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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1946
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription options and advertising rates with urban and carrier terms. The page ends with a biblical verse from First Kings urging strength and steadfastness in serving the Lord.
The article notes Harvest yields push the food supply higher with 250 million bushels slated for export and 1 160 million bushels total wheat yield. It also introduces NMRI 448 as a less toxic insecticide and repellent for homes, claiming quick kill of pests and up to 10 hours of protection outdoors.
Fielding Harris Yost, longtime Michigan football coach who built a national power, has died. His teams from 1901 to 1905 produced 2,821 points for and 42 against, with 55 wins, one loss, and one tie, and overall 165 wins in 27 years. Chicago’s upset closed that era in 1905.
The narrative notes Michigan’s 29 losses and 10 ties with 6 305 points for versus 894 against alluding to great teams and crowds who funded the athletic plant Yost would direct after coaching. It recalls his lean years and critics who doubted him, his lasting legacy, and football on the Huron banks.
The Petersburg Progress Index notes unclear sentiment for senatorial nominees as a convention nears. It highlights a growing push to draft former Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr though he says he cannot accept, suggesting Byrd and Darden could unite the party and support public service.
Richmond News Leader reports per capita national income reached 1150 dollars in the previous year, up from 1133 in 1944. The piece compares real versus nominal income, recalls 1933 income of 368 dollars, and notes 1929 peak of 680 dollars before devaluation, asking if the nation is better off now.
News of Other Years recalls 1945 milestones in Winchester: Miss Louise V. Huyette earns a VPI Radford College education degree, Ben Belchie tallies 10 000 pounds of salvage, Marie Kindig earns a 4 star emblem after 20 years at Winchester Telephone, 1 000 fight fans expected at Legion card, and Berryville pool dedication events.
County officials from the Seventh and Eighth Virginia Congressional Districts attend a scheduled meeting called by the League of Virginia Counties at Skyland on Skyline Drive. Speakers include W H Stauffer of the Chamber of Commerce and Raymond Pinchbeck, named to head a state utilities reassessment commission. Also, Mrs Elizabeth Perry's chestnut gelding Cornish Hills wins the Keswick Hunt Club trophy with 30 points at Keswick show.
A list of quiz prompts covers topics from Truman appointments to Supreme Court salaries, Seabees slogan, a Washington congressman facing a campaign contribution issue, WAC marriage policy, postal rules on mailing matches, a Southern Democrat in a film, a hereditary bleeding disease, Sun Yat-sen’s republic, and the Gang Busters narrator formerly NYPD commissioner.
A scene in the Canadian woods shows two junipers: one shaded, reaching upward for sunlight with height, the other spread wide in sun. The meditation parallels how people turn to a higher power in sorrow, contrasting lives of breadth with growth toward light.
The excerpt discusses how troubled souls seek divine aid and asks which states are in the Deep South. The answer identifies the Deep South as the tier of states extending from South Carolina through Georgia.
An advertisement profiles Edwin J. Dingle a 20 year Far East traveler who credits a Tibet encounter with Transforming health wealth and recognition. He offers a free 9 000 word treatise via The Institute of Mentalphysics Los Angeles inviting sincere readers to request a copy before supplies run out.
Fifty years ago Miss Emma Snapp departed for New York to take a kindergarten instructor position. Miss Vic Smith left for an extended visit to her uncle Mr Alexander Mc Kericher of Greenwood Washington. Mr John Solenberger and family returned home after a pleasant trip to Pennsylvania and various summer resorts.
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