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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1932
Page
4
Daily publication details show The Evening Star and related papers with Associated Press credit. Rates listed include one year four dollars fifty cents and six months two dollars and twenty five cents. Additional line items reference three months and one month options.
Frost Landis and Kohn of New York are joined by offices in Atlanta Chicago and Detroit to handle national advertising for clients.
A religious proclamation featuring the phrase Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men from Luke 2 14. The excerpt emphasizes a festive Christmas blessing and universal harmony.
Virginia apple producers gathered at Byrd’s orchard as reports from the Imperial Economic Conference showed a five shilling per hundredweight duty on apples exported to Britain. The tariff, plus exchange issues, threatens half of Virginia’s exports and fuels concerns about the broader tariff policy.
The Alexandria Gazette reports Chicago owes its school teachers 5.5 million in unpaid salaries and has paid over 1 million via tax anticipation warrants. The warrants are dated with 4 aend. Ab Curt on the agents and additional issues are indicated.
Such promises to pay may have been made as a discount. Chicago's slide from bad to worse affects hundreds of millions of dollars. Chicago finances are worse than those of other American cities in degree. Taxing property heavily and wasting tax money and credit leave the city caught between two ends. Teachers suffer and educational standards may fall as thrift remains elusive.
The article recalls human daring to explore unknown realms and notes Piccard’s ascent only ten miles above the Earth. It contrasts Earth’s explored oceans with the stratosphere, emphasizing telescope aid and human intellect in charting the near-space frontier.
Weather summary shows no rainfall in the past 24 hours ending 8 a m August to date totals 1.72 inches and year to date 25.14 inches. Monthly normal inches from a 19 year record: January 2.36 February 1.95 March 2.70 April 3.17 May 3.58 June 3.89 July 3.50 August 3.54 September 2.20 October 2.14 November 2.14 December 2.29.
Mr and Mrs Gover Orndorff of Lenore and other visitors call on local families. Christian Endeavor will meet next Sunday at 7 30 led by Raymond Racey. A yard party is planned for August 27 to benefit the churches. Several residents are noted visiting w and distant relatives with updates on ill or recovering individuals.
Mr. Walter Hamilton returned home Saturday after a week in Washington. Messrs. Ernest and Julian Elliott, employed in Maryland, spent the weekend at their home here.
The page lists wholesale market quotes for farm products including corn, middlings, screenings, and various feeds with prices per unit. It also shows butter prices, poultry, hogs, cows, calves, sheep, and notes on local flour and dairy feeds. A paragraph notes wrought iron resists rust better than other iron forms.
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