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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1928
Page
7
An extensive list outlines license taxes for numerous trades and professions including ice dealers itinerant doctors junk dealers land agents and laundries. Also covers motor vehicles motor buses motorcycles moving pictures and oculists with varying fees and conditions aligned to local state laws.
Virginia faces a rapid industrial expansion per a state survey. Governor Byrd’s Progress program cited a 60 percent rise in the decade, with 1926 up 10 percent and 1927 projected to exceed 15 percent. Major projects include silk mills, furniture factories, tobacco plants, a new Norfolk plant, and a $8 million DuPont rayon facility in Richmond.
The Star lists daily wholesale prices with figures for corn, barley, mixed feed, and grain by the ton or cwt, along with poultry and dairy items. Local retail prices cover flour, middlings, bran, scratch feed, screenings, cracked corn, and country butter, showing daily market movements.
The passage lists various market items such as eggs cattle and pigs with numerous garbled terms and numbers, indicating corrected market figures from the previous day but details are obscured by OCR errors. Several animal counts and prices appear, yet most specifics are unreadable.
An old advertisement touts Marmola as a modern fat loss method. It claims a book in each box explains the results and reasons, urging readers to consult a druggist or buy a bottle to start today.
Mr and Mrs L Smith entertain Sunday at their North Cameron Street home. Attending were Mr and Mrs Russell James and daughter Frances Lee, and Mr and Mrs John McDonald and son Wesley, all of Martinsburg West Virginia. CARD OF THANKS We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of husband and father G Lemley by his wife and children.
The record lists amounts including 390000.90 800000.00 week 1492826.10 40262.45 8000.00 294800.00 15000.00 and uses a grand total of 3444177.89 dollars. It reads as a summary of cash movements and ending balance for the period.
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