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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1930
Page
2
The Star features daily coverage of local and national sporting events. Readers are advised to follow the column for standings, schedules, and highlights across teams and venues.
Associated Press lists All Eastern first and second teams for 1930 football. Notable players include Barres Yale Price Army Bromberg Dartmouth Ticknor Harvard Linehan Yale Foley Fordham Darlmark Army Booth Yale Viviano Cornell Hewitt Columbia Macaluso Colgate on the First Team with multiple Army Yale Fordham and Dartmouth selections on the Second Team.
The President and top officials invite Congress to adjourn at noon Saturday for a benefit football game between the Marines and the Coast Guard to support unemployment charity. Newbold Noyes leads the arrangements with the Vice President, Speaker, Chief Justice, and many Cabinet members expected to attend.
In Warreton Virginia on December 3 a hunting party using long bows and archery equipment bags large black bears. The scene highlights the revival of archery tools once made famous by legendary methods.
A recent hunt in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia saw Hugh Moffett of Warrenton and W A Sissler of Washington, members of the Potomac Archers and the National Archery Association, kill two large black bears on the eastern swamp edge. The Washington club also set a high bar in baseball, with Senators boasting the best earned run average in the Ameri-League at 3.96 for the 1930 season, besting the Athletics and others in the league.
A. Lt. Miller cashier of the Farmers State Bank Hunnewell and Walter Edward a druggist were released near Lehigh Kansas by a bandit who robbed the First National Bank of Braman Oklahoma. Miller told his wife by long distance phone they were unharmed and the robber took their car. The duo were kidnapped yesterday near Hume after the bandit they sought for had held up Braman.
Washington December 2 A bill to create a department of international defense with a separate air force coordinated under one secretary was introduced today by Williamson chairman of the House expenditures committee. The article notes a lighter aside about leftover ham and mentions the Louisville Herald-Post.
Report notes cries for stronger federal enforcement in Congress. Mrs Fannie Baker Dunlop wills 6000 for a memorial chapel at Grace Lutheran Church St. Frederick County Board allocates 60 to Winchester fire companies for saving a house from destruction by snow drifts six feet high hit many eastern sections. Henry Ford plants implement a 20 million dollar wage increase across automobile and airplane divisions.
Andrew Mellon voices strong resentment toward the drys attack on President Coolidge. The District Nurses Association reports 407 visits during November 1925. Handley Library receives autographs and a deed from Lord Fairfax to King Carter via Mrs. John Augustus Thomson. Christmas seal buyers urged to distinguish tb fighting funds from commercial sales. Star columnists urge purchase of acres in Be Shenandoah National Park.
Fifteen years ago on December 3 1915 reports suggest improved business would justify many enhancements on the Valley Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. Austro German troops moved toward Saloniki. Henry Ford and party received passports for a peace mission to Europe. Oscar H. Lewis elected worthy president of Winchester Aerie 824 Fraternal Order of Eagles. Local railroad men favor the 8 hour working day. The Virginia Bankers Association will award fifteen dollars to twenty boys for corn club courses at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Herbert C. Watson of Tipton Indiana won the corn king title at the thirty first International Live stock Exposition for Yellow Dent ears, securing Indiana’s championship for the second consecutive year.
The Washington Star notes that 85,000 acres supply flavorings for gum and candy yearly, using essential oils of peppermint and spearmint. Most peppermint flavors go to gum production, a portion also flavors candy and toothpaste.
A new process in Denmark removes water from milk leaving a pulpy residue rolled into sheets and dried. The concentrated milk is sold by the pound and may be marketed by square foot. It can be dissolved in hot water to reconstitute beverage or fiquetea form.
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