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A truncated item lists Forsale notes with repeated phrasing and no further details readable. Limited text prevents identifying goods, dates, or prices.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1919
Page
2
A truncated item lists Forsale notes with repeated phrasing and no further details readable. Limited text prevents identifying goods, dates, or prices.
William Math er Lewis, director of the war savings division, warns that profiteering and extravagant buying threaten public welfare. He cites a Indiana blacksmith buying ten silk shirts for ten dollars each and a pawnbroker offering stamps below market, plus 250 fur orders from a Connecticut store with small weekly payments. He notes August war savings growth and urges sustained district action to curb waste and promote saving and investment.
Wholesale prices listed show butter at 10 on wheat 30 and corn 28 with rye 1.20 and barley 1.50. A regular meeting of the we 'T, U, will be held on Thursday, September 18 at 3 p.m.
Mine owners and mining engineers from across the country will present opinions to government representatives on mine taxation at the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers meeting in Chicago. The gathering, in session the week of September 22, will tackle methods of determining mine valuations to shape tax laws affecting mines.
United States Steel again proved uncertain in the stock market this morning forfeiting almost a point after its initial rally and helping drive broader reversals. Elsewhere foreign exchange slumped further adding restraint. The day did feature some spikes such as Kelsey Wheel up 19 points, Stromberg Carlson up four, and Lorillard Tobacco.
Eight and Crucible Steel score lines mix with Fisher Body reaching 20 points, indicating a close game with Fisher Body pulling ahead while others trail.
Clarence Mayhew of 566 North Main Street is bedridden and ill. The district nurse requests bed linen and other sick room articles, plus a copy of Public Health Nursing by Edna Foley, loaned items to be returned to the Chamber of Commerce office.
The undersigned offers for sale at public auction in front of the Court House in Winchester Virginia at 11 o'clock a m Saturday September 20th that 105 acre tract known as the George W Crabill farm in Bloom Frederick County Virginia near the railroad station It has an eight room residence a good barn outbuildings a never failing spring and about twenty acres in timber The farm is in a good neighborhood near post office church and schools Terms: one third cash on day of sale the balance in two equal annual installments with two purchaser bonds payable in one and two years from sale secured by deed of trust and fire policy Possession given March 1 1920 Mrs C B Snapp A G Swanson Auctioneer
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