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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1934
Page
7
Market notes from Baltimore Chicago Washington and New York list grain futures for Wheat No 2 red winter No 2 mixed and No 3 mixed with prices around 95 1 4 to 96 in Baltimore and Chicago. Live poultry eggs butter and produce prices steady with small changes noted for eggs and butter.
The Marian Martin pattern explains slenderizing lines with a matching satin or crepe fabric choice. It lists sizes 36 through 46 and fabric yardage, and asks readers to send 15 cents per pattern and 25 cents for book and pattern to Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department in New York.
New York Poultry markets report steady to firm eggs with offerings limited none reported and receipts 227 23 for nearbyCurrent re ceipts Butter and Egg Exchange notes 695 tubs 240 cases. Lancaster livestock market shows cattle undertone firmer with fat steers around 5.00 to 5.25 per 100 pounds good quality heifers steady stockers and feeders steady cows and bulls steady vealers 7.50 8.00. sheep steady with choice lambs near 8.00.
Bay rum is distilled from bay berry leaves in the West Indies, historically a seasonal local industry with limited cultivation. Modern commercial bay rum blends bay oil with alcohol, water, orange peel oil, and pimento oil, much of which is mixed in the United States by drug firms and hair tonic makers.
Local farm market quotes list shelled corn at 1.26 under, Screemings 0.90, corn meal 10 lb sacks 0.35, dairy feed 24 percent 1.55, mixed feed 1.35, bran 1.30, middlings 1.45, scratch feed 1.75, corn meal feed 1.40, egg mash 2.00 to 2.10, cracked corn 1.40, country cutter 0.??, creamery butter 0.26, eyes we 22.
Hollywood fashion icon Lilyan Tashman leads the cast in a dramatic New York night life tale presented at Hable's Palace next Monday and Tuesday. Director Herbert Brenon brings a wealth of costumes and song hits to a film promising romance, thrills, and stylish entertainment.
Frederick B. Rentschler of United Aircraft and Transport tests before a Senate committee on air mail contracts. He cites profits of 35 million dollars earned from a 258 dollar stock investment in an airplane motor company, realized between early 1928 and May 1929.
The article recalls Gen. George Washington and his brother Lawrence visiting Barbadoes in 1751 seeking health. It notes Bridgetown as the island’s main port and town, once a Nelson headquarters, with Washingtons house still standing.
Women of all ages may find help for delicate ailments and nervous stress by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Mrs. Ruth Powell of Richmond Virginia reports improvement after two bottles, praising restored strength and health. Write to Dr. Pierce’s Clinic Buffalo New York for details and prices of tablets and liquid forms.
Dominica is described as the loftiest of the Caribbean Islands home to the last Caribs once feared as cannibals now mild. The text notes Rodney's 1782 victory near these shores and calls Dominica a great time producing country with Rosen as main port and capital. It also discusses a cotton foundation myth of New Orleans and explains the port’s custom house sits on laminated cypress logs.
The article notes that sixty centuries ago physicians and pharmacists worked separately in Babylonia. The Ebers Papyrus of 1552 B C in Egypt listed hundreds of remedies and around 700 drugs known to Egyptians, many still in use today.
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