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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1950
Page
7
Classified notices list several for sale and want ads. Items include a five room house with land and details, a 1948 International panel truck, various help wanted notices for housework general help and sales, plus job and distribution opportunities across Winchester Virginia and surrounding areas. Listings specify contact methods and dates in 1930s 1950s style.
Advertises electrification service for any treadle sewing machine at 14.95 dollars. Winchester Sewing Machine Co. located beside Rouss Fire Hall at 111 West Boscawen. Phone 3645. Listing includes operating days Monday and Wednesday with private business terms.
Miss Patricia Wolford marked her 11th birthday on Wednesday. Several local residents and guests are mentioned as visitors at Winchester Memorial Hospital and area households. The 4-H Club met with leader Mrs. Ira Foreman. Other notes list guests and trips among Winchester residents.
A Virginia regulation adopted July 21 1950 bans shipping or selling minnows hellgrammites and crayfish taken in state beyond state borders. Exceptions apply to licensed private aquaculture. penalties apply to violators. Effective August 15 1950 by order of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries chaired by Beverley W. Stras Jr.
Hollywood column profiles Bob Parrish 34 who rises from film editor to director on Cry Danger. He recalls conflicts with actors over cuts, notes Oscar wins for Body and Soul and All the King’s Men editing, and explains how cutting decisions shape performances and pacing. The piece places Parrish among famed ex-cutters now directing.
Miss Louella Roby of Purgitsville West Virginia spent a week as guest of Mr and Mrs Robert Muse. Mr and Mrs Herman Hutchinson of Glady s spent last weekend with Rev and Mrs A C Walker. Kay Lee accompanied them home. Mrs Hawn and son Daniel with Mrs Fannie Stewart and Elwood Stewart of Martinsburg West Virginia spent last Sunday with Mr and Mrs W A Wolford.
Frederick County born Ira G. Whitacre 74 former director of Suburban National Bank and Montgomery County political figure died Saturday night in George Washington University hospital after a year long illness. He taught in Frederick County and Maryland schools earlier and was principal at Gaithersburg High School and Woodside Grammar School. Interred Forest Oak Cemetery Gaithersburg. Surviving wife Rachel C. Whitacre and two daughters with nieces and nephews in Virginia.
The phrase refers to a ceremonial rite in major excommunication. It mentions a bell rung a sentence read from a book and a lighted candle extinguished as part of the act.
Alfred Austin in Poetry of the Period labeled Robert Browning muddy and unmusical. Austin, the Poet Laureate of England, applied these epithets in his critique.
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