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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1926
Page
2
Local market page shows corrected figures for flour, wheat, corn, and livestock. Listings include wholesale prices and ton or barrel measurements with fluctuating quotes across wheat, corn, middlings, eggs, and lamb products. The report notes routine day-to-day corrections as of the prior day’s close.
A distressed OCR sales directory lists vendors and sale items with dates in February and March. Entries include W. A. McKown Treaster Weilltown Turnpike Co tolls, farm stock, implements, house goods, and animals from Berryville Gaylord Ripon and more with dates February 3 February 16 February 18 February 23 February 24 February 26 March 18.
Refuge Virginia notices report Mrs. B W Grint and daughter Margaret returning from visit with relatives. Mrs C I Greene regains health, Ben Derflinger improves, infant James Richard Perry fights bronchial pneumonia, James Orndorft recovers, and Raymond Hicks family visit. A wagon accident killed W S Yates, eliciting widespread sympathy.
About a thousand bowling teams have sent in entries for the annual American Bowling Congress tournament to be held in Toledo at the Light Guard Armory. Officials expect up to another thousand teams before entries close, as work begins on 28 new alleys. Chicago leads with 160 teams, followed by Detroit with 105, and Buffalo 66, while New York City, St Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh each show 20 teams.
London reports the American offensive in 1926 will outshine past entries in British contests. Names Hagen Collett Watts Gunn Bobby Jones Tilden Wills Paddock are on English sport organizations lists with many lesser rivals entering. The piece notes England has often placed second but expects stars to shift the tide.
Berlin reports that scores of attaches from the old Hohenzollern regime have joined the Heilsarmee Salvation Army. Among them are about 87 cadets in the training school in Berlin, formerly courtiers in royal palaces.
Virginia York Imperials held moderate demand at the Liverpool sales. United States Agriculture data from Richmond shows mixed grades and prices with barrels valued around 6.08 to 7.52 dollars. Auction notes indicate interior condition A and A2 grades with prices ranging from 3.52 to 7.30 per barrel.
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