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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1924
Page
4
The Evening Star announces publishing details for Winchester Virginia with daily weekday issues and weekly editions. It lists pricing for subscriptions by year half year and quarter and provides carrier delivery rates and contact numbers.
A brief note states Associated Press material is exclusive for republication and news dispatches credited to AP or the local paper. It emphasizes that AP content and local news are redistributed under certain rights and attribution rules.
Charles Bryan of Ne ne 8a proposes entering the oil and gasoline business to undersell the market by three to four cents a gallon. He cites a 6,000,000 gallon offer and points to prior South Dakota success in lowering prices, urging state action to reduce costs for residents and counter high oil profits. He notes transportation costs cause price disparities and calls for government investigation and potential state involvement.
A humorous lament about a vacant lot eyed by contractors and buyers. The speaker recalls daydreams of building a project while real estate vultures swarm, forcing pursuit by hustlers and leaving him penniless after the failed dream.
A lament of a vacant lot awaiting sale as bidders fail to respond during an auction. The poem questions why buyers avoid the auction and ponders the town’s interest and the auctioneer’s empty ring.
Washington, April 1. Senate Finance Chairman Smoot predicts passage of the tax reduction bill this session and leaders from both parties and President Coolidge push the legislative agenda. Mellon faces estate tax debates while Coolidge presses for action on the revenue bill to spur business.
The American Farm Bureau launches a lower tax and less legislation campaign in Virginia with an old-time schooner carrying a speaker to urge tax relief. The schooner departs Harrisonburg at 1 pm after a Assembly Hall briefing led by Frank Nelson.
Nineveh Virginia notes from April 1 report Mr and Mrs La Grim with daughter Virginia visiting the Pitcock family. Claudia Chapmans visits sister Gladys Kendall in Maryland. Alonzo Fuller and daughter Anna stay with Mrs Pitcock. D C Brendle improves after illness. Heavy rain floods creeks, roads near impassable.
For sale an eight room dwelling with electric lights gas bath concrete cellar garage and immediate possession price five thousand five hundred. Also a 110 acre limestone farm with seven room dwelling barn spring water and small orchard possession subject to tenants lease a good buy at ten thousand. If interested in purchasing improved or unimproved property confer with us Good & Co store 25c per dot and up H Elmer Griffin 175 J.
Winchester Shriners joined a Washington ceremony greet Conrad W. Dykeman of Brooklyn NY illustrious imperial potentate of the order. Over 60 candidates were received into Almas Temple at the event attended by local Shriners Stanley E. Harmer Frank Dorsey Frank Lovett and Robert C. Kremer.
The Farmers Union Local of Steph ens City meets Friday at 8 in the High School for its regular monthly session. The agenda includes a short literary program and orders for phosphate for sprint sowing of oats and corn. O Watson acts as secretary.
On March 20 at White Post Virginia W J Laing returned home to a table laden with meats salads and delicacies in honor of his sixty first birthday A small gathering included Mr and Mrs Harry Hudson Mr and Mrs Randolph Licklider Mr and Mrs Moody Steele Mrs Cecil Larrick and Laing s three grandchildren Harvey Helen and Ida Sonner Other children sent messages and gifts and joined in birthday wishes for Mrs Laing as well
Mrs Holmes Conrad and her daughters Miss Carter and Miss Augusta Conrad plan to return from Washington to Winchester shortly and reopen the Conrad residence on North Market street for the summer season.
John Cochran of Plains Virginia serves as grand lecturer and conducts a week long Royal Arch Masonry school in Winchester with John Dove Chapter No 21 in charge. He lectures on methods for those testing them and plans daily sessions.
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