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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1940

Page

9

Market quotations and livestock prices from Baltimore and Chicago

Market notes from Baltimore and Chicago dated Oct 4 report quotes on potatoes poultry cattle calves hogs sheep. Baltimore dealer quotations include Chippewas sacks longs and various fowl prices while Chicago hogs rise 10 to 15 cents with top at 6.60 and light run. cattle steady. lambs steady. receipts around 10 000 hogs and 1 000 cattle with packers taking 5 000 hogs direct.

Baltimore Ialand Baltimore Livestock Pi— S. Dept. Agr Chicago Livestock Chicago

Sale of Limestone Farm in Frederick County Virginia

Public auction in Winchester Virginia on Saturday October 26 1940 at noon. The 152 acre limestone farm near Ridgeway Station and Grimes includes an 8 room residence barn and other buildings with 30 acres in orchard and water supply. Crops currently growing are reserved. tenant may occupy until March 1 1941 and may harvest in 1941. Terms require one third cash sale day with balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and fire policy. Charles J Gordon is the seller with Duvall and Dunn as auctioneers.

Court House Winchester Frederick County Virginia Ridgeway Station Grimes Daniel Wright Charles J. Gordon Duvall & Dunn

Local Markets and Wholesale Flour Prices Listed

The Star publishes daily wholesale and retail market prices for flour brands Brann and Patent Brann, with bag sizes from 12 to 98 pounds. Also shown are mixed feed, corn meal, oats, various fowl, dairy products, and live stock price notes in a dense listing.

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Clarke Fair Dates Set in Clarke County for Fall Event

Clarke County's annual FP F A F H A fair planned for October 18 19 at the Boyce Ber ryville high school auditorium. Open to county residents exhibits due by October 18 at 2 pm. Prizes totaling about 40 dollars go to top boy and girl. highest point winners receive awards from First National Bank and Bank of Clarke County.

Berryville Clarke County Henry M. Davis Boyce Davis First National Bank Bank of Riley Loy Marion Heine Winifred Dove Dave Childs Allen Emmart Lillian Deavers Pamie Royston

Va Car pid 23 Western Union 1918

A compact citation lists items including Va Car pid 23 Western Union and a 1918 Woolworth reference, indicating a dated ledger style entry or publication snippet with multiple named terms and figures.

Western Union Woolworth

Kidnaper Gets Life Sentence Stunned by Outcome

A German alien identified as Marc de Tristan, 1, received a life term for kidnapping a boy from Hillsborough Street in what authorities called the perfect kidnapping. The verdict came exactly two weeks after the act, leaving residents and officials reviewing the case's details.

Kidnapper Remains Standing During Judge Mc Nutt Sentence

Superior Judge Maxwell Mc Nutt imposes the term and time fixed by law as the kidnapper remains motionless before the bench. Attorneys urge him to sit as the sentence is read.

Maxwell McNutt

Rites Sunday Planned for Mrs. Grace Conner

Funeral services for Mrs. Grace Conner, wife of Edward Conner, who died suddenly yesterday at her home, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday from Centenary Reformed Church. The Rev. S. L. Flickinger and the Rev. Ronald Wilson will officiate. Surviving family includes her brother Harry Harkness and cousin Mrs. Robert Cooper of Kingston New Jersey. Pallbearers named Will Rathman Marion Anderson Herman Lee Wesley O Roark George Eagle Jr. John Seal.

Grace Conner Edward Conner Centenary Reformed Church L. Flickinger Ronald Wilson The Presbyterian Church Conner Will Rathman Marion Anderson Herman Lee Wesley O'Roark George Eagle, Jr John Seal

Phrase Usage Note on Contractions in Speech

The guidance urges using the contraction doesn t in place of does not for smooth spoken language. It emphasizes concise, natural phrasing and discourages unnecessary negation in quoted or reported speech.

Stock market mixed in cautious session on Oct 4

New York traders faced a slow, uneven day as prices held largely steady with airlines copper and specialty shares showing some weakness. A late fade in gains suggested a possible correction while volume lingered around 500000 shares. notable quotes at 2 p.m. included Am Can 100, AT T 163 1 4, U S Steel 60 1 4, Sears Roebuck 81 3 4, and Union Pac 84 1 2.

New York Am Can AT & T Anaconda B and O Bethlehem Chrysler Can Edison Gen Elec Geal Motors Goodwear M Ward Nat Dairy Sears Roebuck Southern R SO of NJ Texas Corp Union Pac U. S Steel

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