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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1933
Page
7
An ad for Pattern 9779 by Marian Martin offers a cheap children’s dress pattern with a button trimmed yoke pleats and short sleeves. The Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department promotes the book and pattern together for fifteen cents plus twenty five cents postage.
The piece surveys Henry Ford’s wage policy and its labor and industry impact, noting Ford’s higher pay for unskilled assembly line workers and the opposition from organized labor. It recalls James Couzens’ view that well paid labor supports prosperity. It also touches on NRA economics and Western inflation questions.
Grain and livestock quotations across major markets trace current receipts and prices. Butter eggs and poultry values are listed for New York and Richmond with color grades, weights, and bid ranges while regional reports from Baltimore, Jersey City, and Lancaster show hoga cattle and lambs with latest market shifts.
The Star lists daily local market prices for shelled corn dairy feed 24 percent cracked corn and other feeds. Items include bran mixed feed scratch feed corn meal and eggs with prices shown for butter dairy products and livestock like cows steers heifers and eggs.
A 12 foot wall of water from a cloudburst struck a farm home near Fort Thompson D. D. killing eight people including Fred Loudner his wife their four children and two visiting relatives. Three other relatives escaped by climbing into a nearby automobile and braking.
Baltimore Produce quotes Sept 18 listing prices for apples from Mary mee vania Virginia Wealthys and others by bushel basket. Includes seed rates for Timothy Clover Rye Barley and other grains with U S varieties and minimum sizes.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 pm in the Presbyterian Church of Front Royal for Miss Ber tie B. Scanlon who died Sunday morning at the home of Mrs. J Putman. Interment followed at Prospect Hill Cemetery. she was born in Culpeper county and was a daughter of the late William and Mrs Charlotte Brown Scanlon.
In the clerk’s office of Frederick County Circuit Court on August 30 1933. The Commercial and Savings Bank and others sue Herbert S Larrick administrator of James H Rosenberger dec’d and others to settle accounts and marshal decedent’s property for sale to pay creditors. Defendants Rosenberger and Bertha Wilton must appear within ten days of publication to protect interests. Publication ordered weekly for four weeks in The Evening Star Winchester and posting by September 25 1933. Clerk Co Brannon
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