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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1934
Page
2
County Agent I Fred Stine urges farmers to consider the 1935 corn hog control referendum and AA A programs. He cites drought effects, price changes, and the need to limit corn acreage to balance feed grain supplies and hog production for 1936 and 1937.
Ambounce d Tom Baldridge announces the international dancing team DeCarlos and Grenada will appear at Capitol's third stage on Saturday in Cabaret Nights. The program includes Billy Barnes and Soddy Haines and His Capitalians, the film Man With Two Faces starring Edward G Robinson, plus McNamee News and comedy.
An observation by W. L. Starbuck of Denver Colo notes in Collier's Weekly that newly mined diamonds can explode due to internal strain from their unique structure.
In Montgomery Alabama the governor’s unsigned 1935 automobile tag check was rejected by the treasury. The custodian couldn’t cash it because the governor forgot to sign it. In Rochester New York Joseph King 52 is hospitalized after a tree limb broke his ankle in a sawed off limb incident near St George Church.
Rose Marty Clayton lost her watch at the Allentown fair. Patrolman John Grance found a man trying to sell a watch in Trenton and traced it to its owner. Rose Mary Clayton retrieved her watch.
George Yanowski received $86.60 after Judge F. M. Field rejected the claim that one glass of beer incapacitated him. The dairy cart collision was argued to be influenced by the beer drink, but the judge quipped that drinking beer is now common.
Workmen draining Lincoln Park pools found an albino goldfish with a red cross on its back. Floyd Eight, Young director of the Aquarium, called it a freak.
In Greenville County the supervisor of the county courthouse clock seeks to align all four faces within five minutes. He models the problem as an algebraic equation using pigeons roosting on the dials to gauge if they tilt time up or down.
In Wellsboro Tioga County a notorious burglar known as a phantom burglar died after a bear attack. He entered H. A. Gross's home, stole a dinner in front of the family, then fled. A forest ranger tracking prior depredations shot the bear, ending the raid.
The accepted standard of time measurement is defined by the period of the Earth's rotation on its axis, serving as the fundamental basis for civil time. This description outlines how the rotation governs daily time divisions and the designation of time standards.
Mary Wiggins a famed stunt performer doubles for top stars and performs dangerous feats. She will ride a motorcycle through a double board wall at the International Congress of Daredevils during the Frederick Fair on October 12, a feat no woman has attempted before.
The United States imports more cod liver oil from Norway than from any other country, highlighting Norway as the leading supplier in this trade.
Feen a mint offers quick acting relief marketed as a safe laxative gum for busy people. It claims gentle cleansing without upsetting the stomach and urges immediate use to stay on schedule.
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