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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1955
Page
4
Advertisement notes outline 1.75 per column inch per day with minimum charge. Cash required for all out of town ads. Closing time 10 a m for same day inclusion, with ads received at The Star Office before 10 a m.
Classified ads advertise aggressive top notch salesmen ages 25 to 70 with close skills for a national organization in the Winchester region. Offers include a weekly $100 draw, outstanding commissions, and a low mood proof business service. Box 24 Star. Also seeks young man with late model car for dealer calls and extensive travel with $250 investment. Singer Sewing Machine Co. advertises an opportunity on 25 N Loudoun St. Actions on classifieds.
Modern brick bungalow with 3 bedrooms and extras near Stephens City for 13650. M W Browne agent contact 7441 or 4269. Also plywood boat, GE 17 inch TV, cheap country house 1195 including lot Pine Motor Co. Blue Mercury 2 door sedan by Mrs Miles B Dean 6123. Tomato plants by D W Greenwalt 5267. Various dates in May.
Multiple advertisements offer items for sale including an International tractor at Earl Shade's with contact 8712, a seven room brick home at 530 N Braddock with immediate occupancy and contact 5748, a ranch style home at 205 Malden Drive with financing, tarpaulins from E W Armstrong Co at 441 N Cameron St and contact Winchesters 8168, a size 13 14 evening gown and a kitchen sink, various sleeping bags and camping gear from A N Store at 12 N Loudoun with listed prices.
High school students wanted for a summer job selling Reeves products in Attleboro Massachusetts. Free samples offered. Written by Reeves at Attleboro. Dated May 19 1961.
Mrs Martha Fullerton Blackburn 85 widow of James A Blackburn died yesterday at 10 AM at 440 Pairmont Ave after two years of ill health. Born August 28 1869 in West Newton Pa she leaves two sons Abyram of West Chester and John C of Albin a daughter Winifred a sister Clara Fullerton and two grandchildren. Funeral tomorrow at 2 PM Omps Funeral Home with Rev Carl W Hiser officiating. Interment Mt Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
Funeral service for Mrs. Stella Collins Clark 71 widow of William S Clark Sr was held at Omps Funeral Home at 2 PM. Rev F B Oglesby of Braddock Street Methodist Church officiated. Interment in Mt Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers nephews Max Braithwaite Carlton Collins Del Phi Collins Joseph Williams Raymond Boyce Roger Williams.
The highest local average annual rainfall in the United States is 150.73 inches at Wynoochee Oxbow, Washington, based on a 13 year record.
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