Major Barton To Head Investigators of School System
The Virginia commission to survey educational systems adjourned with no definite action. Major R. T. Barton was named permanent chairman and Ash ton Dovell permanent secretary as the eleven member panel plans a report on elementary and higher education funded by state funds.
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Williamsburg
General Assembly
Local Wholesale Prices Quoted by Buyers
The Star reports daily market corrections and provides wholesale prices quoted today by local buyers. No responsibility for typographical errors is assumed by the newspaper.
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Local Wholesale and Retail Market Prices Read
The page lists various wholesale prices for feed and grain items such as flour barrel price 8.00 to 8.50 and cracked corn per ton 48.00 and middlings 44.00. retail items include country butter and fresh poultry with limited legible figures. Local market headings and stray letters indicate a dated market column with incomplete entries.
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Baltimore Wholesale Market Prices Report
Western middlings 2.26 Brafi 2.10 Mixed feed 3.20 Scratch feed 2.60 Gracked Corn 2.50 Creamery butter 45 Eggs Live Gens -25 Hens 0.02 Young chicken 38 Sheep -0.514 Prices corrected at close of preceding day amid scattered market figures and odd garbled text.
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Virginia Women Wage Earners in State Manufacturing 1925
The state labor department reports 31,704 women employed in Virginia manufacturing in 1925, with 28,927 wage earners and 2,777 salaried workers. Nearly 9,402 are colored, 19,525 white. Most industries exceed nine hours daily, with cooperage longest at ten and printing eight. Tobacco dominates female employment with 9,368 workers. No separate weekly wage figures for women were published.
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Virginia
State Department of Labor and Industry
Wirginia
Lynchburg Alumni Call to End 25 Cent Lee Memorial Chapel Fee
The Washington and Lee Alumni Association Lynchburg chapter adopted resolutions urging the university board of trustees to rescind the June decision imposing a 25 cent admission fee to Lee Memorial Chapel housing the Valentine's recumbent statue and Lee tomb. The vote was unanimous and copies will be sent to the board and to President Henry Louis Smith.
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Associated Press
Lynchburg
Washington and Lee Alumni Association
New Wonderful Face Powder MELLO-GLO Promises Lasting Shine Control
The ad touts MELLO-GLO face powder from People's Drug Co as a longer lasting beauty powder that stops shine and adds a peachy color. It claims superior staying power compared to current powders and promotes the product as unique with the French Process label.
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