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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1927
Page
6
Reports from the lower lakes describe a violent storm yielding the worst conditions in years as Keeweenaw Point vessel Al tadec runs aground likely a total wreck. Crews of both lingering boats are unaccounted as New Orleans Temes Picayune notes the uncertain fates.
At Charlottesville delegates from Staunton Lynchburg Culpeper and other counties urged rapid completion of the Piedmont and Brooks Gap highways and the Spotswood Trail. They pressed for the John Marshall Highway and Eastside linkages plus expansion of state road maintenance and financing to connect Lynchburg Danville Elkton Luray Front Royal and West Virginia. The Columbia steamship Squire was reported to have floundered with few details available.
A fierce weather system brings deaths from exposure and accidents across Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa North and South Dakota and Nebraska. Lake vessels break from moorings at Buffalo Detroit and Milwaukee while fires and shortages of shelter hit Chicago as towns contend with widespread disruption and impassable roads.
Public sale set for January 1928 at 11 a.m. at the County Court House in Winchester to offer several parcels of land from the Pembroke Ser ing Farm and adjacent tracts totaling hundreds of acres. Buyers may bid on four described tracts, with the whole comprising adjacent parcels excluding 97 acres, roads and 27 poles. Terms require one third cash, balance in two annual installments with 6 percent interest, secured by a deed of trust and fire insurance.
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