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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1930
Page
8
A historical ad proclaims Q623 and Q1623 as guaranteed prescriptions for rheumatism neuritis arthritis sciatica and lumbago. It claims thousands found relief with few doses and cites Baker's Drug Store Winchester Gardner's Pharmacy and Boyce as endorsing merchants who recommend the remedy.
Ted Chappell and his wife of Easley South Carolina were jailed in Pickens county pending an inquest into the death of the 20 month old daughter. The child had been missing since Friday and was found stuffed in a washtub at the rear of the Chappell home. Relatives and friends had suspected kidnapping.
Stephens City Va residents report improvements after surgeries and illnesses. Mrs. Russell Shryock returned home greatly improved following an operation at Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Calvin Grim and brother Mr. Robert Campbell, previously ill, are now able to be out. Senior Epworth League at the Methodist Episcopal Church gathers.
Peiping January 13. Grover Clerk former editor of Leader reports after a six week China International Famine Relief inspection that two million people in Shensi are doomed to death from starvation.
Clark estimated that about two million people out of six million in the area along the Wei river died in the past eight months. Thousands froze to death during a recent cold wave as temperatures plunged to 32 below zero.
1929 saw 460 transfers filed at the Corporation Court clerk's office, compared with 492 in 1928. Deeds and deeds of trust averaged about one daily in 1930. Notable transfers include Winchester city selling the lot housing the South End engine house on West Monmouth Street to the South End Fire Company trustees W F Brown J M Oates and Harold March with a stipulation that the land cannot always serve as ground for a voluntary fire engine house and may be used otherwise once no longer needed.
A summary of land and property transfers dated late 1929 to early 1930. Transactions include deeds transferring parcels on South Kent Street 610 South Main Street and 310 Smithfield Avenue for nominal sums, and a large garage property on North Braddock Street sold by the Shenandoah Valley National Bank to Berley Wright for 24000 dollars. The records name several buyers and sellers including J H Henry Edith Henry Douglas Chine Ma bel B Caine Katie Sherman R J Shine Marie Shine John L Shine Ruth Shine Emma K Rosenberger James W Rosenberger Cartney H Anderson Murrell G Anderson Howard Shockey Bessie Shockey Harris C Lewin and others.
Milwaukee Journal notes prominent wrestler John Pesek has fought over sixty bouts in Australia since January without a loss, a feat the article attributes to his spring fever excuse.
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