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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1934
Page
5
A peacock aged over 33 died of old age in a barn at Wheatland homeplace in Jefferson County West Virginia. The bird, once part of a 35 member blizzard survivors flock from 1899, was domesticated and followed the Baker family, earning the name Come Along.
A Collier's Weekly reflection notes on Rossel Island where arrestees are released with a single wrist cuff to curb flight. It also discusses varying estimates of the sun's interior temperature from ten million to one hundred million degrees Celsius.
Philadelphia reports steady poultry and egg values with firm demand across regions. Prices show varied ranges for whites, normals, and extras with mixed colors and fresh and frozen lots noted. broilers, turkeys, ducks, and capons appear with multiple price points and regional distinctions.
Wilbur O. Riley, a local native and operator of the Chevrolet agency in Woodstock, announces a new used car and used parts department to run alongside his existing business.
Market area daily prices list shelled corn dairy feed cracked corn mixed feed middlings scratch feed and corn meal with per hundred and sack rates. Includes egg mash country butter creamery butterfat and livestock figures for cows steers calves heifers hogs sheep and turkeys in a historical wholesale market snippet.
C W A administrator W Erle Edwards reports Richmond has confirmed funds for a new school on the city north side. The project costs 10 948 dollars and will hire 72 laborers for grading grounds leveling an athletic field driveway well and sanitary installations. It will serve grade pupils from Stone wall Shawnee Waineow Back Creek districts based on a Shenandoah Valley tract from the Apple Cider and Vinegar Company.
Tentative agreements by a Tammany Hall faction in New York City aim to nominate Judge George L. Donnellan of the general sessions court to succeed John F. Curry as head of the Wigwam.
A marriage license was issued in the corporation clerk's office over the weekend to a local couple. Margaret Ash, daughter of George and Betty Ash, and George Brooks, son of Robert and Sadie Brooks, were named in the record.
The Red Cross has distributed flour and over a billion garments nationwide to five million families, aiding twenty million people. Through 3,600 communities volunteers and a central organization coordinated a vast relief effort, funded mainly by the Red Cross treasury at an estimated cost of $685,000, with ongoing programs as Farm Board wheat and cotton supplies wind down.
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