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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1939
Page
10
Connecticut police launched an intensive search for 5 year old Bobby Bruce and 4 year old Robert Belanger who vanished while playing in the Bruce yard in East Hartford.
The Middletown School News lists staff including Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor-in-Chief Margaret Matthews and Louise Williams with reporters Audra Hunt Martha Keeler Ruth Speery Helen Hottel and Arthur Shipe.
Daily page six features Dr. Logan Clendening with helpful and authoritative health articles. The column presents medical guidance and practical tips for readers seeking trustworthy biomedical information.
Special Commissioners offer for sale at public auction on Saturday November 25 1939 in Winchester Virginia a two hundred acre tract lying partly in Frederick and Shenandoah counties. The land sits southwest of Star Tannery along Cedar Creek and borders Hererndorff Hershman and others. Sale terms require one third cash with balance in two annual installments evidenced by purchaser notes or bonds.
Ad promotes Creomulsion for bronchitis relief. Claims to loosen phlegm and soothe inflamed bronchial membranes. Highlights non narcotic formula with beechwood creosote and other medicines. urges asking a pharmacist to sell Creomulsion.
Summary of Middletown history noting the Senseny family from Dr. Peter Senseny born 1783 through 18th and 19th century development. Highlights include towns, churches, mills, a hospital use in Civil War, railroads, and local figures such as George Haddox Senseney and Catherine Senseny. Mentions Winchester Strasburg and the Mount Hebron area with land, schools, and early industry.
The school year’s student activities include Pauline Kline rejoining the senior class, a Weiner roast at Elizabeth Furnace by the Junior class, glow worms spotted there, and plans for a Halloween party. Freshmen study Middletown history, with top compositions by Margaret Cornwell and Helen Cornwell. Home Economics hosts a Freshman initiation, FFA reports a trip to Stephens City and project updates, plus class gossip and Halloween invitations.
The Junior Red Cross representative Charlotte Shiley plans to go to Winchester Saturday to help pack Christmas boxes for children abroad. A framed letter of thanks from Czecho Slovakia hangs in the seventh grade room.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad reported net operating income for September at 3,842,888, up from 2,714,529 in September 1938. Gross operating revenue reached 15,612,203 with freight at 13,764,063. last year’s September gross was 12,602,744. For the first nine months of 1939 net income totaled 16,588,943 versus 8,717,573 in the prior year.
Clarence Sickel, superintendent of Brethren missions in South America, will present an illustrated lecture at the Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue Tuesday at 7 30 in the evening. He has directed work from Argentina for years and has seen success in establishing mission stations and Protestant outreach among natives. The public is invited to attend and view slides taken by the speaker.
Five hundred fifty feet of hose for the Independent Hose Company of Stephens City arrived Saturday night. The 242inch hose will supplement the equipment obtained with the purchase of the South End Hose Company's truck.
Manufacturers and distributors spent 167 million dollars last year on newspaper space proving the lifeblood role of ads for retailers. The piece argues newspapers are essential to trade and market reach for businesses.
Judge Philip Williams of Frederick Circuit Court grants a decree of absolute divorce in the Virginia Blood versus George Cromwell Blood case on cruelty grounds. Neither party may remarry for six months.
Since 1859 oil first flowed from Drake's Titusville well, the American petroleum industry has produced more than 21 billion barrels of petroleum, representing 64 percent of world output. The industry also holds over 17 billion barrels in underground recoverable reserves.
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