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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1935
Page
10
Editorial blasts a driver called the Cross-Walk Creeper for edging his car over safety lines at intersections. The act risks pedestrians and has caused accidents. The piece urges drivers to yield to pedestrians and stay behind cross-walk boundaries.
Hollywood astrologer Mahlon Norvell forecasts 1936 will be a unhappy year for movie stars with a predicted death by own action for a prominent figure. He warns of divorces for Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson, possible marriages for Dolores Costello, and separations for Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres. He also predicts Roosevelt's reelection with danger to life and impending global conflict involving Japan, Russia, and Africa.
An article notes that only horses used to pull ferries on the Oxus River in Central Asia spend all day swimming. Each ferry is pulled by two horses fastened to a device, guided by a driver from dawn to dusk across the river half a mile wide.
Bitter cold and snow spread from the Canadian border to the southern states with many traffic crashes and over twenty deaths blamed on the weather. Alabama saw heavy snow not seen since 1914, while Minnesota reported four to six inches and temperatures near zero in New England.
Chicago historian Prof. William Warren Sweet traced Christmas as a once outlawed festival in 1659 Massachusetts, banished by Puritans who fined five shillings for observing Christmas. He notes no biblical basis for the Nativity birthday and describes a shift toward Christmas celebration after the Civil War, with evangelical churches embracing the holiday.
The holiday began in the mid fourth century as a spiritual observance and later incorporated garlands feasting and practices from Saturnalia Kalends of January and the Yule festival reflecting Roman and northern European influences.
At Christ Church Episcopal three Holy Communion celebrations are scheduled on Christmas Day at 7 8 and 11 o clock in the morning. The public is invited to attend any of the services.
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