Drought Linked to Sins In Editorial Plea For Aid
The Star reprints a letter arguing the American drought is a divine chastisement for national sins. It urges national repentance and calls on the government to aid farmers, with wealthy donors redirected to the Red Cross for drought relief. Alexander Spottswood Dandridge, civil engineer from Winchester, Va., signs the letter dated Aug. 14, 1930.
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the Star
United States
America
God
Mississippi
Red Cross
Alexander Spottswood Dandridge
Robert Hartman Dies in Roanoke After Operation
Relatives report the death of Robert Hartman formerly of this city August 8 in Roanoke Virginia after an appendectomy and gallbladder removal. He aged about 50, had high blood pressure and ill health for years. Funeral and burial were in Roanoke last Monday. Survived by two wives, six children from first marriage and three from second, plus two brothers L. J. Hartman of Winchester and David Hartman of Baltimore.
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Robert Hartman
Roanoke
Hartman
Han
Albin
Wiay
John D. Hartman
Paul Hartman
116Th Infantry
Virginia National Guard
Edna
Frances
Retha Hartman
Messrs
Almont
Newton Hartman
Louise Braithwaite
This County
Pauline
Elizabeth
L. J. Hartman
Winchester
David Hartman
Baltimore
Rebuking Sin as Cause of Heat Wave in 1930
E A McGlathery argues the heat wave and drought reflect divine displeasure for idolatry and disobedience. He warns modern worship of self and leisure mirrors Ahab's era, urging repentance and return to God as the remedy. August 16, 1930.
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the Star
Admiral Byrd
South Pole
Ahab
Baal
E. A. McGlathery
Winchester
Love Among the Millionaires at Capitol Theatre
Clara Bow headlines a cast of Paramount comedians in Love Among the Millionaires at Capitol Theatre today and tomorrow. Mitzi Green Skeets Gallagher and Stuart Erwin deliver comedy as Clara Bow's rivals while Bow sings and acts in a romantic plot about a brakeman who is the railroad president’s son.
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Rarin
Clara Bow
Paramount
Mitzi Green
Skeets Gallagher
Stuart Erwin
Capitol Theatre
Clara
Stanley Smith
Stanley
Charlie Mack
Moran and Mack
Stuart Edwin
Local Market Prices and Wholesale Wheat Rates
Market report lists local wholesale wheat prices and supplies for flour, screenings, feed mixes, and corn products. Retail figures include flour, bran, scratch feed, mixed feed, cracked corn, dairy feed, cotton seed meal, butter fat, eggs, calves, hogs, wool, and cows with price ranges.
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Bopieen
Local Wholesale Ad Notes Mixed Items and Prices
Fragmentary notice from a Baltimore wholesale page lists items such as young chickens calves and hogs with scattered prices and codes. The legible portions point to mixed livestock and produce offerings from a wholesale house with unclear quantities and terms.
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Herman H. Hable
Loudoun Street
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Shenandoah Valley
National. Bank
Wayland
J. W. Reesee
Our Service
Warner Bros
T ’ Ss
Capitol
William Powell
Phen
R. M. Swimley
George Washington Hotel
Observing
Market Report
The
Star
Baltimore Wholesale
Soca Patrician
Ena
Pileree
Isaac Sous
Vacrete Coe
Ifere
Nnsylvania
Farmers and Merchants National Bank’&*trust Cos
Virginia
Times
R. T. Jones & CO
S. Main St
Delco-Light Chas
W. Fulk Sales.and Service
Kearneysville
W. Va
Phoge
Shepherdstown
Lku Bealy
Carlson
Stromberg - Carlson
Kenneth Henry & Co
South Main Street
Gray & Sheetz
Men’s
Smrown & Fisher
LOU Bernstein CO
North
Loudoun St
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