State Council Elects Leaders and Plans Institute Visit
The Good Year five council elected Dr. M G Sadler of Lynchburg as ident and chose three vice presidents and a treasurer. The group will attend the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs July 9 to 15 and pursue cooperative work to advance religious education across the state.
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University of Vira Institute of Public Affairs
M G&. Sadler
Lynchburg
Sadler
Cilture College
Yale University
Disciples of Christ
Virginia
Frank Robertson
Norfolk
J. J. Scherer, Jr
Richmond
H. H Young
Bluefield
L. V. Miller
Bridgewater
E. I. Carruthers
University
Educational
A. A. L. Bennett
Chartresville
W. T. Banger
Bernard
Via
Ashland
John H. Bast
Urchville
C. H. Huffman
Harrisonburg
Fred D. Ma
Strasburg
Norton Man Recalls Tale Of Many Rattlesnakes
A Norton man, Joe Mills, aged 172 winters, recounts killing a 5 foot female rattlesnake in his bedroom after a prior snake encounter. He says a seven foot male rattlesnake struck at his wife from bed ashes, prompting him to kill it. He notes snakes entered via a cat hole by the fireplace.
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Surine Fee
Joe Mills
Joe
Mills
Rural pastor experiments with chickens in West Virginia
Rev. A M B Snapp of Wardensville recounts starting a poultry project after recognizing farming income losses. He bought 114 Pratt breed chicks, raised 110 to maturity, traded 57 for frying birds in 30 flocks, and notes plans to improve next year’s flock with Plymouth stock.
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Enon
Frederick County
Wardensville
Pratt Poultry Food Company
Morton
United States
Canada
Romance Fades for Talley and Rawceisen Marriage
Marion Talley retired from the opera stage at 23 after international fame and has obtained a divorce from Michael Rawceisen, a 43 year old German concert pianist, in Long Beach California. She alleges fraudulent promises by the husband related to living arrangements with her mother and sister in Kansas City Missouri. The article notes her vow to seek moral guidance and reflect on the quote about living honestly.
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Marion Talley
Michael Raw Ceisen
Rave
Miss Talley
Long Beach
Cal
Kansas City
Power expert urges break of high electric rates
Gruening former Maine senator and News editor spoke in Richmond for the League for Industrial Democracy. He warned rates are at least twice to four times too high and argued public ownership or stronger regulation is needed to cut bills, citing Ontario as example. He linked his Maine anti‑trust victory to a broader fight at The Nation for public control of utilities.
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Trical
T Gruening
Maine
Richmond
Thane
League For Industral Democracy
Portland
Gruening
Insulls
Insuils
Power Trust
Insull
Mr. Gruening
Wly
Ontario
Canada
Killomatt
1@ power trust
Gruenng
The
News
the Nation
Sanitary Barber Shop Ad Promotes Services at 710% Main
An old classified style ad touts a barber shop at 710 South Main Street offering adults and children haircuts with claimed low prices. The message stresses polite service and lists Hoover and Larue as perhaps staff or owners, with a date line of 1-31-38.
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le Groot Os
Hoover
Larue
Lucky Winchester Families Sell Old Postage Stamps
Stamp expert known as the Stampman offers free evaluations of stamps and covers, traveling to homes and accepting inquiries from across the state. He notes stamps dated before 1865 and Civil War era items can fetch high prices, with one stamp valued at 5 000 dollars. Contact STAMPMAN care Evening Star Office for confidential assessments.
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Wecd
Enve
Stampman
Evening Star Office
Child in Critical Condition After Emergency Capital Surgery
A child’s life hangs in the balance as doctors rush to perform an operation in the capital city in an urgent attempt to save the young patient’s life.
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Jackson
Geon
Public Sale of Boxwell Property in Winchester Virginia
Public auction set for February 8 1933 at 11 AM in Winchester Virginia to sell No 607 South Braddock Street fronting 35 feet and extending 182 feet with dwelling containing 8 rooms. Sale starts at 2640 with one third cash and rest in two annual bonds at 6 percent interest secured by deed of trust and insurance. Corinne Barnett deputy clerk certifies Bond filed.
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Lupton
Allience Boxwell
C. H. Boxwell
County Court House
Winchester
Virginia
South Braddock Street
Said Street
Mary Reardon
M. M. Lynch
Wren Trannell
Theorporation Court
Sallie Fries Boxwell
Harry R. Kern
Dunn & Duvall
Corinne Barnett
Corporation Court
Oe Wien
Rinne Barnett
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State Council
Miller
Norton Man
Mountaineer
Ne Mountain
Presling
Mr. Snapp
Opequon
Plymouth
A. M. B. Snapp
Wardenaville, W. Va
William Godkin
Oswald Garrison Villard
Lucky Winchester
Hesterfields
Chesterfield Redio
Columbis
Leonstr & Myars Tosacco Co
Wender’s
Little Yvonne Wilmar
Washington
Insurance
Boxwell Property
Peini
Geedyear
Bancopter
S. Graddeck
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