Baltimore Markets Report Delivers Livestock and Grain Bids
Maryland Virginia West Virginia markets show cattle steers 9.50-10.50, hogs 10.80-11.45, calves strong, sheep active. poultry prices steady. Chicago hogs 10.45-10.60, cattle 12.50-13.95, oats and soybeans listed. grain prices steady to higher with wheat about 1.40-1.44 in Baltimore and Chicago areas.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Sens Oon
Virginia
West Virginia
Yorks
Grimes
Washington
Pennsylvania
U. S
Baltimore Livestock
USDA
Philadelph Philadelp
Fancy
P. R
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
U. S. Pt. Agri
United States
Lord
Bellus
Chicago Cash Grain
Stock Market Slips as Leaders Falter and GM Edges Down
Stock market observers note widespread declines with leaders underperforming. General Motors weakens around 4 points from the start while Chrysler and Studebaker trend lower. foreign exchange shows the French franc and sterling near flat. Selected 2 pm quotations include Am Can 119 1 4, Chrysler 119 1 4, Gen Motors 66 1 4, U S Steel 80 1 2, Woolworth 64.
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Ing
General Motors
Chrysler
Studeer
Chemical
Can
Smelters
Tel
N. Y. Central
Penn Railroad
Southern Railway
Stand Oil of N. J
Texas Corp
Union Kc
U. S. Steel
Woolworth
Local Markets Daily Market Rates and Wholesale Prices
The Star lists current local wholesale and retail market prices for flour, corn, mash, mixed feeds, and dairy items. It includes patent and common brand bags in 98, 48, 24, and 12 pound sizes with per barrel or per bag pricing, plus assorted poultry, lamb, and butter notes.
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The
Star
Kasco
Crois
Jeep
County Cooperation Sought For Winchester Parking Lot Plan
Finance Committee officials ask Frederick County Board to consider sharing a parking area on Boscawen Street between Cameron and Kent. City plans to invest $8,000 per lot for a block wide space, aiming to serve several hundred cars. County permission hoped for to use the lot as needed.
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Finance Committee of
Common Council
Frederickounty Board of Supervisors
Boscawen Street
Cameron and
Kent
Haseen Pro
Ebenezer Ladies To Meet Sunday
The Ladies Aid and Missionary Society of the Ebenezer Disciples Church will hold its monthly meeting after church services next Sunday morning at the church. This brief gathering aims to avoid an extra trip due to bad roads. Members and others who can attend are urged to come.
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Ladies Aid and Missionary Society of the Ebenezer Disciples Church
Homhe
Welfare Board To Meet On Friday
A meeting of the board of public welfare will be held Friday morning at 11 oclock in the council chamber of City Hall. Reports by Mrs Eulalia Nalley, superintendent in Frederick county, and Mrs Mc Grail, superintendent of public life in Winchester, will be presented.
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Board of Public Welfare
Council
City Hall
Eulalia Nalley
Frederick County
McGrail
Bfe
Winchester
Need More Shoes Continued from Page One
Arrangements set for a physician to accompany the superintendent to schools with a children roster from teachers. The law requires vaccination with summons for noncooperation and free vaccine for indigent children while paying families pay 50. Only about 2 percent are naturally immune to smallpox.
Wintry Blast Floods Hit Ohio Valley and Midwest
A winter storm and floods disrupted travel and blocked roads across Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Pittsburgh’s confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers topped flood stage at over 25 feet, while the Ohio River rose across a 600 mile front near Cincinnati to be within five feet of the flood mark. Numerous midwestern cities reported subzero temperatures as crews worked to clear blocked routes and monitor rivers.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Monongahela Rivers
West Virginia
Ohio
Cincinnati
Falmouth
Cher
Moorehead
Minn
Lacrosse
Wis
Relief Rolls committee presses for ade quate relief program
Relief Rolls committee aims to press for an adequate relief program and debated asking for a billion dollars for the rest of the fiscal year. The President’s report lists all federal agencies, including WPA and CCC, as employing about 3.15 million people on December 12, below the February 1935 peak of 3.85 million. Congress has appropriated thirteen billion dollars for relief work and employment programs centered on public works.
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WPA
Civilian Conservation Corps
Congress
Government relief funding and expenditure details
The record notes relief funds since 1932 with twelve and a half billion obligated by agencies. Of the total, about 240 million dollars in administrative expenses occurred in the last two years. Fifty percent of expenditures went to salaries, 28 percent to grants, and 8 percent to materials and supplies.
Strikers Target Copeland Law Over Discharge Books
Emerson committee voices anger at continuous discharge books used to track sailors. They say the provision is unfair and will be used to break strikes. If Copeland law isn’t amended by January 20, thousands plan demonstrations from New York to Philadelphia. In St Louis, Desmond Garst retracts a false report on an auto plant shutdown amid strike rumors.
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Emerson
New York
Philadelpare
Louis
General Motors
Desmond Garst
St. Louis
United Automobile Workers
Garst
President seeks plans to extend federal powers and curb Supreme Court
Senators debated expanding federal authority and limiting the Court as Norris proposed a conference of amendment advocates. Aimed at reconciling positions, the plan would pit farm labor and business delegations against Supreme Court jurisdiction with a potential vote on constitutional changes and a possible veto over Court decisions.
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Bone
D-Wash
Reconstruction Corporation
Norris
Ind-Neb
Independent Legislative Bureau
Congress
Kurtz Will Leaves Business to Lucy Kurtz Trustee
The will continues the Kurtz furniture and undertaking business at the current site since 1875 and assigns the rest of the estate one quarter each to Mrs. Virginia Kurtz O Rear Katherine Eddy Elizabeth Kurtz Grim and Lucy Fitzhugh Kurtz. Lucy F Kurtz named executrix without security with five appraisers listed.
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Lucy Fitzhugh Kurtz
Captain Kurtz
Virginia Kurtz O’rear
Katherine K. Eddy
Elizabeth Kurtz Grim
Lucy F. Kurtz
A. B. Solenberger
C. P. McVicar
C. M. Smith
W. A. Baker
M. M. Lynch
Handsome Ring Presented to Mr Martin at Fire Company Meeting
At the Charley Rouss Fire Company annual meeting a handsome gold and onyx Masonic ring was given to C. M. Martin, sick committee member, as thanks for loyalty and service. L. D Grubbs presented the ring on behalf of the members. both men had ties to the Hook and Ladder Company.
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Charley Rouss Fire Company
C. M. Martin
Mr. Martin
L. D Grubbs
Grubbs
Hook and Ladder Company
Charley Rouss Company
Women at Meeting to hear 1937 program details
Members of community committees will receive basic information on the tentative 1937 program. The delegation includes Miss Elizabeth Farrar county home demonstration agent Mrs Edwin Marker of Opequon and Mrs H A Punk of Stephens City, leaders in county clubs. Frederick Clarke Warren Shenandoah and Page counties will be represented at the Front Royal session tomorrow.
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Page One
Frederick County
Elizabeth Farrar
Edwin Marker
Opequon
H. A. Punk
Stephens City
Frederick
Clarke
Warren
Shenandoah
Page Counties
Front Royal
I O O F Group Sets April 5 Meeting Night
Madison hosts a large turnout for the I O O F cross county meeting led by O B Willey of Middletown. Grand Master Jenney of Virginia spoke on the progress of Odd Fellowship and the care of the Lynchide home as members gathered in Winchester for the next gathering.
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Madison Ore
Stephens City
Omy Lodge
O. B. Willey
Middletown
Ing
Ee Punk
Step City
R. McInturff
Madison Lodge
Winchester
Jenney
I. C
Virginia
Odd Fellowship
Lynchide
C. B. Stickley
Vaucluse
C. W. Robinson
Wartrenton
R. L. Jones
Winchester Merchants urged to back town growth
The piece argues residents should support local merchants who invest in shops and staff, boosting schools and streets. It warns against short term gains, notes merchants bear taxes yet fund libraries and events, and states progress relies on sustained local leadership and cooperation.
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Winchester
Five Bishops To Speak at Missionary Meeting
Crusade Tuesday will attend. Mrs. John I. Sloat, president of the Missionary Society at Braddock Street Church, also will be present. The Washington meeting is one of 44 to be held throughout Southern Methodism. Five bishops are listed among speakers.
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John I. Sloat
The
Missionary Society
Braddock Street Church
Washington
Rallies Led by Bishops Across Regions for Evangelization
In Washington and beyond, Bishop Edwin D Monson and leaders Arthur J Moore A Frank Smith John M Moore Cesar Dacorso of Brazil will speak at evangelization rallies. Mrs J a aya7 and Dr HH P Myers also appear. West of the Mississippi a second group begins rallies tomorrow with Southern Methodist arch leaders.
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Edwin D. Monson
Arthur J. Moore
A. Frank Smith
John M. Moore
Cesar Dacorso
Brazil
J. A
Police Recover Stolen Car Near City Hotel
The automobile of Miss Marty Sherman from Martins Turnpike was stolen Saturday night near the George Washington Hotel and recovered yesterday abandoned on Gray Avenue. West Virginia officers pursued it near Charles Town but no arrests were made.
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Marty Sherman
Martins’ Turnpike
George Washington Hotel
Gray Avenue
Charles Town
W. Va
West Virginia
Mr Swenk Struck by Car in Saturday Accident
Mr Swenk sustained minor injuries when an automobile struck him while crossing the street on Saturday. Dr J Swenk said a glancing blow tore one shoe and injured his knee and hand. Miss Mary Pearson of the District Nurse Association apologized and drove him to a doctor for treatment.
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J. Swenk
Mary Pearson
District Nurse Association
Swenk
Funeral Rites Held For Late Mrs Ed Tignor
Funeral services were held at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South in Middletown for Rosella Willey Tignor 28 wife of Edward Tignor of Rocky Mount Va. She died Saturday afternoon at Lewis Gate Hospital Roanoke after a year of declining health. Interment Mount Carmel Cemetery. Survived by parents Orville B Willey and Alice C Willey Middletown sisters Ruth Mae and Orville Willey Jr. resides with parents.
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Middletown
Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church
South
Tor
W. A. Clark
Rosella Willey Tignor
Edward Tignor
Rocky Mount
Lewis Gate Hospital
Roanoke
Mount Carmel
Hold Negro In Accident At Strasburg
William Little a 52 year old Strasburg and Middletown merchant was struck by a car returning from Front Royal and badly injured. A colored man Carl Strother surrendered to authorities and was jailed on charges related to the hit and run. Little was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital in grave condition with the possibility of a fractured skull unclear.
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William Little
Strasburg and Middletown
Memorial Hospital
Woodstock
Strasburg
Middletown
Winchhester Memorial Hospital
Shenandoaly County
Carl Strother
Strother
Death Summons Mrs. L. Ruble Near Kernstown
Mrs. Lillie May Ruble wife of Lewis Ruble died at 9 45 yesterday morning at her home near Kernstown after an illness aged 50 born 1878 She was formerly Miss Lillie Hardy daughter of Charles W and Mrs Hardy She leaves a large family and will be buried at Little Mountain Church Tuesday afternoon after funeral services at 2 o clock with relatives from Virginia Maryland and West Virginia present
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Lillie May Ruble
Lewis Ruble
Kernstown
Ffty
Lillie Hardy
Charles W. Hardy
Maggie Hardy
Mary Hardy
Artinaieing
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Stock Market Report
Ask County
I Bae
Plaoery
Erved
I. Pred Stine
Ebenezer
Auto
Kurtz Will
Ature
Mr. Swenk
Ed. Tignor
Negro
Middletown State Bank, Inc
Federal Reserve Bank
U.S
Sieksches
W. R. Campbell
Cashier
E. R. Sperry
J. J. Pickeral
E. L. Humston
Byron Brumback
State of Virginia
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