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Classified display advertisements priced at $1.75 per column inch per day with bordered ads in larger type than 8 point. Rates and formats specify per column inch and per day pricing details.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1956
Page
5
Classified display advertisements priced at $1.75 per column inch per day with bordered ads in larger type than 8 point. Rates and formats specify per column inch and per day pricing details.
36 acre farm with 10 acres timber includes dwelling chicken house electricity stream well cistern good road 12 miles from Winchester. Priced at 1260 with 3000 long term trust at 22.50 monthly. Peoples Real Estate Co MO 2-5115. (1-31-11)
Wanted driver grocery delivery truck full or part time by J F Massey and Son. Also wanted representatives career men ages 25 to 40 with automobile to manage a business. Stated commission plus bonus and commission for achievement apply Manager Union Life Insurance Co 10 West Boscawen Street telephone MO 2 3142
Baltimore files report on the cremation preparations for H. L. Mencken, with only his brother August and another brother Charles expected to attend the small private service. The ashes will be placed beside his wife’s, who died in 1935. Mencken’s brain was removed for study at Johns Hopkins. He died from a coronary occlusion after a history of cerebral hemorrhage.
A 62 year old Sussex County man Hugh Bendall perished in a house fire near WAVERLY Virginia. The home on State Route 602 five miles west of town burned as firefighters arrived. The cause of the blaze was not determined.
Eight feet of snow collapsed a miners’ sleeping shack in Karuizawa Japan killing 14 and injuring five others. Eleven were pulled from the wreckage unharmed.
A medium light tan female dog is found on Monmouth. Contact SPCA MO 2-8616 R. at the number listed. Please inquire with reference to notice date 1-28-3t.
A legal notice fragment records clerk Scully and attorney Woltz with docket references p q 1-24-31 and 27-14-41. The text indicates archival filing context rather than a full case action. No clear names beyond the two individuals are presented.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2123 will collect coin boxes placed by the March of Dimes in downtown areas this week. A post spokesman warned merchants not to surrender boxes to nonmembers bearing proper identification. Collectors include George S. Taylor, Alfred Knowles, Elmer H. Kline, Dick Eddy, Robert R. Grim of Stephens City Post, and Ellwood Willey.
Maebashi City Japan reports a fire destroying 81 houses then spreading to forests. Firefighters spent 312 hours to control the blaze 50 miles northwest of Tokyo. Eighty soldiers continued fighting the forest fire with no casualties reported. Cause remains undetermined.
The congregation of Mt Zion Baptist Church Middletown extends thanks to everyone who helped make the 82nd anniversary on January 15 a success. Thank you.
We thank friends for kindnesses and flowers during the death of Ida Marie Kent. Her mother and family.
Richmond's bureau of fire reports fire damage jumped over 200 percent from 1954 to 1955. Total losses rose to 1,380,000 compared with 420,900 the previous year. Fire Chief John F. Finnegan noted the agency's assessment as of today.
The article notes that the large financial impact was driven by several multi alarm blazes, each contributing heavily to the overall losses. It highlights the severity of the blazes and the resulting economic strain on the city's resources.
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