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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
11
Charles Wayne Olinger 16 of Quicksburg Va drowned yesterday while swimming with companions in the Shenandoah River near Quicksburg. His body was recovered late afternoon. He is survived by his mother grandmother and several uncles and aunts. Services will be held Saturday.
Elisabeth Gilman, Maryland’s longtime social reformer, observer and charity activist, has run six times for public office on the socialist ticket but never won. The 80ish socialite championed slum clearance, public utilities, labor rights, and old age insurance while directing the Baltimore area forum and supporting charitable causes.
In San Diego on July 31, a federal judge suspended a three year prison term for Mrs. Alfred Wesley Ingalls. She was ordered to pay $6,000 to her former Negro maid Dora Jones for nearly forty years of servitude. Judge Jacob Weinberger handed down the sentence.
Estimates vary widely from about 21.2 million to 19 million species. Scientists find roughly a thousand new species each year. The beetles form the largest group with about 250000 species.
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