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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1934
Page
7
In New York April 30 nervous erratic price movement dominated the opening hours. Volume wavered as some categories slipped a notch while a brief flurry followed. Rubber held firm while wheat rose on crop damage reports but lost some gains later. Bonds mixed with prime loans improving, dollar rates narrow and pound at 5.13 dollars in London.
Colored school exhibits on the first floor compare favorably with white schools. An agricultural drawing from Leetown shows principal U.S. crops and their growing states. Leetown won first prize, Stephens City second, Middletown third. Opequon joined Leetown’s exhibit.
AP dispatch reports authorities mobilizing police and soldiers across nations for May Day fears. New York plans the widest parade security in history with 200000 marchers. Paris, Havana, Madrid, and other cities brace for demonstrations and potential violence in a general strike environment.
Tickets for the Friday feature parade at the Fair Grounds go on sale at Apple Blossom Festival headquarters. Grandstand seats are 50 cents each, and six person boxes cost five dollars. Cash must accompany all orders.
Citywide night break ins continued with four business properties entered on Saturday. The City Fruit Market on Boscawen and Loudoun streets reports a small cash loss of about four dollars in pennies. An unsuccessful entry at Workingman’s Store on North Loudoun used mortised lock and broken glass. Chas W Buhl's Cash Grocery near the southern city end sees an open window. Grant near depot reportedly entered similarly with no confirmed theft.
Closing quotations from Chicago and Baltimore wheat markets supplied to The Star show Chicago May 2012 at 79 percent, July 79 percent, Sept 80 percent, Baltimore Spot wheat 84 12, Winchester Spot 81, Corn Chicago May 45 38, July 48 46, Sept 50, Winchester Delivered 55 cents per bushel and $2.75 per barrel.
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