Official Santa Made Many Tie Appearances During Holiday
Santa Claus made multiple appearances in Winchester during the holiday season. He visited 286 boys at the Winchester Home to distribute toys, oranges, and apples and stopped at the Winchester Hospital to cheer Elks Club youngsters in hospital beds. He also visited wards, the Coca Cola party, Kiwanis Club, Christ Episcopal Church, Baptist Church, and the Salvation Army, with home visits on Christmas Day. Some children retaliated with snowballs on Christmas Eve, and Santa reportedly has snowballers on a blacklist for next year.
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Winchester
Elks Club
Santa
Coca Cola Bottling Company
Kiwanis Club
Sters
Christ Episcopal Church
Baptist Church
Salvation Army
Household Helps booklet offers labor saving tips for homemakers
A compact domestic guide titled Household Helps promises to simplify daily life with hundreds of tips for homemakers. The ad requests ten cents postpaid and includes a mailing address in Washington DC for ordering, with space to enclose payment and recipient details.
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Washington , D C
Worth’s and GAA clash to decide first half in Evening Star League
Worth’s and GAA meet in a five game total pin fall match to decide the first half winner of the Evening Star Ladies League. Worth’s led early but Star Office halted their run. GAA improved to tie by taking three straight from Worth’s and now both sit at 32 wins 9 losses. The Worth team features Ruby Schnieder, Margaret Smith, Elizabeth Jasper, Corrine Carskaden, Zorpha Baker and Mabel Williams. GAA is led by Dorothy Senciadiver with Ruby Boyd, La Vella Widmyer, Frances Crisman and Madeline Grove aiming to exceed last year’s tie and defend the crown.
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Worth’s
GAA
Star Office
Worth Girls
Ruby Schnieder
Margaret Smith
Elizabeth Jasper
Corrine Carskaden
Zorpha Baker
Mabel Wiliams
Worth
Dorothy Senciadiver
Ruby Boyd
La-Vella Widmyer
Frances Crisman
Madeline Grove
Winchester Court Grants Two Divorces
Winchester Court granted two divorces. Amana L. Shade won an absolute divorce from Virgil T. Shade and custody of an 11 year old was given to Amy Hovermale, aunt, with support ordered. They married in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, November 26, 1928. Raymond N. Boyce was granted a partial divorce from Hilda N. Boyce on grounds of desertion. marriage occurred in Frederick County.
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Winchester Corporation Court
Burr P. Harrison
Amana L. Shade
Virgil T. Shade
Amy Hovermale
Berkeley Spiings
W. Va
Raymond N. Boyce
Hilda N. Boyce
Frederick County
Canned Foods Ration Changes and Stamp Cancellations
Canned vegetables were restored to rationing with point values. Blue stamps A-8 through Z-8 and A-5, W-5 are cancelled. red stamps A-8 through Z-8 and A-5 through P-5 cancelled. Sugar coupons and stamps cancelled. remaining blue stamps X-5 to Z-5 and red stamps Q-5 to S-5 valid. January 1, blue C-2 to G-2 and red T-5 to X-5 become valid. Meat points rise after December 31. butter from 20 to 24 points. canned milk from 1 to 1.5 per 14 1-2 oz. can.
Hague Peace Conference 1907 Aims for International Cooperation
Ambitious prewar effort to curb war through international cooperation. Czar Nicholas II of Russia called the second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 at the suggestion of President Theodore Roosevelt to establish mechanisms for preventing war.
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Czar Nicholas II
Russia
Theodore Roosevelt
International Cooperat Ee Nine
Grandma’s Pain Relief Idea Becomes Penetro Salve
A nostalgic tale credits a grandmother with a home remedy using mutton suet to ease chest colds and pains. Modernized as Penetro, the salve includes suet plus five active ingredients and is praised by mothers and druggists for chest congestion skin irritation and minor injuries.
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Sandma
Penetro
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War Department
United States
America
1945
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Winchester Evening Star
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Winchester Court
Food Center
Leuvdeour St
Links
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Miami
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Were
Ladies
Black
Oxfords
Ren Hunting Cap
Brown Spectator
Rayon Brassieres
Montgomery Ward
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Hand Tire Pumps
Front Royal
Virginia
American Viscose Employment Office
United States Employment Service
American Viscose Corporation
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