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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1950
Page
7
Classified advertisements cost 30 per word per day with a 50 cent minimum. Display ads in bordered or large type cost 1.50 per column inch per day. Cash is required for out of town ads. Classifieds received by The Star Office before 10 am can appear in that date’s issue.
Multiple classified notices offer bottled gas ranges fruit trees and nursery stock heavy tarps used auto parts rebuilt motors and several autos including a 1947 Plymouth and a 1948 Plymouth plus a 220 acre farm with house barn and facilities all in Winchester and nearby Virginia. Listings include contact names and phone numbers and dates for publication.
Humorous panel Life's Like That by Fred Neher lists humorous ad style lines and requests for help. Classified items include WANTED haul ing, rental, purchase, loan, fodder and washings plus a memorial verse for Mary E. Newlin from her children noting her passing and memories three years later.
Secretary of State Acheson says he has not offered to resign nor been asked to quit by President Truman despite Congress pressure over Alger Hiss. The Hiss case saw Wiley seek to extend peacetime espionage prosecutions with harsher penalties for officials who betray secrets.
Richard D. Trenary declares he will not be responsible for debts other than his own. Dated January 28, 1931.
Japanese POW Minoru Yahata, 29, reportedly smuggled the names of 150 comrades killed by disease starvation or firing squad from Siberia. Repatriation authorities verify the list and begin notifying next of kin unaware of their relatives fate.
The undersigned will appear before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on February 7 1950 to apply for a license to retail beer and wine of more than 3.2 percent alcohol content at Hammock Restaurant North of Middletown Virginia. Beverages to be consumed beer on and off premises wine off premises. D C Wolverton Hammock Restaurant North of Middletown Va.
The account describes a prisoner held at Kharaza and Tabaheiza camps in Siberia and a hospital in Iman. He reportedly jotted down the names of comrades who died, concealing notes in the lining of his shoulder epaulets.
The Bureau of Mines states that anthracite heating value varies with location and preparation. A past survey of retail anthracite showed Buckwheat No. 1 averaging 12 430 Btus per pound as received.
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