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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1926
Page
6
In Asheville on July 28, Grannie Rachael Riddle marked her 107th birthday at Barnardsville. She says worry has not shortened her life and jokes about tobacco. More than 250 descendants arrived, with up to 600 believed to be part of her lineage.
The Star lists today’s local wholesale quotes for wheat bran flour and mixed feeds, plus chicken types and dairy products. Notable prices include local wheat bran around 35.00 per ton, creamery butter at 39 cents, country butter about 35 cents, and hens at low rates, with several lines partially obscured by OCR.
Pricing listed for local flour in barrels and sacks along with flour middlings mixed feed scratch feed screenings cracked corn and creamery butter. Figures show unit prices and varying yields across several products likely from a local cooperative listing.
Fragmentary notes show closing prices for wheat and corn with hay and feeds in focus. Limited legible details indicate market activity and potential shifts in prices, but specifics are not clear.
A reader recalls Phyllis changing from pale and tired to vibrant after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Pills for Constipation. She jokes about the health claim and invites others to try Sunlit Road to Better Health through advertised remedies.
HAGERSTOWN MD July 26 The life savings of William H Brown a 70 year old negro who died at Bellevue the county home in this city amounting to 2400 will go to the Board of Education for Washington county because Brown did not leave a will or any relatives No relatives have claimed the estate after funeral expenses are paid the money will aid the education of boys and girls in the county The law directs unclaimed estates go to public schools Brown earned two to three dollars a day and his work was not regular.
Guy Jones, an employee of the National Fruit Product Company, was struck yesterday afternoon by a truck at Cameron and Pidilly streets while riding his bicycle to work from dinner. He sustained bruises and minor injuries.
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