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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1924
Page
8
Virginia remains a top national shipper of apples, cabbage, and strawberries. The state ranked third in apples and second in strawberries for the season just closed, with carload shipments of apples up to 9,839 and total shipments 138,526 cars, while strawberry shipments rose to 1,358 cars.
In Staunton Virginia on the Greenville road two motor vehicles met and passed twice then collided third time. A sedan struck a touring car, knocked down mail boxes and a baby carriage injuring two infants. The sedan driver Snyder suffered minor head cuts. The drivers fled and authorities learned nothing more.
The Alaska Railroad now moves mail weekly from Seward to Nenana and on to Fort Gibbon Holy Cross Innoko Iditarod and Nome. Government steamers operate weekly on the Tanana and Yukon rivers, connecting remote Alaska towns for the first time since the 1898 gold rush.
Williams W. Ellsworth, editor, spoke at Mills College in Oakland California. He offered statistics on American poetry noting one real poet per 115000 people and one poet per 6000000 who publishes a book. He said 200 volumes of verse appear yearly with 25 living. The quality of verse in the United States has improved in the last decade.
In nismurray an historic island off the east of Sligo described as the next parish to America has been found to host illicit whiskey trade. Civic guards raided eight barrels of poteen and stills material. Michael Waters, the island king, received three months hard labor and a $250 fine. Two associates got three months and fines of $125.
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