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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1935
Page
10
The ancient Greek figure Stentor, known for a voice as powerful as sixty men, is noted as a prominent herald before the era of Troy. This description highlights his famed vocal strength and legendary status in myth.
Chicago reports the 1935 International Livestock Exposition champion "Pat's blue ribbon" sold at auction for 3 a pound, bringing 3 195 to Cleo E. Yoder of Wellman Iowa. Nathan Schweitzer Company of New York bought the 1065 pound animal from Armour and Company bidding for hotels. The price matches the 1934 record.
The Rev. C. Sturges Ball will address the Union Service at Grace Lutheran Church Sunday night December 8 at 8 o'clock marking the 400th anniversary translation of the English Bible. Ball, English-born and educated at Columbia and Yale, has taught at Goucher College and Boxley Hall Theological Seminary and has served since 1934 as Professor of Practical Christianity at Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria. He will also speak at Christ Episcopal Church at 5 p.m. on Practical Methods of Bible Study. Public invited.
Chairman O'Connor of the House rules committee demanded full information on H. Hopson's income from Associated Gas and Electric by December 16. He warned that appropriate action could include contempt of the House and jail if data are not provided.
The temple of Nike Apteros in Athens, erected in 488 B.C. to honor Marathon Plataea and Salamis, was destroyed in the seventeenth century by Turks for a battery. In 1836 the temple’s battery was removed, materials recovered, and the temple reconstructed on the Acropolis nearby.
Cornelius Van Schaack Roosev elt and fellow MIT student Peter De Florez were held for the grand jury on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. They allegedly discharged air pistols at a newspaper man and two policemen in Cambridge Massachusetts and were released on personal recognizance pending $200 bonds each.
In Chicago on December 5 Miss Grace Osborne 25 and Joseph Downey 34 a radio repair man were shot to death in a north side hotel room. Lawrence Lampe 22 was wounded after Downey allegedly forced entry and killed Osborne before himself. Lampe was badly injured and expected to die.
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