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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1932
Page
2
At a J. H. Henry Common meeting a motion urged city managers to push hiring of local workers to reduce unemployment. P. P. Pilcher contacted Winchester firms and received favorable responses, with businesses agreeing to employ locals where possible to curb joblessness.
Spending plans stir debate over local status for Frederick County residents and Winchester inhabitants with questions about who qualifies as local. The discussion centers on residency distinctions and potential impact on services and representation.
Calvin M. Martin shows a copy of The Star from December 1897 at The Star office. The issue was a four page four column paper published at No. 17 West Water street. S. H. Hansbrough was company president and John I. Sloat edited the paper, founder of The Star and its predecessor the Evening Item. The issue focused on local matters.
James Allen, unjustly jailed for robbery, escapes a Texas chain gang after two brutal years. He hides in a hotel with help from Linda, heads to Chicago by train, and begins a rebuilding of his life as a laborer. In Chicago he meets Helen and begins a new romance while Marie schemes to keep him tied to her.
James Warder Jenkins of Winchester was granted an absolute divorce from Eva B. Jenkins by Judge Philip Williams in the local Corporation Court. The grounds were desertion, with the couple married in Hagerstown on December 22, 1920 and Eva leaving in September 1929. Neither party may remarry for six months, and each retains property rights.
The article notes the newspaper’s focus on local matters and its lack of coverage of international events or modern streamer driven stories, signaling a traditional beat bias.
Officials from the West Virginia Office of the State Fire Marshal investigate nine barn and related fires in the Middleway and Summit Point area of Jefferson County since June 21. Investigators D D Link and W H Kein lack tangible clues but suspect incendiary causes in most cases. Losses total about 29700 dollars, with fires mainly in the southwestern county.
Creomulsion offers seven best helps known to modern denée. Powerful but harmless, Pleasant to take. Your druggist will refund money if cough or cold not relieved by Creomulsion. No narcotics.
Rep Joel W Flood of Appomattox is sworn in as the newest Virginia House member and will sit on the foreign affairs committee, matching his late half-brother Hal Flood who chaired the panel during Democratic control. Flood, a former assistant attorney general and World War veteran, fills the unexpired term of the late Henry St George Tucker with Montague of Richmond witnessing.
Lexington reports that a Virginia congressman, aged 38 and the youngest among Virginia members, will retire from Congress in March.
News of the death of Rev. Father William Gaston Payne, a Catholic missionary in Virginia, reported from Baltimore where he died yesterday morning. He left two sisters, Mrs. Columbus Shriver of Baltimore and Mrs. T Marshall Jones of Alexandria, and a brother J Carroll Payne of Atlanta.
Westminster near London is described as four square miles valued at 15 billion dollars, or about 115000 dollars per inhabitant, highlighting the density of wealth per person in the area.
Local markets show cracked corn dairy feed and mixed feed prices with corrections and notes on typos. A Boston authority jokes about newspaper fame by claiming mosquitoes weep, an apparent aside amid price listings.
A compact quotation from R L Stevenson warns that acting only because others do is to surrender moral control and embark toward ruin. It emphasizes self-guidance over herd behavior and asserts personal responsibility. The line frames ethical choice as an individual duty.
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