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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1931
Page
5
Unsettled grain markets show corn and oats slipping while wheat falls amid reports of higher US supplies. Primary receipts reach 1,006,000 bushels, with July wheat at 657 8, reflecting a 1931 crop rally driven by profit-taking and Canada export sales of about 1,000,000 bushels.
Richmond Virginia January 16 reports cash grain bids for No 2 red winter No 3 red winter and Virginia bag lots with values up to 90 for No 2 red winter and 88 for No 3 red winter. Corn bids range from 85 to 89 for various grades and oats at 43 to 54. Baltimore prices list No 2 white and 3 white wheat bids near 79 to 90, with corn and oats also quoted and eggs market noted for nearby fresh graded firsts.
In January rates list poultry freight categories with numbers for turkeys, fowls, broilers and express shipments. The document specifies per unit charges and futures terms for different poultry types across freight classes.
New York prices for eggs and various poultry lines show steady or varying bids. Listings include mixed coffee lar, nearby hennery brown and white, Pacific Coast white, with multiple grade classifications and price ranges across assortments.
The notice lists apples in standard bushel baskets with stock grades 2.50 for display stock, 3.25 for Visine and Western New York stock, 50 potatoes per 150 pound sacks at 3.25 to 3.00, cabbage bulk sales at 1.75 per hundred, and U S No 1 stock in 1 2 bushel baskets priced around 2.00 to 2.25.
Washington and other markets report varied prices for butter eggs fowls turkeys and dressed poultry. Live hogs cattle veal and lambs show mixed moves with steady to firm tendencies in several regions. Regional receipts and price ranges are noted for Baltimore Lancaster Jersey City and Chicago markets.
Philadelphia January 16 report lists various produce and poultry items with prices per hundredweight and box counts. Notable entries include fancy block mixed colors wetted barrels, Plymouth rock winter chickens, dressed pepper fresh, butter-top, and egg cheese prices with scores and ranges for apples and other items.
Amos Franklin Marple, noted carpenter and barn maker, died at 2 45 this morning at his Nain home after seven weeks with Bright's disease and complications. He was nearly 75, last surviving child of Thomas and Harriett Marple. Survived by widow Ida Hawkins. Funeral Sunday at 2 PM from his home with Rev. G M Morrow officiating. burial in Old Bethel Cemetery.
The Opequon group lists Kernstown Burnt Church and Opequon Chapel Sunday services with Sunday school at 10 a m Communion at 11 a m and 3 30 p m at Burnt Church, Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m, preaching 7 30 p m. Also notes community exhortations and a weather quip from Passaic News.
American experts urge Representative Cordell Hull to seek a tariff revision and new commercial policy that faces the United States in the opposite direction. The statement cites sharp tariff hikes on autos, cotton goods, tobacco, and china, noting trade with China fell sharply in 1930 and predicts further decline without policy change.
Ebenezer Bemare plan shows Bible school at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Delray Bible school at 2 p.m. Preaching at 3 p.m. Capen Bemare Arabic Echoed at 10 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 6 p.m. Communion at 7 p.m. No preaching in evening. Whitacre preaching Saturday 7:30 p.m. All invited.
Washington reports Chairman Legge backs temporary wheat and feed grain embargo to protect American producers amid world price declines. Burtness introduces measure with Farm Board approval aiming to last until March 1932, backed by Farm Bureau and National Dairy Union.
Golf pro Ed Dudley of Wilmington Delaware, after taking the $10,000 Los Angeles Open, followed with brilliant play in the Agua Caliente event. Meanwhile mixed words hint at market and scientific notes, with unclear references to ongoing cases and hearings.
The article explains that universe covers more than visible stars and nebulae. It includes the solar system and distant objects revealed by large telescopes and sensitive plates, expanding the scope beyond naked-eye view.
A historical note explains that world gas production in a year could fill a dirigible mile in diameter and twenty miles long, capable of lifting the pyramids. The piece also mentions Tasmania as a small Australian state, an island separated from the mainland by Bass Strait, with an area of 26,215 square miles and a population of 212,043.
Notices show banks including Valley National Robt E Lee and Commercial and Savings Bank closing for Robert E Lee’s birthday holiday January 19 1931. Maturing papers may be paid January 20 1931 with cashier names listing WM G Hardy John L Sloat and Chas Summers.
By virtue of an attachment the plaintiff in the case F Wandersmith versus J H Ross offers a public sale in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia on January 24 1931 at 1 pm describing a 3 piece living room set 6 chairs 1 buffet 1 china closet 2 beds and bedding 1 baby crib 1 baby wagon 1 automatic washing machine 1 2 burner oil cook stove 1 kitchen table Terms cash Lee Barr and J Wiggington Desa Sheriff Frederick County Virginia
January 19 to February 26 sale notices list auctions for stock and implements at multiple locations including Valley Mill Road Abrams Creek Swimley Station Stephens City Briggs Station Berryville Middle-town and Hockanttee with estates such as Miller M Swimley and M. W. Ashby among others. Dates span January 28 February 18 23 24 25 and 26 and note deceased estates and road names.
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