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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1930
Page
7
The Star covers local and state news with sports highlights and public notices. Readers get concise briefs on community events, school sports results, and upcoming civic actions from a regional perspective.
American League action shows Detroit 0 at Chicago 2 in twelve innings. Other clubs not scheduled. Today games include Washington at New York Boston at Philadelphia Cleveland at Detroit St Louis at Chicago.
Detroit's Charles Gehringer powered a 7 to 3 win over Chicago with four hits including two homers and six RBIs across 12 innings, while Vic Sorrell held the Sox to six hits. Hall of Fame era action features Al Simmons homer, Detroit’s late rally and a tied series scenario.
In Lisbon an aged parrot tied to the 1808 exile of Joao VI reports a long buried love crime. Dr. Silveira Cardoso recounts the murder of a beautiful Italian prima donna stabbed by a British officer at Queen Joaquina’s urging. The bird’s dying utterance Morro endures as a royal witness.
Mt Williams Virginia notes report Rev J Russell Curran filled his regular appointment on Saturday night delivering an excellent sermon. Miss Florence Sager and friend from Forest Glen Maryland visited relatives over the weekend. Miss Mary Clowser of Cedar Creek grade also spent the weekend there.
The page records visits and households including Misses Gertie and Ethel Brewer accompanying a relative home for the week, Sund ay plans for Clow Ashwood, Mrs. A. B. Fauver staying with Capon Springs relatives, and gatherings with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brewer and daughter Jeanetta in Chambersville. It notes ongoing illness of Mr. George Hummer and various family attendance at Annie Orndorff’s residence.
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