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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1932
Page
6
New York dispatches report Lenore Ulric, famed stage actress, and her husband Sydney Blackmer are living apart. Ulric, a star developed by the late David Belasco, married Blackmer in 1929, and the estrangement has prompted divorce speculation.
Erwin Thompson, 32, an electrical engineer from Grand Junction Iowa, was found slain in a Denver house basement where his body had been concealed likely by his killer. Police suspect robbery as the motive. Thompson recently moved to Colorado after living in Fort Wayne Indiana and Erie Pennsylvania. A warrant was issued for a man near whose shack Thompson camped.
The halibut, abundant in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, is the largest of our good food fishes. A large halibut weighs from 250 to 400 pounds.
Mrs Bernice Rutherford aged 30 sits in a Los Angeles jail after being held for the murder of her wealthy 88 year old uncle Frank Ring. Ring a retired lumberman was shot at the breakfast table in his home where Rutherford had served as nurse. Police report she claimed he ordered her from the house and that she did not mean to shoot.
A brief historical aphorism noting that quarrels end quickly when one party withdraws and that no battle occurs without two sides. The Seneca quote underscores the need for two participants to drive conflict.
A health guidance note argues that kneeling while cleaning a bath is better for most women than bending. It cites reduced back strain and improved reach for tub scrubbing tasks.
Kansas rancher Joe Sowders, shown in Eureka hospital, is charged with murdering his wife Gladys Sowders less than a year after their marriage. The victim was shot three times by a man who visited her Wichita lodging, identified by her son Stanley Schaaf as Sowders. Sowders was later injured in an auto crash and denied being in Wichita that night.
A quirky observation notes that a wife's delicate hands can imply her husband’s rough work habits as he uses a can opener, suggesting playful domestic contrasts.
Irvin Goodman, Portland representative of the Mooney defense committee, places a suitcase at Stewart and Market streets on July 22, 1916, claiming no knowledge of its contents as a fatal bombing kills 10 people.
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