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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1938
Page
10
A traveling salesman in Watertown, Wisconsin, sought to bargain for a mounted black and white squirrel on a tavern backbar. After rebuffs, he offered $25. The tavernkeeper, hearing $50, accepted, believing the price was $50, and exclaimed sold.
More than 600 Alabama inmates were released on two week Christmas paroles under the annual program started in 1927. Prisoners with good conduct records and wardens’ recommendations may go home without probation oversight, with a promise to return.
Miss Margaret Bushong daughter of H R Bushong of New Market reportedly recovered from an alleged kidnapping episode after disappearing December 7 on a shopping trip to Harrisonburg. She is steadily gaining strength and composure though no further clues or solution to the case have emerged.
Compton Mackenzie presents Edward’s side of the abdication in The Windsor Tapestry. The author defends the monarch, challenges sensational harassment by the Times and Church of England, and highlights Lord Baldwin as a target. The work is lent by Handley Library for public reading.
A 1938 McNaught reflection recounts Andrew Johnson born in Raleigh with limited schooling. His wife taught him to read, then he debated at Tusculum College near Greeneville. A wedding suit preserved with tobacco in a mothproof case symbolizes overcoming poverty and striving.
Dr. John W. Dyer of Greensboro a former University of Louisville faculty member remains free on a 500 bond in Richmond as North Carolina seeks his return on an escape custody charge. After a two hour extradition hearing Governor Price continued the case until Tuesday.
In Miami Oklahoma prisoners at the county jail wrote that time matters and they cannot tell time from new bank clock chimes. Cashier Noel Wyatt sent them a full set of instructions to decipher the quarter hour and hourly tones.
Puzzle presents mixed across and down clues with transacts signs and poetic terms. It includes varied terms from pronouns to archaic forms and cross references to numbers and bodies like Noah and Brazil. The grid and theme resemble a traditional newspaper cryptic style crossword from a Syndicate era.
In the Evening Star Ladies League results from last night junior women and several teams posted scores. Highlights include Feltner’s high single game 126 for Boyce and 332 for Feltner in high individual set, with other top marks by F Van Deventer Hann Star Office and Seal Hershey. High team game totals reach 521 for Boyce and 487 485 for Hershey and Star Office respectively. High total pinfall leads Boyce 1 440 Hershey 1 423 and Star Office 1 370.
In Ettrick a truck was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train at a grade crossing. E B Tucker and Roger K Bowman were killed. John W Johnson III died in hospital. Mrs J H Johnson was critically injured. Officials investigatе. signals reportedly worked.
The World Service Council of the M. E. Church presents The Dawn of the New Day at John Mann Church on Friday evening. Baritone Robert Thomas Murray II, who has performed in major cities and in The Green Pastures, will sing. Pianist William Sherman Smith, Harvard Music School graduate, along with Washington Conservatory of Music faculty, will accompany. Public invited.
Mrs Herbert S Larrick wife of Winchester lawyer and bank president is confined at home on West Clifford Street with a fracture of the left wrist suffered in a fall yesterday. No other injuries, though nerve shock occurred. condition improved today but wrist must be bandaged for several weeks.
Trustee acts under deed of trust dated May 22 1936 to sell at the Brown Farm near oe Va at 10 AM Monday December 19 1938. Items include heavy farm wagon Reo Ford Farmall tractor plows cultivator grain drill lime distributor binder mower hay rake shells grinders engines tools and livestock. Cash terms. B P Harrison Trustee. Dunn Duvall Aucts.
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