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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star publishes daily except Sundays from Winchester Virginia with publisher Harry Flood Byrd. It is entered at the Winchester post office as second class matter and consolidated with Morning News Item Weekly News Weekly Times The Weekly Mirror.
The notice lists advance subscription prices for mail and carrier service. Mail rates: one year $3.50, six months $1.75, three months $0.90, one month $0.30. Carrier rates: one year $4.50, six months $2.25, three months $1.20.
An August 31, 1926 notice presents a Bible thought and prayer focusing on the First Commandment. It invokes Exodus 20:3 and petitions God to be worshiped alone, reflecting the periodical’s religious column tone.
The Danville Register discusses the short ballot proposal in Virginia, arguing it concentrates executive power in the governor by naming three department heads while increasing voter accountability and potentially improving state administration, despite noted weaknesses. The piece parallels the U S cabinet plan and cites Governor Byrd as a proponent of stronger gubernatorial influence to enhance state governance.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot reports rumors of a six cylinder Ford with selective gear shift amid intensified competition. Ford remains supreme but rivals push hard to capture the 10Ww priced auto market. The industry’s rapid changes and Ford’s adaptation reflect a high stakes, nationwide business race.
In a likely grand business contest, Hill and Harriman vie for regional railroad dominance, a clash framed as more dramatic than any contemporary challenge to Ford’s automobile hegemony. The piece suggests rivals shape a modern power struggle in transport and industry.
The Sing Sing warden explains criminals commit murder more often as it is easier to escape conviction. He argues murderers face lighter outcomes or freedom, while robbers get harsher sentences. He questions public sentiment and asserts court records show murder is safer for criminals than other felonies.
In the Orient and in Baltimore the kiss is treated differently by society and science. The essay traces romantic views from horsehair salons to modern cinema noting how film redefines intimacy and faces censoring cuts rather than ending the act.
The Star lists current local wholesale prices for grains and feeds including wheat flour corn middlings and mixed feed. It shows ranges for baled hay shelled corn and live poultry prices such as young leghorns and broilers with per ton and per barrel figures.
A scanned page lists prices and ranges for dairy products and livestock including butter fat hogs cattle calves sheep lambs hay flour and feeds with corrections noted at market close. It includes entries for creamery butter products and various feed components with price figures and percent changes.
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