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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1940
Page
9
An old notice invites the public to enter and take shelter at the Jones Funeral Home. It presents the latchstring as a symbol of welcome and emphasizes the home like comfort and suitability for its primary purpose.
Mrs Ja Moore head of Clarke County Red Cross production work announces sub chairmen for sewing knitting packing and dressings. Classes in surgical dressings led by Mrs Graham Dougherty at Home Economical building five days weekly with numerous local volunteers joining and taking part in Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday sessions.
Belgrade reports say extremist Iron Guard members in Romania are pushing for King Carol’s abdication for loss of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina to Russia. They back force if needed and some want Crown Prince Mihai on the throne. They blame Carol for aligning with Germany and Italy.
The text states Polynesian speech is the slowest in the world at about 50 syllables per minute. It presents a humorous framing with a question and answer format about which race speaks most slowly.
Miss Rose MacDonald who led a World War era canteen in Alexandria has organized a new unit. Her four lieutenants are Mrs Edward Williams Mrs William Barrett Mrs Edward Lee and Mrs Charles McIntosh. She names Mrs Tyson Dortch head of the commissary department who will appoint 15 under her. Each lieutenant will appoint ten workers.
The Lex Anzeiger calls Britain’s Southeast European moves an awful fiasco and a warning while praising Romania’s axis alignment. Reports say Chamberlain’s talks spurred England’s sniper rhetoric as Dunkerque is cited as a future threat. FBI states fingerprints cannot be transferred to appear genuine. Life insurers’ assets total about $29 trillion.
Joseph R. Miller, a junior, is among fifty six Randolph-Macon College students added to the Dean’s B list released by Dr. T McNider Simpson. The criteria include no drop classes no incomplete work no grade below 78 and semester average at least 85.
Wholesale flour prices show Patent Brand bags of various weights listed per barrel including 12 24 48 and 98 pound bags. Mixed feed middling corn meal and horse feed are also mentioned with dairy feed and oats in sacks noted.
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