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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1935
Page
7
Police close in on the Strasbourg strangler, France’s feared criminal, after three years of televised terror. A ragpicker found a nude girl murdered near Schiltigheim fortifications, and letters boasted of attendance at funerals, signaling a chilling pattern that stunned Alsace.
Police warned the public after a string of brutal killings, including an 11 year old chestnut seller, with funerals attended by the crime suspect decades later. Citizens kept indoors at dusk as streets emptied and mothers sheltered children. The killer continued to write letters to police and may strike again before capture. Local notices list visits and gatherings across dozens of residents and towns, from Beckley to Welch, with numerous trips and social calls reported.
A sequence of social items records visits by Miss Marcella McMullin and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Floyd to Welch on Sunday, L. L. Collins as a business visitor to Slab Fork on Monday, and Mrs. M. S. Burton, Mrs. Nellie Collinsworth and Alvin Williams on a Beckley business trip Saturday night. E M Canaday attended church at Coal City Sunday. The family thanks friends in Lester for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of their mother, Mrs. William Bowyer, and especially thanks Reverend Bascon, Reverend Williams, and the floral contributors.
The Jewish people will observe Rosh Hashanah beginning the evening of September 27. The holy day emphasizes self scrutiny and penitence, focusing on introspection rather than commemorating a historical event, with the ram's horn known as the Day of the Blowing of the Trumpet.
The piece notes that the Shofar calls on men to recall their moral duties. It says people, aware of mortality, should value life and pray for the year ahead to end evil and bring peace for all humanity.
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