Evening Star publication note for Winchester area
The Evening Star under publisher Harry Flood Byrd issued notices from Winchester Virginia. The paper is entered at the post office as second class matter and published daily except Sundays, consolidated with the Morning News Item Weekly News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror.
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Winchester
Evening Star Publishing Co
Virginia
The
Weekly News
Weekly Times
Weekly Mirror
Subscription Rates in Old Ledger Style Listing
A compact list presents prepaid subscription prices for various terms. It shows yearly, half year, and quarterly options with amounts in dollars and cents, including both single and multiple year offerings and potential mistyped lines. The density of figures implies a catalog-like announcement from a historical period.
Associated Press Rights Notice
A standard republication disclaimer stating the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to its news dispatches and local news published in the paper.
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Associated Press
Fragmentary religious text with scripture quote and prayer
A damaged snippet shows mixed letters and a Bible verse from Ezra and Nehemiah. The legible portion features a call to open eyes and understand the law, followed by a brief prayer for divine guidance. The readable content centers on biblical reading and comprehension.
Massachusetts sculptor’s Virginia Dare statue arouses North Carolina debate
A Massachusetts artist Miss Louisa Lander created a statue of Virginia Dare and left it to North Carolina. The Hall of History in Raleigh displays the work, but NC officials oppose the mature depiction and lack of drapery, citing uncertainty about Dare’s life. Calls rise for a full impartial inquiry.
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Louisa Lander
Massachusetts
Virginia Dare
North Carolina
Roanoke Island
Tarheelia
Miss Lander
North
Caroline
Piedmont
billions for education in annual interior report
The interior department report shows education outlays totaling over 2.3 billion dollars in the past year and school property valued at more than 6 billion. The nation has over 260 thousand public school buildings and about 299 normal schools and teachers colleges.
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Commission of
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Washington's Breakfast and Dinner Habits of Early Leaders
A 19th century excerpt notes Washington favoring three corn cakes and tea for breakfast, and three fish dishes at dinner, with moderation in desserts. It adds Jefferson's hearty vegetarian leanings and Franklin's shift from vegetarianism to meat, linking diet to prosperity and gout, while Napoleon’s years of wealth trading temperance for appetite.
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Franklin
Napoleon
THIS KING BUSINESS New York World
A World article notes monarchs Ferdinand of Roumania and Yoshihito of Japan near death from illness. It contrasts royal pomp with loneliness at a king’s passing and criticizes cold formalities and post funeral politics while joking about kissproof lipstick and lipstick worn by kissproof girls.
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Ferdinand
Roumania
Yoshihito
Japan
Red Grange Arrested for Drunkenness in Dalbas
Red Grange and four New York Yankee players spent three hours in Dalbas jail after a disturbance at the Ritz hotel. Each was charged with drunkenness and disturbing the peace and paid a ten dollar fine to secure release.
Secrets and Curses on Property
A quip notes that secrets are weak property regardless of keeping or sharing. The writer jokes that circulating them loses them and hoarding them also loses interest, implying a paradox about value and discretion.
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Josh Billings
Stephens City stock sale and local broker contacts
I will ship stock from Stephens City Saturday January 1 1927. Geo Gibson of Stephens City and Walter Fishpaw of Middletown will represent me in their communities. Notify them with stock offers. I am in grain and hay and will quotes prices.
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Geo. Gibson
Stephens City
Walter Fishpaw
Middletown
Bank Closing Notices on Christmas Day
Christmas Day, a legal holiday, the Shenandoah Valley National Bank Farmers and Merchants National Bank Commercial and Savings Bank Union Bank of Winchester will be closed. All paper maturing on that date can be paid on Monday Dec 27th. Cashiers listed: WM G Hardy H D Fuller John L Sloat Charles Summers.
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Taga
Farmers, & Merchants, National Bank
Winchester
Virginia
J. H. Yost
Shenandoah
Valley National Bank
Wm. G. Hardy
WM G. Hardy
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
H. D. Fuller
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
John. L Sloat
Charles Summers
Union Bank of Winchester
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H.R. Willis
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J. V. Arthur
General Insurance AO
Rouss .’.Ve
R. C
McDonald
R. C. McDonald
J. W. Joliffe
Ee Va
Red
United Shoe Repair Shop
Ste
Phens
Tme
George R. Green
White Post
Irwin Drug CO
Braddock St
Phon
Ial
the. Belk Bakery
Little. Joe’s
RE. M. Swimley
George Washington Hotel
Frank Gearing
East Piccadilly Street
Virginia Loan & Thrift Corp
Winchester, VA
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Asay
Main St
North Main St
Whitman
Baker’s Drug Store
Fo Poe
Turkey
Leader
Northern VA. Motor CO
South Main Street
Shryock’s Store
Griffin Paint and Sign CO
Phine
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