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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1932
Page
4
Publication note states The Evening Sun Publishing Co of Winchester Virginia issues daily except Sunday and is consolidated with several local papers. It credits The Associated Press for dispatches and retains local news published within this paper.
The notice lists subscription prices for various terms with advance payments and includes names of National Representatives Frost, Kohn, and associates in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and Detroit. It appears to be an old newspaper rate card with(rate set to year, six months, three months, and one month options).
A concise biblical verse urges counting days to apply the heart to wisdom as taught in Psalm 90 12. The line emphasizes mindful living and spiritual reflection for wiser choices.
Raleigh observers note rapid progress building an effective Roosev elt Garner campaign organization. Maj John Siego to head regional party structure with NC as a key state. Robert Jackson to run speakers bureau and Charles Michelson to direct publicity. Governor Byrd to chair campaign executive committee, Evans Woollen named top national financier adviser. Democrats poised to win by appealing to independents and dissident Republicans ahead of November eighth election.
The Ladies Home Journal contends that current sale prices are not all true bargains. It notes stores piled up stock during the slump causing prices to fall below cost on standard goods, but as stock wanes buyers still demand cheap goods. Manufacturers who fail to label tare are blamed for deceptive pricing.
The buyer should seek the label when unsure of merchant or goods. Labeled goods guard against counterfeit brands, since manufacturers risk their trade names and merchants avoid misrepresentation. Ask for standard goods meaning advertised goods to ensure quality.
Petersburg Progress-Index notes contradiction in President Hoover's stance with a report that he planned a national conference of business leaders at the White House while previously vowing to avoid political affairs. The piece mocks the idea he can stay oblivious to political war and hints at self re election as a possible duty.
The Middletown and Stephens City Boy Scouts and F. F. A's returned from camp August 13. Scoutmasters Julian Everly and R. A. Wall led the event with assistants Isidor Bolen and Wilson Bordon. Awards went to Petrie, Hartley for horse shoe. Larrick for swimming. Randolph Larrick as best all around camper. Billy Lemley second. Flying Eagle patrol led by Marshall Golliday won best patrol. Fox patrol led by Paul Everly second. top boxers included Orndorff Petrie Wolfe Hartley Bolen.
New finds in the East revise timing of Old Testament events. Jericho’s destruction is dated about BC 1400 in the late Bronze Age, with brick walls toppled by an earthquake.
The report lists present and past rainfall with daily totals ending 8 a.m. none for August to date 0.50 inch and year to date 23.92 inches. It provides normal monthly rainfall over 19 years: January 2.36, February 1.95, March 2.70, April 3.17, May 4.58, June 3.89, July 3.50, August 3.54, September 2.20, October 2.87, November 2.14, December 2.39 inches.
Survivors crawl through a suffocating tunnel on a Polynesian island to reach a temple hidden above. They force the heavy stone door open and escape into air, then study the ancient god and the Whitney family curse tied to the missing jewel eye.
Attired in a blue shirt and cap signifying the Blueshirt Army, Rev. James R. Cox of Pittsburgh heads unemployed supporters to a national jobless convention in St Louis. He rides a truck to the gathering.
A brief note advises using a fine quality mild soap for washing colored clothes, dissolve the soap fully, rinse thoroughly, and dry the garments inside out in the shade to prevent fading.
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