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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1940
Page
10
Fragmentary OCR notes describe the British fleet in the eastern Mediterranean seeking aid from allies to hold a strategic position against Greece. The text emphasizes British control and battlefield advantage in the region.
Local market prices listed per bag and per barrel include oats and mixed feeds with several entries for fowl stock. The catalog shows roosters hens and young birds with varying prices and weights, indicating a broad poultry and feed offerings section.
Local market report lists flour bags by size with per barrel pricing for 2 4 8 and 12 pound bags and patent brands. It also shows DOLL and other feeds such as oats middling horse hog meal mixed feed scratch mash chick grower broiler mash turkey grower and butter prices from the creamery.
An extended roster features Winchester 158 Walker and numerous individuals with patrol ranks and initials. The page lists dozens of surnames such as Kuykendall Taylor Stouffer Fisher Hockman Jenkins Punk Anderson Mason Fox Johnson Haines Anderson Jenkins Brumback Patton Jackson Catlett Ritter Linaburg Clyde Moten Martin Lockhart Churchill Melton Hoover Patton Sheetz Wendell Lineburg Carroll Peele Patton Moseley Brill Gold Settle Harris Grove Bursey Whitlock Fries Vaesay Hewitt Jackson Turner McDonald Spurling Michael Wicks Brown Bosserman Larrick Russell Seely Maphis Patton Reed Puckett Peyton Jackson Hughes Snyder Good Boyce Smith Alt McKee Hottel Martin Custer Clevenger Laren Bailey Rogers Lake Haun Sheets Dick Perry Coleman Kline Grandstaff Nelson Baker Houchins Swartz Eyler Williams Duvall Long Pearce and others, followed by note “Continued on Page 11 Jol. 2.”
A long list of residents and relatives appears in the clipping, naming Frederick County individuals with given and middle initials, surnames including Bayliss, Hausenfluck, Newlin, Sargent, Brill, and many others. The column ends with a note “Continued on Page 11, Col. 3.”
Unofficial list shows Clarke county Frederick county and Winchester registrants in drawn order from Washington. Names appear as numbers were drawn. Official list to be posted by local Selective Service boards. additional names to run in The Star tomorrow.
A continued column lists Clarke County residents with associated numbers and identifiers. The fragment names many individuals such as Garland Ray Lloyd Stephen Banks Edgar Mercer Allen Brown Hummer and others, ending with a note of continuation on Page 11 Column 4.
Henry Ford declares newspapers the best educators as they arrive daily and stay up to the minute, praising their role in public knowledge and learning.
Lieut. Col. Charles R. Morris stirs the draft capsules as Capt. R. B. Davidson pours them into the goldfish bowl at Departmental Auditorium Washington for the national lottery to determine order of call. Davidson supervised insertion of numbers into capsules. Morris blindfolded Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson who opened the draw.
Mrs Mildred C Bell of Boston attended the Washington auditorium as Secretary Henry L Stimson drew the first draft lottery capsule containing number 158 held by her son Robert 21 She screamed and earlier expressed hope her boy would be called early
Berryville Virginia coroner C H Ken ruled two pedestrian deaths accidental after inquests. John Fatty Mason of Winchester operated the car that struck Emma S Banks an elderly colored woman at the Josephine City lane Millwood pike junction around 12 30 Sunday morning. John Reed 22 of Round Hill drove into Berryville on Route 7 at 6 45 Monday evening when he struck J L Sanders a Florida man picking apples in town.
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