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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1939

Page

13

Re Employment Drive By Ex Lunatics In Chicago

An Illinois group of former insane patients launched a national re employment drive in Chicago to help recovered individuals find jobs and convince employers there is no stigma after insulin shock and other treatments. Three exhibit their recovery at the American Psychiatric Association meeting, showing former patients indistinguishable from others.

Chicago Illinois Aental Hospital American Psychiric Association

May places noted in Lebanon Church news

Lebanon Church Virginia reports on local happenings with a fragment mentioning Preston Stickley and an incident while cutting wood. The brief lacks full details but signals a local event or narrative connected to residents and community life.

Local notices and social updates from Strasburg area

The column records residents and visitors with illnesses and recoveries including Mr Stickley improving after infantile paralysis relapse and Master Warren McDonald improving. It notes visits by Mrs Himelright and others, chickenpox cases, a broken bottle injury, and upcoming revival services at Mt Hope Church in June. Shenandoah County School Band concert and May 15 school league meeting are mentioned along with a high school trip to Elizabeth Furnace and various social calls.

Stickley Pete Windle Winchester Bessie Bowers Cecil McDonald Ruby Brown Nettie Himelright Julia Windle Viola Wilson Margaret Fauver Grace Walter Ray Windle Statton Bowers Kathryn Windle Lucy Everly Cedar Creek Church Johnathan Edwards Woodstock Warren McDonald Mt. Hope Church Home Demonstration Club Mary Lee Dovel Richmond Cleopatra Himelright Lucy Strasnider Julius Keeler Messrs Walter Frederick Bowers Charles Williams Mildred Brown Elizabeth Furnace Strasburg High School

Brush Creek Notes May Social Visits in Virginia

Mrs Ernest L Gray spent last Monday with Mr Arnold Dailey and family. Relatives and friends visited Mr Walter Dailey's home for his birthday. Mrs Ruth Kerns expects visitors from New Jersey May 12 for Mother's Day. Mrs Philip Shade sits up and hopes to walk again. Mr F O Heironimus is able to work after illness.

Brush Creek Ernest L. Gray Arnold Dailey Laura C. Dailey Myrtle Dailey Walter Dailey Orlin DeHaven Laura Dailey Myrle

Patrons assault locked state liquor store door

In Philadelphia a group of about six patrons pounded on a locked state liquor store door ten minutes before opening time causing a disturbance.

Philadelphia

Holdup at Closed Store Ends Quietly

Three clerks heard the pounding and saw a holdup man lock the door draw the shades and begin taking valuables before authorities arrived.

Robbery Ends With Escape After Bindings

A thief seized cash totaling 172 dollars from registers then fled through a rear door. Patrons remained grounded as clerks were bound with rope and found on the storeroom floor.

Miners in Pennsylvania Voice Frustration Over Contract Talks

In the Connellsville area 40 miles south of Pittsburgh miners idle between negotiations in New York. They say they are sick of loafing and emphasize support for CIO leader John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers while camps spread across company stores offering credit.

Pittsburgh New York Connellsville Jesse Cole Colonial Mine No. 4 CIO John L. Lewis United Mine Workers Lewis

Italy Will Remain Warlike, Balbo Says in Cairo

In Cairo May 11 Marshal Italo Balbo told an Italian community gathering that Italy has become a war like country and will remain war like down through the ages. Balbo’s unofficial visit to Egypt drew sharp press criticism and he assured Premier Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha that there would be no Italian threat to Egypt.

Cairo Farouk Italo Balbo Italy Egypt Mohammed Mahmound Pasha

Birthday Serenade Disrupts Calif Jurors Court

Deputy Prosecutor Robert Schwab’s birthday prompted jurors in California to pause court proceedings and sing Happy Birthday To You in unison, briefly abandoning court decorum.

Bob Broderick Calif Robert Schwab

Tragic Death Shocks Green Spring Community

Green Spring Virginia residents mourn the death of Mr. Prank Runkle who died Monday afternoon in Winchester. Sympathy is extended to the bereaved family. Sunday notes mention Mrs. Ray Wilson visiting Hed gestville relatives and Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Strobridge visiting neighbors. Mr. William Milburn of Paw Paw West Virginia visits relatives in the area.

Green Spring Prank Runkle Winchester Ray Wilson Hedgesville W. Va Hunter Strobridge Ernest Milburn William Milburn Paw Paw

Farmers Insure 1939 Wheat Crops Under Federal Program

About 156000 farmers insured roughly 6.5 million acres across 3 states under the governments new wheat insurance plan. Premiums paid total about 6.4 million bushels of wheat. In Virginia 914 farmers insured with premiums totaling 7 531 bushels.

Washington Federal Insurance Corporation Virginia

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