, heavy breed hens 4% lbs up 34.
Special Commissioners announce a public auction of the John B. Bywaters estate in Frederick County Virginia. The sale on September 17 1948 at 12 noon offers Tract A of 30 acres with dwelling and orchard and Tract B of 10 acres unimproved limestone land seven miles from Winchester on Cedar Creek Grade. Terms: one third cash, balance in two annual installments with bonds, deed of trust and insurance.
Market reports list produce apples with price changes by grade and size, poultry and eggs markets, and Baltimore cattle hogs and sheep results. Chicago and New York stock movements show railroad and industrial shares advancing while a few laggards pull back.
Market report lists fat steers 26.50 to 29.50 with highs above 30, fat cows 19 to 22.75, veal calves 29 to 32.50, lambs 25 to 26.70, fat hogs 24 to 29, sows 20 to 22.75, feeder steers 24.50 to 27, fresh cows top 310 and mid range 180 to 240. includes stray Q&A on India and Pakistan joining the British Commonwealth.
Wheat and corn opened mostly lower while oats posted small advances. Prices shown include Wheat Sep 2.23 Dec 2.26 May 2.17 Jly 1.95 1-4, Corn Sep 1.67 1-8 1-2, Dec 1.41 1-8, May 1.44 3-4, Jly 1.45 1-2, Oats Sep 73 1-2 3-8, Dec 1&1-8 1-4, May 76 1-2, Jly 7-3 8, Lard Sep 17 90-85, Mar 19.80.
Daily quiz answers list verified by the page includes item 1 the rotunda item 2 to Greenland item 3 Helen Frances Warren as Sen Francis Warren item 4 Thurmond and Wright for president and vice president item 5 Maj Gen Lewis B Hershey item 6 Maj Gen William Donovan item 7 True item 8 Quezon City near Manila item 9 Charles P Howard item 10 General George C Marshall.
Sales directory lists auctions with times and locations across Virginia. George Hellsley near Greenspring offers farm equipment. Walter C. Mooreland near Gore sells farm and mill machinery plus antiques. Miss Le Baker in Boyce and L. J. Clevenger in Winchester list household goods and real estate opportunities. T. C. Keckley near Winchester offers real estate. Alfred DeMazzon at York Inn hosts antiques chinaware and glassware.
The record notes Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland five years after Columbus’s first West Indies voyage. It also cites an estimate that under twenty percent of American Negroes are of pure African descent.
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