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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1937
Page
7
Labor is not the most powerful group. With 14 million workers and 125 million consumers, price rises since 1933 have hit housing 37 percent and food 29 percent. Rents, meats, clothing, autos, and fuel rise trigger consumer pushback. Ends with plans to study buying efficiency and new consumer schools.
Margaret C. Kelchner executrix offers Ida Kelchner home on 53 acres near Winchester Virginia. 9 room residence with 15 acres timber and a never-failing well, four miles east on Lee Jackson Highway. Auction Saturday Oct 9 1937 at 12 noon in front of Winchester Court House. One third cash, balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. Duvall and Dunn, Auctioneers.
The piece argues capitalism is the soundest economic system and mass production its key driver, but warns selfish manufacturers workers and retailers hinder passing benefits to mass consumption.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Amanda Towill Dutton, 70, widow of Dr Benjamin Blake Dutton Sr., of Hartfield, Middlesex County, Va., who died Tuesday evening in St. Luke's Hospital, Richmond, was held at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Services were conducted in Harmony Grove Baptist Church.
The funeral and interment took place in Middlesex County with the family cemetery as the final resting place. Attending were her son Dr. B. B. Dutton of this city and other relatives who were with her mother at the time of death. She was a daughter of the late Rev. Mark W. Towill, a well known Baptist clergyman in Middlesex County and a member of the Lower Methodist Church of Middlesex.
In Kingstree South Carolina robbers cracked a safe at the McIntosh seed and feed store and fled with about $100 in worthless checks. Police investigated the break in and searched for clues.
The Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book is now available. Send fifteen cents for Pattern No. 1390 B Apron Frock in women's sizes 34 through 48 with back and front cut in one piece.
The War Department announced the U S Third Cavalry Band and the Troop BE drill team will travel to St Louis Missouri for a horse show running from September 27 to October 2. Among band members are Privates first class George B Guthridge Jr Phillip W Eagle and Harold Teets from Handley High School who trained under Prof McKilwee. They took horses saddle equipment and instruments on a special train from Rosslyn Virginia to join the showcase.
In Buffalo New York a jury awarded 73 year old tailor Gottlieb Hoffstetter 4500 dollars after a bicycle automobile collision cost him the ability to sit cross legged. The ruling reflects the impact of the accident on his life.
Postal officials in Arkansas City Kansas struggled to deliver a letter meant for Melvin Atkin and instead found his sister Mrs. Golden Hadley by searching social security files. Atkin had addressed Hadley by his own return social security number.
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