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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1927
Page
4
The Evening Star lists subscription prices for mail and carrier delivery. Rates shown include one year 3.60, six months 1.76, three months 0.90, one month 0.30 by mail. and one year 4.60, six months 2.26, three months 1.20 by carrier. Associated Press rights noted.
Daily Bible selections offered to parents to help children memorize scripture as a priceless heritage. Includes Psalm 91:2 and a morning prayer praising God as refuge and fortress.
The essay argues that after the Geneva talks, big navy advocates will seek large Congress appropriations for cruisers. It cites Senator Tyson urging restraint, noting airplane development may alter naval needs and warning Britain’s cruiser balance does not justify a costly race. Congress should heed this cautious counsel.
The piece notes Paris dressmakers retreating from longer skirts toward an almost vanished length for day wear. They suggest knickers fastened beneath the knee with a tunic, while a parallel says women may resist and rulers will show adaptability.
The narrator recalls a man famed as a devil among flapper women who encounters a widow of high ideals. She persuades him to abandon flappers and focus on genuine decency in women, and the tale notes the bet he would never give up the lifestyle.
The text describes a husband who remained obedient and docile through marriage and courtly duties. He died insane, and his wife, described as more beautiful, soon remarried. The fragment preserves a period tone and notes the wife’s remarriage after his death.
The Philadelphia Record reviews an anti alimony club idea while noting cases that complicate full abolition. An Atlantic City ruling on alimony for a childless wife is contrasted with real life where middle aged, unskilled women face hardship without support. Alimony debates should consider such cases even as humor fades.
A Chicago crime commission proposal endorsed by the Chicago Tribune suggests selecting one hundred notorious criminals and shipping them to other cities. The plan would swap Detroit Milwaukee Cleveland and keep city totals at one hundred bad men, but no individual would remain in place.
Pat Heffernan, a machine shop worker for American Steel and Wire, praises modern life after 64 years with the company. He recalls 50 cents a day as an apprentice wage and notes today’s 40 cents an hour plus company schooling. Heffernan says progress exists despite remaining issues, and he and others are better off than the “good old times.”
Northampton Times argues that owning a home created early safety and social structure. It links home ownership to stability thrift and security in old age and frames it as practical training in good business for children. The piece ties ownership to moral duties including honoring parents.
Aug 17 report from Hogue Creek describes William Clowser and Mrs Clowser with William Good of Winchester and Susie Dunlap of Philadelphia spending Sunday at Capon Springs. Clement Kump and children of High View visited Mrs Scott White on Saturday. William Clowser and Luther Larrick were visiting Mr Vernon.
Friday evening Baker hosts led to visits from Ernest Grayson family and Freda Stewart. Winchester residents Mr and Mrs J S Orndorff hosted guests including Helen White and Frances Larrick. A Mt Olive yard party drew many, with more gatherings planned at Freemont Lutheran Church on August 18.
The body of J. Ogden Armour Chicago packer and capitalist who died in London will be shipped to New York aboard the Berengaria sailing from Southampton on Saturday, said J J Mitchell Armour's son in law.
Babe Ruth smashed a deep drive clear over Chicago right field stands for his 37th homer this season, just one behind teammate Lou Gehrig. He belted one of the hardest balls of his career, the first to clear Whit Sox park fence. Bob Meusel collected four hits and a sacrifice in five at bats after slump.
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