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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
6
A boy bitten by a copperhead while rushing a dog to a vet ends in a buggy crash when a horse bolted. The dog survives, charges against the boy for reckless driving are dropped due to no law, but another search for the stranded horse follows. The horse is found four miles from town and the boy rides off with his belongings.
In West Seattle a 49 year old woman identified as E. Neal was discovered by King County deputies in a padlocked room where she had lived most of her life. A heavy wire blocked the door and a bed was the only furniture. Prosecutor Charles Carroll filed for commitment to a state hospital, despite protests from her 74 year old mother Geraldine Baker who urged officers to "leave her be till I die."
A spider sheds its skin when its weight doubles, a process that occurs about four times during its life.
In Fort Smith Arkansas a blind woman named Miss Mary Yowell struggled with burning clothes to rescue nurse Mrs. Haze Hardway who died of third degree burns hours after the incident. Hardway collapsed on a heated stove in the home of bedridden patient Mrs. O R Geren. Yowell dragged her outside and suffered burns to her hands in the effort.
Detroit reports city tax collector Edward Temple, 45, suspended after confessing to placing slugs in a meter near city hall. Detective Lt. Harry Michaels said Temple, who handles city treasury duties, makes 15 to 20 daily stops and is not reimbursed for meter fees.
Mrs Henry Morgenthau Jr., 57, widow of the former secretary of the treasury and niece of ex Governor Herbert Lehman, died yesterday in New York.
Rescue teams in Pikeville Kentucky plan to use bloodhounds to locate two missing miners Marvin Johnson aged 20 and George Johnson 19 from Three Mile. Hope waning, search focused on crumb ling tunnels of an old coal mine with no trace found yet.
A 15 year study reports about 2.5 deaths per 100 000 football players linked to playing the sport. The article questions the danger level and notes the data and timing from the survey.
Present and past rainfall totals show 24 hour precipitation none to date. Sept rain to date 1.92 inches and 1949 year to date 33.95 inches. Average annual rainfall for 36 years 6.42 inches per month averages: Jan 2.47, Feb 1.92, Mar 2.91, Apr 3.07, May 3.68, Jun 3.88, Jul 3.81, Aug 3.82, Sep 2.58, Oct 3.34, Nov 2.50, Dec 2.43. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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