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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1950

Page

7

Classified Advertisements WANTED- Waitresses and Help

WANTED experienced waitresses Apply Silver Grill 18 E Piccadilly St. FEMALE HELP WANTED competent woman as household helper in country two adults able to drive preferred Call Boyce 277-W Bee. WANTED experienced waitresses or waiters must be 21 over steady employment white only no phone calls apply in person Duff Dinner Front Royal Va. FEMALE HELP WANTED anesthetist for ninety bed general hospital permanent position Grace Hospital Richmond Va. FOR RENT cool bedroom in residential section hot water 315 Gray Avenue Phone 5308.

E. Piccadilly Boyce Wbee Duff Front Royal General Hospital Grace Hospital Richmond Gray Avenue

Winchester Public Schools Registration Notice 1950 51

Winchester pupils must register for the 1950 51 term on specific dates before September 5. White students register August 24–25 at Handley and August 25 at Virginia Avenue and John Kerr. Negro students register August 25 at Douglas School. Registration requires birth certificate vaccination proof and last school record.

Main and Third Streets Middletown Frederick County Virginia H. C. Borden Maude C. Edmondson John H. Pickeral Circuit Court J. Frederick Larrick Coleman Dunn Winchester Public Schools Virginia Avenue John Kerr Handley School Douglas

Market Quotations Chicago Grains

Chicago grain prices opened steady on the board with soybeans leading gains and wheat, corn, and oats posting modest advances. Notable prices include Wheat Sep 2.24 17 8 25. Dec 2.28 1 8 1 4. Corn Sep 1.52 3 8 1 2. Soybeans Nov 2.44 1 2 3 4. Lard Sep 14.65.

Chicago Board of Trade

London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital Born in 1852

The Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street opened in 1852 as Britain’s first children’s hospital. Queen Victoria served as its first patron, marking a landmark in pediatric care and medical history.

London Great Ormond Street Great Britain Queen Victoria

Card of Thanks for Cephas Fahnestock

We thank friends neighbors and relatives for sympathy flowers cards and kindness after the passing of our husband and father Rev Cephas Fahnestock who died August 6 1950 Mrs Cephas Fahnestock and Family dated 8 19 11

Cephas Fahnestock Fanily

Livestock Prices Mixed as Cattle and Hogs Move Broadly

Baltimore market shows slaughter steers steady to 50 cents lower with bulls 50 to 75 cents higher. Cows mostly steady, stock cattle steady to 50 cents lower. high good and choice 850-1130 lb steers 30.50-31.50. Feeder and calf values mixed. vealers 29.00-33.50 for light weights, 25-28 for heavier lots. Hog prices up 75 cents. sows steady, most good and choice 180-260 lb barrows 24.50-25.25, lighter weights lower. Sheep mostly steady with top spring lambs 29.50, mid-weight lambs 22-25, feeder and slaughter ewes 8-10. CHICAGO: hogs higher across weights. most good and choice 200-260 lb at 24.50-24.75, 260-280 lb 23.75-24.50, 290-330 lb 22.50-23.50. Beef cattle losses noted for steers and yearlings, cows and stockers mixed. Overall tone cautious with mixed regional results.

Baltimore USDA Chicago Choice

Market Report Shows Mixed Returns For Cattle And Lambs

Compared with the previous week all classes moved 50 to 75 higher with lambs and cattle varying. Feeder and stock steers sold around 23.60 to 24.75 for select lots while fat beef bulls ranged around 25.00 and vealers 27.00 to 33.00. Lambs and yearlings posted gains and ewes and bucks varied in the mid to upper teens and low twenties.

Local Market Prices From The Star Advertisement

Daily local market listing shows prices for flour corn meal wheat barley and feeds. Items include Corn meal 5 lb 6 lb and 10 lb yellow corn old yellow corn No 2 barley and new barley cracked corn 100 lb bag mixed feed egg mash broiler mash and wholesale butter prices.

DRS Tive

Florida schools add banking course from seventh to twelfth grade

Florida schools are adding practical banking instruction to mathematics. Students will use bank books beginning in seventh grade and continue through twelfth grade with investments discussed at the end. The Florida Bankers Association led the campaign to place banking in the school program.

Tallahassee Fla Florida Florida Bankers’ Association

House flies as potent disease carriers

A brief note states that house flies rank among the globe's most potent vectors of disease, capable of spreading harmful microbes.

Mrs Wigginton Dies at 131 West Boscawen Street

Mrs Margaret Wigginton 175 widow of Jackson Wigginton died this morning at her residence 131 West Boscawen Street. Born October 1 1874 in Frederick County she was daughter of Andrew and Ellen Seabright. Survived by daughter Pearl Owens sister Minnie Wigginton and four grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 11 am Jones Funeral Home Rev W H Hanckel off. Burial Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers Donald Seabright Augustus Haines James Fauver Jack Owens Richard Owens James Owens.

Margaret Wigginton Jackson Wigginton W. Boscawen Street Frederick County Andrew Ellen Seabright Jackson Pearl Owens Minnie Wigginton Winon Jones Funeral Home

Fishes for His Life in Daring Island Rescue

Robert Thompson, 17, used a 150 foot line cast to shore to save his own life and three others after being stranded on an island by the tide. Lifeguards pulled the men ashore one by one as Thompson reeled in the line.

South Gate Calif Robert Thompson Thompson Meinland

Quartz Dominates Earth’s Crust as Abundant Mineral

Quartz remains the most abundant mineral in Earth’s crust, widely distributed in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Its chemistry SiO2 and its crystal forms underpin many geological and industrial uses, from glassmaking to electronics.

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Adaim Silver King Tractor Ealy Virginia Machinery Co W. Cecil St Farns Harry H. Willis N. Loudoun Osage Sta Winchester Rt National Ave Damsons Albin Farm Market Frigerator Jim Sandy Hunter Smith Hanging Rock W. Va Front Royal Road Golliday Middle Road E. M. Rogers R.F. BR A. L. Purtlebaugh Gore Va Fred Neher Virginia Ave Care Star Kelvinator Hotpoint Valley Ave E. D. Funkhouser Gladiolus Dial e.C.d Stephens City Markham Fauquier County Harold H. Neff Rt. 1 Harrisonburg E. W. Barr Winchester Cold Storage Packing House Palace Boy P. O. Box City Army Loudoun W. Germain Hawthorn Neil Kimball Berryville Albin Food Market Harey Davidson Valley Ave Pine Motor Co Bath Winchester Peyton St R. P. Anderson Gore East Piccadilly St Apply Pine Motor Co Clarke Co Annie Stribling Call Peoples Restaurant S. Main Smith Pontiac Sales & Service Gerrard St Marshall Field Enterprises Inc Paramount Star Holliday Montague Ave Braddock St Knoxville Tenn Henkel- Harris Furniture Co Car Parker Royal Drive-In Theatre Icker Pete Pontiac Club Bickers N. Loudoun St E. Ee Buncutter Tire CO S. Braddock St Winchester Hosiery Corp Braddock & Amherst Chanticleer Inn Strasburg A. A. Bennett Royal Page Lewis Solenberger Hardware Dodge Plymouth Eth Avenue Camp Lejeune N. C 19Th Infantry Marine Corps Fifth Avenue New York Pennsylvania Station Peter Jack McLaughlin Brooklyn N. Y John Agriculture Dept Frederick County Farm Bureau U. S Paulibus Rock & Cross Sarrin Circus L. A. Milburn Cameron St Frederick Motors, Inc Martinsburg Pike Valley Wrecking Co Mrs. Wigginton Admiral Television Trenary & Bro Bunker Hill, W. Va Inwood J. R. Alexander Jr Rileys Real Estate Agency Quick Possession J. G. Holsinger & Son Rouss Ave Clinton L. Ritter G. L. Grimm Grimm's Radio Sales & Service Loudoun St Molden Electric CO Grimm S. Loudoun St
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