Winchester Evening Star 1896 Item Highlights Wars and Verses
Local page notes editorial leadership at Winchester Virginia and office contacts. A brief Associated Press republication disclaimer appears alongside a biblical verse and a quoted moral line about loyalty among comrades. The fragmentary text references a September 1961 FBI mention.
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Winchester Evening Star
H. F. Byrd, JR
B.D. Koontz
Gene Miller
Winchester
Associated Press
Gallagher-DeLisser, Inc
East 44Th Street
New York
N.Y
FBI
Thessalonians
Christ
Key and Canadian Politics Tie To Free Nation Themes
The article reflects on Francis Scott Key and the Star Spangled Banner, the rise of Canada's New Party blending CCF and Canadian Labor Congress, debates over agricultural funding and research, pesticide use and wildlife effects, and a newspaper editor’s view on reporting on global events including Khrushchev and Castro. It notes readers’ calls to ban international news and defends comprehensive coverage.
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Key
Montreal
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Canadian Labor Congress
CCF
Prairies
Newton
Sylva
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
August Rain Sparse in Winchester History
In 51 years since 1900 only three Aug months had less than an inch of rain in Winchester: 1904 1910 and 1930. A sequence of earthquakes shook central Italy causing property damage and few casualties but no deaths.
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Winchester
Italy
Daily Meditation On Hazard Facing Each New Generation
The meditation notes a constant threat to the current generation, comparing inherited dangers from duel risk and disease to modern fears. It reflects on past perils like smallpox and duels while acknowledging present anxieties about danger and suffering.
Realization of Bomb Threats and Human Resilience
Earl 1 notes that a few bombs could revert cities to savagery while humanity seeks cures for disease. He warns armament endangers future peace and urges living effectively day by day as a challenge from God to develop powers.
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God
25 Years Ago Miss Anne Elting Week Guest in Charleston
Miss Anne Elting left to spend a week as the guest of Miss Anne Tucker Payne in Charleston West Virginia. Mr and Mrs A J Novick motored to Baltimore to meet their son Marshall who was returning from Camp Saginaw near Oxford Pennsylvania where he had spent nine weeks.
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Anne Elting
Anne Tucker Payne
Charleston
W. Va
A. J. Novick
Baltimore
Marshall
Camp Saginaw
Oxford
Mount Jackson man visits Winchester in 1911 nostalgia
Fifty years ago John L Wissler Sr of Mount Jackson spent a short stay in Winchester. Jonah L Tavenner returned from Woodstock where he stayed with Judge and Mrs Frank S Tavenner. Dr and Mrs William P McGuire were at Edgerton Massachusetts where their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Lewis H Hyde of New York owned a cottage.
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John L. Wissler, Sr
Mount Jackson
Winchester
Jonah L. Tavenner
Woodstock
Frank S. Tavenner
William P. McGuire
Edgerton
Mass
Lewis H., Hyde
New York
Russia Resumes Nuclear Tests Amid Berlin Crises
The Soviet Union announced resumption of nuclear testing signaling power over world opinion during Geneva talks on a test ban. Khrushchev linked Berlin pressure to force Western concessions while United States and Moscow held their 338th talks without progress.
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Washington
Khrushchev
Berlin
West
Russia
Geneva
United States
Congress
Kennedy
Moscow
Belgrade
Harry M. Jackson
Washingtonemocrat
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
U.S
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Arthur H. Dean
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Dean
Seminar on National Security Affairs in Fredericksburg
Senator Fulbright receives invitation to a Fredericksburg seminar on national security with speakers Dr. Paul Blackstock Charles Vetter and Dr. Frank Barnett. The program features a film and a panel with Dan Daniels and others. The event was postponed to be held after camp due to training demands.
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Frank R. Barnett
Ee W. C
Dan” Daniels
America
Ask
Blackstock
University of South Carolina
Europe
Vetter
Your Health Take This Test to Check Knowledge of Vitamins
A health article by Dr. Burton H. Fern presents true or false statements about vitamins. It explains vitamins as building blocks for body tissues, notes vitamin A supports night vision, discusses caffeine and beer as vitamin sources, warns against excess vitamins, and encourages readers to write for more information.
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Burton H. Fern
M.D
Bony
How's Your IQ PalmAh 100 Questions Review
Daily IQ quiz with scoring ranges from Memory Genius to Good. Questions cover medical devices, thermometer types, tree berries, prayer stools, Utah demonym, annual meat consumption, Canada’s lower house, Mexico's official language, source of natural gasoline, and checkerboard squares. Page 2 provides the answers.
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Utah
Dominion of Canada
Mexico
Spike heels spark debate on fashion and safety
HAL BOYLE describes spike heels as fashionable yet dangerous arguing they cause trips in crowds and damage to property. He shares humorous anecdotes while noting critics call them a private danger and public menace. The piece shifts to Maj Warren D Jackson joining Episcopal ministry in Boonville Missouri. Two U.S. Mail Boats operate daily on a 65 mile Lake Winnipesaukee route.
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New York
AIR Force
Boonville
Warren D. Jackson
Episcopal Church
Christ Church
U.S. Mail
Lake Winnipesaukee
New Hampshire
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Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Fort
New Canadian Party
Farm Journal
Tennessee Valley
The
Asheville
N. C
Fidel Castro
Demacles
Earl
Douglas
Fidel
Senator Fulbright
Fredericksburg
Richmond News Leader
Richardson Foundation, Inc
Daniels
Virginia House of Delegates
Virginia Commission On Constitutional Government
American Legion
William C.) Purnell
Purnell
Maryland
Virginia
National Guard
Cincinnati
Hebrew Union College
China
Herbert Zaffen
I.Q
Hal Boyle
Tri
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