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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1926
Page
7
A bank uses its Secondary Reserve after meeting loan needs to invest in bonds. Typical holdings include United States Government securities, city and county bonds, school districts, railroads, and utilities. These conservative investments yield about 4 to 6 percent and are easily sold when funds are needed.
The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities seeks to rename Hayes Store to The Hook at Yorktown. The Hook marks where Cornwallis failed to cross the York River and where American and French forces met the retreating force. Hayes Store attracts many tourists. a tablet marks the battlefield.
The article recalls Mrs Ida Correll wife of the late J Edward Correll longtime Winchester revenue commissioner. She married in the late 1870s and died about 11 years ago leaving a daughter Hilda Correll and sisters Mrs George McCormick and Miss.
Emma Conner of this city is remembered in a brief obituary. She leaves a number of nephews and nieces including Mrs H J Sunderland of Altoona, who stayed with her aunt during illness.
A handful of orange trees from Spain planted by Franciscan monks in 1769 started California citrus. The first sizable orchard appeared around 1804 near the San Gabriel mission, with four hundred seedlings. California’s citrus industry grew to a near 100 million dollar turnover last year.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell at public auction at its Winchester Virginia freight office on August 7 1926 at 10 o clock a carload of medicated stock salt shipped from Mifflinburg Pennsylvania on April 17 1926 Car 534084 consigned to Farmers Medicated Stock Salt Company had arrived April 19 1926 and receipt refused to cover transportation and storage charges.
The text notes the Valencia orange as one of the four major citrus varieties. It states the Valencia was brought from the Azores in 1866. It also mentions lemons imported from Australia and Sicily.
Subscription reminder from The Evening Star urging readers to pay now to secure a discount during a special July rate and avoid lapses in service.
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