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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1940
Page
12
Mrs Elizabeth Whitney was granted an uncontested divorce from her wealthy husband John Hay Jock Whitney by District Judge Clark J Guild. She cited desertion and a property settlement dated January 3 was approved and adopted by the decree.
The Library of the University of Louvain, rebuilt in 1928 with American funds after German shellfire destroyed it in 1914, is gutted by fire destroying its 700000 volumes. American correspondents found smoldering ruins in Louvain where residents faced new hardship.
A wounded meditation on war's futility, then a defiant tribute to the common people. The piece extols mothers and fathers, workers and shopkeepers as the true shield of decency. It crowns them as the fighting line that preserves life and shared ideals until peace returns.
The Frederick county agriculture board will hold its quarterly meeting at the county courthouse tomorrow night at 8 o clock. Reports will include progress on securing a portable dipping vat and the first lot of lambs is announced to ship Tuesday May 28. The committee on marketing includes R E Brumback Frank T Ridgeway E M Punk C K Wright Robert Stickley RA Wall and Fred Stine.
Melvin Nail of Frederick County won one of the second prizes in a nationwide spring art drawing contest sponsored by the American Education Press of Columbus Ohio. He attends Round Hill School where Miss Ethel Athey Cooper teaches. The contest rules require.
Children in science and art classes created three consecutive drawings of four different tree buds. The project illustrated the buds' development stages as part of their school work.
The Treasury reports on May 18 receipts of 7.91 million dollars and expenditures of 2.68 million. Gross debt stands at 42.77 billion dollars, up by 0.95 million from the previous day.
A compact list of crossword clues with numbered hints such as poet seethe rodent and presiding officer. Includes entries for town in Prussia and Moody. covers casks bottles and Ruthenium tool terminology.
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