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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1934
Page
8
A housemaid in a Professor A home uses more energy in three minutes of sweeping than a college professor expends in one hour, highlighting the high energy intensity of manual cleaning versus sedentary teaching activity.
A spring on Mt. Zircon’s slope near Rumford Maine named Moon Tide increases its flow by eighteen gallons per minute in a full moon.
The Standard Course in Scout Leadership begins tonight at 7:30 PM in the Troop 3 Meeting Room Braddock Street Methodist Church. Rev A R VanCleave and Rev R B Campbell give talks on boy centered programs. Floyd Haines leads songs. ten sessions run twice weekly for five weeks with notes and pencils encouraged.
Winchester switchboard operators handled an average 13 000 daily calls during Apple Blossom Festival. On Thursday calls spiked to 23 000 with two lines in constant use and 413 long distance calls overall. Friday fell to 17 000 as nationwide inquiries about parade arrangements continued.
Hotels and restaurants report Sunday festival business rivaling Friday, with George Washington Hotel dining room serving nearly as many as the peak day and Hotel Jack Coffee Shop showing higher gross sales. Dining rooms taxed to capacity as festival decorations come down citywide tonight.
The article traces the origin and spread of paper money in the American colonies from 1690 in Massachusetts Bay to widespread use by others. It explains that initial paper currency aimed to be as valuable as coin, but depreciation occurred after successive issues, eventually reducing its value to near worthlessness.
Sweetheart Rose Knellar, fiance of Abe Faber, testifies for the prosecution at Dedham Massachusetts as Morton and Irving Millen stand trial for the bank holdup slayings of two policemen in Needham. She reveals a wedding gift of 3500 dollars, part of 13500 stolen money.
The first ten countries to issue postage stamps include Great Britain on May 1 1840 Brazil on July 1 1843 United States on August 5 1847 Mauritius on September 21 1847 France on January 1 1849 Belgium on July 1 1849 Bavaria on November 1 1849 Spain on January 3 1850 New South Wales on January 1 1850 and Victoria on January 5 1850.
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