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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1931
Page
2
A Long Beach Scout, 17 year old Birch, earned praise after rescuing Mrs Long and her two companions from a deadly undertow. Though Mrs Long struggled, Birch aided her to shore before life guards arrived. He remains a senior lifeguard and active in troop activities and regional scouting events.
Mrs. Benjamin P. Collings testified at a Huntington coroner hearing that she allowed two men to abduct her on September 9 after her husband was murdered in Long Island Sound. She hoped the abductors would focus on her so her husband and daughter could be rescued, and she revealed five year-old Barbara witnessed the struggle and the assault on her father.
Charles T. Brown 53 treasurer of Swarthmore College and president of Franklin Printing Co. Philadelphia shot himself at home in Morristown New Jersey. Family says poor health prompted the act. He is survived by his widow two sons and a daughter.
Dr. John B. Deaver, 76, eminent Philadelphia surgeon, died at Wynecote home after long anemia and several transfusions. He helped doctors in 1919 with Mr. Wilson and was called by President Coolidge for blood poisoning cases. Renowned for thousands of appendicitis operations.
Grimes Virginia reports a local apple plant at Inwood West Virginia hiring workers for a December finish. Residents visit relatives in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania and nearby areas while farmers harvest corn peaches and early apples. Several local families and guests are mentioned with social visits and a heavy rainfall noted.
McALESTER Okla Sept 25 Henry Lovett 38 was electrocuted at the state penitentiary for the slaying of Dee Foliart El Reno high school coach during an attempted bank robbery in El Reno last Thanksgiving Foliart a patron was shot in the bank doorway
A chilling note reflects a generation fearing a dream of being in public spaces within a PA Gazette style setting. The fragment hints at a shared anxiety about public exposure and media visibility in a historical context.
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