Pacific Coast wheat undercuts Virginia prices via canal freight
Virginia millers blame Pacific Coast wheat for lower prices in the East noting the Panama Canal reduces transport costs. E C Wine of Rockingham Milling warns the Pacific surplus and cheap water freight threaten Richmond and other Atlantic mills, urging corrective action to protect local grain prices.
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Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
E. C. Wine
Rockingham Milling Company
Piedmont Millers Association
H. Meek
Virginia Division of Markets
Wine
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Chicago
Atlantic
Shenandoah Valley
Carolinas
Mr. Wine
Virginia Mills
Atlantic Seaboard
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State Division of Markets
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Red Cross Life Saving Classes Offered Free Tomorrow
Red Cross will conduct beginner to senior life saving instruction free tomorrow from 10 a m to 2 p m at Golightly's bottom. Ray Sheetz senior life saver of the American Red Cross will lead the program. He previously supervised at the American Legion pool and trained many boys girls men and women in these tests.
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Red Cross
Golightly’s Bottom
Ray Sheetz
American Red Cross
Girl Dies During Early Morning Ocean Swim
Mary Straw a 20 year old from Mount Airy Maryland drowned after going to the beach alone for an early morning swim in Ocean City. Resuscitation efforts failed. She had been visiting friends there.
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Associated Press
Ocean City
Mary Straw
Mount Airy
Round Hill School Remodel and County Consolidation Plans
Workmen nearly finish converting Round Hill school from two rooms to four and remodel Miller School adding three rooms to reach seven. Frederick county plans add-ons to Mountain View Rosenberger and Kernstown, enabling consolidation of at least eight one room schools. If relief funding approved, buildings will be painted, sanitary facilities improved, grounds landscaped and graded.
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Frederick County
Mountain View
Rosenberger
Kernstown
Valley Pike
Relief Administration
Daring Prisoner Escape Stuns Governor Island Camp
An unidentified civilian stormed the Governor's Island Army post and freed Melvin Blanton of Camden Ohio from the disciplinary barracks, executing a bold escape with several soldiers cowed. The incident occurred July 20 and was reported by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
New York
Governor’s Island
States Army
Melvin Blanton
Camden
Ohio
Howard Grubbs Dies At Home In The County
Howard T. Grubbs aged 52 a carpenter died at 2 oclock this afternoon at his home near Double Toll Gate after about eight weeks illness. He is survived by his wife four children two sisters and his father. Funeral Sunday with interment at Stephens City. He was a native of Frederick County son of G W Grubbs.
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Double Toll Gate
Stephens City
Carl DeHaven
White Post
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Hazel
Raymond Grubbs
Lizzie Carper
Ada Suman
Hagerstown
Mr. Grubbs
Frederick County
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Rural Postal Patrons Urged to Letter Boxes Clearly
Postmaster Page notes wide compliance with painting and lettering rural route boxes. Some boxes near Winchester still lack patron names, so substitutes can deliver more accurately. Officials commend patrons for neat boxes on sturdy posts, signaling local prosperity.
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Page
Winchester
Stocks Suffer Brief Relapse In Sales Flurry
New York July 20 The stock market slid in a brief relapse with leading issues dropping fractions to three points The selling flurry in the second hour slowed ticker tape and left floor transactions behind for the first time in weeks Wheat and other grains weakened while corn oats and rye recovered later Cotton fell over 1 a bale Rubber and silver moved little Bonds were dull and mixed International dollar rates edged higher The pound opened in London at 5.04 and call money renewed at 1 percent.
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Associated Press
New York
Winnipeg
Northwestern
Chicago
London
Chicago Grain Market Prices and Quotations
Closing quotations in Chicago and Baltimore wheat markets show July wheat at 97 3/4, September at 99 5 8, December at 1.01. Chicago corn futures July at 62 1 2, September 63 1 8, December 66 3 4. spot prices listed for Baltimore and Winchester.
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Baltimore
The
Star
Winchester Milling Corporation
Stickell Sales Corporation
North
Washington Street
Hagerstown
Winchester
Embalming Course Attended By Jones Funeral Firm
Roger T. Jones and Laurens P. Jones of R. T. Jones and Company have returned from Clarksburg West Virginia where they spent several days at an advanced embalming course directed by a New York expert. A large number of embalmers from several states attended the course.
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Roger T. Jones
Laurens P. Jones
R. T. Jones and Company
Clarksburg
W. Va
New York
Reliance United Brethren Church Services Outline
Reliance United Brethren Church led by Rev H B Richardson outlines Sunday School at 10 a m, Christian Endeavor at 7 30 p m, sermon at 8 p m and prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p m. Friendship and Stephens City also hold services with Sunday School 10 a m and sermons at 11 a m and 3 30 p m respectively. Greenway lists Sunday School 10 a m and Christian Endeavor 8 p m.
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H. EB. Richardson
Reliance
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