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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1924
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR shows commodity prices including corn hay cattle hogs and calves with scattered figures. The data appears as corrected closing values and various line items at a wholesale or market exchange, but many numbers and words are garbled.
June 21 report from Burnt Factory Virginia notes the Loyal Workers Bible Class set July 15 for a lawn party. A severe hailstorm Wednesday afternoon dropped walnut sized hail for about ten minutes, then heavy rain for an hour, flooding streams and damaging grain fields orchards gardens roofs and young fowls. A cow was killed by lightning and overall losses are substantial though no lives were lost. Local residents report many illnesses gradually improving.
Miss Myrtle Newcome visits Mr and Mrs Eston Carpers Valley. Mr Charles Lanahan of New Market VA joins milling and mercantile firm Hottle and Lind here to form Hottle Lind and Company.
Vernon Eddy of the Handley Library travels to Richmond for the Virginia State Librarians Association executive committee meeting. Pending actions include arrangements for the annual convention planned for early fall in Richmond. Eddy has served as president for the past year.
A discussion notes that red blooded heroes in novels are acceptable if they are not too bloody. It weighs reader tolerance for violence and adventure in traditional heroic narratives.
Mrs. A Clinton Boxwell of Washington, wife of the Navy yard electrician and fire marshal, is visiting her mother Mrs. Cc Sanford on National Avenue for a few days.
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