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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
10
Washington March 30 Hank Mowbray of Baltimore led the all events class in the National Duchy in Bowling Congress with a 1223 total for singles doubles and team. His townsman Wesley Askew followed with 1214.
William Ulff of the Rescue section visits Placerville to show a gold nugget weighing 40? ounces taken from his quartz property. Experts value the nugget at from $1,000 to $1,300 despite quartz still attached.
An old styled ad promotes RIS with trial treatment and pricing from 25 to 50 cents, claiming only RIS is available and urging customers to buy from Baker's Drug Store in Winchester Virginia. It emphasizes kidney health and happiness.
Lou Nova will train at the Clarkstown Country Club near Nyack New York for his 15 round bout with Maxie Baer this summer. Promoter Mike Jacobs and Ray Carlin toured the 500 acre site where a lawn ring and opera chairs will host spectators. Training is set to begin around April 16 with possible delay for a new arrival at the Nova home.
George B. Zehmer announces 109 instructors for the UVA summer quarter from June 18 to September, including 39 visiting teachers from distant colleges. Regular UVA faculty total 70, with notable arrivals from Washington Duke UCLA Randolph Macon Tulane and other institutions. Six visiting members will teach at Mountain Lake Biological Station, and a distinguished music and dramatic art staff will join, led by George Kreuger and Frederick H Koch Jr.
The ladies of five Methodist churches in the Brucetown Charge will meet at 8 o clock tonight at the parsonage 106 Morningside Drive to organize a Circuit Missionary Society. Mrs J H Light Miss Bertha Cline Mrs Tripp Hardesty and Mrs R O Fitch will speak. Mrs Harvey Fishpaw leads devotions. Miss Thelma Hausenfluck reads a selection. Reports from group societies will be heard and refreshments served.
West Virginia raises marriage costs by requiring a physician examination for licenses starting June 1. Fee varies by doctor, with legislators expecting about five dollars total. Legal certificates must be issued by licensed West Virginia physicians. Couples may need to travel to the state for testing if marrying at the bride’s location.
Front Royal plans a birth control clinic sponsored by the King's Daughters to operate twice weekly for one hour sessions. Dr. O W Carper spoke at a Lions Club dinner, noting birth control aims to space births for maternal health and welfare rather than broad birth limitation.
Randolph Macon Academy announces its baseball opener set for April 1 at Front Royal against Woodberry Forest. Coach George W Riddick marshals a roster led by pitchers Turner Krenfeld and Doug Bradley with Ike Dees and Don Rice handling catcher duties. Veteran infielders Charles Cook Rhys Wood back for first base. Joe Frene and Jimmy Knepper among other lettermen. Newcomers Walter Hardy and Jack Conrad compete infield, while outfielders Charles Gray and Jack Beckett aim to reclaim roles from the 1938 squad.
Executor of J Luther Richard estate offers lot 811 South Braddock Street Winchester at public auction April 15 1939 eleven A M front 35 feet by 110 feet six room frame dwelling near Handley School terms one third cash then two equal installments secured by deed of trust and bonds bearing six percent interest across date
At Torrington Connecticut a girls swimming meet ended with protesters throwing judge John Breen into the pool after he disqualified the local relay team against a New Haven outfit. Dr Vern Knudsen of UC Berkeley is cited in a separate note.
A quoted expert spoke at a scientists and students gathering noting damage from noise disturbed sleep and suggesting ear-muffs. The Galveston flood occurred on September 8 1900 in Galveston Texas.
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