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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1935

Page

11

Origin of Wilmington Name Traced to Early Settlers

The original settlement on the Wilmington Delaware site was Christianahat in honor of the Swedish queen. In 1731 Thomas Willing owned much of the area and named it Willington, with the name later changed to Wilmington upon incorporation in 1739.

Wilmington Del Christianahat Sweden Thomas Willing Willington

Prohibition on Common Phrases in English Usage

The Literary Digest cautions against overusing phrases like most all the time and most anybody can tell you. It defines most as greatest in any way and almost as nearly or well-nigh for the greater part. The piece advises avoiding equivalents such as I'll come over most any day this week.

Literary Digest Miller & Anderson E. Boscawen St

Fraternity Should Be Part of Daily Life, Bell Tells Elks

In Harrisonburg the annual Elks Memorial Service heard Fraser Bell urge fraternity as daily life, not just lodge pageantry. He urged mercy, charity, and the Golden Rule, and recalled 68 names on the memorial roll as Exalted Ruler Richard Bradley led the tribute.

Bell Harrisonburg Inburg Andrew Bell Winchester Chamber of Commerce Harrisonburg Lodge of Elks State Theatre Ellis Elks Harrisonburg Lodge Richard Bradley Edna T. Shaeffer Apollo Sencindiver Harold Myers H. D. Newman Ralph Myers Virginia Anne Switzer Floyd Williams Gladys Michaels Margaret Bradley A. K. Hopkins E. L. Woolf Methodist Church

Elkdom Charms with Lodge Charity at Christmas

A speaker praises Elks lodges nationwide for aiding less fortunate children during the Christmas season. He notes the lodges strive to outdo one another in this noble work and remind readers of the Master’s exhortation to help the least among us.

Elkdom Coun Ae Ted Land Ours Elks

Palace Theatre showing Red Salute with Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young star in Red Salute at the Palace Theatre today and Tuesday with Hable's production. The film follows a woman who falls for a college activist, only to be challenged by a soldier who uses her photo for target practice. A Fox News reel and a comedy accompany the feature.

Barbara Stanwick Robert Young Palace Theatre Red Uncle Sam Fox News Barbara Stanwyck The Rio Grande

Haile Selassie Prepares Raw Meat Banquet At Dessye

Emperor Haile Selassie sits on a red throne at a ceremonial tent as natives bring gifts of cows goats and other animals for a raw meat banquet. He inspects a motor breakdown and orders repairs. Ahead, troops move toward a concentration point 175 miles northeast of Addis Ababa amid a civilian heavy landscape.

James A. Mills Associated Press Foreign Associated Press Emperor Haile Selassie Dessye Addis Ababa Adsun-scorched Square Pica Haile Selassie Adis Ababa

Hospital slaying as former player shoots hospital worker

Lewis Sapp, 42, a former football player, shot and killed Harold Bourg, a hospital electrician, at a New Orleans hospital where Bourg was recovering from appendicitis. District Attorney Charles A. Byrne ordered Sapp held on murder charges after Sapp admitted the slaying stating Bourg went to his home and was with his wife and child while he searched for work.

Lewis Sapp New Orleans Harold Bourg Bourg Charles A. Byrne Sapp

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