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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1933
Page
7
A Union Thanksgiving Day service will be held at 10:30 tomorrow morning at the Southern Methodist Church in Stephens City. Rev. C C Bush will lead devotions and Rev. Snyder Alleman of Trinity Lutheran Church will preach. Offerings go to local charity. the entire community is urged to attend.
The Star acknowledges and corrects a Saturday news item claiming R L Pangle was called to Strasburg due to his father John Pangle suffering paralysis. Lena Pangle writes that Mr Pangle has not had a stroke and is in perfect health. The Star regrets the error.
The Stephens City road project is finished with a 28 foot macadam roadbed and six foot shoulders. Two workmen built on the eastern side for protection and to allow plant frass between curb and sidewalk. Concrete steps are added and a stone wall protects a deep bank by the garage driveway.
In Chicago a jury charged Earle Wynekoop with murder over the deaths of his wife Rheta and possibly others. His mother Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop is jailed as a suspect. Earle, though injured, reportedly laughed in court as the proceedings continued.
Albert Fletcher of Warrenton resigns effective December 1 from his post supervising game wardens for northern Virginia. Webb Midgette of Fredericksburg succeeds him. Fletcher denied using state office time or salary to back Democrats in the pre election period and said he supported candidates at his own expense. He backed State Senator W Worth Smith in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Martin Conboy, former special counsel to President Roosevelt during his New York governorship and key figure in the James Walker ouster trial, is appointed district attorney for the Southern District of New York by the president.
Under a deed of trust dated January 15 1926 trustee will offer at public auction in front of the Frederick County Courthouse Winchester Virginia on Saturday December 30 1933 at eleven o'clock a m a tract of land of eighteen acres three roods six hundred twelve square poles containing an eight room frame dwelling and an apple orchard with Stayman and Black Twigs varieties Terms: one third cash day of sale balance secured by two bonds due one and two years after date with six percent interest semi annually and insured buildings. debt secured is 3500 to the Loan and Building Corporation of Winchester Virginia. R Gray Williams trustee. oaw 4 wks 11 29 & 12 6 13 20.
An old pattern advertisement urges readers to sew at home with Marian Martin patterns. It promotes a versatile model with flattering features and sleeves, offered in velvet satin crepe or faille, and provides sizing 36 to 46 with fabric yardage. It directs readers to order Pattern 9786 and to request the Winter Edition booklet by mail.
Louisville November 14. Wood F. Axton president of the Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company refuses a stockholder driven salary increase despite a $40 million business year. Ray Ellis of New Albany asserts $10,000 pay is insufficient. Axton says any raise starts at the bottom. The plant dedication notes absorbment of the new federal tobacco processing tax and expansion to three shifts adding over 600 workers.
Dr Logan Clendening reports that Francis Hauksbee used a friction glowing glass globe to reveal hand outlines on wax interior, hinting at an early light source phenomenon. A Kalamazoo College experiment replicated the effect but showed no true Roentgen ray penetration.
Sumner Welles United States ambassador to Cuba arrived by air from Washington and was greeted by a cheering crowd of more than 1,000 Cubans and Americans at the Pan American Airways dock. Streets and the embassy were lined as he moved through Havana.
A community Thanksgiving service will be held at Bethel Lutheran Church in Albin tomorrow at 10 o clock in the morning. Rev Guy M Morrow of the Kerns town charge will preach the sermon and an invitation is extended to the entire community to attend.
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