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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1931
Page
4
The Evening Star is filed at the Winchester Virginia post office as second class matter and published daily except Sundays by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester.
The notice lists subscription prices in advance for various terms including one year six months and three months with different amounts. It notes Associated Press rights and that the paper is consolidated with The Morning News Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror.
A biblical verse from Psalm 58 11 proclaims a reward for the righteous and that God judges people on earth, reflecting a moral assurance in divine justice.
Richmond News Leader reports Massachusetts will win its private campaign against billboards once the supreme court sustains a special investigator’s findings and dissolves 1924 regulation injunctions. The report highlights aesthetics and public scenery as key, contrasting with typical traffic hazard focus. Virginia awaits its turn in the campaign.
The Wiggin s committee of major banks urges revising wartime German reparations as the first step to world peace and financial stability. They call for rapid action, noting the two year debt moratorium and concerns over Germany's ability to pay, while abstracting politics from economic realities.
The article argues that returning from vacation or breaks should be seen as a privilege of work and study. It contends that dissatisfaction lies with the individual, not the job or education, and extols education as civilization s greatest gift to humanity. It reflects on attitudes toward work and learning.
A speaker praises work as recreation, comparing it to a bird in flight and a fish in water. The message emphasizes finding pleasure in using one’s own powers through labor to develop abilities, warning that lacking this leads to stalled growth.
Des Moines Tribune Capital discusses glare from white cement roads and the potential of tinted cement to reduce eye strain for drivers. Optometrists may benefit while engineers consider practical, cheap coloring options to improve through road visibility and possibly create distinctive routes.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Fries and daughter express gratitude for sympathy cards flowers and car use after the sudden death of their daughter Anna Lee dated 8 26 11.
Chicago August 25. Liquidation of the September delivery in all grain pushed prices to season lows for wheat corn and rye. A late corn rally and short covering trimmed losses to fractional gains. wheat weakened 1 to 1.25 cents. oats and rye fluctuated. Provisions fell 2 to 15 cents as foreign crop reports hinted lower wheat yields.
Chicago cash grain market reports a range of prices for wheat corn oats rye and barley. Prices show No 2 red wheat at 47 1 2 to 48, No 2 mixed corn at 41, No 1 yellow corn at 47 1 4, No 1 white corn at 43, No 1 white oats at 21 1 4 to 21 3 4, and timothy and clover values listed.
Richmond prices list No 2 red winter No 3 red VA 45950 bag lots 45 50 for wheat and mixed car lots for corn with No 2 white to 65 No 3 white to 63 No 3 yellow to 62. Oats car lots No 2 white 30 No 1 mixed feed 24. Baltimore prices show apples Wealthys 21 2 inch up 50 75 potatoes Maryland Pennsylvania 100 sacks US 1 1.10 New Jersey 1.25 1.35 eggs candled 21 23. Chickens and Leghorns priced per weight and size.
Nita Dudley declares she and Natalie will ride to New York on two tickets, chasing glamor and a stage future. Natalie's jealousy and rumors swirl as Nita reveals Richard Marlen sent expensive gifts and a scandal involving his wife. their town memories of gossip and hardship loom as they flee Truesdale for bigger things.
Prices show cabbage at 1.75 per 100 pounds in crates and 0. to 0c per bushel. Butter steady with creamery cartons 32 to 35c per lb and packing stock 1 1/2 to 1 3/4c. Leghorn hens 13 to 14c, colored hens 18 to 20c, broilers Leghorn 20 to 22c, colored broilers 23 to 25c per pound.
New York market data lists poultry prices by grade and weight. Fresh chickens move with prices shown for regular packed and select heavy, including firsts seconds and other grades. listing notes unsettled, mixed colors and standard lots.
Washington price listings show buteer eggs and poultry ranges for various weights with current receipts, while Baltimore reports No 2 red winter wheat prices for August and September. The notices include specific per pound figures for prints, broilers, leghorn birds, and long island ducks alongside wheat futures.
Baltimore Lancaster Jersey City and Chicago farm markets show hogs cattle and sheep with varied tops and steady to lower trends. Hog top prices ranged around 6.50 to 7.50 per hundred weight, cattle highs reached 10.50 in Chicago veal to 11.50 in Jersey City, lambs to 9.00 in Jersey City, government bonds noted for August 25.
The Thomaston Georgia Times reports the United States moves to curb drinking antifreeze solutions, noting the measure appears entirely unnecessary in recent weeks.
By distress warrant I, R. Anderson, sell at public auction August 29 1931 at 163 North Main Street Winchester Virginia. Restau rant equipment and furniture include upright piano range gas stove radio highboy dresser tables chairs glass ware silverware electric ice cream freezer refrigerators and other items. Cash terms. LEE BARR A. G. Swanson Auctioneer.
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