Front Royal News Roundup Includes Visits and Weddings
Front Royal and Warren County items note Lyle McFall of Staunton visiting family with Jimmy Bear and Hugh Stevens. Several residents travel to Baltimore Washington and Richmond while others prepare for upcoming events such as Calvary Episcopal services and extended firemen car carnival due to rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
Lyle McFall
Staunton
Jimmy Bear
Hugh Stevens
Front Royal Firemen
W. H. Cowell
Baltimore
Rev. H. H. Sherman
Shanghai Terror Raid and Mass Casualties Reported
The article describes a terror raid near Shanghai with bombs and hazmat devices causing mass casualties. Children flood hospitals such as Lester Hospital with hundreds of injuries as flames lash through Nantao districts. Eyewitnesses detail multiple waves of aircraft, smoke, and fear-driven evacuations amid ongoing attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whangpoo
Lester Hospital
Nantao
Nanta
Hongkew
Baltimore and Chicago Market Report Aug 28
Baltimore cattle hogs calves sheep prices rise and fall by weight and class with weekly shifts noted for steer heifers cows and calves. Chicago hogs cattle and sheep markets show shifts from the prior week with top prices and ranges across grading, weights, and stock categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
North Carolina
Jerseys
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
U.S. Dept. Agr
Philadelphia
Plymouth Rocks
Local Markets Prices for Grains and Poultry
The Star lists daily market prices for patent and other bags of grain per barrel, including 98 lb and 48 lb patent bags at 5.85 and 5.95 respectively, plus smaller bag sizes and other feed components. It also shows prices for middlings, oats, various dairy and mixed feeds, and live poultry categories such as leghorn hens, broilers, rocks, and guinea birds with assorted weights and price points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serge i
Stock Market Brief Use of Gains Narrow In Holiday Session
In a muted New York session there was little buying interest with several major issues retreating while rails and some steels oils and copper names moved higher. Traders noted reduced market activity due to the holiday and tensions in the far east showed signs of easing with specific stocks like Allied Chemical Gen Electric U S Steel and Penn Railroad listed among movers at close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Eubank
New York
Shanghai
Far East
Pathe Film
Loew's
Commercial Investment Trust
Westinghouse
Wheeling Steel
Republic Steel
Cerro de Pasco
U.S. Rubber
North American
Chrysler
Public Roo of
N. J
National Ad
Grain futures and cash prices ease on rainfall in Argentina
World wheat prices declined over two cents as rains reach Argentina's key regions and weak demand persists from importing nations. Chicago prices for wheat, corn oats soybeans and rye drift lower with September and December contracts shown, while Baltimore and cash grain quotes follow suit with modest declines and local price notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Argentina
Program Of Frederick Home Agent Week Schedule
The Frederick home agent Miss Elizabeth Farrar outlines a week long 4-H program from August 30 to September 4 with office days field work and Leader Training Conference. Activities include club demonstrations cooking corn dishes project study and County Camp reports with meetings across Gore Carper’s Valley Armel Mountain View and Round Hill clubs and an Achievement Day and Fair Committee session on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Farrar
Home Agent
Cameron Street
Homemaker's Market
Northern Virginia
R. Belle Burke
Iva Byrd Johnson
Gore 4-H Club
Lyda Cooper
Gore Home
Lodge Hall
J. C. Bowman
Frank Allanson
Carper's Valley
Round Hill
E. O. Carpenter
Etroi Armel
Armel
Mountain View
Friendly Grove
What A Champion Chicago Chicken Picker Demonstrates Skill
Er nest G. Hansen from Fort Atkinson Wisconsin wowed crowds at the Illinois Poultry Improvement Association show. He picked four hens to prove technique with different methods a law pick a high pick a blindfolded pick and a final pick with large rubber mittens proving nothing could stop him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ernest G. Hansen
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Illinois Poultry Improvement Association
W. & M. Staff Athletes Remembered for Timely Wins
On W. and M. Staff last Spring after a sensational athletic run especially in basketball the Indians benefitted from timely plays. An offer kept him at Williamsburg as a college faculty member keeping him near his brothers who were notable scholastic and collegiate athletes. Floyd heads Colonial National Historical Park at Yorktown Virginia. Walter works in the National Park Service, his specialty archaeology. He has directed archaeological research in the lower peninsula in recent years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
Floyd
Colonial National Historical Park
Yorktown
Walter
National Park ‘Service
Lower Peninsula
Soviet Purge Rumors Reach Moscow Officials
Reported in the purge of the Soviet leadership, former vice commissars Y. L. Pyatakoff and L. P. Serebryankoff, along with eleven others, were tried and executed. Hundreds await trial as wreckers and traitors. Comrades are warned to keep government information secret and denounce suspicious actions. Women leaders such as Betty Glan and Natalie Satz have been dismissed or arrested. Some individuals have disappeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y. L. Pyatakoff
L. P. Serebryankoff
Railways
Betty Glan
Moscow
Park of Culture and Rest
Natalie Satz
Children's Theatre
Fruit Growers Meeting Draws National Figures
A. Motz and a roster of federal and state horticulture officials joined visitors from New York, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and beyond at a fruit growers gathering. Attendees included Samuel Frazier of the International Apple Association and Horticultural Society leaders, with Life magazine sending photographers to chronicle speakers and crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Motz
London
W. A French
French
New York
Samuel Frazier
International Apple Association
Rochester
N. Y
W. 8. Campbell
Virginia State Horticultural Society
Staunton
A. H. Teske
Blacksburg
H. W. Skinner
Chambersburg
Harry W. Miller
Paw Paw
W. Va
Life
Berryville
Robert Salmon
John Arnold
Jacksonville
Fla
Hubert Nall
Atlanta
E. W. J. Hearty
A. L. Peterson
C. L. Fain, Jr
C C. Hess
W. F. Kurtz
Fred C. St
Max Lowman
H. H. Bucy
Haserstown
Nathan D. Payne
Winchester
Also Mentioned on This Page
Main St
Silco
Cut Price Stores Inc
Loudoun St
N. Loudoun Street
Anmiere
Les of
Front Royal and
Warren County News
Telephone Front Royal 149-A
North Fork
South Fork
Alfred Keim
John Reeves
Washington
Charles Reeves
Mr. Reeves
Hagerstown
Marian Carron
Merle Luck
Richmond
Frank Stout
James Doman
B. F. Cookey
C. C. Bowen
Reliance
Cary Harrison
Philip Eastham
Texas
Ronald Rowland
White Post
Calvary Episcopal Church
C. B. Stewart
Bethesda, Md
H. H. Thursh
Myra Richardson
Whiteford, Md
Martha Brent Burruss
Virginia Downing
Virginia Beach
Samuel Roszel
Wilming
Newell Chadwick
Goldie Sager
Columbia University
Mr. L. Sager
True Sil Neen
Een Cae
Pasit Dobing
W. A. Orndoff
Albin
H. Miller
Blizzard Ensilage
Barr's Orchard & Farm Supply
Clara Fultz Bentz
Busy Bee Restaurant
C. E. Shirley
Glengary
Fairmort Ave
M.M
B.C. Care Star
Ada Mayhew
Mt. Williams
Mr. Lewis
E. Piccadilly St
Piccadilly St
Loudoun Street
Fairmont Avenue
North Braddock Street
Fawcett
Berryville Avenue
S. Main St
Valley Pike
Cork Street
Main Street
Bryarly & Green
Limeton
Llewellyn
Reward Star Office
Hagerstown Equipment Company, Inc
Cammer Tire Co
Neill Woods
Fort Loudoun
General Motors
Hemphill Diesel Schools
Queens Blvd
L. I. City
N. x
Livestock and Produce Markets
The
Star
Stock Market Report
Allied Chemical
Radiator
Smelters
Anaconda
Baltimore and Ohio
Beth Steel
wVillysur Ivo
Consol Edison
Corn Products
Gen. Electric
Gen. Motors
Goodyear
Int. Harvester
Kennecott
Mont. Ward
N. Y. Central
Penn Railroad
South. Railway
Texas Corp
U. S. Steel
Va.Caro, Ptd
Woolworth
Baltimore Grains
Frederick
Fruit Growers
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
R. M. Swimley
North Market Street
Maytag
E. Boscawen St. Winchester
FRONT
Maytag Company
Dtp
Newton
Iowa
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!