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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1925
Page
3
Chicago on March 26 reports brisk trading with Wheat leading gains. Prices for other grains like Rye and Corn also fell sharply amid heavy selling. The piece notes intense early activity and a market mood of high urgency, reflecting a busy day for brokers and investors.
Church of Christ will hold services Sunday at 1st Cork and at 30 p m. under the direction of W L Dud.
A fragmentary notice notes a sale of medicines by F. J. Cheney in Toledo. The readable portion mentions a 40 year span and implies a medical product line. Details are incomplete but indicate a historical commerce item tied to a Toledo firm.
A scrambled OCR style crossword puzzle outline lists horizontal and vertical clues. It includes prompts like fill in words that cross, with many partial phrases such as To trade, To make a great show of, A letter belongs in each white space, and enumerations of various clue numbers, subjects, and abbreviations across a grid.
Local market notes show daily corrections for corn wheat and flour components. Prices for shelled corn mixed feed and flour products appear with unit costs and occasional notes on carriage or storage. An advertisement notes 250 acres of productive farmland and an exchange offer for suburban property with contact letter B.
The article urges immediate hedge and tree planting to fit city rules on species and streets near parks. It warns a rushed, haphazard effort harms curb appeal and stresses planning with professional guidance, urging timely purchases from nurseries for spring before the season passes.
Eleven convicts at the state camp near Double Tollgate won pardon prospects for their conduct during a quarry outbreak when five escapees fled. Sixteen workers faced one guard. five escaped, four were recaptured. The eleven stayed, helped report the escape, and later aided in the search. Sentences may be shortened or replaced by full pardons.
Washington reports a trend toward wider farm crop plantings this year as the Agriculture Department warns that heavy expansion could depress prices. If carried out, spring wheat sowing may rise about 14 percent to nearly 2 million acres, with overall crop area up about 4.5 percent from last year and corn acreage up about 2.3 percent.
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