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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1947
Page
10
The text states that President Polk was baptized on his deathbed by Reverend J. Ferren of the Methodist Church. It also mentions the composition of ant societies with wingless sterile workers and fertile winged males and females that leave the nests.
A dense listing of CBS and ABC radio programs with times and show titles. Notable items include news, sports, dramas, comedies, and concerts such as Red Barber, Bob Crosby Show, Milton Berle Variety, Philip Marlowe, Lum and Abner, and Berkshire Music Festival.
In Philadelphia on August 12 a maple tree work crew cut a tree near Benjamin Blank home. The tree fell into the yard and onto a playpen seconds after Blank moved his one year old son from the enclosure. No injuries reported.
Agatha Christie presents John Christow and Gerda in a tense weekend at The Hollow. Henrietta Savernake and Edward Angkatell plot love and future, while Gerda battles insecurity and displacement amid family unease.
A Kernstown farmer on the farmers curb market reports corn glut with prices dropping from 65 to 30 cents a dozen while dry weather threatens late planting. Residents across Clarke and nearby areas note shrinking gardens and dropping bean pods as tomatoes hold steady and soil fixes via lightning are explained.
The Washington Information Bureau offers a 32 page illustrated booklet titled Children’s Animal Picture Book. Compiled for children, it features mammals with notes on appearance habits and friend foe relations. Price is fifteen cents postpaid.
John Leroy Brown of Roanoke driver of a Blue Ridge Produce Co. tractor-trailer was bound over on two counts of manslaughter by the Shenandoah county grand jury after a crash last Tuesday that killed John Raymond Young and Mames Seward of Brooklyn. Witnesses testified as Trooper Williams noted the truck rear extended into the east lane four feet five inches, blocking traffic while the car skidded 46 feet to the impact.
Navy awards are produced at the U S Mint in Philadelphia by the Medal Department which was established in 1857. Each medal undergoes careful designing and ship fitting, with twenty separate operations required to complete the Medal of Honor.
Answer states that Creoles in the United States refer to white people descended from French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana and other Gulf States.
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