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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
3
Readable sections show prices for corn yellow and white, hay timothy and mixed, middling retail, butter various grades, fresh and store packed, live poultry young chickens and old hens, potatoes per peck, bacon and other farm staples. Also cattle and sheep price ranges and pig pricing.
Market listings show eggs in Virginia and nearby markets down 24 cents, butter Fancy creamery at 32 cents, Virginia and ha rolls at 22 cents, dairy prints at 24 cents, live poultry with chickens 13 to 14 pounds at 28 cents, spring chickens 11 to 12 pounds at 26 cents, and roosters and old stock around 20 cents.
Middletown Virginia notices list local visits and health updates. James Rhodes shows improvement after illness. Various regional residents visit relatives in Front Royal Leesburg Branchville Winchester and nearby areas.
Col Murray of the Ninth Cavalry has been placed on the retired list due to age. He is in Maine on leave from his regiment, with a career spanning from 1877 when he graduated the military academy. He served on frontiers and in the Philippines, where he acted as aid on Major General Otis staff and secretary to the military governor. He commanded cavalry brigades at Winchester in 1913 and made many friends during that stay.
The Washington excise board refused to approve the transfer of a liquor license from Martin McDonald to George W. Hooge at 1200 D Street NW. Hooge, a former Newport News bartender now residing in the District, sought refuge from Prohibition storms but the board said the decision would not set a precedent for future licenses.
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