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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1929
Page
8
Local market listing shows flour barrel at 8.00 to 8.50 with middlings at 2380 per unit. Bran and mixed feed priced around 2.10 to 2.20, scratch feeds 2.60, screenings 2.00, and cracked corn 3.50, indicating current regional commodity rates.
Fragmented OCR notes show livestock and grain prices with entries for calves chickens eggs lambs wheat hogs and hens. Market names and figures are garbled but reference a sheep market close of the preceding day and several commodity prices in percent ranges.
Reports say 71 killed in a swift southern outbreak as Cheyenne Wyoming and surrounding areas battle snowbound roads and damaged lines. Motorists faced danger while livestock suffered. Cheyenne’s telegraph and telephone lines incurred about $100000 in damage. An unrelated Richmond Virginia applicant listed bootlegging as his occupation.
The 10,000-ton cruiser Pensacola was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with rituals led by Mrs Josephine Knowles Seligman who broke a spring water bottle on the bow. Attending officials included Secretary of the Navy Charles F. Adams and Read Admiral Louis R. de Steigner, among others, noting it as the largest ship since World War I to leave the yard.
Pickets are on duty each morning at the two Valley furniture plants in Staunton and Waynesboro using verbal persuasion to deter workers from taking jobs and strikers from deserting. About 500 strikers met for another mass rally. A leader predicted a settlement by Monday as four labor department representatives from both state and federal levels joined the scene to aid negotiations.
Geneva Illinois April 25. The Kane County grand jury failed to vote a true bill today against Deputy Roy Smith who shot and killed Mrs Lillian De King during a raid on her home last month. Eugene B Fairchild charged with perjury in a true bill after his affidavit prompted the raid. The panel will reconvene Tuesday to consider indicting Fairchild.
The Rev O D Lambert of Stephens City will speak at the Golden Rule Bible class meeting at Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South at 9 30 Sunday morning. The speaker is noted as good and the class president urges all members to attend with visitors warmly welcomed.
A historical market snapshot lists wholesale prices for wheat, corn meal, mixed feed, and hay, alongside livestock figures for hens, broilers, cows, calves, sheep, and lambs. Prices include 1.20 for wheat, 2.88 per cwt for corn meal, and 38 for broilers, with various ranges for hay and other feeds.
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