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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1927
Page
8
London reports the National Association of Shoe Retailers will appoint fashion forecasters. The shoe trade cites heavy losses from hundreds of women styles and colors that fail to please shoppers. Trained investigators will study Continent fashions to gauge future dress and footwear trends.
The Mexican Senate unanimously approved in principle the Calles bill reforming articles 14 and 15 of the oil laws. Debate is expected Thursday for final passage after the Chamber of Deputies passed the bill last night.
In Buffalo on December 28 two men were killed and three injured when the eighth floor of a ten story apartment house under construction at Bryant Street and Delaware Avenue collapsed, the debris trapping workers beneath concrete and steel. Contractors cited unauthorized removal of shoring timbers between the seventh and eighth floors as the cause.
Storms in the Northland have killed several and left many missing as a small boat is lost in the Gulf of Alaska. A 70 mile gale battered the Atlantic Islands and the Alaskan gulf with four deaths reported by Capt. George Lemarquand of the American Pacific Whaling Co. Rescue efforts continued for the Diesel boat Pioneer missing for two weeks. Two men and two women were among the missing.
Two men drowned while en route to a Christmas party when their skiff capsized in a squall near Akutan. The report notes a chaotic scene with crew members arguing over leadership during the incident.
On January 2 from 10 o'clock a sale of turkeys geese ducks and chickens will be held at the field beside the Southern Chemical Co. Advertiser G F Dove signs the notice with the date 12 29 31.
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