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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1933
Page
4
An old church group ad lists nationwide advertising representatives and locations in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta. The message cites a Bible verse from Matthew and includes a price line with figures such as 4 50 and 1 20.
Richmond Fed report notes a continued upturn in the district with fewer June insolvencies than any year since 1921 and a 29 percent drop in insolvencies for the first half of 1933. Employment rises in textiles tobacco coal and smaller industries, signaling renewed prosperity driven by initiative and policy corrections.
Fredericksburg free lance star recalls Old Pat Ryan a 110 year old Oklahoma farmer and Union Army veteran who rejected pensions saying he could still make a living. He stood for self reliance and resisted government handouts as he maintained his hoe driven life despite age.
One year ago the Winchester City Council voted to provide indigent care within the city. The Frederick County Board of Supervisors planned to sell county road machinery. The Winchester Lions Club helped form a similar club in Harrisonburg. A large crowd attended a circus exhibit at the Fair Grounds here.
A Mrs Annie Elizabeth Ritchie desires burial in the same grave as her husband if allowed by the War Department. Friends hope to secure permission for the joint burial. Ray Barbuti wins the 400 meter race at the Amsterdam Olympic Games. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd plans to carry four years of supplies for a South Polar expedition, per press reports. Virginia apple shipments expected through Norfolk this year.
President Harding dies after a stroke in a San Francisco hotel. Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as President at the old Coolidge homestead in Plymouth Rock Vermont by a Justice of the Peace. Farmers Cooperative picnic at Spring Mills endorses a pay as you go road plan with State Senators Keezer and Byrd as speakers. A theatre shows Man Without a Country 18. Rev J C Hook is named pastor at Frederick Charge M E Church South.
Seventy thousand soldiers train at Camp Lee with daily inflow as troops advance into Frederick County Maryland. A resident notes a continuous movement of the peace army from dawn to night. Franco American forces are at Wesle River. War Department sets new draft age from eighteen to forty five. Mrs Edgar Wilson organist and her daughter Virginia Wilson cellist set to perform at Braddock Street M E Church South in town.
Bally Gwynne arrives as secretary to John Kemble Proctor in Daytona to find his murder linked mystery. Sally and Ted Chandler investigate Proctor and a suspect named Mike Collins while Fred Proctor lingers with a pistol and a hidden ledger. The night ends with a shadowy intruder slipping away and Sally narrowly escaping danger.
The article notes diverse aquatic sounds from trigger fish and cuckleback rubbing fins, and describes the ivory palm seed Phytelephas macrocarpa used for buttons. It also traces immigration to the United States from 1846 to 1907, highlighting Irish famine migration and peak arrivals at 1,285,000.
Report shows 24 hour rainfall ended 8 a m none. July to date 4.71 inches year to date 24.76 inches. Winchester Laboratory cites 20 year average 34.63 inches. Monthly averages list January 3.6, February 0.0, March 2.7, April 9.11, May 3.78, June 3.81, July 3.45, August 9.45, September 2.15, October 3.06, November 2.25, December 2.37 inches.
Thirteen prominent Berryville merchants voted their wholehearted support to President Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration. They agreed to open weekdays 6 am to 6 pm with Saturday closing at 10 pm, and drug stores to keep their existing hours. They expect to increase aid once specific codes are formulated and approved by the NRA administrator.
Taylor Richards and son Leonard of Martinsburg West Virginia report killing a rattlesnake three feet long with 17 rattles and a button in the mountain western county area.
New York Aug 3 Unfavorable dividend changes last month were fewer than in any August since 1930 according to Standard Statistics Co New York.
Physician endorsed Calotabs purify the blood by activating the liver kidneys stomach and bowels. Take a thorough course once or twice a week for several weeks and see better health. Available in 10c and 85c packages at all dealers.
By virtue of distress warrant I will sell at public auction the equipment of the Central Rest aurant at 23 West Piccadilly street at 10 a m on August 8 1933. Items include a National Cash Register gas stove coal range coffee urn ice refrigerator dishes knives forks and more. Terms Cash. Lee Barr Sergeant Winchester Va. 7-28-9t
From the 23rd annual Boy Scouts of America report to Congress: 280,211 leaders, 2,861 training courses, 17,267 enrollments, up 11,950 from 1931. Silver Beavers awarded for local service, Silver Buffalo for national service. Troops 1 and 2 held a joint meeting before summer camp presided by Scoutmasters Cooper and Stine. Summer camp near Whaling Waters, W. Va., July 24 to August 7, with 41 scouts in camp and programs in swimming, life saving, canoeing, archery, crafts, and hikes.
A Washington Star op-ed notes a revived theory that the brain consists of minute electric cells. If pursued, it could explain why some thoughts feel positively shocking and others dangerously insane.
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