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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1931
Page
4
The notice lists daily publication details except Sundays and provides subscription prices: one year 3.50 in advance, six months 1.75, three months 0.90, one month 0.30. Carrier rates include one year 4.50, six months 2.25, three months 1.20, one month 0.40. Weekly rate 0.10.
The passage notes the Associated Press holds exclusive reprint rights for news and local items published herein. It records consolidation with Morning News Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror as part of a publishing network.
The Scottsville News notes broad economic decline across industries as the world mood reduces silver and copper values. Experts say 80 percent of silver is abroad and copper falls to about ten cents a pound, with no immediate stabilization in sight. A tariff would not easily fix the issue and government purchases of excess metals seem unlikely.
A gardening craze grows with women driving sales of flowers shrubs and evergreens at department stores. Dealers report heavy demand and quick wrapups as women hurry home to plant, while experts warn proper planting and care are essential for success.
Chicago scenes capture Robert H. Lucas of the Republican National Committee arguing that youth drift toward radical ideas. He says schools and colleges teach utopian doctrines, hindering the party’s appeal to new voters. He notes the challenge in securing the GOP support among new electors.
Fragmentary text suggests debate on reforming national educational systems but lacks clear proposals or outcomes. The passage indicates uncertainty about whether an approach could be effective and notes the author did not specify a path forward.
The page lists prices for livestock dairy and feed items including spring lambs sheep corn meal dairy feed butter fat No 1 creamery butter leghorn chickens hogs calves and steers. Baltimore wholesale prices for wheat corn hay beans young chickens calves and steers are provided with regional notes.
Montview in Middletown Virginia has been sold to James B. Pitcher Jr and Arthur G Leake of Bridgeport Connecticut. The 141 acre farm lies about two miles southeast of Middletown and has been in the Cooley family for more than eight decades. The transaction marks the transfer of the late Frank L Cooley life time home to new owners.
Sarah Zane Drum Corps asks all members to be at the hall Monday night at 7. The note lists unit U USUUB and 4 LONAS, dated April 25, 2011, from Drum Corps Major.
Eastern time listed programs include Uncle Abe and David at 6 45 PM United Press baseball scores Gene Austin songs Atrocity In Murder Web ster Program The Silver Plate General Electric Hour Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra and more on WEAF Amos n Andy Ritz Carlton Hotel Orchestra Gloria Leafe at organ Paul Spitalny's ensemble and Louis Pa OEr orchestra feature on other stations with digest topics crime club education and sports segments across the lineup.
The Montview house, brick built over a century ago, changed hands from R C Loder to new owners F L Cooley and family. J D Cooley remains sole heir to any remaining tract. Mrs. F L Cooley and her son plan to stay, with possession set for June 1. Leake and Pitcher plan improvements, sale handled by E A Strout Realty via E C Brumback.
A navy specialist asserts ideas can be impressed on the mind during sleep. The comment is pitched as a potential relief for college professors facing early morning classes.
Baltimore and Ohio announces several timetable changes to be effective Monday April 27. Train 55 from Washington will arrive at 11 45 am and depart 12 pm. Train 57 from Ferry departs 2 32 pm, and Train 56 to Ha Ferry departs 12 33 pm. Traffic has risen as motor trains expanded service since April 1 with a two cent mile rate between Harpers Ferry and Strasburg Junction. Six trains daily each way exist between Strasburg Junction and Harpers Ferry, except Sunday, with the larger schedule running as an experiment through May 31.
Reliance U B church holds a morning sermon by Rev H B Richardson with Friendship double churches. Services at Stephens City include Sunday school at 2 30 p m and a 3 30 p m sermon. Reliance Sunday school at 10 a m features a young people pageant at 8 p m. The anniversary of the Young People’s Society and Religious Education are the sermon topics. Cordial invitation to all.
A close check is underway at all stations to verify the number of tickets sold as officials expect a decision to be reached soon. The effort aims to ensure accuracy before any final determination.
A. R. Wigginton organizer and owner of the Virginia Home Players Orchestra says the group is not on the Chamber of Commerce radio program at Mount Vernon Hills station this afternoon. He notes the orchestra’s name was mistakenly used in yesterday’s announcement and states the group has performed at WRVA studios in Richmond and expects to perform again.
The Hudson's Bay Company traces its origins to the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson's Bay, the original name adopted during early exploration and trade ventures in North America. The name reflects its royal charter and imperial trading mission in the Hudson Bay region.
A compilation of candidate declarations for local offices in Frederick County Virginia. Multiple names announce for sheriff Commonwealth's Attorney Commissioner of Revenue Treasurer and other posts in the Democratic primary set for August 4 1931.
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