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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1931
Page
8
Past 24 hours ending 8 a.m. shows no precipitation. January totals show 1.92 inches to date, with annual comparisons to 1931 and 1930 figures across months. First twelve months of 1930 list monthly amounts from January 1.55 inches to December 3.28 inches, and 1931 totals reflect 31.81 inches for the year.
Local attorney John M. Steck has been chosen as trustee for the bankrupt Arthur G. Jones Wooled Company. Mrs. E. Virginia Smith is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery after simple rites. The foreign apple market remains sluggish with traders hoping for a January improvement amid grain market slump blamed on Prohibition. Albert L. Baker hosts a Christmas party for Mrs. Donald M. Nixorff.
Dr. John H Latane told Wilson supporters last night that the president is a world figure. City Sergeant Adam Forney is free after weeks at home due to illness. Ohio homes now said free from illegal liquor raids. Shenandoah Valley National Bank urges wills before 1926 ends. Over 4,500,000 autos produced in 1926, reports say.
German armies are reported to have opened a bitter offensive against the French on the Western front. The University of Virginia alumni gave a chance at Hotel Jack. George Barrie read a special Christmas message from President Alderman. Miss Belle Frederick Faulkner became the bride of Prof. George O. Ferguson. Railroad employees threaten a strike unless the 8 hour working day is adopted. The editor of the Edinburg Sentinel received a lemon from a subscriber as a Christmas gift.
Sugene Chen, former foreign minister of Hankow and noted journalist, was named foreign minister of the new Chinese government by the central executive committee of the Kuomintang. The report places Chen as a leading Nationalist official amid shifting political talks in Nanking.
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