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Local News Items From Martinsburg and Vicinity
A mixed batch of town notes, weather, health, and community events from Martinsburg area papers. Reports include a fatality linked to a liquor purchase, a lightning strike damaging a tree and poultry, highway work plans from Front Royal to Winchester, and a West Virginia venereal disease control bill with pharmacist restrictions. Also mentioned are a Parkersburg resident’s surprise reunion with her father, misidentified in a railroad death.
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Snyder Bane
Charles Town
Virginia Highway Commission
Front Royal
Winchester
Frost Royal
Shenandoah Valley
Richmond
Staunton
Charlottesville
Culpeper
Wilfernece
Fredericksburg
Public Health Service
West Virginia
Jaif
Iide
Ida Malone
Ann Street
Parkersburg
W. J. Mills
Williamstown
Malone
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Mills
Cincinnati
Youngstown
Springfield
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