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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1939
Page
10
Richmond police recovered stolen goods by releasing 125 homing pigeons from a doorway. The birds carried the loot homeward, an unusual method that simplified returning the pilfered items to their owners.
A Virginia extension summary for 1940 notes one fourth of the average $605 cash income goes to groceries, urging more home food and feed production to free funds for improvements. It cites higher food costs, rising farm receipts, and no shortage of food, with about half of Virginia farm families earning under $600 gross.
A reader column admonishes fathers who gripe about family expenses and argues that supporting a family is a shared duty. Miss Chatfield responds that paying bills for health and education is a duty, and urges the father to provide affordable at home fun until accounts are settled.
Harry Farren's bull vanished for six weeks in Tekamah Neb. Two hunters tracked the animal to a narrow hole on a remote part of the farm. They freed it and the bull staggered back to the barnyard.
Baker's Drug Store promotes a ten day SULPHO KAPS treatment at 75 cents for a $1.50 size. The ad claims benefits for arthritis due to sulphur deficiency and notes doctors praise, urging trial of the colloidal iodized sulphur capsules.
A dated coupon offers a full 1.50 size pack age of Ten-day-treatment Sul Pho-Kaps for 75 cents with offer good until December 16. Presented by NAME ADDRESS and not redeemable unless signed.
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