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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1929
Page
4
A garbled OCR image shows subscription prices: one year tin advance five dollars? six months in advance and other fractions. The text mentions monthly rates and carrier options with various fractions and dots, but details are unclear.
A devotional fragment notes Jesus teaching that love for him equals keeping his words and the Father dwelling with the believer. It recalls the promise that hearing his word is the Father’s sending. Prayer seeks alignment with God’s will and attentive listening.
The Medical Society of Virginia plans a statewide network of clinics and courses to provide continuous education for physicians. Post graduate instruction coordinated with university programs aims to keep doctors in rural and urban Virginia up to date with modern medical practice and new techniques.
The Richmond News Leader argues against pessimism in the auto industry noting 1929 nine month production surpasses any full previous year by 271000. It cites model changes, used car stock, ownership turnover, and road improvements as factors shaping demand and costs.
The article notes that a trade in allowance on automobiles should be scrap, warning competition is sharpening. It suggests that rough conditions threaten careless players, but argues these pressures push for better business practices to strengthen the industry.
In the Baltimore Sun Frank R Kent analyzes Grundy entering the Senate as a significant political tale. He notes the lobbyists gambled with him, turning an obscure figure into a Pennsylvania idol and elevating him toward a Senate seat.
Baltimore officer reports Wilson Berry 26 amateur author died by hanging in a northeastern police station cell after a prior gas exposure in his basement. His father H Brace Berry alerted police when he found him with a gas tube. Berry had been held on a disorderly conduct charge.
A mother Mrs. Andrew Day and seven children aged one to fourteen were found dead in their home near Three Rivers Maes. The husband was hospitalized with a self inflicted throat wound. The incident is reported by the Associated Press.
The new airship 100, sister to the 101 and among the largest aircraft, was launched at dawn in Howden England. It was moved from its hangar and circled the area after the ceremony. The word commandment was painted in two foot high letters in the Dawson county Texas court room.
Arthur Fleming Scotten, a Stanford graduate and Harvard law student, is named one of three recipients of the Rhodes scholarship. He earns recognition while pursuing his legal studies at Harvard.
A scanned listing shows Monday December 16 radio programming across multiple stations. It includes call letters such as WEAF WABC WJZ and WNBC with varied offerings from piano recitals to hotel orchestras and late night dance music, naming programs, hosts, and time blocks across networks in New York Philadelphia Hartford and beyond.
A fragmented market notes daily corrections and mixed pricing across wholesale and local retail sectors. It lists commodity items such as corn, cotton seed meal, creamery butter, middlings, cracked corn, and various livestock feeds with varied price ranges and notes on cattle and poultry items.
Sydney dispatch reports one miner killed and many injured in a riot with police at Rothbury. Six officers were injured as about 400 miners gathered around the shaft armed with revolvers.
Trustee announces public auction of a 75 acre farm with improvements located about 2.5 miles southeast of Stephens City on Nineveh Road in Frederick County. Sale December 21, 1929 at 11 a.m. in Winchester. Buyer's option to assume a $1899.45 Federal Land Bank mortgage or pay off. Terms: one third cash, balance in one or two years. Trustee T Russell Cather. auctioneers Duvall and Dunn.
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