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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1931
Page
2
Paul Robinson and Etta Kett quote Grimes growers urging stricter fruit maturity enforcement. They fault the Inspection service for a modest approach this year, arguing earlier testing could have saved the Grimes market. Mayor Walker cites England buyers and warns against shipping immature fruit.
Laurel and Hardy at the Palace Theatre deliver fast paced humor in a feature length comedy. Hal Roach elevates production values as the duo play gray garbed convicts in a jailbreak farce that keeps dialogue light and jokes plentiful.
The Modern Age a new Joan Crawford MGM vehicle plays last times at the Capitol Theatre starring Crawford with Pauline Frederick Neil Hamilton and Monroe Owsley in a modern life romance with a Paris setting and a suspenseful finale East of Borneo opens tomorrow for a two day run at Capitol Theatre Universal's exotic drama filmed in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula featured at Winchester.
J T Henley, Virginia apple representative, reports southern markets flooded with ungraded Virginia apples. He cites poor grading, early picking of Grimes stock, and hot weather as factors harming quality and prices. He urges stricter inspections and better fruit to win back southern trade.
The Star provides a daily corrected market report listing wholesale market prices for wheat dairy eggs and livestock. It shows ranges for wheat corn hay middlings and various dairy products with figures in dollars and cents and notes corrections at the close of the prior trading day.
Angerona Terrace, the former Cover property, presents available single family homes and building lots for sale. The development markets new construction options along with plot choices suitable for diverse home designs.
An advertisement promotes Rat Die as a guaranteed rodent killer with odorless effects. It claims 50 cent and 75 cent package sizes suitable for pantries, kitchens, chicken houses, coops, and small buildings. The product is sold and guaranteed by local dealers with scheduled availability.
Police court yesterday convicted Roger Ritter of drunken driving after earlier records misidentified him as Robert Ritter. Officials acknowledge the error and confirm the correct defendant’s name.
In Hemingford Nebraska residents barter for essentials using potatoes for coal wood and apples along with other commodities as a practical exchange system.
The estate of C. A. Ww deceased requires all creditors to show cause on or before October 26 1931 against payment and delivery of the undistributed balance to legatees named in the will. 9-25-oaw-4wks.
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