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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1935
Page
10
Moscow reports a government decree ends ration shop sales of meat sugar fish butter and potatoes for workers. Prime foods move to open shops with higher prices under a new fixed system.
A black widow and another spider play out a daily struggle in a jar at the A and P store on Loudoun and Boscawen streets. Found in crates of vegetables by John Golden who runs the meat department, the fight continues day and night. The widow is noted as deadly.
Ducks and geese fled south today as winter threats moved into western Canada. Snow covered the ground in Athabaska country and northeastern Manitoba to four to five inches, with Manitoba temperatures around 28 to 31 degrees.
New York September 26 Stocks closed with scattered firm spots but many leaders fell back. Domestic and European outlooks were mixed with no excitement as investors awaited clearer war news and clearer futures. Closing prices included Allied Chemical 169, American Can 140 14, General Electric 33 5-8, U S Steel 45 5-8, Union Pacific 98 7-8, Woolworth 62 1-2.
Futures and cash grain quotes show wheat near 98 and corn around 84 to 85 cents for Sept bids. Oats barley and rye prices listed with Sept Dec May figures, while Chicago cash grain reports give No. 3 hard wheat and sample grade mixture prices. Baltimore and Winchester markets supply No. 2 red winter and corn values in cents per bushel and barrel.
Many apples aboard the Laconia and American Shipper were in poor condition though demand remained strong for higher grade fruit. Auction prices in shillings per barrel and basket listed for Bonum Jonathan Grimes Yorks Ganoes and more, with weekly shipments to Liverpool London Glasgow and other ports totaling over 61 thousand barrels and 72 thousand baskets.
Inclement weather stopped Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim from taking off for an undisclosed destination. They spent the night in a hotel in White Falls Texas and had no comment as they left Roswell New Mexico yesterday after studying Dr. Robert Goddard’s rocket experiments.
U S Dept of Agriculture reports Baltimore cattle at 850 head with 1 100 holdovers and bids weak to 25 lower while calves stay firm. Hogs 375 head, slow and 25 lower with top at 12 40. sheep and lambs 1 050 head, lambs up to 15 higher and ewes steady around 4.00. Philadelphia poultry and butter unchanged with trading quiet as U S standards prices listed.
Winchester Virginia to Martinsburg sales show demand very slow and dull. Carloads offer Yorks and Grimes barrels with prices from 1.80 to 2.75 and Jonathan and Delicious baskets priced around 0.95 to 1.10, with future delivery contracts listing Winesaps barrels at 2.50.
Local markets report wholesale and retail pricing for feed and flour products. Listings include patent brand and corn meal in multiple bag sizes, dairy feeds, egg mash, and creamery butter, with prices shown for 48 and 24 pound bags and 98 pound bags. Prices are given for shelled corn, screenings, middlings, scratch feed, and related farm staples, reflecting market levels for farmers and retailers.
MOSCOW Sept. 26 Senator J Hamilton Lewis of Illinois suffered a relapse during the night and today his condition caused new fears as pneumonia spread to his left lung for the first time noted.
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