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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1941
Page
6
In a radio list of programs and guests the question asks which composer was known as the master of counterpoint. The answer given is that Johann Sebastian Bach was the greatest master of counterpoint in music history.
A hotel clerk rescued a 30-year-old State Department employee after a three alarm fire damaged a five apartment building. The victim, Miss Bonnette, was taken to Emergency Hospital with injuries to face and hands. The clerk Peter Kesseker alerted sleepers and entered the blazing building.
The document lists present and past rainfall totals, with 34 hours ending a.m.14. June to date 1.75 inches and year to date 10.20 inches. It provides 27 year monthly averages from 1913 to 1939, and an average annual rainfall of 35.80 inches for 28 years, courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
An old ad claims Mone's Emerald Oil quickly relieves tender burning feet with two or three applications. It promises fifteen minutes of relief from swelling and pain, urging readers to buy at any drugstore.
Heavy cloudburst rains cause flash floods in Marshall and Tyler counties. Grave Creek overflows near Cameron while U S Route 250 segments flood between Moundsville and Mannington. The B and O main line at Wheeling blocked by an 80 foot slide around 11 am. Middle Island Creek near Middlebourne rises to its highest level in years.
The guillotine gained notoriety in the French Revolution yet was used earlier in Scotland England and the Continent. In Scotland it was called the maiden and in England the Halifax gibbet.
Readers are warned that news from most of Europe is subject to censorship before transmission to the United States, implying limited wartime reporting and controlled dispatches. Local coverage notes that censorship affects foreign updates and reader expectations.
Henry Potter visits the village after a murder at Ives is blamed on a banker. He teams with a stranger John Jones to probe suspects among a model railroad club. A note found in Ives on Spiritualist paper hints at a plot, and the old gardener warns of further deaths as the mystery unfolds.
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