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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1930
Page
10
Prohibition agents closed in at daybreak and seized a 60 foot express cruiser loaded with malt and liquor valued at $75,000 in a sheltered cove of Great South Bay near Islip. They also took two automobile trucks nearby and an old coupe. Ten men were detained.
An unspecified Spokane Spokesman-Review item attributes excessive smoking to faulty dieting. It claims undernourished individuals crave irrelevant ties and may seek others who also smoke too much, highlighting diet–smoke health tensions.
A collage of items from past years includes political sparring between John Garland Pollard and William Moseley Brown over Shenandoah National Park, a parachute jump by Ev Shryock planned at Winchester Airport, and social visits by Sir John Parsons and Mrs. Stanley Smith to the McGuire home.
Fifteen years prior, on October 18 1915, Italy declared war and sent forces to assist Servia. Meanwhile U S banks report over a billion dollars in surplus as Wilson plans a 1 200 000 man army and navy expansion. Mexican bandits raid near Brownsville killing two Americans. National Apple Day urged with apples served in 197 ways.
Virginia's first-year eleven beat VMI freshmen 18 to 6 in Charlottesville. Yearlings scored in the first, second, and third quarters, while the visitors tally came early in the second period.
Outstanding afternoon slate features Western Maryland versus Georgetown St Johns meets Maryland Navy plays Duke Hopkins clashes with Rutgers Army faces Harvard W and L meets Kentucky Princeton battles Cornell Notre Dame versus Carnegie Tech Alabama tangles Tennessee Georgia Tech vs Alabama Poly Georgia vs North Carolina V M I vs Virginia V P I takes on William and Mary.
Market report lists prices and notes for eggs hens ducks creamery butter feed and hogs. Includes wheat corn sheep lambs hogs and dairy feeds with corrected close values and general market movements.
J Thomas Heflin Jr son of U S Senator J Thomas Heflin of Alabama pleaded guilty in police court to a drunk and disorderly conduct charge. He was fined 10 dollars plus 2 dollars costs, unable to pay, and telegraphed an uncle for the money. He was arrested early at a downtown Atlanta hotel after giving false names.
Mr. Newton Sumption, age 80, has sold his tenant home near Woodbine school house and moved to Gerrardstown West Virginia to live with his sister Mrs. John McBride due to ill health. He will be greatly missed in Grimes. The community also notes visits by Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Glaize of Albin and by Col. and Mrs. C. Weden Cochran of New York at the farm managed by William Teets.
Cuba produces more than 0.03 of the world sponge supply but has been indisposed recently. The body of Edward Taylor, former local resident, was buried at Galilee Church on Wednesday with a large turnout of relatives and friends. Some members of the local church plan to attend the national convention.
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