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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1919
Page
2
The Boy Scouts beat Middletown High School 20 to 8 in a Friday night armory game. Garland Potts scored half the Scouts points with five baskets and two fouls. Clay Manuel led Middletown with solid work.
Cumberland Maryland December 22 Construction on the Moorefield Southern Railroad is slowed by extreme cold. Intermountain Construction Company handles the project with engineer Evan Lafollette from Wardensville in charge. Hetzel S Pownall of Cumberland, vice president, leased Moorefield garage space for offices in Moorefield West Virginia.
The U S Department of Agriculture bureau of markets reports a 5.6 percent rise in barrel apples and an 80.8 percent rise in boxed apples held in storage during November. December 1 totals show barrels 3,279,820 and boxed 4,945,472, with November 1, 1919 figures at 3,108,246 barrels and 4,244,246 boxes.
Charles Hollins, serving a life sentence in a Massachusetts peniten tiary for murder, is freed based on a written confession by Jessie Murphy, a Boston gangster. Murphy stated his motive in admitting the crime was to frame Hollins.
The Paxton Chapel Sunday school will present Christmas programs at 7 PM on Wednesday evening this week. The public is invited to attend and enjoy the school’s Christmas celebration.
Samuel Robert's Kline and Annie Lena Ornéeorff were married Saturday afternoon at the parsonage on North Main Street by Rev. E. Y. Brubaker. Miss Calphurnia Brubaker of Blackstone College, Blackstone, Va., will visit her parents over Christmas.
The text describes the Bayer Cross mark on Aspirin packages as a sign of authenticity. It notes tablets named Bayer Tablets of Aspirin should follow directions and that Bayer has supplied aspirin prescribed for many conditions. It mentions a twelve tablet tin and Bayer trademark details.
The Star notes daily market corrections and quotes today from local buyers listing wholesale prices. The report emphasizes that typographical errors may occur and the newspaper does not assume responsibility for them.
A fragment lists wholesale and retail prices for farm staples and groceries. Items include potatoes, flour, middlings, bran, cracked corn, cornmeal, and butter with per unit costs, totals, and occasional abbreviations.
The page lists market rates for young chickens old hens and old roosters with notes on dairy butter corn hay and Timothy hay. Prices show range figures such as No 1 Timothy hay 32.50 No 1 clover mixed hay 28.50 butter 72 cents per pound and cattle prices for heifers steers and other categories.
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