Movable and immovable feasts defined for holidays
The text explains movable feasts depend on Easter while immovable feasts fixed to calendar dates. It notes Christmas as an immovable feast and states Thanksgiving is generally movable.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1932
Page
8
Memory Test Challenge From The Houghton Line
A Philadelphian writes to the Houghton Line seeking a practical memory test as his memory shows wear and needs re tracing. The editor replies to test memory by recalling the things that worried him yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houghton
Bear leaders may be called into the probe
The New York Stock Exchange supplied a list of 24 50 short sales to the Senate banking committee amid bear raid probes. Richard Whitney, president of the exchange, testified as investigators prepared to scrutinize big short sellers and related clients while denying cabinet member involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
New York Stock Exchange Committee
Richard Whitney
Exchange
Hoover
Yashington
New York Stock Exchange
Whitney
Mr. McVay Visits World's Oldest Oil Well
In Titusville Pennsylvania Charles E McVay recalls visiting the Drake Well the world’s oldest artesian oil well drilled in 1859 by Col Ed win Drake and driller Uncle Billy Smith and his sons. The article notes Drake’s later poverty a monument by Standard Oil and a state park effort surrounding the site. The letter also mentions a hummingbird nest and a catalog of hummingbird species in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Star
Titusville
Pehna
Edwin L. Drake
Greenville
N. Y
Shenandoah Valley
Colonel Drake
Billy Smith
Drake
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
Pennsylvania
Charles E. McVay
Prohibition Fair Opens at Washington Meeting
A three day convention by the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement opens with a prohibition fair showing an old time saloon and a modern soda fountain to urge adherence to the constitution. The event includes exhibits, speeches by Mrs. Thomas A. Edison and Bishop James Cannon Jr., and plans to oppose repeal of federal liquor laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Woman's National Committee For Law Enforcement
Congress
William Rufus Scott
Washington Auditorium
Henry Ford
Henry W. Peabody
Beverley, Maccachusetts
Orlando
Florida
Capitol
Thomas A. Edison
James Cannon, Jr
Huguenots Pay Tribute To Old Settlers
Farmville hosts delegates for the first national convention of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakintowne. The gathering culminated in a church service at the lit tle Manakin Episcopal Church with Rev. Churchill Jones Gibson and Rev. William Gerow Christian officiating. Dr. H R McIlwaine presented a historical paper comparing the French refugees in Virginia to Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmville
Little Manakin Episcopal Church
United States
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
University of Virginia
H. R. McIlwaine
Hugenot
Farmville State Teachers’ College
Virginia
Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
Three Held in Bribery Attempt Against Officer
Richmond April 17 three men were arrested on bribery charges connected to an attempt to bribe Burns Agency detective Erb who investigated the theft of $20,000 in federal reserve notes from a Philadelphia bank. David N. Chadwick of Wilmington NC awaiting trial April 25 for larceny, with Jack Seaman and Charles Green of New York City. Police say $200 was paid as part of the bribery bid, seized as evidence. all three held without bond pending hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Burns
Federal Reserve
Philadelphia
David N. Chadwick
Wilmington
N. C
Jack Seaman
Charles Green
New York City
Commonwealth
Dave E. Satterfield
Erb
Burns Agency
Green
Satterfield
Chadwick
Seaman
To Ring Bell If Babe Is Found
Staunton issue notes a plan to ring the firebell if the Lindbergh baby is recovered. The Associated Press will relay the news to the local paper which will inform the fire department and the public. City Manager Willard F. Day has sanctioned the arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staunton
Associated Press
Fire Department
Willard F. Day
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