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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 18, 1947

Page

7

Classified Offer and Trade Notices

An ad offers selling 50 Xmas card boxes at 21 for $1 and 50 and 25 embossed cards for $1 with names on, samples on approval from Jewel at 1217 Market St Philadelphia. Additional line notes furniture refinishing services by E Snider Jr in Berryville Pike and a trade item trading a large steamer trunk for two large suitcases from Stephens City 9-W.

Amazing Jewel Market St Dept Phila. 7 Ph. Stephens City

Infant Rescued From Tub of Ashes

A faint cry from a tub of ashes led Mrs. Mary Wirsko to find a baby several days old wrapped in newspapers and cardboard in a hospital incubator. The infant was reported in good condition in Shenandoah Pennsylvania.

Shenandoah Mary Wirsko

Hunger strike grows aboard British deportation ships port of Paris

About 4500 Jews aboard three British ships at Port-D-Bonc began a hunger strike today. A French agency dispatch said food was sent back ashore after being taken aboard by a social aid group.

Paris Port-D-Bonc

Early New York Volunteer Fire Company Founded in 1659

The first volunteer fire department in the country formed in New York under Peter Stuyvesant in 1659. It bought leather buckets and a set of hooks and ladders. A separate note mentions Napoleon gifting Josephine a watch decorated with 1741 pearls and 188 turquoise and a quarterly chime by moving figures.

New York Peter Stuyvestant Napoleon Josephine

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