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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1932
Page
3
The program committee plans an entertainment night with dinner dancing bridge and swimming to refresh guests. Each Shriner or Eastern Star attendee may invite a guest at no extra cost. Ticket sales reports are due by Friday evening July 15 to help caterers estimate dinners.
A dense list of weekly and semi monthly events across churches clubs and associations. Details include times venues and groups such as Loyal Temperance Union Ladies Aid Society Epworth League Girls Athletic Association American Legion Kiwanis Lions Club Crusaders Society Ever Ready Missionary Society and church choirs at Braddock Street Market Street Bryarly Sacred Heart United Brethren and Grace Lutheran.
Miss Eleanor Lloyd Moler married Douglas Lee Carter at 8 o clock Tuesday evening in a private ceremony at the bride’s parents home near Shenandoah Junction West Virginia. Rev J W Rosenberger officiated with immediate family present. The couple planned a trip to Washington and southern Virginia then home after August 1 at the Shepherd property south of Berryville.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church meets at 7 45 this eve in the church lecture room followed by a candlelight procession and choir recessional on the parsonage lawn. Attending notices include visits from Jaquelin Moore of New York and Mary Katherine Quick formerly of this city.
War veterans massed on Capitol grounds after a sleepless night of marches. Congressmen blocked immediate cash bonus payments, while President Hoover asked for a time extension on lending veterans train fare home, signaling possible action before adjournment.
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton was driven from a Lake Elsinore resort to a Los Angeles hospital in an ambulance. Her physician reported she was in a precarious condition and had apparently lapsed into a coma last night.
Fire under the boardwalk at Coney Island wiped out five blocks and damaged two score homes and several businesses on the polyglot promenade. The blaze left thousands homeless with 5000 bathers missing clothing and belongings. about 200 people required serious first aid.
City officials deny reports that a man’s body was found in the city reservoir during cleaning yesterday. Water plants were emptied as health officials advised, and power outages limited pumping. The reservoir work should finish this afternoon with refilling to begin immediately.
Hibbs documented grain closing prices furnished by the W B Hibbs Company and members of the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. Located in the Hibbs Building Washington DC with National 540 telephone reference.
Prices for wheat led the drop with July at 4 543, September 4 75, and December 5 034. Corn fell to July 30 %, September 32 %, December 3 17 %. Oats declined with July 18 %, September 19 %, December 2 134. Rye slipped with July 2 84, September 3 034, December 3 0.
A vintage ad touts Allenru as a fast acting rheumatic cure priced at 85 cents. It claims 48 hour relief from pain, swelling, neuritis, sciatica, lumbago and neuralgia with a money back guarantee if symptoms persist. The promotion directs readers to Baker's Drug Store for purchase.
The county auditor details disbursements and receipts for the general county fund and the dog fund with itemized payments for supplies to the poor, election officer costs, public buildings, and insurance. It notes careful bookkeeping by Treasurer Smith and provides balances and tax figures through June 30, 1932.
In remarks on repeal, Barron supports outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment arguing Congress would lack need to ban saloons and that states should regulate liquor. He cites Webb Kenyon and Virginia history showing state control predated national prohibition. Financial figures 748.00 and 650.00 appear.
The Cocos or Keeling Islands, a 23 atoll group in the Indian Ocean, lie on a direct route between Ceylon and western Australia. Owned by the Clunies-Ross family, they have since 1865 been under British protection and are administered through the Straits Settlements.
Mountain torrents swept the valley near NICE on July 14 killing an undetermined number of homeless unemployed who had been sleeping under bridges by the Paillon river. The disaster occurred as residents await official tallies and relief actions.
A list shows closing prices for several firms including Allied Chemical 47 percent, American Can 33, American Telephone and Telegraph 73, Bethlehem Steel 94, Chrysler 6, General Electric 934s, General Motors 85, U S Steel 22, Stand. Oil N J 2574, Texas Corp 1044, Packard 15 cents, and the pound sterling at 3 dollars 55 cents.
Caribou in Alaska are the only caribou found in the United States. They inhabit the tundra regions and barren mountain ridges, living in remote areas across the state.
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