Flashes of Life items from various cities
A digest of odd incidents across the nation. Cincinnati police officer Harry Fergus was struck in the eye by a piece of cake while playing with his children and required hospital treatment. Other snippets include Easter card potting in Philadelphia, a Fayette County driver’s license tale, a veterinary fix in Scottsbluff, a Portland theft with lodge items, a Milwaukee rail yard accident, and a dramatic divorce testimony in Omaha.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry Fergus
Fergus
Phone Operator Aids Wreck Scene In Stephens City
Miss Edna Grim, a night telephone operator at the Stephens City exchange, directed urgent calls for medical aid and law enforcement after a serious street wreck. She managed eight or ten calls swiftly to hospitals, doctors, and officers, ensuring rapid dispatch as the Friendship Fire Company ambulance responded from Winchester.
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Edna Grim
Stephens City Exchange
Miss Grim
Friendship Fire Company
Winchester
Grim Keeps Line Open Amid Severe Hotline Rush
Siren screams roared south on the Valley Pike as outside calls flooded the line. Miss Grim stayed at the connecting end, keeping the mouthpiece lifted to summon more help and prioritizing the emergency line.
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Valley Pike
Miss Grim
Sore Nose Sheds Light on Post’s Postflight Exit
Indianapolis April 17 A new reason emerged for Wiley Post ending his third continental stratosphere flight attempt near Lafayette Indiana. Friends quoted Post saying his nose was sore and that an automatic valve began pouring oxygen into his rubber suit faster than intended.
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Indanapolis
Wiley Post
Lafayette
Ind
Post
Marian Martin Fashion Dress Pattern No. H9330 Ad
A Winchester Evening Star pattern ad showcases a Marian Martin dress design No. H9330. It highlights tailored feminine lines with pleated sleeves and patch pockets, claiming comfort and flattering fit for summer wear across sports shopping or informal settings. Sizes 12 to 20 and 30 to 40. Send 15c to Pattern apartment New York.
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Marian Martin
Winchester Evening Star
West 18Th Street
New York
N. Y
Winnie Mae lands at Purdue after fogged windshield
A pilot aboard the globe girdling Winnie Mae faced a fogged windshield as he stretched to wipe moisture with his nose. Nose and neck aches followed as a stripped supercharger clutch forced a precautionary landing at Purdue University’s airport field.
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Purdue University
More CCC Camps To Be Set Up In Shenandoah Park
Five new CCC camps will be added in the Shenandoah National Park area within sixty days, expanding the local total to ten. Carpenters are ready to begin barracks once workers are assigned. Existing camps include Skyline Drive sites, Sperryville Criglersville Grottoes Front Royal and a site in the Massanutten Mountains.
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Luray
CCC
Shenandoah National Park
Page County
Skyline Drive
Sperryville
Criglersville
Grottoes
Front Royal
Massanutten Mountains
George Washington National Forest
An Unexpected Dinner Guest in Ridgely News
County Treasurer T. Frank Seward reported an intrusion at his home when a thief cut and unlatched the screen door and stole food after Mrs Seward had baked a ham and two pans of cookies for dinner. The incident was conveyed to the sheriff rather than the society editor. Crumbs remained on the table.
Woolworth Heir Deflects Talk of Engagement and Love
New York April 17 Woolworth Donahue heir to ten cent store fortune is linked to a British actress and a New York society figure over a love affair. Miss Wendy Barrie said in Hollywood that Donahue telephoned her from Palm Beach to announce engagement to Miss Dorothy Fell. Miss Fell denies the claim and insists she will marry him.
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New York
Woolworth Donahue
Wendy Barrie
Hollywood
Donahue
Palm
Dorothy Fell
Miss Fell
Jue
British Isles To Be Guarded Against Air Attacks
London April 17 A war air defense plan was announced to guard 46,000,000 people. Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour said the Home Office will set up a special department in Westminster with staff beginning May 1 to work on air defense.
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London
Airag Cea
Ayse
British Isles
John Gilmour
Home Secretary
House of Commons
Home Office
Westminster
Corn Distribution and Columbia University Document
A historical note says corn was widely distributed in ancient America but northern Pacific coast crowns were not by Indigenous people before white settlement. Columbia University received a rare 1754 document relating to its founding.
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America
Pacific Coast
Columbia
Columbia University
For Sale Hall's Expectorant at Peoples Service Drug Store
An old advertisement announces sale by Peoples Service Drug Store at 9 North Main Street for Hall's Expectorant in three sizes 350 60c.
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Peoples Service Drug Store
North Main Street
Hall
People’s Service
Winchester
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Willys
Chryslers
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Packards
Ford
Tudor
Chrysler
C. M
Oldsmobile
Luxe
Small Nash
Cprypar
Leen
Chevrolet
Ford Tudor
Buick
Plymouth
Marquette
Bickers Motor Co
Philadelphia
Margaret K. Loos
Dorothy Smith
Robert Miller
Uniontown
Charles W. Johnson
Johnson
Fayette County
Uniontown Speedway
Cuba
Scottsbluff, Neb
J. P. Wyrens
Portland
Ore
E. A. McEntee
Milwaukee
George Raabe
Raabe
Omaha
Viola G. Beck
Frank Dineen
Wenders
Halfway
Hagerstown
THE
Mountain View Nursery CO
Williamsport, MD
Winchester Furniture Co
Main St
Buncutter Tire Co
Woolworth
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