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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1938
Page
9
John Palmer of Grinnell was lost in a field on his farm eighteen years ago. Workers turning the soil found the watch battered but intact, marking a surprising recovery from the land.
Hayfield Virginia August 4 Mount Olive United Brethren Sunday School the largest in the county with about 150 members will hold its annual picnic Saturday August 6 at S T Larrick farm near Nail s store on No 50. The waterfront offers swimming and fishing for all ages and shade from willows provides a pleasant setting. A group song and some speaking after lunch are planned with transportation provided for members and the entire community invited.
New York police report 21 year old Stanley Bazarewski a laundry truck driver who says his employer accuse him of stealing 140.68 from collections. He told Magistrate Anthony Savare he bet the money on the Dodgers to beat the New York Giants in a July fourth twin bill. He alleges Brooklyn double crossed him by losing both games and Bazarewski is jailed.
An incomplete advance schedule outlines network plans for Douglas Corrigan’s return from Ireland. The listing notes pickups from quarantine and a busy line up across stations WABC WEAF WJZ and others with talks musicals dramas and concerts. Various programs and times are tentatively noted for today and Friday across NBC CBS and associated networks.
Ariane Borg a 22 year old French actress says a Hollywood studio spent seventy thousand dollars grooming her for films she never made during her two year MGM contract She reports a salary rise from three hundred fifty to five hundred dollars weekly with other expenses paid She will return home then seek another Hollywood contract Pittsburgh fire halts traffic as furnace fire fogs downtown amid a rubbish burn and draft misstep with smoke filling a cellar and a passerby alarm
The army invites bids for three small radio controlled planes to serve as targets. Each craft about 12 foot wingspan nine foot length with a gasoline motor must reach 12 000 feet and cost 800 to 1000 dollars apiece. Demonstrations were held last year at Muroc dry lake.
The Institute of Rural Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blackspurg drew its largest crowd yet. Frederick county delegates attended a picnic and a lively four square polka event, with late departures as groups sang Carry Me Back To Old Virginia and recalled the rural gathering.
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