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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
7
Edward Griffiths, dean of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, remembered buying a dollar button for 15 cents twenty years ago and led a search by coworkers and janitors who combed the tin shop until the missing button was recovered.
In Richmond the Virginia State Supreme Court refused a new trial for Major Robert C. Kent Jr after a 1934 sensational kidnaping verdict. Kent collapsed during trial, was found sane, sent to a hospital, then returned to prison. He had been examined multiple times amid questions of sanity.
Kellogg Company funded nutrition research showing two tablespoons of bran daily relieved constipation in women over months. A separate study found bran bulk more effective than fruits and vegetables for some men, and All-Bran provided vitamin B and iron. Bran's bulk absorbs moisture and cleanses the system.
A deed for Graichen lot at East Boscawen Street delays widening from Cameron to Kent for months. Consumers' Utility Company plant should operate in about two months, with rental income of 3500 from the newly purchased property. The city will use parts of Graichen and county gas lots and the gas company plans to move into new quarters soon. The note on pumpkin blossom and lotus appears as legend context.
A hunter near Komjatice in Slovakia fires a single shot killing two hares and wounding a farmer, his wife, two cows and one goat. The piece notes W. Greener’s 1835 cartridge invention and the British government’s rejection of it as impractical.
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