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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1932
Page
8
An ancient seaside site near Nice is described as the world’s oldest resort with over twenty five centuries of history founded by Phoenicians in 850 B C. Its climate attracted Phoenicians Greeks and Romans and later European powers.
A Detroit News reflection notes a small physical margin can separate employer and employee, where inches determine being inside looking out versus outside looking in, highlighting perceptual distance in work life.
The Gravel Springs 4-H Club held a March 3 1932 meeting. They set a last week in April clean-up project for the church yard with a public event on March 11 a fifty fifty arrangement with Juvenile Grange. Girls cut dresses and boys prepared eggs as part of the program.
The Clairdale Rifle Club's event at Winchester Gun Club grounds drew about 20 shooters. Top prizes included choice beef cuts awarded to E Cuthbert H Lamp Sergeant Blount Pingley Edwards and Lineberg. New shooters posted solid scores and another match with prizes is planned for this Saturday inviting all trapshooting enthusiasts.
Four men were burned to death and four others injured in a two story hotel fire in Dallas business district. Dead were W. H. Bo mer of Chicago G fover Hopson Sherman Tex Frank Fisher Little Rock. The fourth victim, believed to be Mr Granger of Chicago, could not be finally identified. Fire cause undetermined.
Harrisonburg March 22. Local Republicans discuss John W. Morrison as a top candidate for one of two Seventh District delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. A district meeting is set for April 1 in Harrisonburg to elect delegates and alternates, with related county and state events around April 2 in Roanoke. Jacob A. Garber has also announced candidacy.
The Rev Dr A L Latham pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church Chester Pa and founder of the Summer Bible School will speak in Christ Episcopal Church at 2 pm Thursday He is a religious education authority and the event invites ministers church officials church school officers teachers and leaders of young peoples groups to attend.
Judges Howard Himelright Emmett Dettra Charles Rosen berger E C Oates and Isaiah Roe ruled unanimously for the affirmative in the Winchester Debating Society discussion at Mount Williams on the topic Resolved That the World Is Retrograding. Ford Howard and John D Luttrell spoke for the affirmative while Arthur Ernest Luttrell and B B Milburn argued the negative. The crowded school house benefited the School League from refreshments sales.
An Easter service is planned at Relief Methodist Episcopal Church South on March 27 at 7 pm featuring an address Living Life the Full, string music recitations duets pantomime The Old Rugged Cross and other selections. All are welcome.
An excerpt discusses submarine activity during the WWI entry period, noting sinking rates around 900,000 tons monthly and Allied neutral tonnage near 340,000, with new construction about 177,000 tons per month. It also mentions Columbus’s 1498 voyage and the Virgin of St Ursula.
The article notes Africa’s rainfall varies by location from rare falls in the Egyptian desert to high averages in the Cameroons at 269 inches annually. A belt of heavy rain surrounds the equator, diminishing to the north and south. Estimated Africa population in 1930 was 15 million.
Staunton report notes 79 residents in Virginia seeking a share of Ella Wendell estate as part of a large probate claim. George Gordon Battle represents John D. White of Staunton in New York courts. White says appearance need not include kinship proof yet, but full proof of relationship must be shown before any distribution.
John Franklin Shank 71 Botetourt county game warden died from double pneumonia hours after falling eight feet from a cliff into May's Branch while investigating fishers near Springwood eight miles west of Buchanan. He was unconscious but revived briefly before his death.
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