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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1931
Page
4
Publication data shows Winchester Virginia post office entry for The Evening Star Publishing Co. issued daily except Sunday. Subscription rates by mail and advertising representation listed. Associated Press rights noted for news dispatch republication. Local news coverage referenced.
Jesus declares I am the resurrection and the life in John chapter eleven. The verse promises that believers in him though dead shall live and those who live and believe shall never die. The text centers on faith as eternal life.
Dean Thomas W. Graham of the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology urged summer school graduates to dream big and strive for unfinished greatness. He said finer tools music poetry architecture and art await and that many will devote their lives to challenging work to uplift humanity.
A call to expose police brutality in American cities. The American Boy Association condemns the third degree and urges citizens to reveal whether such methods are used to extract confessions. The piece argues for lawful, impartial authority and rejects cruel, lawless tactics.
A recent American press article discusses Mussolini advocating peace for defense as nations justify entry into World War. The piece outlines the defense rationale shaping early war theories and national actions.
The passage argues that while nations may theory keep peace and ensure progress, actually reducing armament and replacing war with civil substitutes is much harder to achieve, risking disaster if not pursued. It stresses the necessity of defending national existence and engaging the civilized world to avoid catastrophe.
Woolf's Hunter won champion at Clarke Show with firsts and seconds across events including five furlongs where Fluttering was first and Water Lily second, and mile flat where Bye and Bye led to Part Time. Other top finishers included Mind Bit in steeplechase and Sinadaspra in consolation.
Hagerstown Maryland August 15 prohibition agents swept Frog Hollow arresting 25 in a dawn raid. Despite a signaling system camps were empty as officers seized over 500 stills and confiscated liquor. Albert Mason was later captured with a cargo of 14 12 gallons and held on illegal transportation charges.
Reports say President Gerardo Machado left Havana in a private rail car with 40 soldiers as Cuba faces unrest and martial law. Photos show Havana student riots amid a revolt linked to former president Gen Mario Menocal, who reportedly leads rebel insurgents and aims to win provincial support.
United Mine Workers officials moved to convention headquarters in Scranton with police escort an hour after the photo was taken. Delegates and others including U S Senator James J Davis were to hear an address while a fight over admittance to the floor erupted after a tear gas incident. District President John Boylan was shown in the crowd.
Three of six winners from the Central Press National Intelligence contest will sail for six weeks in Italy. Benedict Goldman of Pawtucket Rhode Island Frank Hallett Jr of Akron Ohio Shirley Hallett Edward Prichard Jr of Paris Kentucky are pictured with their sister. Congressman Sol Bloom leads the group to the White House and Mount Vernon for a bicentennial celebration kickoff.
Roy Wates a New Jersey state senator from Passaic county was shot and seriously wounded in an apartment in New York. Miss Ruth Jayné age 25 was questioned by police after calling a hospital to report the shooting. A pistol was found in a courtyard behind the apartment.
By court order H S Stone appointed conservator of the peace for Jordan White Sulphur Spring in Frederick County. The one year term begins August 8 and covers duties to maintain order at dances and functions on the springs property only.
The market note lists wholesale and retail prices for grains, feeds, dairy products, eggs, and poultry. Entries include local flour around 3.60 to 3.60 and 4.00 to 4.50 at retail, cracked corn about 1.60 to 1.70, and country butter near 20 to 26. Local hogs and pigs are shown with variable values, while Baltimore wholesale quotes for meats and poultry appear at the day’s close.
A brief line notes that your party possesses an organization while the opposing party runs a machine, referencing New Mexico State Tribune.
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