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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1939
Page
12
A man confronted by a woman who insisted the trees were her property and priced them at 25 cents each. Chief Gable remained firm as the woman held a rifle across one arm.
Wilson Jacobs and Raymond Maloney pled guilty in Augusta circuit court to holding up and robbing the People’s Bank at Stuarts Draft for 3 500 on October 31. Charles Sloan also faces the same charge. all were Roanoke men arrested in Baltimore on Armistice Day. safeguards placed after jail escape attempts.
In Waynesboro a 17-year-old boy Marvin Samuel Craun and 16-year-old Ida Bell Muterswan were found dead in a Stoney Springs tourist camp cabin from carbon monoxide poisoning. Coroner Obenschain labeled it accidental. Craun, of Parkersburg Pike Staunton, Muterswan, of Highland Park Field Staunton, died after the heater unit failed to vent gas as the couple returned to the cabin after midnight Saturday.
Advice on concealing wood scratches using iodine then wax. If the piece is valuable, seek professional repair rather than DIY methods for best results.
Puzzle lists across and down clues with fragmented entries and a shuffled answer grid. Includes partial phrases such as A Great Lake of Albert and Theme clues like Sun god and Greek letter, with distributor credit to King Features Syndicate and an Answer to previous puzzle line.
Dear Miss Chatfield advises women to let men propose and to hold back just enough to preserve the thrill of wooing. The column notes that husbands feel flattered when proposed to, yet prefer to think they wooed and won their wives.
Cardiff Wales listed as one of the cleanest cities in the British Isles while Fort Worth Texas police recover 250 coffin handles abandoned by a thief who realized the loot was worthless.
Richmond dispatch reports State Auditor L. McCarthy Downs noting broad interest in Harrisonburg's model budget system installed since July 1. It features centralized record keeping and purchasing, strict appropriation control, pre auditing, utility billing, cost accounts, and aims for a uniform process across Virginia subdivisions.
The Social Security Act was amended to remove the stop date at age 65. Workers over 65 in covered employment may earn credits toward benefits for wages paid after that age. The change allows late retirees to count wages toward insurance benefits and receive a social security account number if eligible.
On Monday December 25 1939 a legal holiday bank will be closed. Paper maturings dated December 25 will be payable Tuesday December 26 1939. Signatories include John L Sloat cashier Commercial and Savings Bank George B Bushnell cashier Union Bank of Winchester Harold G Brown cashier Shenandoah Valley National Bank J H Yost cashier Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co.
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