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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1941
Page
3
Troops of the 29th Division begin a 40 mile double-quick drill in South Carolina maneuvers under First Army command. General A Drum urges high standards as the unit tests corps coordination and rapid movement against a Red force massed near Kershaw.
Lee O. Lyon surveys the era of breakout roles for budding actors in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer features. Patricia Dane, Ray MacDonald, Jackie Horner, Connie Russell, Richard Quine, Donna Reed, Natalie Thompson, Dan Daily, Red Skelton, Rise Stevens and others receive their first major opportunities across Life Begins for Andy Hardy Babes on Broadway Lady Be Good and The Get Away. The piece highlights career-boosting moments for these newcomers and notes Hollywood’s ongoing talent pipeline as big names prepare to move between stage, screen and national tours.
Virginia extension gardeners warn dry conditions injure peach trees and raise borer risk. They advise immediate treatment with paradichlorobenzene or ethylene dichloride, detailing application rates, soil preparation, and mulching to protect trunks and roots through winter.
Blacksburg Virginia Tech agricultural engineers urge farmers to overhaul and correctly adjust winter equipment to save fuel and reduce breakdowns. They warn faulty carburetors raise fuel use and explain moisture in cold engines forms sludge, stressing draining moisture after short runs and proper maintenance for all purpose tractors.
Darden of Norfolk recovering from an appendectomy and plans to resume work soon as he campaigns for one of 25 House of Delegates seats. Muse forecast Republican victory nationally in 1944 and urged building the party in Virginia. Senator Tuck spoke at Chatham emphasizing democratic government sacrifice, while Socialist director Sheehan pressed a total democracy platform with Bernstein and Moore leading the ticket.
Pat Donnelly was chosen as queen of the national peanut festival in Suffolk Virginia celebrating a harvest of a billion and a half pounds of peanuts. The note suggests circus and baseball fans will have plenty of goobers in 1942.
William Fontaine Alexander 67 longtime West Virginia state figure died after a heart attack Friday night while visiting daughter Mrs J Harkey Reiter in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania. Funeral services planned in Charles Town WV with survivors including widow Cicely DeG Woolley daughters Mrs Reiter and Mrs Talbot Jenkins two sisters Hallie Cook and Mary Tucker and brother Herbert L Alexander.
The obituary notes a member of the House of Delegates and descendant of John Augustine Washington, brother of General Washington. He served as Jefferson County Court clerk 1887 to 1909, sat in the Legislature, helped form the Philippi Battlefield Memorial Commission, and was an authority on regional history. He was active in the Episcopal Church and held high Masonic rank.
Local markets are collected daily by The Star. The paper notes it does not assume responsibility for any typographical errors that may occur in the listings.
An old price list lists Patent Brand bran in various bag weights and per barrel rates. It shows 12 lb bags at 6.15 and 24 lb bags at 5.95, with 48 lb bags at 5.45 and other 24 and 23 lb options around 5.45 to 5.65. Mixed feed and Leghorn Friers appear in brief line items with unclear totals.
The document lists livestock prices including heifers calves hogs sows and sheep with per cwt figures. It also shows wholesale creamery butter prices and various bagged feed costs such as bran middlings corn meal horse feed and mixed feed.
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