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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1947
Page
6
A cryptic style crossword listing across and down clues with numbers and partial answers for January style puzzle. Contains many misspellings and unclear phrases across categories like animals, metals, and geography.
New York reports a humorous roundup of domestic quirks and gadgets. A man using a vacuum to catch mosquitoes boasts of eight insects and two moths, while mishaps include a missing brassiere. Also notes on pricey binoculars, college men’ finances, and a house boy prank.
Six tons of groceries were offered for sale today by a CIO United Automobile Workers union to protest high food prices. Local 72 of Nash Motors employees will run the sale of items bought from a Milwaukee wholesale cooperative.
Corn formed the economic basis of the civilization of the Mayan Indians.
A string of real estate transfers across Frederick and surrounding counties shows numerous owners selling lots, farms, and improvements. Notable transactions include Bernard Tyson paying 8500 dollars for 114 acres near White Hall and Herbert F Cain taking a double dwelling at 443 and 445 Highland Ave. in Winchester.
A description of land transfers lists Mary Elizabeth DeHaven and Elizabeth A. Duckwall with spouses, and Louis D. Eye with spouses, detailing parcels on the west side of Winchester Mar tinsburg Pike about 3 miles north and land about 1 mile south of Winchester along the Winchester Washington highway.
Karl P. Hartman, 0, was charged with installing a dictagraph to eavesdrop on a newlywed couple. He was held under 1000 dollars bail for arraignment. Police say he connected a speaker to the device and sometimes invited friends to listen. Hartman claimed he did not hear much of the boudoir talk.
JET scheduled a meeting for 7 30 p m tonight at the Molden Electric Co store. The event will include business and a film shown. Announcement made by W M Battaille, president.
George S. Messersmith testified before the House committee on un American activities that he wrote the Havana consul general in 1939 urging prompt consideration of Hanns Eisler’s visa to reside in the United States. He said he sent a copy of Sumner Wells’s letter to Eleanor Roosevelt indicating interest in Eisler’s case. The committee probes whether officials allowed Communists to enter the country in violation of immigration laws.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorizes rate increases to raise about 61.254 million dollars annually for the Railway Express Agency. A reader asks how much paper the United States uses worldwide. answer shows the U S makes over 50 percent of world production and uses more than 60 percent, about 300 pounds per person annually.
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