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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1937
Page
3
An information bureau notice offers Everybody's Coin Book tracing coin history, value, and rarities to help beginners build a collection. Send ten cents to cover cost and handling to receive the booklet. Washington, DC.
A list of shuffled substitutions and name swaps from a classroom dialogue includes lines like Jean versus Baker, Dick versus Sutton, Dorothy versus Anderson, Myrna versus Mary, Margaret chasing the Cock, Gussie versus Cahill, Ann versus Browning, Paul versus Fries, Louise as actress versus Miller, Charles as manse versus Parish, Merle versus Moore, Kathryn Rhone-land er versus Rhine-lander, Barrett Elizabeth versus Zelda, Peggy Jack-in-tube versus Mac-In-Tyre, Johnnie yellow versus Greene, Browning Robert versus E. P, Luther rain versus Hale, Isabel disagree versus Allegree, plus references to Chatterbox-Ann Yost and others, Edna Greece versus Holland, and a faculty portrait remark.
The page lists school activities from Monday to Saturday including assemblies meetings and sports and notes a provocative editoral feature about subs and a firs team. The editor hints at nutty opinions while inviting readers to review last week’s editorial associated with a pictured scene.
In a downpour the Washington and Lee team battled the Judges to a scoreless draw. Only scattered chances and heavy weather defined the rainy matchup.
The meeting adopted graduate representation in the executive council and renewed last year’s honor pledge to strengthen the school honor system. A report on emblems and plaques awarded to rooms paying 100 percent G. O. dues was presented with thanks to Miss Pannill and Mr. Sybert. A student court idea was outlined with nine jurors appointed by the president vice president and another member. Kenneth Heine was elected to assist with appointments. A bicycle rule was set requiring riders to dismount on sidewalks and push to the building with monitors to enforce it. Meeting adjourned.
A humorous verse about a Handley girl who plays soccer and baseball very well and wins all her games. Another girl is praised for soccer skill but is spoiled, causing friction with friends.
A playful string of hypothetical word swaps questions about names places and items turning people into foods or altering outcomes. The text jumbles identities like Margaret Mary Lois Cooper Norman Bailey Skoots Milburn and Win a fred into potatoes beans or other objects.
At the upcoming game the cheer squad plans a bold opening sequence starting with a single letter. Organizers challenge the rest of the crowd to join in and make a bigger roar.
Snippets from a classroom exchange include Mr Quarles guiding a trip past a baseball park and a joke about the canary bath. Students debate paraphrase of highly incensed headmaster with a wry twist linking to Richard the Lion Hearted’s battles and a playful answer about his last one.
A classroom catalog lists books and student names tied to titles including The Swiss Family Robinson, Little Women, Gone With The Wind, The Call of the Wild, Romeo and Juliet, The Last of the Mohicans, and many others. Hats and diplomas reference a senior class theme.
In a lively Handiian page last week Red Baker’s Dayton trip draws chatter about his mood. A Junior boy led a class talk on one arm driving and urged peers to practice what they preach. Banter about a Berryville lad’s hay filled car and a Senior unsettled by page one Handiian feature follow. Lohr’s return, a farmerlike assistant coach, and dancing lessons for a Senior hero spark gossip. Handhandiian deposits collection and calls for actors to join assembly lights are noted along with a fortune telling Sophomore and ears pricked Sophomore.
Mrs. Frank Whitlatch of 6 Hess Ave Parkersburg West Virginia credits Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription with helping her during girlhood and functional disturbances. She reports weight gain improved appetite restored color and relief from back pains and headaches. The advertisement promotes new tablet and liquid sizes at 50 cents 1 and 1 35.
Handley girls bowling team won two of three games last Friday night. Top scores posted by Hottel 106 Sencindiver 102 and Lillis 100 with other scores around 79 to 98.
Handley fans rally after a 14 to 6 win over AMA in the first away game. The team has played four of nine games, with a win or tie record, and faces Allegany in Cumberland next. Cheerleaders seek bus transport as students are urged to attend.
A playful verse mirrors Browning as a student writes about Jacob Blake beside a lake and Sir Francis Drake. The speaker fumbles with puns and alliteration while lamenting the lad's death and presenting mock honors to Drake and Jacob Blake. The piece ends with a tongue in cheek tribute to Browning’s style and a nod to Anthony Taliaferro.
Secretary of the Navy presented special congressional medals to Admiral Richard E. Byrd and scientists William C. Haines and A. A. Lindsey in Washington. Byrd pledged to distribute medals to his expedition members while noting plans for future exploration and ongoing international cooperation.
Congress authorized 57 recipients of the medal. two have died since the expedition disbanded Dr. L. H. Potaka and I. A. Tinghof. The remaining awardees include C. A. Abele Jr. and many others listed by name in full.
Hollywood reports that 20 year old Spanish actress Margarita Bolando later known as Margo, married Francis Lederer in Las Vegas, Nev. They plan to work together on stage and screen possibly as a dramatic team. Lederer is a Czecho Slovakian film player.
Rome reports about 40,000 Italian volunteers in Spain including both combatants and noncombatants. The Diplomatic Information agency rebuts earlier figures as fantastical and confirms Valencia volunteers are notably numerous.
Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont, commander of 2,500 U. S. Marines in China, is swapped in Shanghai after establishing permanent stations for U. S. forces, Central Press reports.
Alice Fye and the Ritz Bros with Don Ameche and Charles Winninger star in You Cant Have Everything at Hable's Palace Theatre for four days. The show promises a big singsation filled with songs and comedy plus a Fox news reel.
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