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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1924
Page
4
circulation and publication details for The Evening Star Publishing Co. Winchester Virginia outline post office rates for yearly, semi annual and quarterly periods. It lists carrier and monthly rates and mentions consolidation with other local papers and Associated Press rights.
Roanoke Virginia World News reports Carter Glass, denied the Democratic presidential nomination after a failed Davis movement, emerges with increased prestige. Glass will stay in the Senate, where he earns acclaim for dignity and ability, with reelection in November viewed as certain. Swanson and Glass are praised for concord in advancing Virginia and national interests.
The narrative follows a groom who gifts a house and staged splendors to his new wife before marriage. She hides distress at mismatched decor, sparking a quiet collision between romance and taste as she endures the artful mishmash.
Ottawa reports Canadian Bureau of Statistics puts this year's wheat at 218 640 000 bushels, down 154 000 000 from last year, with drought called worst in twenty years. Chicago says crop could fall to about 215 000 600 bushels. rain prospects may lift prices.
Official estimates indicate production down by about ten percent or more from last year due to a four percent cut in acreage and a generally late Spring. This year’s acreage reaches 179,326,000 acres, about 9,000,000 more than last year and slightly above the prewar average of 1909 to 1913. Conditions in the Caucasus and Siberia point to a smaller cereal crop in Russia compared with last year.
Camp Shenandoah for girls at Island Ford operated by Harrisonburg Rotary opens August 1 for a two week period ending August 14. Miss Margaret Shaw directs with eight college girl tent leaders, a graduate nurse, a physician and three male swimming instructors. Sixty girls will fill the camp, with registrations from across Virginia including Winchester entrants Mildred Richards, Margaret Hansbrough, Virginia Conrad and Jane Scully.
Daily market corrections list wholesale and retail prices for wheat flour spring chickens butter and hay. Includes figures for local wholesale markets and Baltimore wholesale quotes with notes on variances and incomplete entries.
Richmond July 15 An order directing removal of the 50 percent Pullman and parlor car surcharge on interstate trains will be issued by the Virginia Corporation Commission chairman Rhea announced today.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson wife of the late President and Mr and Mrs Galt of Washington came Saturday from that city to Shepherdstown and spent the day with Mr and Mrs R C Ringgold. The party traveled in the Rolls Royce presented to the late President by his admirers.
Chairman William F. Rhea of the State Corporation Commission said the Pullman surcharge in Virginia will be abolished soon. He opened a hearing noting there should be no further postponement and that the commission contemplates issuing an order to abolish the charge.
The piece traces the rise of cotton in early U S history linking it to pioneer colonies and Jamestown settlement. It highlights plantations and national growth while noting a proverb about marital strife and sharp pencils as a quirky aside.
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