Answers to the Daily Quiz: Answers and Questions Listed
The page shows a Q&A list with items including No 2 Peru 3 Wyoming and 4 Green. It mentions Michigan 14 7 and other clues about anatomy the Eustachian tube and Noel Coward. It also includes Shakespeare burial at Trinity Church Stratford upon Avon with a stone slab and a carved verse.
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Peru
Wyoming
Green
Michigan
Estern
Sores L. Ickes
Eustachian
Noel.Coward
Shakespeare
Trinity Church
Stratfordvon
Walker Bond Named Chairman Of Virginia Conservation Group
Lynchburg December 5 Walker McC Bond of Winchester was elected chairman of the executive committee at the Virginia Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors ninth annual meeting.
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Lynchburg
Annal
Virginia Assn. of
Soil Conservation District Supervisors
Walker McC.bond
Winchestre
Newsprint Price Boosted Six Dollars a Ton
An increase of six dollars per ton in newsprint price will take effect January 1. Abitibi Sales Co Ltd, distributor for Abitibi Power and Papere Co Ltd, announces the raise in Toronto. Current Canada price is about eighty six dollars a ton. About 80 percent of Canada’s production, estimated 4.5 million tons, is sent to the United States.
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Toronto
Abitibi Sales Co
Abitibi Power and Papare Co., Ltd
Canada
United States
Cage Tilts Tonight In State Basketball Openers
Virginia colleges begin play with Randolph Macon hosting Wake Forest and Virginia Tech meeting Old Dominion in Roanoke. The season debut tests include Wake Forest on Ashland court and Old Dominion at Roanoke venue.
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Richmond
Virginia
Randolph Macon
Deacons
Wake Forest
Ashland
Virginie Tech
Old Dominion Rebels
Roanoke
Be Careful With Fire The Smallest Spark Causes All Fires
A warning brief urges vigilance as tiny flames can ignite large fires and threaten homes and forests. Officials emphasize prevention, inspection of heating sources, and quick reporting of smoke or flames to authorities.
China preps to battle reds for rice fields
In Kiukiang China five days after Gen. Pai Chung-Hsi set up the new defense HQ the government moved thousands of troops to meet Communist forces led by Gen. Liu Po-Cheng who claim 100000 fighters. The rice belt from Hankow toward the Yangtze faces intensified action as Nationalist forces pursue Liu who escaped a trap along the Yellow River.
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John Roderick
Associated Press
Shanghai
Kiukiang
Nanking
Central China
Liu Po- Cheng
John Roderick Kiukiang
China
Liu Po-Cheng
Po-Cheng
Ta Pieh
Porcelain Center
Pai Chung-Hsi
Liu
Gen. Pai
Hankow
Shantung Province
Yellow River
Mississippi
Yangtze River
Newport News Yard Chief Knows People
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. chairman Homer L. Ferguson, age 74, reflects on 32 years leading the yard, praising mutual interests with owners, a new $350000 employee dispensary, and an apprentice school. He expects a solid workload for 25 years and advocates US aid to restore economies in France and England while urging tariff reductions to curb European Communist influence.
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Newport News
Homer L. Ferguson
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
Ferguson
United States
France
England
Europe
Uncle Sam's Almanac 1948 promotion
The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau offers UNCLE SAM'S ALMANAC 1948. Ready for mail before New Year’s Eve, the book includes calendar pages and hundreds of topics for families. Price twenty cents postpaid. send coin and order to 316 Eye St NE, Washington DC.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington, D. C
Auto Dealers of by gone years and postwar market shift
Shade contrasts crude early trucks with post World War I changes as the sellers market fades. He recalls a time when money was scarce and a dealer sale was a major event, noting a 1941 local dealers group and listing past presidents.
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Shade
Winchester New Car and Truck Dealers
Battaile
Chevrolet
Pine
Dodge-Plymouth
Ritter
Ford
Bickers
Oldsmobile
Sales Directory December Auction Notices
DEC 6 1 p m A W Wright near Welltown School tools and household furniture DEC 9 1 p m Estate of Elmer Erickson 1 mi east of Shenandoah River on US 50 Clarke County tractor sawmill equipment lumber DEC 13 1 p m J R Alabaugh 362 Charles St real estate household goods contractor's equipment
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A. W. Wright
Welltown
Elmer Erickson
Shenandoah River
Clarke County
J. R. Alabaugh
Charles St
Robbers Strike Silco Store on Loudoun Street
The Silco store at 111 Loudoun Street was broken into by drilling holes in doors to reach a rear room. Four cash registers were rifled with only 50 to 100 pennies taken and no merchandise missing. Officer investigators traced a quick exit after an attempted entry via a rear shed.
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Commercial and Savings Bank
Frank Spencer
Als
Corporation Court
Winchester
Virginia
County Court House
City of
Loudoun Street
Ted
Abram R. Spencer
Strasburg
Shenandoah County
Strasburg Land Improvement Company
Abe Spencer
D. B
Herbert S. Larrick
Flournoy L. Largent, Jr
Iereezes
The
Pes Ant Savings Bank
A Corp
P. J. Marshall
Silco
N. Loudoun St
J. Thomas Oyd
Chief Boyd
Joseph Miller
Boyd
Vennis
F. M. Funk
Warren Rudolph
Farmers Push Meat Animas Onto Market
Farmers market lighter weight hogs and cattle earlier in the fall and winter slaughter season to save grain and prepare for meatless days next year. The shift accelerates December and January meat supplies and signals a sooner, longer shortage. meat production remains near the record, expected to taper by late January.
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Washington
Potomac Edison Plans $4 Million Bond Issue and Stock Sale
Potomac Edison Co of Hagerstown seeks SEC approval to sell 4 million dollars of 30 year first mortgage and collateral trust bonds and to issue 50 000 shares of common stock to parent West Penn Electric Co New York West Penn will pay 1 000 000 for the stock and Potomac proposes to buy 27 000 shares of Northern Virginia Power Co Winchester Virginia part of the West Penn system will use the funds for its construction program.
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Philadelphia
Potomac Edison Co
Hagerstown
Security and Exchange Commission Authority
West Penn Electric Co
New York
West Penn
Potomac
Northern Che Power Co
Winchester
Northern Virginia Co
West Penn Holding Company
Marshall urges provisional German government strategy
London December 5 Secretary of State Marshall pressed the foreign ministers council to drop generalities and seek real intentions behind each delegation in peace terms with Germany. He warned against any German government ruling a divided Germany and backed a provisional government at the earliest moment. French Foreign Minister Bidault said France would accept Anglo-American plans for higher German industry with strong guarantees against future aggression.
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London
Marshall
Foreign Ministers Council
Germany
Molotov
United States
Georges Bidault
France
Lambert family ties to Virginia and early American history
The text traces Lambert's Virginia roots from Albemarle county childhood to a grandfather who led an Alexandria bank. It notes his father’s Randolph Macon chemistry training, a link to Listerine, and the family's move to St. Louis in the 1880s. It also mentions Carter Hall and ties to the Ludwell and Burwell lineages.
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Stonewall Jackson
Manassas
Lambert
Virginia
Albemarle County
Alexandria
Randolph Macon
St. Louis
Carter Hall
Ludwell
Burwells
Dense Mauritius among world’s most populated areas
Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean near New York, is noted as one of the most densely populated regions globally.
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Mauritius
Indian Ocean
New York
Miners Reach 9000 Feet Deep Near Johannesburg
In South Africa near Johannesburg gold mining has achieved depths of 9000 feet below the earth surface. The advance marks a new milestone in deep mining as firms push operations deeper to access richer ore bodies and extend life of mines amid rising output pressures.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
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Newport News Yard
Uncle Sam’s Almanac
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Fast Terms
Pine Motor Co., Inc
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Omps Funeral Home
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