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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1929
Page
2
A Winchester columnist denounces Sunday baseball, arguing it conflicts with the sanctity of the Sabbath. He accuses municipal leaders of endorsing the practice and warns of moral decline if the seventh day is not honored for worship and rest.
Edgar A. McGlathery appeals to the Christian community condemning a municipal effort to host a ball game on the Holy Sabbath. He argues both church life and worldly pleasure erode virtue, warns of future moral lapses, and calls for action rooted in charity and duty to God and man.
Daily quoted wholesale prices for wheat flour oats corn and mixed feed. livestock prices for hens young chickens lambs sheep and pigs listed. Baltimore wholesale figures show range for young chickens eggs calves steers and lambs with price bands across markets.
Charles Town West Virginia August 19 a marriage license issued by County Clerk C A Johnson for Ollie T Hibbard of Berryville Virginia and Christine Elizabeth Diffenderfer of Martinsburg. The groom is a native of Berryville and the bride a native of Boyce Virginia.
French Thompson died at his home 182 East Street at 4 20 this morning. He was 70, son of the late Capt. A J Thompson and Mrs. Theresa Tucker Th. Survived by widow Fanie Lloyd Thompson two daughters Ada Thompson Cather and Ethel Thompson Shirley one grandson Granville H Shirley one sister Mrs W T Ramey and one brother J W Thompson. Funeral at home Tuesday at 4 oclock officiated by Rev F T McFaden assisted by Rev Robert B Nelson.
Charles Town farmers shift bulk of apple harvests to sale. Zinn farm orchard fruit priced at 1.50 per bushel on trees. shipments and sales to Winchester buyers noted. Ely Robinson Co. buys J Straith Briscoe fruit for 2100 dollars. F H McAfee fruit 1000 dollars. Other parcels sold or shipped locally with prices, buyers, and destinations cited. Washington wary of Chinese tong war rumors.
The piece notes a light task in theory detecting a stowaway on an airship. It contrasts the idea with bold statements about moral evaluation, asserting men and women in extreme terms and using stark hyperbole.
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