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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star publishes in Winchester Virginia with second class mail status. Subscription prices listed include one year 3.50 six months 1.75 three months .90 and monthly .30. Carrier rates are 4.50 yearly 2.25 six months 1.20 three months. Associated Press membership noted for news use and republication.
John Q. Tilson, House majority leader, warns in the August Review of Reviews that state and local government costs have surged since 1913, with 1925 payrolls and public expenditures rising sharply. He notes a growing share of private wages diverted to public support and urges restraint and efficiency in both personal and governmental finances. Virginia adopts economy measures, while the federal budget continues to expand each year.
Washington Star dispatches from Canton discuss local apathy in municipal elections, noting only about one-fifth turnout. The piece connects voter complacency to crime and corruption, citing the Mellett murder as a current spotlight on neglected civic duty and weak oversight.
Richmond Times Dispatch notes members of the American National Retail Jewelers Association propose men wear engagement rings. The idea is dismissed as a commercial scheme by critics and likened to postwar debates on funerary customs.
The piece traces engagement rings to the wedding ring tradition and argues against men wearing such rings. It notes historical shifts from visible status symbols to ornaments, and contends men would wear rings only on the left hand ring finger with restrictions on stones and cost.
State and federal officials gather this afternoon at the New Century Hotel Romney to discuss the Seneca Park project. Representatives from civic and Turat organizations of the Branch Valley will attend to plan a fall meeting along the Northwestern Turnpike to advance the park proposal.
The Romney afternoon meeting will discuss organizing communities in both states to advertise the Northwestern Grade. Associations already exist in counties west of the Allerhany mountains, and a new one is proposed.
Nat G. Frame director of the University of West Virginia extension division was expected to address the gathering with focus on the matter. Winchester was well represented at the meeting with Ibert S. Larrick Brown Lovett William Herrell Joseph B. Newlin Andrew Bell J. M. Orndoff Philip Williams A.G. Sloanoker W. W. Glass R. S. Lolliffe from local clubs.
A vintage ad promises McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets will strengthen thin weak children in 30 days or money back. It claims 60 tablets cost 60 cents at Baker's Drug Store and that the vitamin mix improves health for any weak man or woman.
Two miles from town on Paper Mill Road sellers offer peaches at 75 cents per bushel. W. P. Anderson promotes the orchard sale.
The Associated Press reports Monticello near Charlottesville Virginia was dedicated July 5 as a national shrine. Jefferson oversaw the mansion’s building and planted the grounds with trees. visitors view the Piedmont Valley and the university he founded.
A yard party is scheduled for Thursday August 26 at W B Oneal’s lawn in Vaucluse hosted by the Cedar Cliff Girls Circle. The notice appears in the August 23 1921 edition.
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