Stock Exchange Rises On Buy Wave Amid Speculation
The New York Stock Exchange advanced on strong buying as speculation dominated markets. The Anti-Saloon League of America schedules Loyalty Sunday to urge church pledges. An unknown person rang a bell at the South End Engine House at dawn and fled. A Modern Woodmen of America camp formed locally with about 40 charter members.
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New York Stock Exchange
Anti-Saloon League of America
South End
Woodmen of America
Winchester Population Figures and City Notes from 1925
Winchester reports a 1925 population of 9,361 per a police census, up about fifty from 1920. Tenement district children from New York are expected, with appeals for homes. Hucksters must use standard weights and measures, and June police court fines totaled 1,100 dollars.
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Winchester
New York
Daughter of Judge Handley Claims Part of Estate
A New Jersey woman asserts she is a long lost child of the late judge Handley and seeks a share of his estate. The note appears among 1915 era items recalling wartime events and Atlantic naval actions.
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Europe
Handley
New Jersey
DuPont City
Hopewell
Petersburg
Orange Horse Show Listing a Large Program
The thirty first annual exhibition of the Orange Horse Show and Racing Association will be held at Orange Virginia July 23 and 24. A record number of entries is expected with 37 classes and two races daily. Prizes are offered in each class and special classes include green hunters thoroughbred colts hunt teams and pony classes. Officers include Mrs Thomas H Somerville president H C Warren secretary treasurer and M W Carter manager. The racing committee features M W Carter chairman H O Lyne W W Sanford A C Wambersie Thomas H Somerville and H C Willis. Cups and trophies include the Montebello Cup for Orange county hunters the Horse Shoe Cup Montpelier trophy Corinthian class ladies hunter class mut teams and Old Guard class.
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Orange Horse Show and Racing Association
Orange
Thomas H. Somerville
Montpelier
H. C. Warren
M. W. Carter
H. O. Lyne
W. W. Sanford
A. C. Wambersie
H. C. Willis
Orange County Hunters
Leesburg Rotary Club Wins Trophy for Best Record
Leesburg Rotary Club, attending the international conference in Chicago last week, won the trophy for the best record. The club reported full participation at the event in Leesburg, Virginia, on June 30.
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Leesburg Club
Leesburg
Rotary cup awarded for distant attendance at convention
The Australian Rotary Club presented a large silver cup encased in Australian blackwood to the club traveling the most miles multiplied by attendance. Leesburg Rotary traveled 842 miles and 100 percent attendance equals 84 200. Eugene Newsom of North Carolina, president of Rotary International, presented the trophy. first US club to win it.
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Rotary Rotary Club
Leesburg
Eugene Newsom
North Carolina
Rotary International
United States
Local Wholesale and Retail Market Prices Listing
Market report lists prices for wheat bran feeds dairy butter and poultry with various grades and weights. Entries include flour 6.00 to 6.50 per unit, creamery butter 33, broilers 25, leghorn chickens 20, hens heavy 14, ducks 15, calves 9, lambs 60, heifers 00 and other farm products with unclear formatting.
Methodist Church Education Fund Raised By Fifty Thousand
The Methodist Episcopal church increased its education fund by 50000 this year, supporting school and mission programs. Local growers and suppliers noted fluctuating prices for feed and dairy products, with mixed reports on corn and cotton seed costs.
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Methodist Episcopal Jure
Argentina Exports 1.65 Million Corned Beef Cases to U.S.
Argentina shipped 1,650,000 cases of corned beef to the United States last year, amounting to the equivalent of about 450,000 head of cattle. Suez Canal dues will fall starting September 1 as receipts rose over the past year.
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Argentina
United States
Suez Canal
Naval Officer and Playwright Will Present Stratford Relics
Fredericksburg Virginia June 30 two Stratford Hall items return home for July 4 at the Robert E Lee Memorial Foundation celebration A jardiniere traced to Richard Henry Lee and George Washington passes through families to Stratford Hall A vintage wine bottle potentially linked to Richard Henry Lee or Major Henry Lee also returns along with the Banqueting Hall site gift and a Lighthorse Harry Lee goil to Stratford.
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Stratford
Old Home
Fredericksburg
Stratford Hall
Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation
George Wirt Simpson
William Fitchugh Lee
Commander Simpson
Richard Henry Lee
George Washington
Augustine
Augustine Washington
Wakefield
Paul Kester
Thomas_ Bruce _Mur
Phy
Lee Hall
H. Lee
General Lee
Major Henry Lee
Kester
Ethel Armes
Lanier
Harry’ Lee
Confederacy of Lithonia
Georgia
John R McConnell
McConnell
James McCray
Virginia
Lee
Robert EP
Washington Broker Brings European Trotters to Culpeper Estate
Colonel imports twenty three thoroughbreds described as the cream of European turf to Culpeper Virginia estate. Breeding stock from Europe arrives as part of a noted transfer.
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Washington
Culpeper Estate
Associatedress
Culpeper
Peirce of Chicago and Washington Buys French Race Horses
Peirce, a Chicago and Washington broker, has acquired a 2,800 acre tract near here and imported racehorses from France. Citron, Grand Prix winner at Paris last year, heads a group including Caid Bonifate and William Kent, all successful on French tracks. Hertman Hot Brain Isolateur and Miss Columbia were also bought in France, and Peirce has imported nearly 100 fox hounds from England and Wales.
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Aeb. Peirce
Chicago
Washington
Here
Citron
Paris
Caid
Bonifate
William Kent
Peirce
Hertman
Hot Brain
Isolateur
Miss Columbia
France
England
Wales
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Orange Horse Show
Market Report
Eaneee Ee Weeeer
Baltimore
Wuneee
Jere M. H. Willis
Thomas Lomax Hunter
King George
The
Star
V. Solon
Lease Greereoty
Ce -Rudy
Harold Russell Ryder
Broadway
Torrney
Isaac Reise
Ryder
Emmert
Liberty
Betty Shoppe
Byrd
Veedol Motor Oil
TYDOL
Veedol
Temple Oil Company, Distributors
Middletown
Batiste
Moling & Cather
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main Street
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