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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1936
Page
10
The city will sacrifice several hundred thousand dollars in gain by switching 100000 electric clocks from 50 to 60 cycle current. Boulder Dam power will raise speed by about 20 percent. Clock-repairing stations opened today to adjust or exchange timepieces for new ones.
Madrid officials and Major Carlos Contreras warn that the Socialist-Communist government faces winter warfare with too few weapons. Plans include reorganizing militia into regiments, alpine troops, and volunteers assembling boots and kitchens as winter nears. The article notes foreign diplomacy strains over nonintervention and Russia’s partial recognition.
The piece reports pyramidographers predicting a new era starting today with a potential world ending event or drastic change. It cites Dr. D. Davidson and Henry James Forman linking the Great Pyramid to Biblical dates, noting 1936 dates and a Black Legion plan flagged by Circuit Judge Guy B. Hartrick.
A White House conference with President Roosevelt and life insurance executives yielded a statement that American Life Insurance policy holders “possess the safest of all possible securities.” Charles F. Williams said the group approved the remark after discussions on crop insurance, which reached no conclusion. The ministers spoke nonpolitically about cooperation with the federal social security program.
The board of Metropolitan Life and others disputed a claim by Col. Frank Knox noting that life insurance and savings were unsafe. A Williams statement shows life insurers’ assets rose to about 23.915 billion by mid 193-3 and loan rates to policyholders fell from 18 to 14 percent as general conditions improved.
Satsop Washington storekeeper Ted Mouncer bound up a wounded owl and left it to rest in his store overnight. The next morning six dead rats lay on the floor beneath the rafter where the owl had slept. The scene ended with the owl’s mournful hoot as it dozed away for the day.
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