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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1930
Page
4
Public notice outlines mailing options and subscription rates for The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia. Rates include yearly, six month, and monthly terms with advance payments listed for mail delivery and weekly editions.
A partial Associated Press notice appears in the local paper, indicating standard news dispatches tied to AP sources. The fragment notes general AP involvement without detailing specific stories or bylines.
A devotional snippet cites Romans 14 11 12 about every knee bowing to God and each person giving account. It prays for believers to join in labor with the Lord toward the promised glory and activation of faith.
Newport News Daily Press notes Virginia ranks third in U S apple production and hosts the world’s largest storage plant in Winchester. The piece cites limited export flow through Hampton Roads despite improved services, urging closer links between ports and producing areas to boost local absorption and national markets.
Former French and German soldiers plan a Franco German battlefield meeting signaling growing reconciliation. Ex combatants have met publicly and anti war books from both nations have appeared, showing a peace movement among veterans despite lingering political divides.
The piece questions a proposed gathering linked to liberal, pacific, and nationalist sympathies and explores whether recalling battle memories can promote peace or simply revive old tensions among French citizens by the bay.
The Roanoke Times cites Sylvester Q. Cannon saying Mormon abstinence from liquor tea coffee and tobacco may explain lower divorce rates and higher marriage rates in Utah. He claims divorce is a third lower and marriage a third higher there than nationally, urging fair view of Mormon tenets despite prejudice.
New York on April 12 reports an intense weekend adjustment of speculative accounts causing notable irregularity in price movement. The market shows underlying strength with no clear shift in the year’s upward trend as top-heavy positions unwind. Trading remained moderately heavy with about 2,000,000 shares changing hands.
Frederick Circuit Reverend P R Diehl presides at Paxton Lamp and Relief congregations with Sunday school at 10 a m and sermon at 11 a m followed by the Lord's Supper Lamp service at 2 p m sermon at 3 p m Relief service 10 a m mission lecture 7 15 p m sermon 8 p m Our cordial invitation to attend the services.
An advertisement touts Radox Bath Salts as a pleasant foot soak that removes corn roots in 3 or 4 nights and supposedly softens callouses, easing walking, running, and dancing. Sold at Bakers Drug Store and other drugstores.
Ad from a New York fruit and vegetable market offers new carrots and slicing onions with daily delivery available. Prices shown as 5 cents to 19 cents per item with delivery by phone number 1257.
Jacqueline, a wealthy debutante, frets over a vanished necklace and a callous romance with Teddy Montrose as she spirals through expensive dinners, the Savoy, and Covent Garden. A begging letter from Teddy reveals his love and poverty, prompting Jacqueline to end the affair and contemplate a brighter future.
A list of property transfers in the city shows multiple parcels changing hands. Notable deeds include M Richards to Harry M Carper for two Loudoun Manor lots. John J Cass to A C Oates and E P Bean for land in Harris Addition. and W R Talbot to Morris G Shanholtz for Shawnee Addition parcel with nominal or nominal-like consideration in several entries.
W S Campfield, secretary of the Virginia Horticultural Society, reports a bumper apple crop of at least 3 000 000 barrels for the state. The Shenandoah area west of the mountains is expected to yield about two thirds. Buds are not yet advanced and frost risk remains in about two weeks. Valley plums pears cherries and peaches show damage from the recent cold snap, with the peach crop in the upper valley likely worst affected.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia to sell a Clifford Street lot with a dwelling and improvements. The sale follows a February decree in Martha S. Baker Executrix v Lamb. Terms: one third cash, two thirds in two annual installments at six percent. Trustee Gray Williams to conduct sale with clerk Corinne Barnett certifying bond.
Streett releases a fine book on hunt race meetings with color plates by Paul Brown and inked by Dr. L. M. Allen of Winchester. The volume preserves 15 color plates and numerous sketches of Warrenton My Lady's Manor Maryland Hunt Cup and other notable meets.
Opequon Memorial holds Sunday school at 10 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 7 15 p.m. Preaching at 8 p.m. followed by an important congregational meeting. Burnt Church hosts Sunday school at the same hour with Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m. Round Hill offers Sunday school 10 a.m. preaching 11 a.m. and a congregational meeting with Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m. Opequon Chapel lists Sunday school 10 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m.
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