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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1938
Page
10
Puzzle grid phrases mix with mis-typed clues and garbled letters from 1938. Readers encounter scattered definitions and stray letter fragments for across and down terms, with remnants of names and numbers distorted beyond full comprehension.
Mrs. H. D. Fuller was re elected unanimously as president of the District Nurse Association at the annual meeting. New officers include Mrs. Clarence Hardy first vice president Mrs. Mason Snapp second vice president Mrs. C. S. Burgess third vice president Mrs. Martin Wisecarver secretary treasurer and Miss Mary L Pearson and Miss Evelyn C Dean named as nurses.
Dale Carnegie style advice praises learning from humble workers and from hotel manager Robert K. Christenberry who improved hotel floors with bristle brushes. The piece lists six common illness causes from 1938 science, including injury, deformity, diet, poisoning, germs, and cancer.
The funeral of the late William Ritter was held Friday at 11 AM from Jones Funeral Home with Rev. Herman McKay officiating. Interment followed in Greenwood Cemetery beside his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ritter. Pallbearers were Ashley Mason, J. W. Keller, L. D. Grubbs, Omer Showalter, C. M. Martin, and T. F. Russell.
In Tulsa an arsenic named captive catfish serves as a living textbook for a high school science class. It is to be tossed back into its native pool as a reward for stamina. The fish allegedly drove a fin into a rescuer’s hand when classes reconvened and arsenic rested on damp sand. A pair of galoshes left in the room had melted from heat.
Hable's Palace Theatre shows Gateway featuring Don Ameche Arleen Whal en with Binnie Barnes and Gregory Ratoff on Monday and Tuesday. The drama centers on Ellis Island telling its story of concentrated human emotion. A Technicolor fashion reel from Paris and New York and a Fox News Reel are also scheduled.
In Washington Connecticut on October 8 a romance spanning three years from southern golf links culminated in the wedding of Horton Smith, a top professional, to Miss Barbara L Bourne at St John s Episcopal Church. Miss Bourne is the 26 year old granddaughter of Frederick Bourne former president of Singer Sewing Machine Company and an accomplished golfer.
In Pasadena the Mount Wilson Observatory reports two-year sun spot activity higher than any similar period since 1870. Dr. Sears notes a possible double maximum with a chance the peak lies ahead, while observers attribute disruptions in communications to solar disturbances and consider a minor weather influence.
Fred Cary a 27 year old paperhanger from Iron Gate was found guilty of first degree murder in Botetourt County Virginia and given a prison term of 61 years six months and four days The trial heard he remembered nothing of the slaying of Mrs Thelma Weiss aged 22 a mother of one Cary claimed insanity and two doctors testified he suffered an epileptic equivalent and had the mentality of a nine year old Mrs Wells estranged from her husband was killed at her father’s home in Tron Gate Cary also wounded himself twice with a pistol after the shooting
Radio listeners will hear Pope Pius' apostolic benediction for the eighth national Eucharistic Congress from loudspeakers in New Orleans on October 18, with NBC CBS and other networks carrying the Vatican short wave transmission. The Saturday night list features Premieres and varied programs from 7:30 to 10:45 p.m. including Joe E Brown MacLean and Quiz. Sunday programs include World Series coverage and The Jack Benny Show among others.
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