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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1936
Page
5
A sprawling parade of local businesses invites readers to insure, repair, dine, shop and learn. From Firestone to Haldeman Dairy, Flower Shop to Winchester Business College, it lists services and suppliers like Rosenberg's insulation, Shockey Roofing, Underwood Bakery, and Kurtz winter goods, all anchored by telephone numbers and ad pitch.
Mrs. R. T. Bryarly announces the Children’s Home Society of Virginia drive will run October 12 through 17 in Winchester. The campaign seeks broad support to sustain the society’s work, with a mass meeting at Handley Library at 4 p.m. next Monday inviting wide attendance.
The Montgomery Ward cooking school opens at 2 p m today at the Ward store in Winchester. Instructor J Brunson demonstrates pressure cooking and canning to show faster meals, lower fuel use, and safer preservation. The free sessions run throughout the week for housewives and others interested.
GRAND RAPIDS Mich Oct 6 Mrs Diana Bechtel who turns 101 on October 19 says she has never voted and has no plans to vote in November explaining in her day women did not get excited over politics.
Julius Goemboes of Hungary died in a Nymphenburg sanitarium at 50 after a long illness. He led Hungary from 1932 forming a cabinet without a noble, pushed postwar treaty revision, and helped forge the 1934 Rome pact with Germany and Italy. Cabinet resignations followed his death. Koloman Daranyi named acting premier.
In New Jersey on October 6 the Rev. Vincent yi of Our Lady of Mount Carmel alleges two fakirs exploited immigrant women with fake cures. He says they charged up to $7 per visit and used old world beliefs in necromancy to claim healing. Police pledged aid in tracking the men.
Miss Vivian Carroll of Hagerstown Maryland received minor injuries Sunday night when the car she rode in collided with the automobile of John E Hershberger of 116 West Monmouth Street. Police said Hershberger car was in the wrong lane and he assumed responsibility. Damages to both cars were about 110 dollars. The crash occurred about 1115 PM near the O Sullivan Ruba corner. No hearing was scheduled.
A surge in authorized foreign service troops prompts a push to enlist many men for Hawaii Panama and the Philippines. Sergeant Frank Likar leads recruitment from Winchester area to meet October 30 transport quotas. Enlistees must prove character pass physical and intelligence tests. Recruits go to Ft Slocum N Y before sailing for destinations with a two to three week New York stay.
E. A. Crowl chairman of the Radio Commission urged owners of oil burning and coal stokers furnaces to contact him for inspections to prevent radio interference. Interfering units must be fitted with filters to reduce static.
Harry C. Jones, jailed for life since 1924 for killing a Baltimore police officer, is among 26 inmates to face parole hearings on October 14.
Albert Auwaerter, manager of the Chicago Club, laments the decline of refined dining in America. He notes fewer trained European chefs waiters and carvers and doubts more than ten men in the country can carve a saddle of beef.
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