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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1947
Page
2
The page lists crossword entries with clues and numbers from 24 to 43 including Makes use Male swan The water muck Transgress boat Having equal A Swiss Jones Canton Sailing vessel Builds Silvercoin Regretful Thin silk Serf Kind of tree Chums Valley of the Apex Wise man Lubricate A crease A pirate Yesterday's Answer Marry Slight taste.
Cornelia Turner age 96 of Flint Hill Virginia died at noon in Maplewood Nursing Home She was born in Rappahannock County daughter of the late Ben Co and Jane Robinson She was the widow of George Turner and left several nieces and other relatives Funeral arrangements were incomplete local funeral home reported
Henry Elson, described as the mavertan, asks which battle he fought most in America. The fragment provides no clear events or dates to identify a specific battle. Further context is required to determine the intended reference or confirmation of identity.
Forty five Lions clubs in northern Virginia will be represented at the district governor's annual fall conference in Winchester on October 28. Sessions begin at 11 a.m. at First Baptist with a cabinet meeting and governor's conference. A 12 15 luncheon follows for Lions and wives, then a city bus tour for women, ending with a banquet and dance at Sara Zane hall.
Philadelphia October 7 legal service proposed at five dollars for a half hour consultation for middle income individuals. The Philadelphia Bar Association committee cites duty to provide adequate legal aid and outlines that follow up services would be priced by agreement with clients.
In Memphis on October 6 a handcuffed black prisoner Archer Smith wrested a revolver from a deputy, killed a trusty and wounded a sheriff's deputy before being beaten into submission. Smith died from bullet wounds hours later.
Mrs Julia Be Emmert of Strasburg has been indicted by a Shenandoah county grand jury for the pistol slaying of her husband George Allen Emmert. The case was set for trial on December 2 in Woodstock.
Private Preston Whitacre completed basic training in Company G 12th infantry regiment 4th infantry division at Fort Ord California and is ordered to Japan with the 1st Cavalry Division. He earned Marksman with M 1 rifle and is 19, from Charles Town West Virginia.
A series of farm sale notices with dates and locations across Virginia Maryland and West Virginia. Listings include dairy cows bulls live stock farm machinery horses cattle sheep hogs hay grain household goods furniture and farm acreage. Locations include Kernstown Round Hill Gore Clearbrook Poolesville Boyce and Beatty with dates October 10 to November 1.
Gore 9 defeated the Bi-State all-stars 9 to 9 in a high hit game as Gardner earned the win and Peer took the loss. Gore piled up 19 hits off three starters while Allen and Gardner limited the losers to nine safeties. Renner homered, Pugh and Secrist hit two triples each, and several players doubled as Gore tied the series at one game each ahead of a deciding Sunday game at Wardensville.
GAA No. 1 stopped Worth's undefeated run by taking two games as Virginia Fruit Co. girls moved to undisputed first place. Mabel Lineburg led with 110, Bailey 124, Lyles 110, Slonaker 110, and Cingham 108. Team totals include Worth's 500 and Virginia Fruit 486. A separate note explains hinterland as back territory from German British partition era.
Seventeen year old George Thomas Lee of Octo Wisconsin was sentenced to life imprisonment after a district court jury found him guilty of first degree murder in the July 14 slaying of eight year old Charles Mulholland of Lincoln. Lee admitted choking and attacking the boy in a hayloft where the stripped body was found.
Leroy Brown of Roanoke driver of a tractor-trailer involved in the Aug. 5 crash that killed the Brooklyn driver and a companion was freed by Shenandoah county grand jury as the presentment did not constitute a true bill. Two other presentments were also returned as not true bills freeing Russell Freeze of New Market on an attempted killing charge and absolving James Whetzel of St. Luke in a pistol shooting incident from last April.
P C Petrie of Stephens City is ordered held for circuit court grand jury proceedings by Trial Justice W Erle Edwards. He faces a charge of passing a 400 bad check and is released on a $1000 bond.
Answers to the daily quiz printed on Page 4 list Switzerland as question one and Constriction as two. Arlington National Ceme likely refers to Arlington National Cemetery, with item seven In Chill, eight Pawling New York, nine in inches, and ten the branch of zoology that treats of birds.
A Kansas City doctor’s device for reducible rupture is offered free trial to readers for 30 days with a $3.50 truss at no cost. The ad promises comfort without belts and asks interested ruptured individuals to write the Physician's Appliance Co. at 9412 Koch Bldg. or 2906 Main St. for the trial.
The State of California measures about 1,200 miles along the Pacific coast and about 2860 miles in width from ocean to the Sierra Nevada crests.
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