Local Winchester Businesses Listette in mid 20th Century Ad Directory
A dense OCR style catalog lists Union Bank of Winchester executives and multiple Winchester area firms. Items include Millinery Miss Margaret Monson 122 N Loudoun, Twin City Oil & Gas Shell products, Winchester Cold Storage, cleaners L Davis, Oliver Farm Implements, Stine's Poultry and Fish Market, Everlasting Memorials Orndorff, Sargents Sanitary Cash Stores, Greenwood Farm Co operative Dairy, Valley Service Station, Cammer Tire, Schlitz Beer Winchester Wholesale Grocery, Winchester Seed No 2 28 N Cameron, Pratts Feeds and Remedies.
Aged Liquor Shortage Seen If Prohibition Ends
An expert from the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol says aged whiskey would be scarce and quickly drawn from warehouses for blending if prohibition ends. He notes about 18.8 million gallons of whiskey in bond, with only around 4.0 million four years old or more, and predicts large-scale production and imports to meet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol
Bureau
United States
Canor
Valley Apples Sent To Byrd Expedition
A large truckload of Shenandoah Valley apples was sent to Norfolk for Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The fruit will be loaded onto the Byrd supply ship Jacob Ruppert and shipped south to accompany the expedition to Little America, following the Bear flagship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrd
Woodstock
Shenandoah Valley
Norfolk
Richard Erelyn Byrd
Jacob Ruppe
Aleady
Little America
UDC protests Lee image on Dixie Beer labels forced abandonment
Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy protested using General Robert E. Lee's likeness on Dixie Beer labels printed for Southern Breweries Inc. The plan was abandoned and over five million labels will be destroyed. The company offered a $90 prize for a new label name design acceptable to the South. The Virginia UDC thanked the company president in a convention session at the Jefferson Hotel. Memorial hour and floral tributes followed for deceased members and leaders of the UDC and related Confederate groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Bees, Inc
Dixie Beer
Pride of the South
Virginia U. D. C
Jefferson Hotel
Richmond
Frank Anthony Walke
Norfolk
Fitzhugh Lee
James A. Scott
Peter J. White
R. B E. Lee Camp
W. A. Porter
Charles W. Selden
Herbert Lewis
Memorial Hour Reports and Auto Accident Note
Reports of the president and other officers followed the memorial hour. D Robinson injured in an auto accident on the night of July 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ona Sapien
Roe D. Robinson
Uae Robinson
Mrs Robinson Sues For $10 000
Mrs Robinson files a suit seeking ten thousand dollars in damages. The complaint alleges a breach of contract or related wrongdoing affecting her interests and seeks relief through the court system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Robinson
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Rosalie Nelson
West Boscawen Street
Bill Wood
N. Braddock St
Charles Carper
Box
Winchester
Evening Star
Union Bank of Winchester
GEO
Jack
H. B. McCormac
J. Pred Thwaite
Geo. Bae
Floyd Haines
Margaret L. Monson
N. Loudoun Knox
van Raalte
Columbia Steel
Caterpillar
Twin City Oil & Gas Corp
Shell Products
Yes
Miller Tire
Apple
Winchester Cold Storage Co., Inc
N. Loudoun St
William Beverly
Met
Ice
C. L. Robinson Ice & Cold Storage Corp
Pocahontas
Winchester Steam Laundry
A. H. Jackson
Mgr
Bickers Motor CO
Rhodes Drug CO
H. P. Rhodes
W. Boscawen St
Whitman’s Candy
Miller Bros
the Reliable Dealer
R. M. Swimley
George Washington Hotel
Crosley Radio
Y & Senne
N. Main
National Heating Systems
John H. Snyder
Ts Cleaners
L. Davis
Mer
Brandock St
Oliver Farm Implements C. F. Dunlap
N. Cameron St
Basin Fertilizer
Poultry and Fish
Stine’s Poultry and Fish Market
W. H. Stine
C. C. Mayes
T. J. Orndorff
E. Boscawen Street
Barre
Vermont
Sargeant’s Sanitary Cash
Market & Piccadilly Sts
B. W
Val. Ave
S. Main St
Robert van Meter
Greenwood Farm Co-Operative Dairy, Inc
Cork St
Auto Electric
the Valley Service Station, Inc. Co
R. Cammer, Mer
Willard
Goodrich
Silvertown Cammer Tire Co
Pasteurized Milk Sanitary Dairy
N. B. Shingleton
Prop
E. Gerrard St
Milwaukee
Schlitz Winchester Wholesale Grocery Corp
Winchester Seed
Pratts
Creamery
Haldeman’s Creamery J. &. Haldeman
S. Kent St
Haldeman Produce Coo
Jacob Metz
Packers—Shippers Va
Apples
H. W. Butler & Bro
We Motor RP
H. G. Sikes
Miller & Anderson
E. Boscawen St
Standard Electric Range
Philco Radio
L. BR
H. Inc
Humming Bird Hosiery
Chevrolet Shenandoah Motor CO
C. H. Schutte
Manager Valley Avenue
Handley School
U.S. A
Flyer
Dellinger Bros. Show Room
Berryville
Gen. R. F E. Lee
Southern Breweries, Inc
Carolinas
Georgia
Kentucky
Maryland
Chesterfield
Philip Williams
The
U. S
Herrell Sales Corp
S. Loudoun St
Twin City Oil & Gas Corporation
Shell
Martinsburg Pike
Shell Station
Amherst & Roscawen St
Valley Ave
Braddock St
Liecert & Myzns Topacco Co
Big Sister
Central Prem ,Ambciation, Inc
Les Forgrave
Jokinds
Sailor
Hills Garden
Wy Wong
Mill
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