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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1948
Page
4
Classified and display ad details for Winchester Evening Star with office deadline at noon the day before publication. Rates shown include 60 cents per inch standard display and national representation by DeLisser, Inc. Philadelphia address and rate schedule included.
The Washington Evening Star reflects on the Norfolk line’s end after decades of river travel. It notes high costs, inflation, and war requisitions that doomed the service, compares it to the Hudson line, and suggests air travel will replace river passages for Washingtonians.
Maurice Francis Egan sent in his formal resignation to President Wilson as Minister to Denmark and accompanied it with a note recalling a tale of a proud woman forced to sell eggs on the street. The resignation was not accepted.
Engagement announced for Alwynne Virginia Franklin to Charles Manuel Zuckerman by her parents in Monroe. Funeral services held for Linwood W. Oates at Ebenezer church. Birthday party for Joe Carter attended by David Grove, Betty Grove, Blanton Allen, Peter Levi, John Brubaker, Judith Hill, Jim Bob Hill, Lib Peyton, Peggy Boxwell, Ronald Pagett, Billy Dillon, and Jimmy Clevenger.
The United States escort carrier Liscome Bay is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Gilbert Islands operation. Secretary Stimson reports total US war casualties to Nov 15 reach 94,918 Army and 126,969 across all services. Bracken questioned on conference leaks as Vice Admiral Kincaid’s force heads toward Japan’s southwest Pacific doorstep.
A reader quiz asks ten questions on politics geography and history with a page 2 answer key. It prompts scoring by accuracy from Genius to Poor and tracks memory and monthly averages.
After forty years in the wilderness the Israelites crossed into Canaan where heavenly manna ceased. Moses selected a portion of the manna and placed it in a golden bowl inside the ark of the covenant to serve as a perpetual reminder for the Hebrews.
Ten years ago 1838 Lee Hoke, 24, was fatally shot near Rio West Virginia in a hunting accident. Preparations begin for planting three trees on Braddock Street by the Post Office in early spring. Woman's Day observed at Cork Street Church of Christ. Henry Mitchell elected president of Clarke County Junior Board of Trade.
James F. Smith a member of an old Frederick County family died suddenly of paralysis in 1923 as reported twenty five years ago. The Reuss Fire Company carnival closed after a huge success. Mrs Martha Tucker who had stayed with her children returns to Washington. Miss Frances Beverly who visited Mrs D Claude Handy returns to Winchester.
Miss Nannie Spotswood Boyd of this city and Mr Peyton Randolph Harrison of Martinsburg wed in the Episcopal church. Senator and Mrs C P Faulkner entertain foreign notables at Boydville Berkeley county. Secretaries of a commission in Paris withdraw to compose terms of a U S Spain treaty.
The text reflects on gratitude for divine mercy through life events such as recovered illness and lost fortunes and frames difficult times as steps toward higher purposes. It explains still life as art featuring fruit flowers and vases as subjects that accompany the main picture.
Lt. Walter J. Akers of Front Royal is one of five reserve officers recalled to extended active duty at their own request. Akers, a staff sergeant in the regular army, is on duty at the Charlottesville recruiting station and is assigned to the personnel center at Camp Kilmer for temporary duty before deployment to Europe.
A tornado is defined as a wind storm capable of speeds up to five hundred miles per hour.
A fragment noting that snowflakes have sixfold symmetry and varied geometric forms in their fundamental units, highlighting natural design.
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