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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1930
Page
3
Special and Personal News for this department may be mailed or telephoned any time. The social reporter Mrsabelle Miller will receive news by telephone between 3 and 4 p.m. for the following day. Phone number 33.
The Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club notes the Virginia General Assembly’s failure to pass billboard restrictions is disappointing but not final. It warns that if billboards grow, roads will become visual tunnels and ad repetition may annoy, potentially undermining advertising. Miss Mary M. Gordon leaves Memorial Hospital for Toronto due to her father’s paralytic stroke and resigns effective April 5. Sweet Briar College selects May Day court with Ruth Hassan as queen and a slate of attendants. Capri The Capitol Theatre hosts guest organist George H. Emmans, who performs popular pieces including When It’s Apple Blossom Time in Virginia and plans to release the tune locally. He will return next Monday for more performances tied to Sunny Side Up.
Miss Helen Scott Kastendyke daughter of Mrs Kastendyke of Baltimore and Mr Richard Tasker Lowndes third son of the late Lloyd Lowndes will marry at 8 p m Monday April 21 at St David s Church Baltimore The groom is a grandson of former Governor Lloyd Lowndes and vice president of Western Maryland Lumber Co A reception follows at the Woman s Club Roland Avenue.
Announcement received in Winchester states the marriage of Lorenzo Giulianni and Fede Margherita pi took place in Collodi Italy on February 27. Giulianni’s aunt in Winchester shares the notice. he was a fruit merchant in this city and his mother lives in Hagerstown Maryland.
Mrs Spencer L Carter and her daughter Miss Susan Carter of Richmond have gone to Atlantic City for several weeks and will later visit New York City. The Carter family also spend time at their country home Rosney in Clarke county.
Local society items list weekend visits and travels of residents and visitors. Harriet Pearson spends weekend with parents Lewis and Mrs Pearson. Jack Lindsey, an auto worker, accompanies. Col. Carroll Menefee from Sperryville visits for business. Various residents cited for hospital stays, travel to Baltimore, Washington, and Miami trips, and attendance at Memorial Hospital.
Ernest Spade was injured yesterday when a tree fell on his shoulder while cutting timber in a woodland between Capone Bridge and Highview. He received treatment locally, then was moved to Memorial Hospital where Dr Charles R. Anderson treated him. Doctors expect a quick recovery and discharge soon.
The Byrd expedition received a worldwide radio welcome via WGY and W2XAF as 41 crew members, led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, returned to Dunedin New Zealand after 14 months in Antarctica. Byrd praised Amundsen and Scott, noted surveying 280000 square miles, and thanked supporters while detailing the cost and significance of the Antarctic program.
The piece urges a method to insure purchases against waste and subpar goods, claiming the protection costs nothing and remains active and fully paid.
The article highlights Richard Byrd and 65 expedition members who spent two years in Antarctica exploring mountains minerals storms and aviation limits. It notes December 25 1928 first New York ships reached the ice edge and November 28 South Pole flight led by Byrd and Floyd Bennett before returning to civilization February 19 aboard the City of New York.
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