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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1932
Page
6
A historical bridge analysis discusses bidding and play choices after a hand with no vulnerability. It weighs doubling against diamonds and explores whether A and B can reach game, outlining optimal leads, discards, and sequences to maximize points.
Dr. Logan Clendening explains measles as a highly contagious neighborly disease spread by human contact. He urges rest, bed rest, light diet, and isolation, noting contagiousness is highest early with fever and cough and that recovery brings non contagion and short quarantine compared with scarlet fever.
Lord Bledi soe of New Zealand backs a drive against films deemed unsavory. In a rural town residents now label a local lecture series Recitals by Metropolitan Artists replacing a lyceum course.
Mr and Mrs E D Funkhouser of Lebanon Church hosted a turkey dinner for a small group. Attendees included Harry Bowman and family from Baltimore J D Marker and son Ralph and daughter Fay C W Snapp Beatrice Shell and Lloyd Coffman family Jimmy Betty and Marie O H Harris and Daisy Milton Hoover of Woodstock. Harry Bowman and family returned to Baltimore after Christmas with relatives nearby.
A historical note reports that fewer than one in three automobile owners in South Africa currently carry liability insurance, indicating a low uptake of motor coverage among drivers.
Omaha mayor Richard Metcalfe introduces an ordinance to curb fake quitting business sales. It bans signs outside inflammable buildings or over windows, aiming to stop years of misleading storefronts that give the impression the city is failing.
The Agricultural Department extended the Japanese beetle quarantine to parts of New Hampshire and Vermont and increased regulated areas in Maryland Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania and Virginia effective January 1 1933. New Maryland areas include Kent Queen Annes Caroline and Alleghany counties and Annapolis Cumberland Westminster. Virginia areas extend from Fredericksburg to Fairfax county and from Norfolk to Suffolk and Nansemond counties plus Elizabeth City county and Richmond. An isolated Richmond area bans shipment of restricted fruits and vegetables without certification. Commercially packed apples are exempt. Some trap findings near West Virginia Shenandoah Valley and western New York are not restricted pending further evidence of infestation.
The winter holds a secret joy as the London Zoo elephants receive their yearly beauty bath. Eight gallons of special oil are used to pamper each elephant in the ceremony reported today.
An Ottawa trapper asserts an able bodied man can overtake and capture a wolf in eight hours despite many men’s instinct to flee. The piece contrasts the low costs of making a paper dollar with labor and materials, noting the operation is barely a cent in value.
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