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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1936
Page
9
Last copies are going out for the Uncle Sam Almanac a practical home reference with 62 pages covering calendar monthly tasks housekeeping gardens livestock pets etiquette coins stamps writing beauty hints and cocktail recipes bound in colored cover enclose ten cents for cost and handling use coupon to order now.
W. 8. Newman announces that 161000 dollars is allocated to Virginia for July August and September. The NYA program will continue on the same basis as last year with 34057 high school and 2560 college students receiving aid. Compensation averages six dollars monthly for high school pupils and fifteen for college students. About 12000 youths were trained during the year. T. Edwin Burke will join August 1 as administrative assistant to Newman.
Wartime commander Major-General Adelbert Cronkhite plans to attend the seventeenth Blue Ridge boys reunion in Richmond with his Llewelyn setter Anne Lindbergh Harding. The dog, named in honor of A. P. Harding of Richmond, will stay at Hotel John Marshall. Cronkhite and wife arrive August 5, attend events through August 9, with Winchester and Frederick County veterans likely to join.
Bickers Motor Company reports improved local conditions as they delivered more than 40 new Ford cars and trucks in under 40 days. They note rising sales of trucks and commercial units and plan to hire more staff in August.
A 75 year old Swedish man calling himself Carl August Johansen arrived in Kansas City wearing a tweed overcoat three suit coats and a felt hat as heat battered him. He said he roams the country and has no plane to store his winter clothes.
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