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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1924
Page
8
In Hanover Germany the confessed murderer Freiderich Haarmann says he does not remember all his victims claiming they came quickly and he slain at least a dozen boys and youths. He notes many more likely remain unknown as police face public outrage over the case.
Tallega, Ala. July 12 Gordon Fincher was hanged at the county jail after conviction for the murder of 16 year old Maybelle McCullough as she walked to the mailbox in May 1923. He maintained his innocence and left four children.
Chicago July 12 The national Farmer Labor party endorsed William Z Foster and Benjamin Gitlow of New York for President and Vice President, opposing La Follette who had been backed by progressive group. The executive committee approved withdrawing Duncan McDonald of Illinois and William Bouck of Washington from the party’s slate, noting Foster and Gitlow’s prior communistic activity.
White Post Virginia notes include Mansfield Horner from Harvard Connecticut visiting Miss Lela Shumate. Susan Sommerville visits Margaret Evans in Washington. Mr and Mrs Shirley Carter from near Stephens City visit. Lou B Chrisman and Lucy Chrisman dine with Dr and Mrs Charles Dearmont. Higgins from Washing ton summering with H C Sommerville. Nelle Coleman visits her brother Rev John F Coleman. Coleman has sailed for England to spend the summer and will return.
Community updates list Mr Thomas Coleman at Covington Virginia and Miss Marguerite Elliott visiting homeland. Miss Elinor Meade stays with Mrs Emmatt Stuart while father George C Meade is at Takoma Park Sanitorium for rheumatism. Mrs Mae Skinker visits daughter on Stonebridge road and Miss Cora Robinson summers with her mother in Dayton Virginia.
Washington July 12. The Federal Council of Churches adopts a resolution condemning a “relative small number” of public officials for disregarding the prohibition law. The resolution urges all public officials, including army and navy officers, to uphold a conscientious and thoroughgoing enforcement of the law on alcoholic beverages.
Romney West Virginia July 12 a wall digger operator was injured while working at a stave mill in Augusta County when iron exploded during the operation.
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