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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1931
Page
6
Local and regional sports news preview in The Star seeks daily input from readers. Readers are invited to submit scores updates and notes on teams, players, and upcoming events for publication.
Yesterday's AL results include Philadelphia 5 St Louis 4 in ten innings and Detroit 4 Washington 1. Red Sox 13 Tigers 4 in Boston. Yankees and White Sox split a doubleheader 8-7 and 12-3. Senators beat Indians 11-7. standings list New York 55 38, Cleveland 45 50, St Louis 42 50, Boston 36 57, Chicago 35 59, Detroit 35 62.
Newark defeats Baltimore 5 to 2 while Rochester beats Toronto 5 to 2 and Reading wins 4 1 over Jersey City. Upcoming matchups include Baltimore at Newark Toronto at Rochester Montreal at Buffalo Reading at Jersey City. Team percentages show Newark 60 43 Montreal 59 43 and Jersey City 66 leading.
Brucetown Virginia notes list visits from Floyd Reynolds and family of Albin to the Whincres, calls on Miss Olivia Carter in Wadesville, and weekend stays with Mrs Gander and grandmother Mrs Swimley. Reports of illness for Mrs Katie Samuels from a lawn fall, Roanoke trips by Newton Clarke and grandson George Leaper, and visits by Andy Whitacre, Edwin Stine, Leslie Henshell, Parker Cline, Rev C J Clarke, Mr George Leaper, Olie Windle, James Hogue, and others to various friends and relatives in Brucetown, Mount Solon, Capon Bridge, Winchester, Hagerstown, and surrounding areas.
Readable clues describe across and down entries with varied hints. Several terms reference ancient myth and geography and include odd spellings and fragments suggesting incomplete OCR. The puzzle lists definitions for several lengths and directions with occasional obscure abbreviations.
Bank balances and liabilities across Western Frederick Bank Middletown State Bank Bank of Winchester and Virginia Loan & Thrift Corporation show deposits loans and capital details. Notaries certify swears and attestations from cashiers including J W Ward Russell A Shryock W R Campbell and Alson S Hott with dates in July 1931.
A State Conservation booklet titled The President's on the Rapidan highlights President Hoover's Madison county camp with marginal drawings by Louis Ruyl and a William Campbell map. Thomas Lomax Hunter, former Virginia legislator, authored the more than twenty page study detailing the camp's remote setting, trout pools, and simple, tasteful upkeep. The work traces regional histories and ties to national leaders, emphasizing the camp's influence and enjoyment of fishing and nature.
Gerard M. Dahl petitions Supreme Court for permission to examine Arthur White of Middleburg Virginia before trial. Dahl seeks $15,000 claiming it was paid to White to buy horses in the British Isles and train them as hunters in Virginia under an agreement they signed.
Dahl advanced $18 000 for horse purchases including to land toeet witch. He claimed purchase of horses while White allegedly failed to account for profits from the sale of the other five.
John Homer, 24, of near Gaylord Clarke County Virginia, jailed on drunken driving charges. He faced reckless driving and failing to have a registration card. details indicate a July incident near an automobile scene.
Magistrate John W Lloyd Petersville fined a man 132.80 and costs for an offense and jailed him sixty days. James Zombro 23, from the drunk and , received 10 and costs and a fifteen day jail sentence. The youths were returning from Brunswick when the automobile they rode in struck the rear of a car driven by Paul Higgins Poolesville. Homer fled and half a mile farther collided with another car operated by R P Kenyon near Baltimore. No injuries. both cars damaged. The accidents occurred on the state road between Brunswick and Harpers Ferry.
Mrs Ballard widow of John Ballard dies at Marshall with survivors including Mrs B F Herrell and son Frank King Washington DC and Mrs Fox. Funeral services at daughter’s Marshall home with burial in Marshall cemetery.
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