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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1932
Page
6
Rioting broke out in the Falls area with gunfire injuring three. Police bullets hit five, while police and unemployed clashed citywide. Mob attacked trolley cars, looted shops, halted buses, and threw missiles as crowds battled authorities.
Chicago market note references closing grain prices and contact points for the Chicago Board of Trade and Baltimore Chamber of Commerce in Baltimore Maryland with telephone listings Plaza 1498 and 1746.
The stock market showed substantial gains in quiet New York trading after last week’s recession. Prices recovered one to several points in many issues as the day progressed and bonds improved. sterling cables stood at 3.45 percent with call money renewing at 2 percent.
Florence Italy October 11 Associated Press reports English composer Lord Henry Somerset who wrote songs and household pieces between 1874 and 1879 died today at age 83. He was best known for the song All Through the Night.
Public auction in front of the Winchester Court House at noon on Saturday November 5 1932 offers 39 acres in Frederick County Virginia devised to Maggie Orndoff. Terms: one third cash the rest in two annual installments with 6 percent interest secured by deed of trust and fire insurance. WM M Richards trustee Duvall and Dunn aucs.
A hammer toe is the toe beside the big toe bent downward due to insufficient skin on the underside. The condition stems from a hereditary foot deformity that affects toe alignment and flexibility.
Pagebrook hosts a large stable with daily schooling of boarding horses under Capt. Walker. Riders exercise horses on a regular track, weather permitting, with returns planned for February ahead of Maryland racing in April at Bowie. Walker maintains extensive facilities and a personal string of thoroughbreds active across the northeast and Midwest.
Death removes C W Hensell in state hospital details indicate he was the last of his immediate family and longtime Masonic and fire company member. His sister Nellie Hensell Smith died years ago near Wadesville Clarke county. He is survived by one niece Mrs Alfred McNulty of Philadelphia. He never married.
Samuel Insull, once a major power figure, sits under guard in the Athens police station as officials in Athens Washington and Illinois negotiate to extradite him to Chicago to face embezzlement and larceny charges. The process may require attested U S documents and a Greek appeals court ruling on legality.
Virginia Reserve Officers Association expands across the state with new chapters and a reformatted leadership in Alexandria led by Lieut. Clyde B. Lanham. The Fry family reunion at Homeplace near Marlboro draws 200 attendees as history and patriotism mingle with a sermon on ancestry from Rev. Snyderman.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Oct 11 The Graf Zeppelin radioed it has passed the Canary Islands at 10 am on another trans Atlantic voyage to South America maintaining a speed of 75 miles an hour. The report notes a Missouri like interest in business experts rather than politicians this fall.
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