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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1939
Page
8
Diana Fishwick famed British golfer has paused her career to focus on her baby daughter, leaving a London clinic with her child. Wife of Brigadier General A G Critchley, she had popularized greyhound racing in England.
Mrs. Myrtle Clowser hosted a July 4 swimming party for her son William Hollis Clowser Jr at Moore's bathing beach two miles east of Mountain Falls. Guests included Mt View School classmates and local families in a mid day picnic and birthday cake celebration.
A nostalgic ad touts a spot described as the coolest place in town offering gigantic milk shakes and jumbo sodas from Southern Dairies and ice cream with favorite flavors.
Winchester Little Theatre president Roy Ryden asks members to contact the ticket committee at headquarters on West Boscawen Street to reserve seats for the July 28 performance at Capitol Theatre with special reservations for members. Also noted are social visits, travel to Harvard Yale Boat races, World's Fair trips, hospital news and local engagements among Winchester residents.
Ellen Schwanneke, a dramatic actress exiled after refusing to entertain in Munich for Hitler, travels in Stony Creek with a company. The column notes visits and travel of Raleigh and Winchester residents, trips to New York World's Fair, Virginia Beach, Rehoboth Beach, and local family gatherings with multiple names and addresses.
In Valdese North Carolina police called Winston-Salem officers about a stolen car. Officer J P Stilwell spotted the vehicle within twenty yards of his home and arrested the driver, using a description and license number provided earlier.
The Declaration of Independence first appeared in print on July 6, 1776, in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, marking an early public dissemination of the revolutionary text.
At Central Police Station a dispute over Polly Ann the yellow parrot ends when Polly squawks hello to Mrs Hagedorn and she receives the bird, witnessed by two claimants Mrs Arthur Hagedorn and Mrs Joseph Bagnoli.
Frederick Liebler, treasurer of Camp Nordland for the German American Bund, appearing in Newark, sought to show cause why his temporary liquor permit should not be revoked. He called an insignia an Indian sign and saluted an Indian love call gesture. The license was revoked under a law banning foreign type military uniforms.
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