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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1928
Page
4
The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia describes daily publication with Sunday exceptions, mentions consolidation with local papers, and lists subscription rates for annual, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly terms. It notes Associated Press rights and republication policy for local and dispatched news.
A devotional fragment cites Isaiah 54 10 and Psalm style prayers praising God’s unchanging kindness. It emphasizes mountains and hills moving yet God’s mercy and covenant remain, with gratitude for continual faithfulness.
The appeal stresses continuing TB battle as seals sales rise funding cures. It notes over 100000 TB deaths annually nationwide and 2529 in Virginia last year, urging all to buy seals at Moling and Cather in Winchester or from designated agents.
Richmond readers ponder Christmas greetings as the card tradition grows into a modern fad costing millions. Virginia Pope notes a shift from religious imagery to secular scenes reflecting contemporary times and evolving design trends.
Report discusses the need for a second summer White House facility not far from Washington but at higher elevation. The text notes annual talk on the matter and mentions past presidents using nearby sites such as Roosevelt homes at Mount Vernon and Mount something Bay for convenience.
The text discusses moving the official residence to a permanent summer White House in Virginia hills to escape Washington humidity. It argues for easy access, reduced prep for brief sojourns, and a healthier climate, suggesting Congress may act if the idea gains public and press interest.
The University of Minnesota experiment station reports a white leghorn hen laying 318 eggs in 365 days, a record for the Midwest. A flock of 100 hens produced 24,116 eggs yearly, showing the value of scientific selective breeding and feeding for farm revenue.
A health officer promotes raw cabbage and fresh milk as protection against illness with vitamins A and D. He notes cabbage as inexpensive and leafy vegetables as fortifying, alongside not overheating rooms, avoiding crowds, and ensuring sleep and outdoor exercise for a simple seasonal health program.
The Star outlines daily corrected wholesale prices for local markets including wheat corn meal flour and fats, with figures for hens, young chickens, butter, and cattle. Baltimore wholesale figures cover wheat turkeys hens calves cattle and lambs with central listings and noted price ranges.
Congress has been petitioned for an expanded sepopeie zone to aid agriculture research. General Herbert M. Lord, director of the bureau of the budget, assures farm groups he will study the matter closely. The program aims to lift farmer burdens by applying farm economics findings to increase variety quality and quantity of farm commodities at lower costs. Mr Woods cites agriculture research costs about 20 million dollars annually.
The returns from agricultural economics research now exceed the annual spend of the Department of Agriculture and all national agricultural colleges since the Civil War. Dr Woods notes the work reaches farm life from seed to market and could expand into cooperatives marketing and wider economies.
In West Virginia’s coming Legislature, Benjamin H. Hiner of Pendleton county will sit in the State Senate and his son R. M. Hiner of Franklin will serve in the House of Delegates both from Pendleton county. The younger Hiner won by the largest Pendleton county majority on record and marks the fifth generation in direct line to hold public office. Benjamin H. Hiner was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Second district at the recent election.
Washington December 1 The champion of greater research in farming methods and marketing farm products Dr A F Woods director of scientific work in the Department of Agriculture is credited with a possible successor to Secretary Jardine should he leave the Hoover administration.
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