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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1924
Page
3
The report lists wholesale market quotes for dairy and feed items and local retail prices for flour and baled hay. Notable figures include butter at 7.80 and cornmeal at 1.95, with mixed feed at 1.85 and walnut kernels at 12.00. Local flour prices show barrels at 7.60 and 12-lb sacks at 1.47, bale hay priced between 33.00 and 35.00 per unit.
Fragmentary OCR of a market style note listing mixed feed flour middlings corn and hens with scattered prices and corrections. The readable content mentions Corn and Flour middlings and a closing update, but many words are garbled, leaving the precise items, dates, and figures unavailable.
The Department of Justice will continue its case against Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana despite a Senate committee exoneration. The majority report found Wheeler did not accept compensation for prosecuting land claims before a federal department. Wheeler declined further comment.
A split item presents verse about the Shenandoah’s return of spring by Roselle Merciér Mort Montgomery with New York Times provenance, followed by Theodore Roosevelt’s thoughts on reform urging morality and efficiency as twin gospels for public improvement. The piece blends poetry and editorial sentiment.
In colonial burying grounds of New England graves are laid with the feet toward the east, a traditional orientation reflecting afterlife beliefs and burial customs. The practice aligns corpses facing the sunrise as part of regional funerary rites.
Miss Baker, a student at St. Hilda's, wandered away from Germantown area after planning to flee expulsion. She wore a white sweater and cap, carried a raincoat, removed identification, and mapped routes through nearby states. Her father searched towns from Charles Town to North Carolina while authorities traced her steps.
A garbled OCR passage contemplates prudence in life and marriage, noting two diamond jubilees at 75 years and alluding to social duties. The text mixes phrases about walking, country churches, and marital milestones with incoherent strings of words.
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