Death Removes Mr. Taliaferro Aged Merchant
Harrisonburg jeweler John W. Taliaferro 77 longtime merchant and rail inspector died at his Valley Pike home after a heart attack. He founded his shop 55 years ago and helped develop Harrisonburg from a small town to a city. Funeral services are set for Friday at 2:30 p.m. with interment in Woodbine cemetery. widow Elizabeth Ott Taliaferro survives with children K M Livingstone and Frank O Taliaferro among others.
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Harrisonburg
John W. Taliferro
Valley Pike
Taliaferro
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
Jacob Wesley
Susan Glenn Taliaferro
Charlottesville
University City
Himsel
Shenandoah Valley
Southern
Baltimore and Ohio
Washington
Old Dominion
Rockingham County
Republican Committee
Methodist Church
Board of
Stewards
Towns Farm
E. L. Woolf
G. G
Taliaferro Family Notables Linked to Local Business Duties
The Taliaferro family includes J. Walton Taliaferro a tometrist and jeweler with his father, manager of the Warren Hotel. Ralph and Julian at J W Taliaferro Sons Main Street store. George W Taliaferro district manager for Jefferson Standard Life. and Charles H Taliaferro vice consul at Merida Mexico who wired he could not fly for the funeral.
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Tometrist
J. Walton Taliaferro
Warren
Ralph and
Julian Taliaferro
Main Street
J. W. Taliaferro
George W. Taliaferro
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
Charles H. Taliaferro
Merida
Yucatan
Mexico
Charles Taliaferro
Weakness of Grains Dampens Stocks in Mixed Trading
The Associated Press reports irregular stock activity in New York as grain weakness weighs on shares. Wheat falls about two cents near October lows while cotton softens with cereals and rubber ticks down. silver futures edge higher and foreign exchanges stay narrow. The pound opens in London at 5.13 and call money holds at 1 percent.
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Associated Press
New York City
London
Chicago Wheat and Corn Prices Update
Closing quotations in Chicago and Baltimore show May wheat at 75 and July at 75 4 percent, September 76 percent. Corn May 43 1/4, July 45 3/4, September 47 7/8. Winchester deliveries listed at 55 cents per bushel shelled and $2.75 per barrel.
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Chicago
Baltimore
The
Star
Winchester Milling Corporation
Stickell Sales Corporation
Cash
North
Washington Street
Hagerstown
Winchester
Augusta Game Warden Shoots Self in Despondency
Staunton April 18 John Wesley Todd Jr 53 a longtime Augusta County Democratic committeeman and county game warden for two years died at his home from a self inflicted bullet wound. He had been in ill health and brooding over despondency his wife Mrs Todd was away at a D A R convention and returned after his death. His son Houston found him in bed with a pistol on the floor beside him Dr Glenn C Campbell coroner ruled the death a personal safety related gunshot and no funeral plans were announced.
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Staunton
John Wesley Todd, Jr
Augusta County
Todd
Glenn C. Campbell
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Owen
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Amos Shryock
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M.S. Loy
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F. W. Magruder
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Kernstown
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Titus Nursery Co
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Berkeley Co
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Crawford
A. M
Price
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Lord Baltimore
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