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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1976
Page
9
North Carolina State University extension economists report per capita chicken consumption reached a 1976 high of about 44 pounds, up from 40.3 pounds last year and 42 pounds in 1972. US broiler production rose to 3.3 billion birds weighing 9.1 billion pounds, up 13 percent from 1975 and above the 1972 record. Broiler prices remained strong in summer but fell sharply in fall.
Er- shining objects the past four years in Sanford North Carolina. Goss, 67, known as the shoeshine boy, continues his routine of popping the rag to polish shoes and boots. He began years ago turning a dusty parade of customers into a daily grind that keeps him in motion.
The page blends a Sunday horoscope for December 28 detailing personal growth, study prospects, and social guidance across signs with a later profile of a Sanford shoeshine man named Ernest Goss. It recalls Hoover era travel by train, modest earnings, and nostalgia for a bygone morning crowd and music at the shoe shop.
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