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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1947
Page
3
A man reports ten years of stomach trouble with a brick sensation, gas, headaches, and constipation. After taking INNER-AID, symptoms vanished by day two, bowels regularized, and energy returned. the ad promises a 12 juice plant formula that aids digestion and liver cleansing, sold in drug stores.
Police court fined four colored defendants fifty dollars each and costs after a October 17 fight on N Kent Street. George Frazer Bahaman camp Levi Harris Evelyn Ranson Grace Carter pleaded guilty before Judge John Rice. Harris received hospital treatment after an exchange over a bottle and a corn cutter incident.
W. Benton Snider of this city is named judge for the Shenandoah Valley Gun-Dog club third annual fall field trials for pointers and setters to be held Saturday and Sunday near Deerfield in Augusta county. Open stakes run Saturday in all-age and derby classes. Sunday amateur stakes for gun-dogs and puppies decided on native and liberated quail.
Avon R Omps of Ridge West Virginia was named recipient of a Sears Roebuck freshman scholarship to Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Committees in the first 1789 Congress debated the title for the President, with the Senate proposing His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of their Liberties, and the House trimming it to The President of the United States. The Senate agreed on May 14.
An auction will be held at the late residence of Hutch DeHaven, deceased, about 2 miles east of Gainesboro, starting 1 PM on Wednesday October 22, 1947. Items include farm equipment, a 1938 DeLuxe Ford, livestock, household goods, and miscellaneous tools. cash terms. Auctioneer Roy P. Duvall. administrator W. E. Edwards.
In a personal reflection Hal Boyle recounts how after decades of resisting dawn he has embraced morning. He recalls childhood newspaper routes and night work, noting sunrise now offers spiritual clarity and perspective that had eluded him for years. The piece ends with a meditation on lifelong growth.
In Szczecin Poland the government announced the entire administration of the port is being handed over by Russians to Poles. Since 1945 much of the port has been Russian controlled though Poles say only a small strip remains leased to the Soviets for shipments between their country and their occupied zone in Germany.
German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach coined the term Caucasian in 1775. He regarded the peoples around the Caucasus as the most perfect and typical representatives of the white race.
The most frequent fire sites are dwellings stores and shops motor vehicles apartments and rooming houses and manufacturing plants. The order given ranks residential areas first followed by retail spaces vehicles housing and industrial sites.
London reports the Labour Government sold 120 million dollars worth of gold from reserves on the eve of Parliament. The sale to the United States came with a separate disclosure that the Treasury obtained an equal amount of dollars by exchanging sterling with the International Monetary Fund amid an ongoing economic crisis.
In Berkeley California on October 21 theater manager William E. O Neill tried to eject a dog that followed his young patron. He was bitten on the right leg and withdrew. A police officer M M Thomas then faced the dog and was bitten on the hand before retiring. Patrolman N H Harstad finally subdued the dog with a lasso.
Hamburg dispatch reports the Reichspost leads telegraph traffic in the British zone of Germany at a level higher than before the war, as announced by the British Control Commission.
Jack and Bermeta L. Kemp receive a permit to run a public dance hall at High Point Inn Stephens City outlining approval for their venue and activity.
Joseph R. Wright who died yesterday at a Lancaster hospital will be buried in Mount Hebron cemetery here on Thursday.
A fragment notes the death of Mr Wright formerly of the county and mentions a daughter and son Joseph O Connor of Pa along with five grandsons and one great grandson.
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