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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1930
Page
2
Virginia reports 22,061 births in the first five months of 1939, up 948 from 1929, with deaths dropping to 12,955 in the same period, attributed to a milder year and a prior influenza outbreak. Dr. W A Plecker notes the trend as encouraging and largely steady over nine years.
In Boyce Virginia last Friday night a head on collision on the tee highway near Berry’s Ferry injured one person and left five others badly shaken. Margaret Kibler suffered a wrenched back while Elizabeth Burch Doris Reidellife and Charles vanharles Hook and Jerome i were among those jolted by the crash. The car in which they rode was involved in the impact.
Residents and visitors are listed with names and locations including Char les Royston and family in Martinsburg and Largent in Martinsburg W Va. Royston’s carriage was damaged in a crash. Carl Rodgers Roanoke enters a Virginia Iron and Bridge position. Visitors include Madelyn Steele Buchanan and Matilda Woolfolk Washington DC.
The column records guests and visits including Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Strode and family at Beach, Virginia, Mrs. H. Grim returning from Armel Virginia, Mrs. Goode visiting Berryville residents, and W. A. Heine in Baltimore. It notes fears over depletion of Georgia oyster beds unless scientific methods are adopted per the bureau.
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