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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1933
Page
8
Washington and Lee University students threaten legal action over steep clothes cleaning costs. Frank J. Young, Brooklyn editor of Ring-Tam Phi, vows to seek an injunction if cleaners do not act within three days, alleging price increases of over 100 percent tied to the National Recovery Act.
Richmond, Oct. 10. Governor Pollard rebuked signers of the NRA agreement for passing costs to consumers. He called such acts frauds and questioned cooperation with the President. State purchasing agent C. A. Osborne cited higher costs on chairs bought for the College of William and Mary. No directive given on procurement.
The passage plays with language about wasteful spending versus saving and a note on nighttime tiger behavior. It blends malformed wording with a riddle like compare and contrast. The text references spending habits and animal behavior in a fragmented style.
Pittsburgh author Harvey O Connor known for Mellons Millions was in a police court to gain freedom on a writ of habeas corpus after arrest on a suspicious person charge. Police say officers arrested him for an ambush warrants alleging he incited a riot during a clash between steel strikers and deputies.
Numerous social news items list visits and relatives across Farmville Shenandoah Harrisonburg Augusta County and Winchester. Families include Burch McKay Anders Jolliffe Reid Jolliffe and Beards with travel to or from Memorial Hospital and State Teachers College.
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