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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1928
Page
6
Gov. Smith declared the Democratic Party must retain control of New York state government and warned against letting the party be absorbed by the national race to the White House. He urged the committee to organize, spoke at the State Fair, and then left for Albany to begin a campaign tour.
Henry Ford plans a large educational museum village near Dearborn Michigan. People will live in authentic houses and cottages using period furniture and tools to recreate Colonial life as a permanent living exhibit. The village will reflect Ford’s Wayside Inn and Botsford Inn designs and serve educational and technical aims.
A historical note describes a school illustrating the progress of science and industrial arts in the United States, highlighting how education fostered modernization and practical skills shaping American industry.
Roy Chapman Andrews appeals to the United States to help save fossils unearthed in the Gobi Desert. Chinese reports indicate a seizure attempt involved about 85 crates of fossils from his expedition.
Elsie Herman of Philadelphia won a beauty contest in Quaker City and rivals in New York immediately bid for her services. Film magnates chased her dimples and she will soon appear in galloping tintypes.
The explorer, after learning Chinese authorities in Kalgan may confiscate the discoveries, says the expedition yielded many relics including bones of a prehistoric monster he claims was the largest ever. Reports note seizures have occurred and a Washington appeal may follow.
Bryan Stull of Frederick Maryland was arrested by Policeman Boyd and Sheriff Pannett and returned to Frederick to answer a grand larceny charge. The arrest stemmed from a curious clue a single old dollar bill in the case.
The home of Mr. Lewis saw a one dollar bill, his first earnings as a boy, framed and displayed. Stull allegedly entered, stole a watch and clothes, and smashed the frame. He used an old out of date dollar to buy a bus ticket at Frederick terminal, where the cashier kept the same bill later identified by Lewis. Stull was traced here and arrested.
A fleeting description from the Louisville Times notes a girl in a floppy garden hat whose upper appearance evokes Maude Muller, with attention not specified beyond the visual comparison.
A notice describes Swift’s Premium meat products featuring parchment wrapper blue no parboiling tag and a distinctive Swift brand on the rind with the name Swift branded in dots on the side for identification.
Virginia State Highway Commission approves key links in Rockingham, Page, Warren and Clarke counties to create a Shenandoah Valley route from Harpers Ferry to Waynesboro. Five links added under Vaughan act, with remaining five miles to be included south of Front Royal and Route choices to Elkton and Waynesboro awaiting funding.
The Star lists wholesale and retail quotations from local buyers across flour, corn meal, middlings, mixed feed, and hens. Creamery butter priced around 40 60 cents, with other dairy, feed, and poultry items shown in fluctuating ranges.
A garbled Baltimore wholesale notes fragment hints at a quote about evolution and mosquito screens. The stray Kalamazoo reference links a quip predicting mosquitos shrinking to slip through screens, underscoring a joke in the margins of a clipped page.
By virtue of an execution in the case Sheetz against Evans a public sale of mechanical tools is planned for Saturday September 1 1928 at 2 pm in front of the County Court House Winchester Va. Tools listed include a large post hand drill hammer chisels drill bits and assorted wrenches suitable to start an auto repair shop. Cash terms. Constable Geo W Bageant of Frederick County.
Staunton Aug 30 The Augusta Baptist Association representing 7000 members went on record supporting the eighteenth amendment and all enforcement statutes. The resolution presented by Rev Brown Smith of Staunton’s First Baptist Church was adopted by a rising vote. It urges clear public thinking on the issue and cautions against prejudice.
Travel fatigue during hot weather trips supposedly strains nerves and causes headaches sleepless nights and fatigue. A bottle of Capucline is advertised to soothe nerves with two teaspoonfuls in water for quick relief and is sold in drug stores in 30c and 60c sizes.
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