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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1929
Page
8
Daily market prices list wholesale items such as cracked corn at 2.40, bran 2.00, corn meal 2.84, mixed feed 2.80, and hens 24.00. Retail items include local flour, middle range feeds, butter, eggs, calves, steers, sheep, lambs, and hogs with varied prices.
The Winchester Fruit Exchange Inc has leased land from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opposite the chair factory in Winchester for a large apple packing plant. Ground has been graded about 300 feet of railroad siding laid construction has started on the first unit and a small storage building will also be erected. The storage will be hollow interlocking tile insulated and fireproof with capacity for about 100 cars. The entire plant is to be in operation by mid September.
The New Yorker notes proposals to move prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. It argues the Interior Department should handle the duty, reflecting a view that the Secretary of the Interior is best suited for this work.
Carl Keller fourteen and William Gray seventeen were arrested in Keyser West Virginia after a $30,000 registered mail robbery from a Baltimore and Ohio station. Keller posted bond. Grayson remains jailed. Police say they confessed to planning and lifting checks money orders and cash from the pouch.
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