Prize Worth $12,000 Sixty Years Ago Shrinks to $225
Paris reports Mme Guzman left 100000 francs for a prize to contact a heavenly body other than Mars. Despite many applicants, no one has claimed the prize. The fund has declined from $20,000 to about $225 as franc value fell. past laureates include Joseph Perrotin and Maurice Loewy.
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Paris
Mars
Havana
Cuba
France
Pierre
Mme
Guzman
The
Academy
Guzman Prize Academy
Astronomy
Mme. Guzman
Joseph Perrotin
Nice
Maurice Loewy
Mme. Guzmai
Madame Chiang Kai shek vows return to husband in farewell address
From Riverdale New York Madame Chiang Kai shek makes a farewell radio speech to America announcing she will rejoin Chiang Kai shek. In a separate critique, China's Missimo lashes Britain as morally weak for selling out China in its hour of despair.
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America
Riverdale
New York
Chiang Kaishek
Formosa
China
Britain
New Year Guests Visit in Gainesboro
Social notes from Gainesboro list dinner guests at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Flowers including Frank Lee Flowers and family, Robert Mail and daughters, Brown Collins and daughters, Mary McDonald, Miss Mary Anna Luttrell, Dick Flowers of Winchester, Miss Patty Joyce Davison, and Ray Flowers. Other visitors include Arnold Whitt in Baltimore and several local residents from Reynolds Store, Winchester and nearby.
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Gainesboro
Frank Flowers
Frank Lee Flowers
Robert Mail
Brown Collins
Grimes
Mary McDonald
Mary Anna Luttrell
Dick Flowers
Winchester
Patty Joyce Davison
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Ray Flowers
Arnold Whitt
Baltimore
Keith
Craig Haines
Frankie DeHaven
Marlene Ruble
Mary Lou Ramey
Michael
Arthur Crossen
Reynolds Store
Julian Marple
Ray Griffith
Nain
Fortune Telling Booklet Ad and Weeds Control Note
An advertisement promotes a 48 page Fortune Telling booklet detailing facial reading, tea leaves, coffee grounds and omens, priced at fifteen cents postpaid. The Winchester Star Information Bureau offers the booklet with a coupon return to Washington DC. A Rural Electrification Administration notice follows, claiming chemical weed control is cheaper than hand cutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Electrification Administration
First UB Raises 1200 for Furnace
More than 1200 was raised at the First Evangelical United Brethren church Sunday school toward paying emergency indebtedness from installing a new furnace. The old furnace failed after 28 years. The collection followed a free will offering of over 600 for the Quincy orphanage.
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First Evangelical United Brethren Church
Quincy
A Good Resolution for 1950 Shop In Your Home Community
A brief notice urges residents to support local markets in 1950, encouraging shopping within their own towns to strengthen community commerce and help local merchants thrive. The call emphasizes promoting neighborliness and sustaining regional shops.
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Ihe
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Albert Pitcock
Virgil Michael
Wayne
Junior Kelly
Aoa
Conley Ramey Sunay
Winchester Star Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington 2
D. C
Washington, D. C
First UB
Roy Rogers
King of
the CowbOys
Doc
O'Dooley
Ray Gott
Jaspuine Junction
Atta
Blondie
Henry
Chic Young
By Carl Anderson
Joe Florida
BY Mel Graff
Red Bludjun
Red
Josephine
Big Sister
Beth
U. 8. Patent Office
Etta Kett
Earle
BY Les Forrave
By Paul Robinson
Muggs and
Skeeter
U. S. Patent Office
By Wally Bishoe
Shoe Center
Front Royal
Mercury
George
Washington
North
Loudoun St
Wingchester, Va
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