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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1951
Page
7
A pedestrian reportedly struck by a locomotive marked England’s first railroad death in 1830 at the Liverpool to Manchester opening. A witness called the speed a dear price for folly as trains ran seven miles an hour.
Cash must accompany all out of town ads and closing hours for classifieds are received at The Bear Office before the issue of that date.
Classified notice lists several employment ads from 1931. A cook is wanted for a first class restaurant in Hagerstown Maryland with 6 to 7 P.M. contact, plus other ads seeking a high school educated typist for in work, a bank office worker with experience, a stenographer and bookkeeper, and a washer with good hours and pay at Peoples Drug Store.
Help wanted and rental notices appear in this classified snippet. Listings include a box ad seeking a modern house near the city, a rental request for a house or large apartment with a backyard, a sheet metal helper, a farm with water, a daytime child care helper, and two kittens up for adoption or sale with contact details.
The J. R. Watkins Company advertises positions at a Winchester dealership offering steady pay and advancement. Targets ages 25 to 60 with mature image, inviting inquiries to Dept. 8-3, Richmond, Virginia. No obligation.
Reader questions answered by the Information Bureau cover trivia from horse name limits to historical curiosities. Topics include racehorse name length, mispronounced letters, counts of U.S. television stations, a Washington hair lock in a Masonic urn, extreme North American temperatures, Constitutional Convention delegates, curtain shrinkage, Diomede Islands ownership, Pershing’s horses, Poe settings, and Hogarth’s pug dog name.
The record notes Honolulu airport observed the first hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands on August 13 1950. The event marks a historic weather milestone for Hawaii and its meteorological history.
The first McGuffey Reader appeared in 1836 and was used in 37 states. They remained in use in some schools at least into the early 1900s.
The article estimates total US farm real estate value at about 69 million dollars, reflecting a broad valuation across agricultural properties nationwide. This figure underscores substantial asset holdings in farming sectors.
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