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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1933
Page
5
Chicago reports show wheat weak amid doubt over Senate action. Wheat closed near day’s low. corn and oats firmer relative to wheat. September oats hit a crop high. provisions slid with hog markets. Baltimore prices list apples and potatoes with varied U S 1n quotes and weights.
Light stock and dressed poultry prices listed for roosters chickens broilers and Pekins with varieties including Muscovy geese and ducks. Eggs and butter markets reported in Baltimore Philadelphia and Richmond with current receipts and bids, and grain prices noted for Chicago.
Washington produce prices show hens at 18 20 and guineas 25 35 cents. Eggs and poultry rates listed for prints, tub sizes, and graded extras. Chicago livestock data report hogs 32,000 with lower bids, cattle receipts 12,000 with little market movement, and sheep 17,000 with weak demand. Government bonds quotes also included.
The Hudson River is described as a vast ancient waterway and a note on mail reliability states that only one letter in 300,000 is lost before delivery in the United States. The piece blends physical description with a statistic on mail accuracy.
Delegation from the First Baptist Church of the area traveled to Richmond for the annual Baptist Women state meeting. The gathering features a young people session, convention talks, including speakers from Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church and various mission and education leaders, with officers to be elected at the closing session.
Virginia officials warn that motorized beer moving from West Virginia to other states could be unloaded within Virginia borders. State enforcement says seals or on-truck supervision are needed to stop diversions, as dual bills of sale could hide missing cases of beer.
Judge Louis H. Ward of San Francisco signaled in Mooney case for a new trial on the old murder indictment and set April 26 as the date. Tom Mooney has served 16 years of a life term in San Quentin for the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco.
Ollie Fox was found dead on the mountain near Frontiae in Warren County after lying with his brother Henry on the snow. Coroner Dr D M Kipp ruled death due to alcoholism and exposure. Fox leaves a widow and several children with brothers Thomas, William, and Henry Fox, and sister Bud Tharpe in Central City.
Miss Mary Maude Brock of Front Royal died late Sunday night at Johnson's Nursing Home. She was the daughter of the late Dr Joseph Brock and Mrs Landonia Andrews Brock and last of her immediate family except for a niece, Mrs Richards. Funeral services were conducted at Calvary Episcopal Church by Rev. T W Tayloe with interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Pliny records Cato’s belief that kissing arose among relatives to learn if wives or daughters had tasted wine. The only regions with active head hunter tribes are Borneo Brazil Celebes and the Philippine islands.
W Va March 27 South Branch Valley Game and Fish Association receives notice that the State Commission will fund 400 for work on the Romney bass pond. Target is releasing about 650000 young bass after six weeks of dredging and habitat work. The commission also placed turkeys in Hardy Hampshire Grant and Mineral counties and promised deer. The group has aided stocking 900 pheasants 60 quail 30 turkeys and 47000 bass plus trout in the past year.
Martinsburg West Virginia March 28 Postmaster J William Kastle Jr manages applicants for mail routes from Winchester to Hagerstown and within the city The Winchester to neighboring burg route has about twenty applicants while the Hagerstown arc draws around ten The daily 60 cent toll for crossing the Willrix peries is hindering some bidders from the Winchester Hagerstown area
The Rev. Dr. BE L Woolf, siding elder of Winchester District, Methodist Episcopal Church, will speak at Lent services in the church at 12 30 o clock tomorrow. All are invited.
The sentence notes that only in the sixteenth century did composers begin composing serious instrumental music, marking a shift in musical focus and form.
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