Wheat and Markets Amid Shifting Export Balance
The piece analyzes U.S. wheat exports, price trends, and farm impacts as winter losses shrink the 1924 crop while prices hold, noting Europe’s evolving balance with a weaker harvest and shifting creditor nation dynamics. It cites 124 million bushels less winter wheat and a Chicago price premium offsetting yield losses, with spring yield prospects improving yet uncertain.
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United States
Europe
Chicago
Spitzer Elected President of Virginia Grocers Association
G F Spitzer of Charlottesville was elected president of the Virginia State Association of Grocers at the Roanoke convention. A K Townsend of Richmond and A H Hawkins of Lynchburg were named vice presidents, W P McBain of Norfolk secretary, and B F Morgan of Norfolk treasurer. The group debated inviting Washington grocers to join and possibly renaming the body the Virginia and Washington Association of Retail Grocers, with the board directed to pursue the matter with Washington officials.
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Associated Press
Roanoke
G. F. Spitzer
Charlottesville
Virginia State Association of Grocers
Hotel Roanoke
A. K. Townsend
Richmond
A. H. Hawkins
Lynchburg
W. P. McBain
Norfolk
B. F. Morgan
Washington
Virginia and Washington Association of Retail Grocers
B. F. Strauss
Virginia
Washington Grocers
Will Outling Wew Peace Plan At Rome Convention
Congressman A. P. Andrew of Gloucester Massachusetts plans to submit a peace proposal at the Fifth Annual Convention of the Interallied Veterans Federation in Rome this September. The plan calls for a compiled inquiry from eight nations to visit each other’s countries, study the issue, and report findings to their own peoples.
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A. P. Andrew
Gloucester
Mass
Interallied Veterans, Federation
Rome
Parkhurst Cleared as Alibi Proves Innocence in Attack Claim
Rockville Maryland August 12 Robert S Parkhurst a young scion of a prominent Montgomery county family is cleared after his alibi shows he was in Washington Saturday evening and at a Georgia avenue street carnival at 9 pm Miss Mary Price 16 recanted her charge saying a negro committed the assault police noted the case now relies on a cold trail amid conflicting statements and lack of evidence
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Associated Press
Rockville
Robert S. Parkhurst
Montgomery County
Mary Price
Silver Springs
Parkhurst
Washington
Miss Price
Georgia Avenue
Authorities Seek Clues After Theft Attack Report
Investigators pursue leads in a case described through a palm sized graph of a negro girl found near the scene. The pocketbook was recovered close to the attack location, with authorities citing the find as a potential key to identification.
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Sedi
Virginia crops brighter after showers in week
The Associated Press reports in Virginia for the week ended yesterday that generous showers improved most crops, with late corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts fair to very good. In the southwest, light showers and dry weather hurt crops while tobacco priming and curing progressed and cotton was described as doing well.
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Associated Press
Washington
Virginia
Rats Warn Miners Of Mine Disaster In Pennsylvania
In Willesbarre Pennsylvania on August 12 rats in the Empire Colliery warned miners Anthony Kopaski and his son by repeated troubling behavior. They investigated and were twenty feet from a collapsed roof when coal and rock buried the area, a cave‑in that would take weeks to clear. The tale notes miners’ fondness for rats that signal danger and the reluctance to kill them where gas and cavings threaten crews.
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Associated Press
Willesbarre
Empire Colliery
Anthony ‘Kopaski
Rochester Visitors Aid Former Mother in East Rochester
Mrs H E McCandless and children Shirley and Alex from Rochester New York visit former Mrs J N Earman east of the city. The text notes Europe’s grain payments totaling about 150 million dollars influencing U S payments and exchange rates with a 1925 harvest aiming to ease the situation.
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Europe
United States
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New York Times
America
United
Will
French Debt Commission
Henry-Berenger
Senate
Debt Commission
Franklin ‘Bouillon
Foreign Office
IRL
Robert Parkhurst
Maryland
Gabriel
Exide
Liberty St. E
Amvican
Bayer
F.S. Royster Guanoco
Baltimore, Md
Palm Beach
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