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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1952
Page
4
The sermon compares Ezekiel’s vision of the angel with a scroll to the Bible today. The prophet eats the scroll and finds its teachings becoming sweet as honey, transforming thoughts, daily work, and conduct as life expressing God’s word. The Word reveals self, God, and the world as interconnected.
The State Highway Commission awarded 17 road and bridge contracts plus three house moving awards totaling 3.2 million dollars. Projects include a Charlottesville distribution road phase to route 250 bypass downtown, a four lane conversion on Route 337 in Portsmouth, a second stage of the Danville limited access road on Alternate U. S. 58, widening a Richmond segment of the Petersburg Pike, and a 692 foot James River bridge at Indian Rock costing 254,977 dollars with access roads.
Rainfall in past 24 hours ending 7 am shows none. Historical 39 year period indicates monthly totals with February 190 inches? March 2.88 inches, May 3.83, June 3.99, November 2.56, December 2.5 inches. Data covers August rains and a 1952 baseline.
Stone cutting and polishing, long use of polishing and cutting wheels made of sandstone, foundry work, and sandblasting are among the occupations most frequently associated with silicosis.
A retro column recalls engagements anniversaries births and social duties across years. Names include Frances Staplan Gladys Silds and Jean Pierge with dates and places such as Gainesboro Fishers Hill Hagerstown Arlington Cumberland and Stephens City noted for social events and notable milestones.
Gary Cooper stars in The Last Outlaw at the Colonial Theatre. Mary Cooper hosts guest Miss Josephne Popter of Brunswick Maryland. Miss Virginia Boyd returns home after a stay in White Plains New York.
Miss Jessie W Murray wed Mr M B OConner in Edinburg in a ceremony noted alongside J J Garver's El Capitano dominating tort classies of the season.
A fragmented reading presents an IQ style quiz with daily scoring notes. It lists memory genius to good categories and hints at solutions on page 2. It asks questions about the Suez Canal, a digit analogy, and famous naval quotes from Perry Jones or Dewey.
An ad promotes T-4 L antifungal treatment claiming to kill athlete’s foot germs within an hour with a 40 cent refund if not satisfied. The product is described as greaseless and instant drying and is available at Boyd Drug Co today.
Questions cover Nila Bay location and engine type for Stanley and White cars. Batavia location query asks Java or Sumatra. A garbled song line mentions a fire incident. Rivers rivers Susquehanna is debated. Correction: "A quantity of trees be seen in the distance" needs proper grammar.
Trygve Halvdan Lie was installed by the General Assembly as Secretary-General on February 2, 1946 for a five year term. His tenure faced a three year extension and re election over Soviet opposition.
The U S Department of Agriculture releases a color rich reference titled Insects Who's Who. It offers biographical sketches of over 60 insects plus many more in black and white, with guidance on what insects attack crops and how to control them. Available from Government Printing Office Washington 25 DC for $2.50.
The source asks if Governors, Welfare, Ward's and Randall's islands were bought from Indians at the same time as Manhattan Island, implying inquiry into the timing of colonial land purchases and comparisons among the islands.
The text notes that smaller islands were bought by Wouter van Twiller the second governor of New Netherland. Governors Island was the last acquired in 1637. The Dutch paid a few axheads nails and trifles totaling 1.65 dollars.
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