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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1948
Page
4
Winchester Evening Star details advertising deadlines rates and circulation terms. Transient rate sixty cents per inch and contract rates apply. Subscription and payment options listed for daily and weekly delivery.
A local notice requests orderly paper deliveries on Saturday August 21 1948 with emphasis on promptness and reliability. The message includes a biblical exhortation and urges responsible service.
The House committee chairman says a lie detector may be used to determine whether Alger Hiss or Whittaker Chambers lied about a Communist spy ring. Chambers accepts. Hiss has not yet agreed. The Keeler polygraph records respiration blood pressure pulse and electrical responses.
A U S report to the United Nations on Samoa’s trusteeship outlines a utopian image of life with low taxes, pooled assets, and abundant leisure, contrasting with real immigration policy and fare questions. It notes freedoms and controls, with emphasis on self sufficiency, labor peace, and lack of debt but questions about quotas.
The United States mourns Babe Ruth, an intrepid figure who transcended baseball. His 729 career home runs, peak 60 in 1927, ten World Series appearances, and record salary trace a life lived with colossal energy. He strengthened the idea of baseball as America's great sport and set a standard of honest living.
A Farm Bureau picnic is scheduled for tomorrow. An electric community clock in front of St. Luke Baptist church at Berryville will be dedicated at 3 30 p m Sunday to the late pastor Rev E T Johnson.
The 1943 sale records Frances K. Miller selling the Millers Drug store building to Howell Bond. In a separate notice W. R. Campbell, Middletown State Bank cashier, sustained multiple fractures in his right hand and a right foot dislocation in an accident.
Ten years ago in 1928 Harry E. Anderson Dr. F I McClure and Theodore Miller fly to Columbia for a veterans meeting. Miller H Newlin aged 45 is struck by a car and instantly killed. Maurice M Lynch is ill at his home with an infected throat.
Twenty five years ago in 1923 consumers bring jugs buckets and other utensils to wet gas at 20 cents per gallon. Board of Supervisors members are served dinner by Supt and Mrs John Massie while they inspect Parish farm. Frank Oliver is injured near Front Royal.
Fifty years ago B A Wade prominent newspaper man dies. In Baltimore a railroad worker or yardman named Captain W M Thompson is killed by a switch strike. The school board orders teachers to enforce discipline and allows calling the principal or janitor to administer punishment if needed.
Dr. Herman N. Bundesen explains itching around the lower bowel and how alkaline secretions in hair-bearing skin foster germs. He outlines diagnosing underlying conditions, reducing bowel alkalinity with a meat rich diet and acid forming foods, and proper local hygiene to relieve symptoms.
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An advertisement for the Everybodys Song Book listing 205 songs for voice and piano with patriotic airs hymns and sea shanties. It notes 144 pages durable cover and an index and offers a coupon for 35 cents postpaid via The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Washington DC.
Botanists note that distant regions often share similar vegetation due to seeds blown aboard ships and dispersed by breezes. Over years of travel, plant life converges, and pests move quickly around the globe while useful practices and materials also transfer between lands.
A religious reflection asks if cultural seeds from home and abroad improve life. The page invites readers to score a ten question IQ style quiz, with answers on Page 2, covering topics from New Jersey resorts to military institutes and world politics.
Lynn Marchmont returns from war to find the Cloade clan in peril as Rosaleen stands to inherit Gordon Cloade's wealth while Frances plots to access funds. David, wary of betrayal, warns of danger and hints at deadly schemes amid a web of deceit and threats.
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