This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1920
Page
8
Richard Carie headlines Sunshine Friday a colorful tuneful musical comedy at the Empire. The show blends light opera and jazz with a Spanish mood in Act I and modern dance in Act II. The cast includes Broadway favorites and a special symphony orchestra with ornate chorus scenes praised for beauty. Prices range 50c to 2.50.
The Empire screens Chin Chin on Wednesday April 21 a heralded fantasy from Charles Dillingham once at the Globe Theatre in Nascee years. The production features a bevy of beauties in pretty dresses rapid and grotesque dancing music and comedy including Tom Brown's Clown Band and an aerial comedian sequence ending in a sand pile at the circus tent entrance.
Representatives from New York and vicinity urge the Railroad Labor Board to grant substantial wage increases. They say they will not return to work until demands are met. Meantime, 200 strikers resume with Nickel Plate lines while 600 more are expected back by night. In Indianapolis yardmen persist in the walkout for higher pay.
The World highlights postwar efforts by the American Library Association to deliver over seven million books to soldiers and sailors and argues for broader outreach to American readers. It notes 60 million citizens lack proper facilities and 16 million foreign born residents, six million of whom may need language help, urging a large scale library support.
The article argues that in many rural areas former residents who prosper elsewhere fund libraries, and this private generosity should be matched by public action to strengthen national intellectual life. It urges towns lacking private endowments to unite with public investment.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.