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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1938
Page
10
Virginia railroads pressing to boost freight rates on soft coal lime and limestone with a 10 percent lime increase set for hearing Thursday while coal rate petitions seek 3 to 10 cent per ton rises based on existing rates.
Williamsburg July 26 continuation to the October term was ordered in the Noel Bushy case charged with feloniously shooting his son in law Dr John B Porterfield. Grand Jury action postponed to a later term as the sole July term matter. Porterfield, a health officer, improves after a bullet wound to the abdomen. Bush says he shot after a quarrel with Mrs Porterfield. Bush, a Spanish American War veteran, is free on a 2500 dollar bond.
In Richmond on July 26 two teenagers aged 19 were arrested as accessories after the fact in the death of Earl Tucker, a 19 year old 1937 city and state featherweight boxing champion. A murder warrant has been issued for W. L. Curry 18 who is at large. Tucker was wounded during an argument with three suspects, shot as he walked with them. he died at Memorial Hospital before a blood transfusion could be given.
George Harbaugh Benchoff 58 a lifelong Waynesboro resident died at his brother Col Howard J. Benchoff headmaster Massanutten Academy after spinal meningitis and chill pneumonia. Survived by mother and three brothers Ross Guy and Col Howard. Body to Waynesboro for funeral Wednesday at four with interment in Green Hill Cemetery.
In 1872 Horace Greeley, famed New York Tribune founder, forgave a bellboy after the staff refused him admission at a Green Bay hotel. The gesture set a lesson in handling people, echoed by airline staff who reassured a passenger by introducing the pilot.
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IRVINGTON Va July 26 A girl named Alice who went mute at sixteen during a school day suddenly spoke aloud after six years. Doctors found no throat trouble and her voice returned as she spoke to her dog and woke her brother. She said she feels no different though excited to sing again.
Washington reports on ragweed pollen waves as August and early September bring hay fever season. Dr Henry Stevens notes an estimated 1 000 000 tons of ragweed pollen enter the air yearly along with hemp grasses trees plantain and Russian thistle and admits little can be done to remove the pollen from the air.
Cary Marshall appeals his liquor license revocation in Frederickburg arguing the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act grants arbitrary board power to revoke. His lawyers attack the section allowing revocation without specific cause as unconstitutional. Marshall’s license was stripped after a March 30 sale to an intoxicated person and a subsequent sale witnessed by an ABC inspector.
The Winchester Evening Star offers a 10 cent postpaid booklet titled Household Helps, described as a first aid in domestic emergencies with hundreds of labor and money saving tips. Readers are urged to send ten cents with a coupon to Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C., for a copy.
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