Legs Diamond slain after Albany acquittal celebration
In Albany New York on December 18 Legs Diamond longtime underworld figure was shot and killed by rival gangsters while celebrating an acquittal on a kidnapping charge Friends fled as gunfire ended his career The former bodyguard of Arnold Rothstein had just been acquitted and was found dead two hours later Two women were held as witnesses as police connected the attack to gang rivalry
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New York
Underworld
Arnold Rothstein
Man
Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Law and Order
Jack
Legs) Diamond
Capitol
Diamond
Wood
David Smurt
Eddie Diamond
Bubee Eecace
William H. Williams
Mount Williams
Frederick County
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Williams
Alfred
Elizabeth Frye Williams
Fannie V. Williams
Noel C
William R
Zirki E. Williams
Leonard R. Williams
Opequon
Ima L. Himelright
St. John’s Church
C. E. Seastrunk
Wm. Himelright
Arthur Benner
Geo. Hummer
J. B. Snapp
C. M. Snapp
Milton Williams
Apple Blossom advertises assorted apples for sale
Delicious Staymans Black Twigs and Old Winesaps available in boxes or baskets in a Christmas pack. Located next to Hamburger's at phone 639-W 1p-31-16,18-21. Shops offer a selection from Apple Blossom.
Oranges Arriving Soon at Winchester Wholesale Grocery
Bulk oranges expected to arrive Saturday at Winchester Wholesale Grocery. Advertisement notes wholesale availability and timing for customers.
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Winchester Wholesale Grocery
Scatter Sunshine With Xmas Greeting Cards Display
Brooks' Pharmacy promotes a festive display with Christmas greeting cards. Bright seasonal decor and a cheerful window arrangement attract shoppers seeking seasonal gifts and greetings.
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Brooks’ Pharmacy
Virginia Women Press Billboard Regulation Measure
Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs proposes 1932 General Assembly bill to tax outdoor billboards outside town limits. Digest notes revenue of 75000 to 100000 dollars annually and outlines prohibitions near curves and intersections, signs that imitate traffic markings, required permits, and enforcement by the highway commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
General Assembly
Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs
Janet Stuart Durham
Richmond
Federation
Sis
Dickens Christmas Carol Drama At Market Street Church
The Sunday School of Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church plans a dramatized adaptation of Charles Dickens Christmas Carol in the church at 8 oclock Wednesday evening December 30. Mrs Wallace Brashears directs with strong talent to portray Old Scrooge and other characters.
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Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Dickens
Wallace Brashears
Scrooge
Christmas Gift Benefit Campaign at Memorial Hospital
Winchester residents are urged to buy Memorial Hospital Christmas Gift Benefit tickets for 50 cents each. Miss Lillian pao superintendent handles sales. hospital staff report many requests to have tickets mailed. On December 23 the hospital will announce 25 gifts including a new Chevrolet coach as the top prize.
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Winchester
Memorial Hospital
Lillian Pao
Happiness For Three Families Ended By Crash
In Huntington West Virginia a truck struck a group of youths returning from a Christmas play. Artis Foster 15 and Richard Leak 16 died instantly Cecil Turley 16 died later. Hayes N Jackson 29 year old driver is held on manslaughter charges.
XMAS TREES For Sale At Haines Marble Yard
Cedar Arber Vita and pine trees offered at Haines marble yard. Locations listed as 1p 61 11 14 18 19 22 23. Prices not indicated. Limited quantities for the holiday season.
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Haines’ Marble Yard
Albright Sees Shenandoah Park Turn to Federal Jurisdiction Soon
Horace M. Albright Director of the National Park Service in Virginia for park project inspections voiced optimism that the Shenandoah National Park area may be brought under Federal jurisdiction for improvement sooner than expected. He outlined plans for the Skyline Highway and Skyline Trail, a 42 mile route linking Lee Highway and Spotswood Trail, and noted congressional hearings on Appalachian Park boundaries soon.
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Horace M. Albright
National Park Service
Virginia
Shenandoah National Park Area
Hoover
Pollard
Thornton's Gap
Blue Ridge Mountains
Luray
W. J. Showalter
Colonial Monument
Albright
York River
Jamestown
America
Williamsburg
Elsey
H. P. Kelsey
Salem
Mass
Appalachian Park Commission
Smoky Mountain
Mammoth Cave
Isla Royalle
H. P. Fabian
Chamber of Commerce
Salt Lake City
Utah
Shenandoah
Skyline Trail
Lee Highway
Spotswood Trail
Blue Ridge
Shenandoah Park
Bailey Brothers Candy Special for Churches and Schools
Bailey Brothers advertise special candy prices for churches and schools with boxed offers and volume deals.
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Bailey Brothers
Cantata at Braddock Street Church Sunday Night
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal South presents The Music of Bethlehem a Christmas cantata Sunday at 7 30 PM. Text by Mattie Shannan and music by Fred Holton, directed by William H McIlwee with Mrs McIlwee at the organ. The choir invites all to attend. May include soprano and tenor solos and full chorus.
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Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Bethlehem
Mattie Shannan
Fred. Holton
Braddock Street Church
William H. McIilwee
McIlwee
R. A. Shafer
Alice O. Groves
J. W Crider
Madeline Whitlock
Lena McDonald
Dorothy Winkfield
Harry Mason
Hilda M. Cochran
John S. Sloat
Sam Renner
S. R. Willey
D. O. Louderback
H. S. Duffey
W. H. MclIlwee
Helen Renner
Rotary Club backs hospital Christmas fund drive
The Winchester Rotary Club approved buying a 50 ticket book for 25 dollars to aid the Memorial Hospital Benefit Christmas Gift Campaign. Miss Lillian Anderson, hospital superintendent, praised local groups for the support. H. Douglas Fuller, Farmers and Merchants National Bank boss and ex- Rotary president, led the luncheon talk on Fellowship. President W. R. Legge chaired the meeting.
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Winchester Rotary Club
Memorial Hospital
Lillian Anderson
H. Douglas Fuller
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company
Rotary Club
Fuller
Virginia to get veterans hospital under first House bill
The first deficiency bill passed by the House authorizes a veterans hospital in Virginia next year with contracts for new facilities and additions costing 17.9 million dollars. The bill moves to the Senate for early passage as part of a larger federal hospital expansion program of over 500 thousand dollars, with a 150 to 200 bed Virginia hospital planned west of Farmville.
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House of Representatives
Virginia
Senate
Washington
Veterans Administrator
Congress
Federal
Farmville
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Hampton
Col
B. M. Roszel
Winches
Dient of
Aetire
Salvation Army Appeals for Donations for Christmas Dinner
Major James Mars of the Winchester Salvation Army urges the public to donate money and food for a free Christmas dinner for the poor. Santa Claus will on the streets 10 am to 10 pm Saturday to solicit funds, with deliveries at the Rouss Fire Company hall on Christmas Day at 12 30 pm.
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James Mars
Salvation Army
Winchester
Major Mars
Rouss Fire Company
Fight T B with Christmas Seals
Christmas Club drive invites union members to join at Union Bank of Winchester to raise funds for presents and Christmas festivities with some surplus for future needs.
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Union Bank of Winchester
Christmas Pageant and Cantata at First Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church presents a Christmas pageant and cantata this Sunday at 8 45 p m. Floyd Haines directs with many guest singers from other choirs. The program features carols, Scripture readings, solos, and a full cantata with scenes and a manger quartet.
New and Old Photos of Two Winchester Citizens Displayed
Photographs of A. H. Miller Sr. and J. Few Brown shown at Barr's studio on North Loudoun Street. The display compares 1866 images by N. Routzahn with 1931 portraits by C. Fred Barr, capturing both men in identical poses.
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Winchester
Barr
North Loudoun Street
A. H. Miller
J. Few Brown
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Masonic Temple
N. Routzahn
C. Fred Barr
Messrs. Brown
Miller
Continental crops push fruit supplies worldwide
The Foreign Agricultural Service notes 1931 Canadian apple output at 3 656 000 barrels on October 1, with British Columbia yields down from last year. European crops show ample low quality fruit. UK and France show strongest outlets for American fruit. Tasmania reports better apple prospects than last year while New South Wales and Victoria see light set due to thrips. South Africa anticipates exports around 50 000 shipping tons with apricots peaches and plums shipping from Pretoria starting December and peaking Feb 11 to Mar 18 at about 3600 tons weekly.
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Foreign Agricultural Service
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Canada
British Columbia
Fred. A Motz
Department of Agriculture
Europe
United Kingdom
France
Tasmania
Sinia
Edward C. Paxton
Sydney
New South Wales
Victoria
Australia
South Africa
C C. Taylor
Pretoria
Cape Town
Merrie Buys Amberette Dresser Set For Christy
Merrie shops alone as a private errand for a Christmas gift. She purchases a pretty dresser set including a brush and comb of amberette, five speeding days before Christmas along with Opal emer.
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Merrie
Christy
Sample Shoe Store Not Report By Complaint, Says Mrs Lovett
Mrs. Esther Lovett requests The Star publish that the Sample Shoe Store did not file a police complaint about beer leaking into the shop from an upper room. She also asserts the store's X ray shoe fitting machine was not damaged.
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Esther Lovett
Star Today
To your loved ones gift photograph sittings by appointment
An advertisement for Barr's Studio offering photograph sittings by appointment at night and promoting bicycles and Velocipedes from Willis' Bicycle Shop, highlighting a selection described as the better kind.
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Barr
Willis’ Bicycle Shop
Ebert Farm 303 Acres to Be Sold Saturday at Noon
The C. M. Ebert farm of 303 acres near Bartonville will be sold in front of the Court House at noon this Saturday December 19. The notice promotes Christmas Seals.
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C. M. Ebert
Bartonville
Court House
Abduction Ends As Mrs Donnelly Freed With Chauffeur
Mrs Nellie Donnelly of Kansas City and her Negro chauffeur George Blair were held for about 86 hours in a filthy rendezvous by three abductors. They were blindfolded, fed milk and crackers, and forced to demand 75000 under threat of harm. Police renewed the search after their return.
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Nellie Donnelly
Kansas City
George Blair
Kansas Avenue Bridge
Kansas
Donelly
Paul Donnelly
Blair
Laeee
Polo
Donnelly
Siegfried
F R Crane Jewelers Offers Big Savings On Jewelry
Great reduction in prices on watches and jewelry. An unusual opportunity to buy Xmas presents at a big saving of money. Come in and see wonderful bargains in merchandise at 6 Main St. 17-1p-21.
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Main St
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Legs Diamond
Natio
W. H. Williams
Ntata
Rotarians Aid Hospital
Xmas Campaign Fund
Loose
Vets’ Hospital
The
Evening Star
First Baptist
First Baptist Church
Floyd Haines
Capitol Theatre
Henry Weaver
Roy Cather
Jesus
Harry Haines
Rachel
Philomena Laren
Miss Ashley
Kliney and
Ange
Gladys Patton
Little Town of Bethlehem
Shepherds’ Watch
Quintette of Shepherds
Joseph Haines
Bruce Shade
Kenneth Wendall
Fred Frees
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Mary Elizabeth Smith
Edna Penn
Ray Sartelle
Austin Sloat
Manger
Virginia Ashley
Marshall Kline
Duffey
Simeon
Oui
Continent
Mr. Motz
Apple
T-B
Schrafft
Golden Glow Soda Grill
F. R. Crane Jeweler
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