Foreclosures Halted by Angry Farmers Across States
Massed protest against farm mortgage foreclosures spread from Idaho to Ohio. Idaho activists threaten force to push mortgage relief laws, Ohio farmers remove a finance bidder at an auction, and Iowa growers stop a foreclosure on Dr. G W Cunningham in Le Mars. Des Moines group backs protective actions and cost of production demands. Wisconsin cites rioting charges against eleven farmers after a Jefferson sale.
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Des Moines
Idaho
Ohio
Nampa
United Farmers’ League
Wood County
Tom Berry
South Dakota
le Mars
Iowa
Plymouth County
G. W. Cunningham
National Farmers Holiday Association
Wisconsin
Jefferson
Fashion Show Delivers Historic Costumes and Bride Parade
In Winchester the Summers Fashion Show featured past to present costumes including 1840s wedding attire and 1870s bridal gowns. The event highlighted Misses Crisman Byrd Hollis and brides Miss Thomas Light Conrad Quirk and others. Special praise went to Civic League president Mrs Melvin Green and the Music Lovers Club for support and music. The show concluded with a reception and a retrospective on era costumes.
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Helen Crisman
Margaret Byrd
M. D. Bauserman
Virginia Pangle
Elizabeth Hollis
Louise Rehill
Jack Harrell
Mary Sullivan
Emily Lanford
Prances Prefitt
Helen Ritter
N. H. Carpenter
Pennypacker
H. B.mccormac
Richard Griffith
Bennie Thomas
Dorothy Light
Georgia Conrad
Ann Brooke Kern
Carl Massey
Mary Lyman
Elizabeth Quirk
Winifred Brown
Virginia Cather
Emily Light
Shirley Williams
Allison Cooper
J. W. Arthur
Mary Greenway Russell
Fred Stine
Betsy Rice
Eliza Tucker
Eleanor de Grange
H. Clay de Grange
Handley School
Winchester
Green
Melvin Green
The
Civic League
Gra
Eepra
Music Lovers’ Club
T. W. Ayres
Dispute Over Dead Time Near Settling at Briggs
Briggs Manufacturing and workers near settlement after a walkout over dead time deductions. Ford Motor Company shut its plants nationwide, with about 100000 workers affected, and 6000 Briggs employees idle as police guarded facilities amid demonstrations. Murray Carsons of America warned 1200 to 2000 jobs could be cut due to Ford shutdown.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Ford Motor Company
Ford
United States
Briggs
Ford Co
Briggs Company
Clarence W. Avery
Murray Carson of
America
Avery
Ford Company
Cona
Actures
Seve
Ald
Shenandoah County Indigent Care Costs Highlight Budget Strain
A Shenandoah County report shows six months of fiscal year spending on indigent relief and the county alms house. Costs total about 14 dollars per capita per month, with 38 inmates at the alms house and 999.88 dollars for outside relief. The board has modernized facilities but explores consolidating with neighboring counties for a centrally run home.
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Wik
Board of Surs
Shenandoah County
Loy J. Coffman
Red Cross
Shahae
Hopes Grocers Should Sell the Virginia Fruit
A citizen from Winchester Virginia urges local grocers to stock Virginia apples rather than western imports. He argues loyalty to local producers boosts the valley’s economy, condemns impostor sellers, and calls for stores to serve community interests over distant suppliers. Miles B. Dean sees early May apple blossoms as peak, and urges shoppers to demand local fruit.
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Tromze
Valley of
Virginia
Res Aehester
Apple Center
Winchester
Hood River
Brick County
Frederick Inty
Washington
Oregon
Northwest
New York
Los Angeles
Horse Values in State Held Favorable Now
Richmond date notations indicate the 1933 outlook states Virginia's horse and mule numbers have fallen about 40 percent since 1920. The report urges selective acreage and improved poultry and dairy efficiency while noting beef demand will be unfavorable and encouraging hogs for home use. It also promotes small, low cost sheep flocks.
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Richmond
Virginia
Extension Division
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Henry M. Taylor
Man Slays His Successor At Board Meeting
In Nashville at the Arcade Company annual meeting, W. Allison Buntin shot and killed Rumsey Lewis as Lewis had just been elected general manager. Buntin fled muttering of suicide. he had not been located.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. Allison Buntin
Rumsey Lewis
Buntin
Arcade Company
Allison
Steger
Lewis
Thinks America Is In Need of Some Planning
New York January 26 Charles E. Stuart a American engineer in Russia with five year plan argued to Wall Street and university economists that the United States should adopt central planning. He noted Russia borrowed the idea from the U S and that the United States has not yet applied it on a large scale. Stuart is president of Stuart ne and Cooke Inc of New York.
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New York
Charles E. Stuart
Russia
Wall Street
America
Stuart
Stuart. Ne and Cooke, Inc
Woodstock Donor Presents Radio to Almshouse Inmates
A notable Woodstock citizen J J Sperry, a leading Rotarian, donated a costly radio to almshouse inmates. The gift aims to bring entertainment to those confined by poverty while the community reflects on current expenses totaling 22338.44 for six months across jail, courthouse, treasury, elections, and welfare, excluding Board of Supervisors salaries already in the semi annual report.
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Court House
Board of Supervisors
J. J. Sperry
Woodstock
Alms House
John J. Owen Farm Statistician Dies in Virginia
John J. Owen died today after a long illness in Greenbay Virginia. He served as a statistician for the Virginia Department of Agriculture. Survived by his wife two sons Clifton and Venable and daughter Mrs. T. C. Redd of Meherrin.
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Greenbay
John J. Owen
Owen
Virginia Department of Agriculture
Clifton
Venable
T. C. Redd
Meherrin
Notice of Tire Stock Held by Goodyear in Winchester
Buncutter Tire Company of Winchester Virginia maintains at its Braddock and Germain streets warehouse a stock of automobile tires and tubes. Title to the stock remains at all times in The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron Ohio. Dated January 10 1933. By R E Buncutter. 1-14-121
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Buncutter Tire Company
Winchester
Virginia
Braddock and Germain Streets
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc
Akron
Ohio
R. E. Buncutter
Former Congress Member Jacob Yost Dies in California
Staunton reports Jacob Yost 79, former Virginia congressman from the Tenth District, died in Palo Alto, California. A Staunton native, he was active in business and public life, twice served in Congress, and long served as Staunton mayor.
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Staunton
Jacob Yost
Virginia
Palo Alto
Calif
Yost
De Valera Extends Lead in Irish Election Press Count
The Associated Press reports on January 27 from Dublin that Eamon De Valera’s Fianna Fail party led the general election count with 62 seats in the Dail. Cosgrave opposition held 35, Center party 8, Independent 8, and Labor 0 as mid-afternoon tallies update.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Irish Free State
Eamon de Valera
Fianny Fail
Dail
Cosgrave
Center Party
Indeteen
Labor Party
Global use of dollar and pound symbols beyond the U.S.
The article notes twenty other countries use the dollar sign for local currencies not equal to US dollars. It also states the pound symbol is used in several countries besides England.
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United States
England
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