Spectral Light and Flying Rocks Mark Historic Virginia Occurrences
A long-remembered Augusta County glow near a tombstone drew crowds as witnesses described a pumpkin sized light changing color and hovering above ground after 10 p.m. Similar tales recount the Leakesville Lights in Page County and a Rockingham County rock rain in May 1865 with stones, windows, and furniture damaged. An old mountain conjurer later halted the disturbance by a ritual fire, ending the haunting on the farm.
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Augusta County
Leakesville
Page County
Rockingham County
Blue Ridge Mountains
Half Sizes Stitch by Stitch Fashion Pattern 4505
Advertisement announces new Half Sizes patterns 14 and up with 39 inch bust options and band neckline. Provides mailing address in New York and postage details, urging readers to request the Winchester Evening Star Pattern Dept listing over 100 new spring summer fashions and a sewing book offer.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Japan Exports 1.1 Million Motorcycles in 1968
Japan exported 1,136,636 motorcycles to 140 countries in 1968, earning 184.31 million dollars in foreign exchange. One percent of total exports, with 50.9 percent going to Southeast Asia, 24.4 percent to North America, and 14.1 percent to Europe.
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Tokyo
Japan
North America
Europe
Negro Children Urged to Boycott Charleston Schools
In Charleston protests linked to hospital strikes, Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and Rev. Andrew Young urged Negro children to boycott public schools and downtown stores on King Street. Children to be taught at Negro churches while teachers picket, as unrest continues with vandalism and National Guard patrols amid a 400-strong Medical College Hospital workers strike seeking higher pay and union recognition.
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Charleston
King Street
Ralph David Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Andrew Young
Robert McNair
National
Medical College Hospital
Charleston County
Drug and Hospital Workers Union Local 1199B
Lake Huron to receive 500000 splakehybrid trout yearly
Beginning in 1970, about 500000 marked splakehybrid trout will be planted in Lake Huron Ontario each year to combat lamprey in the Great Lakes. The program aims to reduce lamprey predation and protect native fisheries.
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Lake Huron
Ontario
Great Lakes
Heloise Hints: canned sausages and quick kitchen hacks
A reader column reveals simple teen snack tips with Vienna sausages eaten straight from the can and mustard or ketchup toppings. Other tips include painting switch plates without mess, using a glass pie plate as a dumpling lid, and a sewing hack to hold elastic while mending.
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Elmer L. Smith
Ania
Heloise
Vienna
P.S
C. Henry Flemer
Dorothy Anderson
Dorothy
Heloisee
Lillian Wilkinson
Margaret Ambler
Gehors
Discount City
Berryville Ave
Winchester
Jothin
Dupont Nylon
Dupont
Modern Vinicom
Breggett
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