Speaker Marshall Farmer at Quota Club meeting
Marshall Farmer formerly of Winchester and now in Washington D C will be guest speaker at the bi monthly Quota Club meeting Friday night. His talk titled quota and its Relationship to Winchester highlights his autograph collection and war bond campaign experience with MGM and the Treasury Department.
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Marshall Farmer
Winchester
Washington, D. C
Quota Club
Farmer
MGM
Treasury Department
Virginia Weilder
Apce
Handley
the Lions
Junior Board of Trade
al Smith
Wendell Willkie
Smith
Washington
New Colonial Hotel
Washington Junior Board of Trade
Speakers Bureau
District of Columbia
Community War Fund
Air Force Chaplains to Visit Families of Killed Airmen
Washington Oct 18 Families of American airmen killed in line of duty will be visited by chaplains from Army Air Force stations across the United States Col Charles I Carpenter air Chaplain said the program aims to soften the blow and ease distress as casualties rise.
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Washington
United States
Charles I. Carpenter
Carter's Little Liver Pills Boost Digestion Claims
Health quiz copy claims Carter's Little Liver Pills increase digestive juice flow quickly in as little as 30 minutes. It advises taking the pills as directed and to get them at any drugstore for 10 or 25 cents.
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Azure
Carter
Market Quotations and Baltimore Livestock Report
Market notes show apples and poultry quotations steady with light receipts. Eggs and butter hold firm. track receipts light. Baltimore livestock figures list cattle and calves with steady to firm prices, hogs steady, sheep nominally steady, with specific price ranges for steers cows calves hogs and lambs.
Chicago Livestock Market Totals and Price Ranges
Salable hogs 7 000 with total 12 500 and steady demand. good and choice hogs 150-240 lb at 14.75. weights over 240 lb and good and choice sows 14.00. light 120-140 lb 12.50-14.50. Cattle salable 10 000 of 11 000. fed steers and yearlings up 10-15c. top heavy yearlings 18.35. fed heifers 17.75. canners 5.00-5.50. cutters 5.75-6.75. grassy heifers 7.50-10.00. vealers 16.00 steady. Sheep salable 5 000 of 10 500. opening steady. native slaughter lambs 14.00-14.25. common 10.00-11.00. ewes 4.25-6.00.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Chicago Grain Quotations Oct 18
Chicago grain prices rise and fall with short covering in wheat and rye pits. Wheat futures range Dec 1.65 1 4 to 3 8, May 1.60 1 4 to 1 2, July 1.49 1 4. Corn Dec 1.13 3 4, May 1.09 5 8, July 1.08. Oats Dec 64 1 2, May 60 5 8, July 57 1 4. Rye ranges 1.11 1 2 to 1.12 May 1.08 1 8 to 3 4 July 1.02 1 4 Sep 99 3 4. Barley Dec 1.05.
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Chicago
Jly
Complete Coverage Of Local National World Events Read The Star
The Star promises thorough coverage of local, national, and world events with timely reporting and analysis guiding readers through politics, economics, and breaking developments. Readers gain a steady overview from a trusted daily source.
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the Star
Stock Market Report Inspires Broader Demand On Clear Gains
New York stock action boosts market with higher priced favorites and key industrials lifting overall averages. First hour volume exceeds a million shares as Graham Paige and National Power & Light draw interest while leaders like American Telephone, Chrysler, General Motors, Western Union and Dow brands gain.
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New York
Graham Paige
National Power & Light
American Telephone
Chrysler
General Motors
Western Union
Allied Chemical
Dupont
Westinghouse
United Aircraft
Douglas
U. S. Rubber
Santa Fe
Southern Railway
Southern Pacific
Clinchfield Coal
American Gas & Electric
Creole Petroleum
Buffalo
Niagara & Eastern Power
Cats Being Taken and Sold Alarm Local Society
Members of the local SPCA report youths catch and sell cats for 75 cents to laboratories. Citizens report multiple pet cats stolen for such purposes and the SPCA requests action to stop the practice under its jurisdiction.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
City Taxi Service Suspended In Springfield
SPRINGFIELD Ill Oct 18 By order Earl T Amrine district manager for the Office of Defense Transportation taxicab service in Illinois capital city will be suspended at 6 am tomorrow Amrine said the order freezing all but three of the approximate 60 cabs operated by three cab companies serving this city of 75000 is the result of continuous violation of DDT regulations by the cab drivers He charged them with reckless driving and said the cabs are in bad repair Each company is to be permitted to operate one cab for emergency service to hospitals railroad stations and the ordnan-
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Springfield
Ill
Earl T. Amrine
Office of Defense Transportation
Illinois
Amrine
Ordnan
Looking Forward To Woman President
Harvard anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton said he looked forward to a woman in the White House. In the Harvard Service News interview he stated that females possess qualities that would render them equal to males in statesmanship.
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Cambridge, Mass
Earnest A. Hooton
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
White House
Harvard Service News
Hooton
Local Quota Club Officers Return From Richmond Conference
Mrs Ethel B Jolliffe and Miss Mary Lou Steele presidents of the Winchester Quota Club returned from the Tenth District Conference of Quota International in the Jefferson Hotel Richmond District Governor Nettie B Davis of Wilmington presided The program included reports on district clubs and a talk by Dr Mary Northam on post war peace planning A memorial service honored Louisa M Green and a banquet featured Gov Colgate Darden Jr on the value of service clubs in solving social problems
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Ethel B. Jolliffe
Mary Lou Steele
Winchester
Quota Club
Richmond
Quota International, Incorporated
Jefferson Hotel
Nettie B. Davis
Wilmington
Del
Mary Northam
Baltimore
Gail M. Martin
Quota International
Green
Louisa M. Green
Melvin Green
Marie Levering
Washington Club
Edel M. Pullen
Newport News
Sec
Treas
Margaret C. Kane
Thomas Jefferson Hotel
Colgate Darden, Jr
Clarke County A gasoline book renewals registration
The War Price and Rationing Board Berryville announces Clarke county A gasoline book renewals registration at Berryville and Boyce high schools on October 23 24 and 25 26. Only within county registered vehicles may be registered. non residents mail applications to home boards. Bring old A book signed inspection record 1944 license number and current speedometer reading. New A books valid November 9 at 12 01 a m.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Berryville High School
Boyce High School
Clarke Board
End of milkweed pod drive for war effort shortens
Over 300 mesh bags distributed through county schools to gather milkweed pods for the war effort. H Dennis Hoover urges reporting patches with ripe pods to schools or request bags. Pods must dry thoroughly after collection and local plans for shipment are not yet known.
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H. Dennis Hoover
Conditions In Norway Near Explosive Point
Conditions in Norway are nearing an explosive point as German forces tighten control. Norwegian sources report 1000 hostages seized, Grini near Oslo packed, and frequent searches with Norwegians sometimes shot by mistake. Sabotage and resistance rise, with troops slowly replaced by green units amid planned attacks on war industries.
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Stockholm
Norway
Legation
Grini
Oslo
Berlin Says Nazi Troops Use Electric Death Scythe
London dispatch reports Berlin radio claiming Nazi forces on the Russian front deploy an electric machine gun dubbed the death scythe. The weapon is described as a new secret terror for Soviet lines amid ongoing combat on the front.
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London
Berlin
Robot Bombs Strike Again Over English Coast
London reports seventh straight night of robot bomb attacks on southern England and the London area. Antiaircraft gunners battled incoming bombs and destroyed several in flight. Air Ministry says casualties and damage occurred despite Mosquito patrol efforts.
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London
England
Air Ministry
US Divisions Identified on Western Front Since D Day
Supreme Headquarters Expeditionary Force Paris lists American divisions in action on the western front since D Day. Armored-Second through Sixth and Airborne-101st plus Fourth Fifth Eighth and several others including 29th 30th 35th 36th 45th 80th 83rd and 90th.
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Supreme Headquarters .Expeditionary Force
Paris
101St
Aea Tor
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