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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1934
Page
10
The article notes strange currencies such as feather money in Abyssinia and Russia bread money and egg currency, plus a claim that ancient America used feather money. It compares deep sea pressure on divers, counting about half a ton per foot and 60 tons at 100 feet below surface.
Harrisonburg Virginia December 4 announces three new faculty members joining the quarter. Ferne Hoover becomes assistant librarian, Bernice R Warner named instructor in home economics, and Amos Showalter appointed professor of chemistry and biology. Warner and Hoover hold MA degrees from George Peabody College for Teachers. Showalter earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin and has studied post doctoral work in several American and European universities. He previously served at Bridgewater College and George Washington University of St Louis before joining the Harrisonburg faculty.
The Rockefeller Foundation commission urges wartime debt settlement to restore trade while America faces taxpayer burdens. In Cleveland, Richberg draws blowback from labor leaders like Green and Coughlin as debates over Section 7A, union rights, and industrial policy intensify.
Cobb of Lee Baking Co led Junior Bowling League B with 133 as high game and 128 as second score, totaling 374 to top the standings. Baking Co now sits in undisputed first place as several teams slipped back. many scores over 500 were rolled this week with notable performances from National Fruit and Novick Transfer.
Elsie Mae Jones amends her divorce suit in Los Angeles claiming her husband formed a friendship with Betty Compson since high school in Salt Lake City. Compson, a screen actress and ex-wife of James Cruze, is now married to Irving Weinberg, a film agent, and is named as a former sweetheart of the salesman at the automobile firm Gatty W. Jones.
Berryville merchants decide the Christmas tree will stand on the Llyod Williams Post lot with candy and oranges for hundreds of school children on Christmas Eve as choirs from local churches sing. A card party and auction at Mrs. Blackburn Smith’s lawn funds the event, with town improvements and a new credit corporation discussed for January.
The undersigned will offer for sale at 11 A. M. on Saturday December 15 at the County Court House Winchester Virginia stocks including Continental Oil Co International Salt Co New Amsterdam Casualty Co Superior Oil Corp National Fruit Products Co Pref George Washington Hotel Corp Pref Colonial Brick Corp Cash terms of sale. Special Receiver W E Edwards Estate of Robert L Gray Dunn & Duvall Aucts.
Intending to discontinue farming I will sell on my farm one mile east of Stephens City on Thursday December 13 beginning at 10 A M. Two heavy draft Percheron mares two heavy draft weanling colts six milk cows five close springers one with calf by side three two year old heifers two one year old heifers farming implements harness fodder and hay. Terms made known day of sale.
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