Retail Prices of Top Grade Eggs Edge Higher This Week
Prices for top grade eggs rose two to four cents a dozen amid seasonal patterns as bigger eggs decline. Beef and veal demand edged up, while wholesale lamb and mutton rose $2 per hundred pounds. Produce shows mixed changes with melons higher and cauliflower lower. overall wholesale food prices hit a year’s low.
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Associated Press
Agriculture Department
Business Research Organizatorn
Dun & Bradstreet
San Francisco
Paul S Wailis
Grocery Manufacturers of America
Otter
Willis
In Memoriam George M Payton
In memory of father George M Payton who departed this life on Sept 6 1950 at home. By his family he was loved and now is in Heaven. You were a faithful husband Avery. Elizabeth Payton and children note their sadness dated 9 6 11.
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George M. Payton
Avery
Elizabeth Payton
Sarge
Harrison
Eden
Harrie
Anne
Deke
Pop
Imogene
Eden Blayde
Helen Topping Miller
King F
Leadership Class Attendees Celebrate Christian Home Making
About seventy people completed a Leadership Training Class sponsored by Stephens City Methodist Church Board of Education. The program ran nightly with worship and instruction by Mrs. John H. Davis on Christian home making. Credit recipients listed and organizers plan another session next year for adults and a separate youth class.
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Board of Education
Stephens City
Chas. A. York
C. O. Watson
Garland E. Strickler
Dorothy Petri
Ralph Mowery
Sarah Marks
Donald W. Marks
A. R. Marks
S. J. Jackson
Amy Hausenfluck
Marvin Hammock
C. S. Headley
Dorothy
Douglas Canfield
A. F. Lillard
Davis
We Have Given Our Herts Away
A wartime veteran with a haunted past seeks a fresh start as a realtor in a southern city. He attends a dinner with Laura Blayde and others where social tensions simmer and relationships entangle amid family duties and past wounds.
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Helen Topping Miller
USA
Jene
Aura Blayde
Water usage in Winchester rises as city pumps more
City Manager S Lee Grant reports water consumption increased by about 30 million gallons last year, a four percent rise from prior figures. Also noted are social and civic updates including Dorothy Rennie and Nathaniel Brown’s engagement, Jack DeHaven’s return from a trip, Absalom Robertson’s Senate nomination, and leadership elections at the Winchester Chamber of Commerce.
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Winchester
S. Lee Grant
Dorothy A. Rennie
E. G. Rennie
Roberts Street
Nathaniel F. Brown
C. F. Brown
Gainesboro
Jack DeHaven
Sunnyside
Virginia Beach
Ocean View Park
Absalom Willis Robertson
Democratic Party of Virginia
Carter Glass
United States Senate
Wendell R. Barney
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Richard F. Lewis, Jr
William B. Battaile
Shenandoah Valley Academy superintendent addresses Rotary Club
Col. Brantz M. Roszel, Supt. of Shenandoah Valley Academy, who had just returned from Europe, addressed the Rotary Club. Mr. and Mrs. George Woodward were spending a week at Atlantic City.
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Brantz M. Roszel
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Europe
Rotary Club
George Woodward
Atlantic City
Holed with muscles leaps under moving freight car
A man with great strength frightened bystanders at the B and O station by leaping beneath a fast moving freight car and climbing the rods. A report notes Winchester residents, about 6,000 in number, used 14,754 gallons of water in August.
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Winchester
Yugoslav Reporter Believes Adamic Murdered
Yugoslav newsman M Anton Smole said he is convinced Lou Adamic was murdered. Adamic was found dead by rifle wound in New Jersey, initially listed as suicide pending inquiry. Smole cited threats from a Cominform linked American and noted Adamic’s past beatings tied to his anti Soviet Tito book.
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San Francisco
Louis Adamic
New Jersey
M. Anton Smole
Tanjug
Adamic
Smole
Associated Press
Cominform
United States
Communist Information Bureau
New York
Yugoslavia
Los Angeles
Ethel Snapp
Timothy Seldes
Doubleday & Co
Seldes
Feet are Hands To Armless Girl Who Licked Fate
Rosie Lee Sekula from Meadowbrook West Virginia, who lost both arms after touching a 22 000 volt line as a child, stars in a Wallace and Murray Show in Fairmont WV under VFW sponsorship. She uses her feet as hands to raise her daughter, educate herself, and work as a vaudeville performer, hoping to inspire others to overcome handicaps.
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Rosie Lee Sekula
Meadowbrook
W. Va
Fairmont
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Eddie Woods
Fairmont Business and Professional Women’s Club
Massachusetts
Clarksburg
W. V
Fire damages manuscript collection at Adamic residence
Seldes reports uncertainty about how much of the manuscript was destroyed in a house fire at Adamic's home. He notes difficulty determining the extent of losses from the blaze and the condition of the remaining documents.
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Seldes
Adamic
Local WSCS Delegates Attend Lynchburg Mission School
Three representatives of the WSCS of the Stephen City Methodist Charge attend Randolph Macon Woman's College annual School of Missions in Lynchburg. About 400 delegates from Virginia churches participate through Saturday, with local delegates Mrs Charles W. Barton Kernstown Society Mrs Charles A. York Stephens City and Mrs A F Lillard Refuge among attendees.
Runaway Freight Car Slams Autos in Bluefield
A Norfolk and Western freight car ran loose from a spur in Bluefield Virginia and struck two cars and a truck on a street. No injuries were reported. The derailed car uprooted a bumper before colliding with the vehicles.
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Bluefield
Rrunaway Railway
Norfolk and Western Railway
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