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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1938
Page
3
Frank Manuel an honorary member of the Sarah Zane Fire Company was elected a sergeant at a Friday night meeting in the new hall on North Loudoun Street. He has served with the Sarah Zane Company since youth.
Medicated pill ad claims Doan's Pills have helped kidney function for over 40 years. It describes kidneys containing 15 miles of tubules that purify blood and flush out waste. Warns of pain in joints and eyes, swelling, headaches, and dizziness from kidney or acid issues.
Paris January 13 cabinet ministers told the Chamber of Deputies of grave labor and monetary problems after a three hour session. Ministers said no resignation decision had been made and Marx Dormoy affirmed the Premier would address the chamber about cabinet difficulties linked to strikes and a weakened regime.
Six New Bedford fishermen escaped a sinking vessel, the William S, in a blinding snowstorm off Nantucket. They rowed several miles to reach a coast guard station at Coskata, Nantucket island.
In New York the Danielson family struggled with hunger for weeks. On Monday Mrs Danielson sought relief while their three month old Barbara died from malnutrition. food arrived the next day. Police prepared the infant’s burial as furs were raised.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled a bridge failure was the probable cause of the Norfolk and Western derailment near Bluefield Virginia on November 20. Two passengers died and 72 were injured, including 70 passengers, with the derailment on a curved bridge where the outer rail was elevated five inches.
A roundup noting college bids for Bill Savoy after a Kansas high school record 31 touchdowns. golf, boxing, and hockey tidbits. plans for Sammy Snead and Max Schmeling links. Barnstorming figures like Hank Greenberg, Tommy Farr crew, and Don Budge speculation. plus a glimpse of fencing coach Marquette and pay raises for Yankees.
London dispatch says a Madrid subway explosion may have killed between 600 and 600 people. Details are scarce due to censorship. In eastern Spain loyalist forces push toward Teruel as insurgents lose ground and planes clash along the coast.
Fire aboard the British liner Reinal Del Pacifico near the English coast was confined to the children's nursery, according to late reports. The 17,707-ton ship left Liverpool yesterday for a South American cruise and was due in Plymouth this evening.
AFOL officials report ongoing strike by truck drivers at W. M. Wood’s dairy in Hopewell Virginia. Organizers W Dan Anderson and E J Shave say the action began November 30 and continues despite CIO claims of a United Dairy Workers' Industrial Union local formed by 10 drivers.
A British constable was wounded and an Arab was killed in Hebron district during a clash involving British Army troops Royal Air Force and Palestine police. The confrontation followed the search for the slayers of J L Starkey the British archaeologist killed in a Hebron hold up earlier in the week.
In Richmond on January 13 Virginia lawmakers lauded Governor Peery's budget message while probing the absence of an old age assistance provision. The study commission estimated needed annual funds of 2.875 million for a pension system, with state and local contributions. Discussions centered on funding sources, school finance, and potential reallocations to support a future old age act.
Mrs Charles Price learns her nephew Richard Auld Jones died January 9 in Pittsburgh Pa He leaves a widow and three children and is survived by his father W T Jones and two brothers
The obituary notes W. T. Jones Jr and Charles McKim Jones of Pittsburgh as relatives. It recalls the mother, Rosa Dix, daughter of John M. and Sarah J. Dix, who died years ago, tracing family lineage through the Dix and Jones families.
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