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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1948
Page
5
Memorial day crowds broke attendance records across major league baseball and track venues. A total of 337,776 watched doubleheaders in eight cities, while 345,997 visited ten tracks with wagering around 15 million dollars. Indianapolis motor speedway drew over 75,000 spectators.
An OCR fragment mentions St Joseph aspirin with the slogan so fast pure dependable and includes stray terms like Ate rote and B08, indicating an old era medicine advertisement. The readable bits suggest a generic pill promo focusing on speed purity and reliability.
In the Circuit Court of Frederick County Virginia an order of publication is issued against G G Lewis non resident of the state to attach his estate real and personal and satisfy a $9000 debt plus interest and attorney fees. The proceedings name Farmers & Merchants National Bank as plaintiff and Roy L LaFollette et al as co defendants with Lewis. Publication runs four weeks in the Evening Star and notices posted at the courthouse front door with mailing to Lewis at 3601 Conn Ave NW Washington DC.
Washington reports the United States ready to join the United Nations World Health Organization after Senate and House approvals. The plan envisions a single agency to share disease information, control epidemics, and standardize disease names and treatments. Cost is about 2 million dollars annually with a U S representative on the executive board.
The text outlines aims to cut sickness and disease entering the country and improve protection and markets through global health standards. It notes better protection for U S citizens traveling abroad and for U S drug and medical supply providers. It also mentions receiving and contributing to information on international health problems. The final line references moon observation with large telescopes.
In Loudoun County a jeep overturned on Route 9 east of the West Virginia line killing Mrs. Melvin Weddle, 48, of Legore Maryland, who died in Loudoun hospital from injuries. Her brother Robert R. Ashbaugh, 43, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was instantly killed in the crash.
An advertisement from Beltone showcases a tiny hearing device enabling deafened people to hear faint sounds and understand whispers from five feet away. The device is lightweight with fingertip controls and requires no battery pack or wires. Beltone invites readers to request a free descriptive booklet and test the device at home.
Justice Department announces the arrest for deportation of Jacob Abraham Staciel National director of education for the American communist party He was picked up by immigration agents in New York City and sent to Ellis Island to await deportation proceedings Staciel is accused of illegal entry and joining a subversive organization after arrival The 1848 eclipse of the sun ended the day before it began because it crossed the international date line.
A United States tenant farming trend shows an average increase of 20 000 farmers annually over the last half century. In Sydney Australia two laborers report consuming 144 000 pints of beer in 36 years.
About 29 percent of urban dwelling units were in concentrated slum and blighted areas in 1940. Roughly 60 million acres across the United States were urban areas parks roads and railroad rights of way in 1940.
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