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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1956

Page

11

Heironimus Sale Brings 9378 At Bartonsville Estate Auction

An auction at the Heironimus place near Bartonsville raised 9378.75 dollars. Albert W. Messick of Frederick County was the top bidder for the 15 acre tract with a five room house and outbuildings. Personal property sold for 678 dollars. Luncheon was served by the Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary. Boyd G Headley Jr cited the sale conducted by the Commercial and Savings Bank to settle the estate of the late Haden G Heironimus.

Bartonsville Albert W. Messick Frederick County Shawnee Volunteer Fire Department Boyd G Headley, Jr the Commercial and Savings Bank Haden G. Heironimus

Largest sturgeon on record measured 26 feet long

The biggest sturgeon ever caught was reported in the Volga River of the Soviet Union. It measured 26 feet in length and weighed about a ton.

Volga River Soviet Union

J A Riley Dies In Middletown

John Albert Riley 55 a Middletown farmer died Saturday evening at Mt Haven Nursing Home after a year of ill health He was born June 2 1901 in Fauquier County He leaves wife Ella Mae Kenney and children Carey Virginia Riley William S Riley and others all of Middletown Also surviving two sisters and one brother A funeral will be held tomorrow at Meadow Mills Union Chapel with interment at Ninevah Presbyterian cemetery Omps Funeral Home will bring the body to the chapel for viewing before the service

John Albert Riley Middletown Mt. Haven Fauquier County John Nancy Riley Flint Hill Ella Mae Kenney Carey Virginia Riley Linden William S. Riley Front Royal Ella Mae Dorothy Lee Shirley Franklin Thomas Hunter Riley Robert Putman This City Ellen Loveless Morris E. Riley Meadow Mills Union Chapel Arthur G. Carper Presbyterian Church Cemetery Ninevah Thomas Wright Raymond Dodson William Spiggle George Curry Claude Carper Charles Headley Omps Funeral Home

Rise of comic books from 1911 to 1938 boom

The text traces early comic growth from a 1911 Matt and Jeff book to 1929 sparse titles. A major expansion begins in 1938 with Superman, leading to a current landscape of more than 350 distinct comic magazine features.

Matt and Jeff

Virginia teens strangled in separate river deaths confirmed

Virginia chief medical examiner confirms Shelby Venable 16 and Mary Fellers 18 were strangled before their nude bodies were found in streams near Beltsville Maryland and Louden County. Police linked the case to a similar 1960 Maryland double slaying of Nancy Shomette 16 and Michael Ryan 14 with a .22 rifle.

Leesburg Virginia Shelby Jean Venable G. T. Mann Mary Elizabeth Fellers Beltsville Mary Elizabeth Erwin Potomac Maryland Nancy Marie Shomette Michael Ann Ryan College Park Nancy Ann

Closest Earth Mars Distance Noted In 1936 Opposition

The text states the nearest approach is 34,600,000 miles and that Earth and Mars come within about 35,300,000 miles during the September 10, 1936 opposition. The 34.6 million mile figure is not reached before 278.254.

Earth Mars

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