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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1931
Page
5
The Star presents daily sports briefings covering local high school teams and regional action with quick scores and notable performances. Readers get concise results, key players, and upcoming matchups in a compact, newspaper card style.
Yesterday’s scores show Detroit defeated Chicago 6 5, New York tied Washington 7 7 after 14 innings, and Cleveland beat St. Louis 10 9 in ten innings. White Sox edged Detroit 6 5 as Bill Cissell hit Chicago’s first homer. Indians beat Browns 10 9 in ten innings.
National League results show Philadelphia defeating Boston 9 to 8 and New York besting Brooklyn 3 to 2 while St Louis won 8 to 3 against Pittsburgh.
A short windup lists matchups with Rochester visiting Baltimore and Toronto visiting Reading. Other ties include Buffalo at Newark, Montreal at Jersey City and Rochester at Reading as part of a regional schedule.
Local classifieds list apartments for rent in multiple streets, sale of building materials including dry pine sheeting and lumber, a piano sale through Stieff Inc, boarder requests, and a sales position seeking an energetic young man with a Ford or Chevrolet. Names include Fred L Glaize Jr Shirley Carter John W Rosen berger Co A J Lowry Washington Equipment Corp Chas M Stieff Inc.
Whitacre area gossip notes list visits and calls among residents from Martinsburg Winchester and Berkeley Springs including the Cushnas Pughs and Largent families. A marriage between Gordon Clark and Carmen Stotler is noted. The Washington Post remark on U turns in Washington is included.
The page lists daily market figures for mixed feed corn meal and farm staples, including cottonseed cake and middlings. Prices appear for local retail and wholesale markets, covering flour butter oats and dairy feeds, with ranges for cattle, sheep, poultry, and wool.
A fragmentary page lists corn prices around 1.56 and 1.90 with references to wheat hay eggs and various livestock including broilers calves sheep lambs lambs and pigs. A quote from Hamilton Fyfe about happiness and selfishness closes the page.
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