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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1936
Page
8
President Roosevelt launches his bid for re election at Syracuse repudiating support of any advocate of communism calling it a false issue. He argues the previous administration fostered conditions that bred communism and champions a program of social justice and reform.
LURAY Virginia September 29 A Page county jury convicted Marshall Broyles 15 of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to three years in the state penitentiary. Broyles was charged with stabbing Cecil Jenkins 21 with a rocket.
The jury spent one hour deliberating after witnesses testified including Broyles and three character witnesses for the defense. Judge H. W. Bertram sentenced Broyles noting youth and commented that the jury was lenient, hoping the case serves as a lesson.
In Jonesville Virginia on September 30 Rev. T. Anderson died after being bitten three times in a Sunday faith demonstration. Dr. T. B. Ely reported Anderson waited too long for help as his daughter appealed for aid. Anderson, a former school teacher, was bitten twice on the right hand by a copperhead moccasin and once on the left hand by a rattlesnake.
Fragmentary line shows an unsuccessful Legislature candidate declaring steadfast fidelity to a cause, but the text ends mid quote. No additional context, dates, or identities are readable.
President Roosevelt and Col. Frank Knox will address audiences in Pittsburgh on September 30, speaking within blocks of each other. Roosevelt is set at Forbes Field at 9 p.m. after arriving from Elkins West Virginia, while Knox will speak at 8 15 p.m. at Duquesne Garden with Al Smith slated to broadcast from New York at 9 30 p.m.
In Shelby Ohio the minister mayor reviews the city docket and finds R. B. Jenkins owing $19.20 in intoxication fines. He assigns Jenkins a broom a shovel and a wheelbarrow to pay the debt through cleanup of the streets.
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