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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1946
Page
12
In a Madrid to Toledo motor trip, the author notes a dramatic shift from bustling capital streets to the Castilian plain. Fertile fields, olive groves, and orderly furrows reveal intensive farming and a cautious move toward mechanization, with mule and donkey teams amid modern traffic.
Unbeaten West Virginia University rides a 13 game streak and seeks another bid to the New York Metropolitan Invitation Basketball Tournament The Mountaineers won the 1942 NY Invitational and remain one of the few major college quintets with an uncluttered 1946 record Beginning with Tem-
Classified notes show multiple short ads including a three or four room rental inquiry with contact number 4605, laborer recruitment with phone 3613, a sales call for office helper at Firestone Store near Braddock and Amherst, and a veteran machinist job at Winchester Automotive plus Venetian Blinds offered by E. W Armstrong in Winchester with contact at 39 E Piccadilly St and phone 4643.
Classified notice seeking a service salesman with guaranteed salary and commission plus expense allowance. Include age and qualifications in Box 64 to Star. Also job ad for colored labor in dishes and cleaners with good wages and meals. Apply W. E. Touchstone assistant manager George Washington Hotel.
Mrs Dutch Russell offers a cash reward for a lost ladies Elgin wrist watch. The item disappeared Thursday afternoon between National and Virginia avenues near 382 National Avenue. Call 6650.
146 acre farm for rent featuring a six room brick house and electric lights. Contact H. Williams in Stephens City Virginia, phone 30-W-3. Notice from January 30, 1921.
The Hamburg Inn reopens at 212 North Cameron Street offering plate lunches sandwiches and soft drinks with business resuming from January 31 as indicated in local notices.
Coach Lee Patton guides a youth laden WVU lineup featuring sophomores Carroll Wilson Byrd and Jndom, and freshmen Lavert Green and Lavert, in a 72 45 victory over Geneva College. The group, all West Virginians except Lavert from Long Island, targets a February slate including Navy Army and Pitt.
Police continued their investigation into the death of Barbara Frances Rover 20 whose mangled remains were found on Southern Railway tracks in Danville Virginia near her rooming house. Identification was made by officers and Dewey Swicegods funeral home staff.
A reader asks if Sea Bees service affects a hardship discharge. The reply states special hardship discharges are not affected by an assignment to fleet duty. If approved, a man overseas may be discharged as soon as any man in the United States.
February sales listings show multiple auctions across Jefferson County and surrounding areas. Farms such as Oak Grove, Rest, Charlestown Road Bailey Farm, Captain Henry Hout Farm, Copper Farm, Welltown Pike and Middletown Va feature live stock machinery feed implements and household goods with auction times from February 1 to February 25. Prominent names include Dr Walter Myers A B Orn dorff Pine Farm E D Shirley T M Shirley D H Senciadiver Jno Payne J Rogers and Willo B. LLC. Auction times commonly set for 10 am or 11 am on listed February dates.
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