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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1934
Page
10
Market notes list prices for carloads and barrels of apples including Yorks Staymans Grimes and Black Twigs with U S utility and cold storage terms. Dozens of grade names appear with min inch sizes and car prices as windstorm impacts heavy unpicked orchards.
Roll call headquarters on Loudoun street reports many residents are not at home during canvass. People are asked to call at the office opposite the County Court House under Hansbrough and Carter to renew memberships and contribute.
The Kansas City Times notes California from Spanish origin meaning hot furnace reflecting early exploration for gold. It also explains kith and kin as Anglo-Saxon terms for known people and relatives.
Trading dull for cattle and calves with steady prices. top hogs 6.25 and 100–220 lb ranges noted. Sheep and lambs slow but steady with top lambs 7.00 and 90 lb and lighter weights showing 4.00–7.00. Philadelphia dressed poultry and dairy prices listed with egg totals and unchanged live poultry.
President Roosevelt began serious work on the budget for the new government year starting July 1. The unknown future costs for relief and public works dominated talks as Harry L. Hopkins joined a lunch. Morgenthau and Daniel Bell planned afternoon meetings. A conference with automobile manufacturers and Clay Williams on the motor code was arranged.
STOCKHOLM November 1 Willa Cather the American novelist and Paul Elmer More the American essayist and editor were rumored candidates for the Nobel prize in literature along with Eugene O Neill the American playwright. Cather is noted as a native of Frederick County born in Gainesboro and daughter of Charles Cather.
William Kroger aged 79 founder of the Kroger grocery chain with his brother R. J. Kroger of Cincinnati, was found dead in his room at a Asheville hotel. County coroner Dr. J L Carroll ruled death from angina pectoris likely occurring last night. Kroger had spent recent years between Asheville and Florida.
Richmond Va November 1 Attorney General A P Staples asked the Washington based commissioner of internal revenue for an official ruling on the notice that the state must pay federal income taxes on liquor monopoly profits.
President Crassannt Roosevelt opened the annual Red Cross membership drive urging generous support. He received a Red Cross button from five year old Phyllis Smith of Washington, who visited the White House with James L. Fieser, acting Red Cross chairman.
The New York stock market opened sluggish with selective buying at times while major leaders fell. Wheat rose about a cent a bushel after Winnipeg pegged prices, and cotton also declined. 1st prices show Allied Chemical at 126, American Can 99 1 2, Bethlehem Steel 24, General Electric 17, General Motors 28, U S Steel 31 4 2, Penn Railroad 21 7 2, Union Pacific 99, Woolworth 50, among others.
The page lists prices for patent brand and common brands of flour rice and feeds, with per barrel and per sack rates for various bag sizes, and notes dairy butter prices. It also provides a short factual paragraph about The Galapagos Islands noting their location in the Pacific Ocean, political association with Ecuador, island counts, and total area around 2,400 square miles.
An advertisement touts S.S.S. as a scientifically tested tonic to stimulate gastric secretions and supply minerals for hemoglobin. It claims exceptional results for weak digestion and renewed strength, urging readers to avoid substitutes and rely on this long trusted blood medicine.
Paris reports Laval and defense ministers mapped plans to send French troops into the Saar if the League commission calls for help. Garrisons at Nancy Metz and frontier points were held ready as January plebiscite nears. Petain warned of a looming threat while government officials sought to deter conflict with preventive military measures.
Closing grain quotations from Chicago show Dec and May futures for wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley with new and old price ranges. Cash grain bids include No. 2 red wheat and various No. 1 and No. 2 corn and white corn. Baltimore spot wheat and related grain prices are listed with domestic and November figures.
The excerpt lists asset and liability lines such as loans and discounts, overdrafts, U S government securities, real estate owned, reserve with Federal Reserve, cash in vault, outside checks, and totals. It also shows deposits by demand and time, public funds, and deposits of other banks with specific amounts, including a total of 728,832.56 matching secured and unsecured categories.
Richmond officials report an unsolved wrecking of a three room frame house in Henrico county. I W Adams his wife and child were asleep as an explosion shattered the home and started a small fire later doused. Investigators doubt the stove caused the blast and suspect dynamite used to kill the family.
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