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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1938
Page
8
Holt, Missouri bridegroom hurries to the county recorder for a marriage license but grabs a folded paper from the minister expecting documents. The paper turns out to be a telephone mortgage on a sow and seven pigs, creating a comic early wedding crisis.
DEWITT MACKENZIE reports from New York that Berlin reportedly offers only moral support to Japan if the Sino Russian border conflict widens. Analysts see potential to confine the war to the Far East, avoiding a broader European confrontation linked to the Franco Russian alliance. German leaders weigh strategic reasons and Hitler’s stance remain unclear while Japan agrees to equal Russian representation on a border demarcation commission.
Paul V McNutt governor general and Manuel Quezon president of the Philippines will broadcast from Manila at 9 30 Saturday night on WEAF NBC to mark the fortieth anniversary of the American occupation Rose Marie begins a new WEAF NBC schedule next week taking over Uncle Ezra’s time Neville Miller to speak from Peabody College Nashville via WJZ NBC August 19 on The Place of Radio in American Life Tonight’s menu includes WEAF NBC and WABC CBS programs with finals and concerts and sports Travers Stakes at Saratoga Springs and other listings Saturday’s plan features many network broadcasts with multiple time slots and stations and Communist era like Berlin concerts and a Russo Japanese account of the war.
A Maywood Illinois widow started with five cents to make candy on a kitchen stove. She sold to neighborhood children near a school then expanded to Chicago with a sample and a commission seller, earning growing profits and later opening fifteen stores in the Loop and branches in Oak Park and Evanston. The piece touts her perseverance and advice to find one’s niche.
Hollywood scoffs at a sea mammal star as Slicker the seal steals scenes with Raft Lamour and Barrymore in a wild Alaska set film. The seal claps, wails, kisses, and even dives into lemonade, prompting Paramount to alter the ending for human leads.
Roanoke Roanoke Aug. 12 P The trap shooters meet at the Roanoke Gun Club with 60 or 70 marksmen from five states. C J Renner Winchester title holder from Norfolk is here with the Winchester team featuring Ruth Cuthbert 16 year old daughter of E E Cuthbert. Also present is the Spartanburg veteran who won the Grand Handicap at Vandalia in 1928. Andrews posted 48 of 50 in windy conditions as the five man team race opens plus two other events before finals.
Executor of the late George Wil ton Strickler offers for sale in front of the County Court House at noon August 27 1938 one Dodge Model D 1936 in very good condition Extr. Terms of sale cash Shenandoah Valley Nat Bank notes indicate.
The City of Winches Beatrice Kern appeared before a Police Justice on the last day shown and was found improper. It is ordered that she be interdicted and it shall be unlawful to proceed. Document signed under my hand this 1st day.
A weather summary lists 24 hour rainfall at 0.48 inches ending today 8 am. August to date 1.15 inches, year to date 17.54 inches. It also provides 25 year monthly averages from 1913 to 1937: January 2.59, February 2.00, March 2.95, April 3.25, May 3.60, June 3.63, July 3.37, August 3.77, September 2.36, October 3.21, November 2.30, December 2.33. The average annual rainfall over the period is 35.36 inches.
Virginia Tech students earned about 66 321 45 in part time work during the last academic session. The drive came mainly from National Youth Administration and college funds with others doing odd jobs such as NYA work study. Wages totaled 19 927 65 for Sept 1937 to June 1938.
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