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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1952
Page
7
The American folk opera Porgy and Bess drew enthusiastic cheers during its European premiere in Vienna last night. The performance highlighted the work’s enduring appeal in a major cultural center.
Classified advertisements require cash payment before 10 a m at The Star Office for out of town ads. Late submissions may be restricted to issuance and delivery.
Farm for sale in Parm burg West Virginia four acres. Contact 4431 for details. Also for sale foot lockers priced at ten dollars fifty cents and larger trunk lockers. Readable text includes gas A&wN listings.
Classified ad fragment lists two sale items including three living room suites at 119.50 and a machine. Location near Main Street Veg and date noted as 9-8-61.
Short notices list job asks for two waitresses for Winchester Lunch in Winchester Virginia with hours four to twelve and contact numbers. Also a light housekeeping position and a live in option at a Win home. A three room apartment for rent with heat lights and water on Nee Ave.
Classified notices show multiple small ads including a handyman wanted at Bovas Drug Store, two male dishwashers needed for Capitol Restaurant, a safe for sale, a property sale notice through John Hepfer, white shirts for laundering, two male kittens, and child care services. Contact numbers and locations appear with each item.
Multiple rental notices list three room apartments with heat hot water and private entries at various addresses including 808 S Braddock 548 N Loudoun and 132 Amherst St. Single and double rooms for girls and furnished options at 1620 Valley are advertised along with Holiday Apartments two bedrooms modern amenities electric range lights heat and air.
Postal and local notices outline various community items across Romney and Keyser in West Virginia along with Frostburg details. The fragment references available data and locations, signaling public notices or brief items in the periodical.
Julius A. Truesdell a former Beloit College graduate who worked on the Outlook St Paul Dispatch and later for the New York Times Washington Bureau and the Bluemont News Agency died recently. He served as secretary to Senator Robert La Follette and had a noted anecdote about Sitting Bull and a telephone. He is survived by Major General Karl Truesdell Horace Truesdell and five grandchildren. Mrs Cornelia Truesdell died April 9 1948 and one son previously died.
Col. Levi Chase, 34, a highly decorated combat pilot, earned a second Silver Star for leading the 8th Fighter-Bomber Group on three raids over Pyongyang during the July 11 operation. He totals 357 combat missions across World War II and Korea. Chase studied law at Syracuse and Albany, later returning to service in 1951. He and his wife, with four sons, live in Varick, New York.
The Canadian Pacific Lines flagship Princess Kathleen sank after striking a reef a mile and a half off course near Alaska. Of 415 aboard, none were lost, with 118 crew members abandoning ship as it listed and disappeared beneath 90 feet of water at 1 40 p m local time. First Officer Charles W. Savage was on the bridge when the collision occurred. Captain Hughes reported a lookout spotted the reef in darkness and rain with no time to avert the crash.
Two Coastguardsmen seek leave for marriage and a honeymoon. Yeoman 2 C Herbert Whent, 25, wooed Mary Francis in England for 12 years before flying to the US last February. she is due in New York this month. Yeoman 2 C Dean Dickerson, 23, courted Mary Ann Sobeck of Kopill, Pennsylvania, after correspondence begun in the Philippines last year.
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