This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1949
Page
12
TV listings show WNEW Channel 4 schedule with Kukla Fran and Ollie at 7:00 and late night features including News and sports segments. WOIC Channel 9 presents Sports Special and The Ford Theater followed by Peoples Platform.
A fragmented listing shows NBC CBS and various programs: News, Sports, Talk, and entertainment slots from 6:00 pm to 12:00 am. Programs include Henry Morgan Show, Jimmy Durante, Meet the Press, and Dancing, with multiple network notes and announcer tags.
Harold E. Thompson a Sikorsky pilot in Cleveland set a meter speed mark of 129.6 miles per hour on April 7 1949.
Frances Virginia Lewis aged 86, widow of James E. Lewis, died at her son Walter Lewis’s home in Cedar Grove. Survived by two daughters, four sons, three sisters, 27 grandchildren, and 20 great grandchildren. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Clifton Lewis’s home on Elery Star Route. Burial in Grange Hall cemetery near Albin.
Three Berkeley county bands Martinsburg high and grade schools and Hedgesville have accepted invitations to the Mummers Parade on October 31 in Hagerstown. Already 50 organizations including Detroit groups and the Baltimore Colts band plan to join. The event last year drew about 85 000 people with Miss America of 1949 to reign as queen.
Semiannual Winchester recreation council meeting set for 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Georgeee hotel. A business agenda of the recreation committee will follow the council meeting. Television receiving antennas are short in length due to the frequencies used for broadcasting pictures.
The term kil comes from Dutch meaning channel or creek and explains why many streams in Dutch settled areas retain the name Kill. Examples include Kill van Kull Cata kill and Kaarterskill reflecting local geography and settlement history.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.