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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1947
Page
3
New York defeated Brooklyn 6 to 5 while Cincinnati beat Chicago 6 to 5. St Louis edged Pittsburgh 5 to 1. Cleveland topped St Louis 9 to 1 and Detroit won 5 to 4 over Chicago.
Grady Hatton hit a tie breaking ninth inning homer for a 6 to 5 win over Chicago as Ty hbd notes a dramatic late rally. Bobby Feller earned the win for the Indians, their 20th this season, in a 9 to 1 victory over the Browns, with a five hit performance.
Mrs Robert Bannister of Millwood announces the marriage of their daughter Bea Kowrnveliner to Richard M Washington Jr of Winchester on Sept 18 in Baltimore. Rev Yerby officiated. Mention of Frederick the Great as a musician and Dayton C Miller bequest to Library of Congress noted in fragment.
Eastern markets show varied prices for apples, pears, and peaches with sizes 2 to 2 1/2 inches. Poultry demand dull. fryers 39-41 cents, fowls 32-34 cents, ducks 30 cents. Eggs steady, wholesale butter and egg receipts around 12,000 pounds and 1,400 cases respectively. Baltimore and Chicago trade reports note steady to higher hogs and cattle with top steer prices around 1200-1305 pounds and hogs up to 28.75 for select lots.
New York stock activity moved in a thin and uneven pattern as some farm equipment and other industrial shares edged up slightly. Investor sentiment remained restrained by international developments and worries about foreign ownership of many stocks while rails attracted bids on hopes of a freight rate rise. Leading gains appeared in Chrysler J I Case International Harvester Santa Fe General Electric International Paper Boeing Warner U S Steel with new highs, while Bethlehem American Smelting American Can Callaway Tractor Southern Railway and Owens-Illinois lagged.
Grains eased slightly at the opening on the Board of Trade while traders waited for a presidential press conference expected to reveal revised export goals. Opening prices show Dec Wheat at 2.65 3-4, May 2.60 1-4, July 2.36-2.35 with oats and lard also quoted.
Daily corrected market list shows grains and feeds with city deliveries and bid ranges. Prices include corn meal bags, corn and wheat by the bushel, barley, eggmash, cracked corn, butter, oleomargarine, and turkey grower notes. Belgium’s invasion context follows, then cattle and sheep sale offers with price ranges for yearlings, cows, bulls, and lambs through the day.
FBI offers general burglary prevention suggestions including locking outside doors and ground floor windows at night, keeping vulnerable areas illuminated, watching visitors and strangers, leaving a light on during absences, not hiding keys, and treating any burglar as armed and dangerous. The report notes 147,916 burglaries in the first six months of 1947 with increases over the prior year.
Agriculture Department Markets Division reports prices paid for graded eggs and poultry in the Winchester area. U S Grade A extra large 0.69 per dozen, Grade A large 0.67, Grade A medium 0.58, Grade B large 0.55, pullets 0.42. Heavy breed hens 0.35-0.36 per lb, Leghorn hens 0.20-0.21 per lb, heavy breed broilers 0.36-0.37, Leghorn broilers 0.26-0.27, old roosters 0.12-0.13, guineas 0.50 per lb for young broilers, old 0.25, turkey market awaiting definite sale.
Bristol dispatch reports Representative John W. Flannagan Jr. will depart Washington on October 8 to lead a six day meeting of the House agricultural committee. He aims to craft a long range program and will join the coast to coast tour examining the nation’s agricultural sector. The article notes about 226 pounds of paper are used per person annually.
Mrs. A R Stevens of Winchester was locked in a Washington drug store after a 5 p.m. phone call. While trapped she tried to operate the coin box on a 50 cent piece as a solicitor rang, prompting the owner to return and free her.
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