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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
14
On the Lower Eastern Shore many farmers depend on holly and mistletoe to fund winter needs. Holly harvest centers at Marion Station and Pis visville and Saint Martin's Neck ships begin this week. Yuletide greens keep families fed when other crops fail.
Rural crews move into woodland tracts to gather holly branches and mistletoe twigs growing wild on protected reservations. The activity highlights ongoing harvest efforts and the status of designated conservation areas.
Amelia Earhart Putnam studies pilot fatigue during cross country trip to the West Coast. She notes monitoring 100 instruments in her 10 passenger flying laboratory as she plans altitude related experiments and meals like cherry pie.
A Purdue University consultant in careers for women discusses research on human adaptation to high altitudes and the effects of foods like cherry pie at extremely high levels. She aims to see if the body can adjust within two hours and notes an aviatic technician as a related line of inquiry.
The Alumni Gazette of William and Mary accuses educational institutions of showing football teams at prize fight prices. The editorial cites the Southern Conference code aimed at curbing these evils. Dated Williamsburg Va December 10.
The Alumni weekly Athletic Plan argues that any educational institution should not monetize education by collecting athletic fees from all students. It calls for directing the collected funds to support the college's athletic system and revenue needs.
Thomas Satterfield of Dover Del was free on bond after conviction for robbery and assault of a girl who later died by self harm. He was sentenced by a magistrate to one year.
A man sentenced in a House of Correction case appealed to the Circuit Court and was released on a $500 bond. He denied striking or robbing Ruth Moffett, who said she paid him a bill. The girl shot herself on Thanksgiving Day, two days after being found near her restaurant.
Famed Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, 69, author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, died in Rome after a brief illness from pneumonia. He was working on a new play when he passed and was seen publicly three nights earlier.
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