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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1929
Page
8
Studebaker introduces the Dictator Six with a full body range and prices from 995 to 1195 dollars. The car features a 115 inch wheelbase, double top frame construction, low swing fenders, refined interior, and Studebaker body plants backing its high quality and value.
Richmond report shows Virginia school property near six million dollar rise for year ending June 30 1928. Enrollment climbs about 4 500 to 653 717 with daily attendance up almost 9 000. Accredited high schools gain 3 722 students to 63 045 and term length increases by three days.
The organization reports its libraries now hold about 750 000 volumes and total expenditures for the year reached 25 602 134 dollars, a figure slightly under the previous year.
The Catholic Women’s Sodality convention in Chicago endorses letting young women decide dress and drinking issues with education. Clergyman Father Fitzgibbons says short dresses and occasional drinks are not frowned on but excess is condemned. Smoking by women is viewed as harmful to feminine reserve though the trend may pass as attitudes change.
Delegates representing about a half million Catholic women from 21 states attend the convention. The address calls for greater social welfare by the modalities and extends American nation work among the foreign born.
Portland July 9 Dr Robert Kelly told the American Society of Cytopathologists convention that necking is increasing and becoming more strenuous. He, a consulting clinical pathologist of the United States Veterans Bureau, warned that people kiss more vigorously than fifteen years ago, spreading mouth diseases.
July 9 report from Old Bethel Virginia notes Mr John Alabaugh ill at home and Mr William Cochran indisposed. Visits include Mr and Mrs Wilmer Stine and daughter to Ed Stine, Sam Unger of Morgan County visiting son Boyd, Mrs Alexander DeHaven with niece Bertha Hawkins, Ernest Lewis family with N H Lewis family, and Mrs Carlos Loy active again. Friends of Mr Norman Luttrell hosted a belting for him and his bride.
John R. Hutcheson head of VPI extension division will direct the Institute of Rural Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg from July 30 to August 4. He will address the opening eve as sessions of the State Farmers Institute Home Makers Institute and Agricultural Advisory Council run concurrently.
Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia will give the public address at the fifty fourth Pen Mar Park reunion of Presbyterian Churches of Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia on August 1 in the tabernacle. The Pen Mar reunions limit the program to one formal address by a distinguished leader. The association was organized fifty five years ago to restore pre war fellowship and has held annual reunions at Pen Mar Park since. Rev. A Brown Caldwell of Baltimore is assistant secretary and Rev. Dr. F T McFaden of Winchester is a general committee member.
Motor Vehicle Inspector H. E. Shull and Sheriff Pannett investigated a case involving a vehicle offered for sale with a Maryland license tag priced at ten dollars. The incident prompted authorities to scrutinize the tag’s legality and potential seller intent.
Avalon Orndorff of the Winchester post office force found a Dodge car with Maryland plates near his Albin home. The vehicle appeared abandoned on the road. Two boys were later found trying to sell it for ten dollars. they then vanished and a search is planned. The article notes women may prefer political news if not for local store advertising.
Furnished three room apartment available at 217 S Loudoun St. Contact for rental details and terms.
Classified ad brief listing multiple farms and properties for sale in Berryville and surrounding Virginia towns. Entries include 205 A property with river frontage priced per acre, 15 acres listed at $80, and 5 acres at $100 per acre via C. Co. Elsen. also a modern six room brick house offered at $5,300 by G. Clarence Miller. plus small notices for livestock and a Ford touring car priced at $50. Contains names, locations, and dates.
Miller and Anderson advertise a roof coating service claiming one coat of Delcate will restore an old roof and provide a ten year bonded guarantee. The notice appears dated June 26, 1912.
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