Public Sale of Real Estate in Willis Estate Winchester
Special Commissioners announce a public auction of key parcels in the Willis estate in Winchester Virginia, following a February 25 1946 chancery decree. Tracts include multiple Kent Street lots and a Market Street parcel with terms requiring one third cash and two annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. R. Willis
W. Carroll Willis
Mabel W. Kern
Corporation Court
City of
Winchester
County Court
Inchester
South Kent
East Clifford Streets
South Kent Street
Fame
South Kent Eet
East Clifford Street
South Kent Treet
South Market Street
Market Street Methodist
The London Black Market of Knocking-About Luxury
In backstreet London districts a black market thrives on who you know not what you know. Stocked with prepaid luxury goods like silk stockings and Leicas, dealers flaunt wares banned or rationed as food and housing shortages bite. A guide explains how insiders bypass rules, how coins open doors, and how even edible delicacies and housing remain accessible to the well-connected.
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L. M. Hanna
Hal Moyle
London
Snider to Judge Field Trials at Saxonburg Pa
W Benton Snider Jr is named judge for the Greater Pittsburgh Field Trial Association spring event in Saxonburg on April 13 and 14 with J M Watson of Sewickley as co judge. Trials will use liberated pheasants with judging on groundwork and handling. Mineral Springs Hotel serves as headquarters. Entrance fees vary from 5 to 20 dollars across classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Benton Snider, Jr
Greater
Saxonburg
Scout Troop 21 to Build Cabin at Rouss Park
Lions Club president George Sanders says the board appropriated funds for a frame building for Boy Scout Troop 21 on the Rouss Park grounds at the southeastern city limits. It will serve as a regular meeting place with a large interior fireplace. Tom Halterman chairs the Lions Club float committee for the Festival.
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Rouss Park
George Sanders
The
Lions Club
Boy Scout Troop
Tom Halterman
Rotary Club Guest Speaker Arrives in Winchester Meeting
Ray Finch a Rotarian from Baltimore will speak at the Winchester Rotary Club luncheon on Thursday April 11 at 1 pm at the Sarah Zane Fire Hall. Finch, manager of the John Dere Company, will discuss the current machinery situation with McSherry Lupton in charge of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Finch
Baltimore
Winchester Rotary Club
Sarah Zane
Finch
John Dere Company
Be Kind to Animals Week Proclaimed by Mayor Anderson
Mayor C. R. Anderson issues a Be Kind to Animals Week proclamation for April 7 to 13, 1946, in Winchester, urging humane groups and residents to observe the period and follow year round kindness to animals. The document notes cooperation with the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and carries the mayoral signature dated April 6, 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Anderson
Society For the Prevention of
City of
Winchester
Kick Awakens Neighborhood as Car Horn Halts Near Station
In Chicago on April 10 a car horn near Hyde Park police station blared for hours. Sergeant John Moroney faced calls from sleepless residents until Cleveland Andrew intervened by kicking a front wheel, silencing the horn.
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Chicago
Hyde Park
John Moroney
Cleveland Andrew
Largest birth record: likely six children per birth
The article notes no exact record. cites an Italian woman in the Middle Ages with nine then eleven children but not verifiable. The probable limit is six. Authentic cases of sextuplets occurred in 1888 and 1903, while septuplets have not been verified.
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N.D. A
Professor Sees Dire Consequences In A Bomb Test
Yale professor emeritus H S Hitler warned that Bikini Atoll could trigger a chain of earthquakes and a mile high tidal wave. Navy reports argued major quakes dwarf bomb energy and that no active volcanoes lie within 2,000 miles, dismissing risks to Earth's shape or rotation.
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Washington
Atom Test Force
H. S. Hitler
Yale University
Bikini Atoll
Uhler
New York Times
Pacific
W. S. Parsons
Army- Navy
Comdr
Roger Reville
Bikini
Atoll
Krakatoa Explosion and Global Spin Question Reopened
A dated note recounts Krakatoa's 1883 eruption near Sumatra Java that expelled about 14 cubic miles of rock and mentions its equatorial location six degrees south. The piece hints at possible global spin effects from such a colossal blast.
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Krakatoa
Sumatra- Java
Equator
Present assignment of USS Elizabeth C. Stanton
The Navy Department states the USS Elizabeth C. Stanton is currently in New York and will be decommissioned there.
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Elizabeth C. Stanton
J.M. A
Navy Department
New York
Bright Lights Exposition Opens At Local Carnival
Douglas Brown of the Winchester Post reports the American Legion will sponsor Bright Lights Exposition Show on May 13 featuring all new equipment including 10 rides 8 shows and 40 concessions A locomotive train ride is a new feature never shown here before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Brown
Winchester Post
The
American Legion
Legion
Brown
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Boston
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International Soundphoto
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Mabel W Kern
P J Marshall
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P. J. Marshall
Boyles
Snider
Rotary Club
McSherry Lupton
L. Zuckerman & Sons
Scrap Iron and Metal Dealers
Civilian Production Administration
E. Baker ST
Chen-Yu
Larvex
Kaywoodies
Yardley’s Bond St. Perfume
Mirag
Anjou
Barry
Mrs. Miniver
Yardley
Lavender
Nail Polish Dynamiteight
S.S.S
Fletcher
Ige
Earth
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Perso
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City, N. Y
Cloverdale Spring Company
Neville, Pa
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