Human Polar Bear To Perform In Ice Water Here
Norris Corky Kellam world champion swimmer and aquatic comedian known as the Human Polar Bear will perform at Hughes Used Car Lot corner South Loudoun and Cork streets tomorrow and Saturday. Exhibitions start at 4 pm and 7 30 pm with free admission. Kellam will eat, read, write, and juggle underwater including bananas and a lit cigarette, plus juggling seven glasses of water while floating. He hopes to promote Winchester’s proposed municipal pool and may be the first to swim in the new pool. Kellam, a Franklin Virginia native, has impressed audiences at the Great Lakes Exposition and Chicago World’s Fair with daring ice water feats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
South Loudoun
Cork Streets
Norris
Corky” Kellam
Corky
Cleveland
Billy Rose
Kellam
Winchester
Franklin
Card of Thanks to Friends and Family
We thank our many friends for sympathy shown during illness and death of our son. Thank you for use of cars and flowers. J. W. Thomas & Family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Thomas & Family
Synthetic Fertilizers Date From 1840 Play Important Role
Washington December 16 agriculture expert notes that the 1840 discovery of bone treatment with sulfuric acid launched modern fertilizers. Nitrogen is abundant from air, phosphorus rocks abundant, potassium scarce but rising production cuts dependence on imports. Modern fertilizers concentrate nutrients and tailor blends to soils, making farming less migratory and more productive.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D.C
Department of Agriculture
United States
Germany
Bureau of Chemistry
Trial Set For Slaying Convicts
Six convicts charged with fatally stabbing Captain J. Olin Sanders, held as a hostage during a daring escape plot, will go on trial January 12. All are serving terms for highway robbery or larceny and were bound over to the General Sessions Court by a coroner's jury.
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Columbia
D. C
J. Olin Sanders
General Sessions Court
Notice of Annual Meeting of Winchester Bank Shareholders
The Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company of Winchester Virginia announces its annual meeting for shareholders at the bank on Loudoun Street and Rouss Avenue Winchester on Tuesday January 11 1938 at 11 o clock A M The agenda includes director election and other proper business. By J H Yost cashier. (12 9 16 23 30 1 6 51 oaw)
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Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company
Winchester
Virginia
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company of Winchester
Loudoun Street
Rouss Avenue
Restrictions On Passports May Be Tightened
Paris reports Interior Minister Marx Dormoy cites the Weidmann confession in six murders to urge two new passport rules. Foreigners would have fingerprints on visas issued by French consulates and must present fingerprinted visas to police within 48 hours of arrival. The case involves Jean DeKoven, a Brooklyn dancer, killed by strangling with towels and a handkerchief.
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Paris
Eugene Weidmann
Jean DeKoven
Brooklyn
Marx Dormoy
Dormoy
Weidmann
France
Hobbies of famous figures span art science and charity
The piece notes Benjamin Franklin enjoyed musical glasses and invented a tapping device, Lowell Thomas led a charity softball initiative, Albert Einstein played the violin, Richard S Reynolds heads 12 companies and writes poetry, Dow Jones ticker once carried a poem, and La Rochefoucauld warned small minds condemn big ideas.
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Benjamin Franklin
Gulf Stream
Lowell Thomas
Albert Einstein
Pasadena
Richards. Reynolds
Glen Cove
Long Island
New York
Reynolds
Reynolds Metals Co
Wall Street
Dave Elman
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Rinso
R. M.swimley
East of Geo. Washington Hotel
MO. S.solenberger
N. Loudoun St
Sinclair
Ize
Sinclair Dealer
John C. Woolfolk
VapoRus
Frederick Mutual Fire Insurance CO
Court Square
York’s
The
Royal Trobadours
U. S
American
Maryland
Carolinas
RCA
RCA Victor
Baker & Anderson
N. Braddock St
Dale Carnegie
la Rochefoucauld
Cpyright
McNaught Syndicate
Sar
Illuminating Engineering Society
Northern
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Lydurs
Hal
Electrolux
the Gas Co
Loudoun St
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