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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1948
Page
7
A weekly schedule lists Home Agent HD meetings at Gore, Albin, and Mt. Williams with Mrs. Zirkle, Mrs. Lucas, and Mrs. Whitacre plus 4 H club sessions at Hayfield Carlton Rameys Middletown and Gore high school. Instructions include bringing sewing machine cleaning supplies and tools. district federation meeting set for May 4 at Culpeper with club representation urged.
A compact teaching note covers common usage errors mispronunciations and misspellings. It lists examples such as somewhere versus some place and ascent versus assent and notes synonyms like memory recollection and reminiscence. It teaches daily vocabulary growth with the word indigenous and its pronunciation.
A health note discusses cold nuisances and current remedies. It reports on tyrothricin mixed with nose drops, noting reduced colds duration and fewer complications in a treated group, while vaccines and vitamins show limited value. It advises rest, fluids, appropriate drugs, and warns against overuse of laxatives, stressing physician guidance.
Curtis Barr served as toastmaster for Winchester district Peoples Life Insurance Co annual banquet and dance at the George Washington hotel. Speakers included R G Diepenbrock and A P Thompson with numerous guests listed from Washington and surrounding towns.
Montana will begin assigning a lifelong serial number to every baby born starting next January. The number will serve for social security and police identification, while the U S Public Health Service will discard its own system. Montana will start numbers with 1 25 followed by year and county birth codes. Canada already uses the system.
The House moves to reexamine federal oleomargarine taxes with a vote likely by April 26. Rep. Rivers cites 218 signatures backing action aiming for a full repeal of the taxes a quarter cent per pound on uncolored margarine and 10 cents on the colored product.
A special meeting of the shareholders of the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank of Winchester Virginia will be held in the banking rooms on Friday April 16 1948 at 729 PM for the transaction of such business as may properly come before such meeting J H Yost Cashier
M. J. Baptist announces Rexall Drug Store with prescriptions filled by a qualified registered pharmacist ensuring professional pharmaceutical care for customers.
A reader asks whether a woman may sign a letter with the honorific Miss followed by her full name Mary Wil. The reply explains usage varies by era and context, noting Miss indicates an unmarried woman and that professional or formal letters may use Ms or a full name without title.
(Miss) Mary appears in the record with a prefix for courtesy or marital status. The snippet centers on the use of the title in formal address and its place in a public notice.
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