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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1926
Page
7
The readable fragments hint at a schedule entry or fair related notes with unclear dates and times. Names, places, or organizations are not clearly identifiable, leaving only scattered tokens and symbols.
The week featured a main development of money rate hardening due to heavy demand for crop financing and expanding business needs. The stock market fell early, then recovered. rumors of Reserve rate hikes spurred liquidations, while July railroad earnings boosted public outlook.
Rest Brevities from Rest Virginia summarize visits and events. Esther Ridgeway Ruth Ridgeway Mary Ridgeway Gilbert Wright Jene Wright attend Sesqui Centennial in Philadelphia. Mrs Frank Brady and children return to Baltimore after two weeks with Mr and Mrs John Schlack. A S Bowers recovering from recent operation. Marguerite Clark recovering from typhoid fever and able to be out. Birth of a daughter August at King's Daughters Hospital Martinsburg. Visiting relatives include Bertha Wilson and daughter from Kansas and families of Hagerstown and White Hall.
The 18th annual Frederick County Sunday School Association meeting convened at Round Hill Presbyterian Church. Reports show 53 of 60 schools submitted, with $425 turned in toward a $500 goal. speakers urged stronger religious education and Sunday school improvement.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tested its first New York passenger delivery using parlor motor coaches from Jersey City to offer entry and exit to Manhattan after midnight. The system replaces the old depot method with a flexible terminal plan at Pershing Square near Grand Central and a station at the Waldorf Astoria, with a downtown route via Liberty to Park avenues.
Miss Ruby Stickley and Anna Mary Hod son visit Washington while Irvin Stickley and family call from Ohio. G McCune Stickley and relatives from Pittsburgh stay with Frank Hottle. Virginia Keys visits J M Brumback. C O Watson and family join M M Orndorff family. Russell Clayton and Leona Snowders from Fairmont visit A P and R A Miller. Rev. R L Philpott returns from North Carolina after 15 years away.
The Star lists daily corrected wholesale wheat, bran, flour, scratch, cracked corn, corn meal, mixed feed, hay, middlings, and poultry prices. Local retail prices cover flour, sour cream, bran, mixed feed, screenings, cracked corn, country butter, and eggs with notes on day-end closing values.
Thin men and women urged to try McCoy's Cod Liver Oil tablets sold by Baker's Drug Store and druggists. The ad claims 60 sugar coated tablets for 60 cents and promises a money back guarantee if a thin person does not gain six pounds in 30 days.
A nostalgic note traces the remedy Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound from grandmothers to great granddaughters. It recalls mothers giving the famous medicine from polonaise days to radio era, highlighting enduring trust in the tonic.
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