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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1940
Page
10
Boston police report Arthur P. Andrews a 68 year old Park Square liquor store manager used a rehearsed defense technique during a night holdup. He restrained the bandit by sitting on his chest and pounding him with the robber’s own revolver until officers arrived.
Mrs. Betty E. McFarland 66 of 686 Woodstock avenue died at Memorial Hospital at 9 45 PM Saturday after three months of declining health and a week in the hospital. A Winchester resident 50 years born May 28 1873 in Nineveh Warren County she was a Braddock Street Methodist Church member wife of Benjamin F. McFarland. Funeral Tuesday at 3 PM from Jones funeral home with her daughter Mrs Aulick Gibbon host and several grandchildren surviving along with a son Lucius McFarland and three daughters and siblings.
Clement Giberson, a short wave radio amateur from Port Republic New Jersey, said he invited Archduke Otto and Archduke Anton to visit his Giberson farm for a weekend. He reports long talks with Otto and with Anton who runs station Cn at Soonberg Castle Russia.
The bank in Winchester Virginia reports assets totaling 1,866,329.60 with loans of 778,594.63 and total deposits of 1,614,175.20. Capital accounts sum to 249,258.40 including 150,000 par value common stock and 561,484.85 in surplus and undivided profits.
Excerpted text portrays a forger in Folsom and a desperate escape plan. The piece blends noir confession with lyrical reflections on guilt, degradation, and a prisoner’s last yearning to find meaning beyond crime.
Auction in front of the Court House in Winchester Virginia at noon on Thursday April 4 1940. A 6 room house at 110 Handley Blvd with double garage and stable sold for cash. Buildings to be removed by April 19. M M Lynch attorney.
A cryptic style crossword list of across and down clues with partial spellings and garbled phrases. includes numbers, hints like To marry Prolongir and Fertile desert spi plus scattered fragments and a closing note Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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