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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1928
Page
4
Winchester Virginia Evening Star announces post office entry as second class daily except Sunday and lists consolidation with Morning News Weekly News Weekly Mirror. Subscription rates shown for daily and weekly editions with varying advance payments. Associated Press rights noted for republication of dispatches and local news.
Thursday December 27 1928 features the Inner Light message urging Arise and shine with a biblical citation from Isaiah and a brief prayer asking for enlightenment by the Light of light. The brief item presents a spiritual reflection typical of the period.
The Leviathan theft of trans Atlantic mail is under renewed doubt as investigators raise questions about the amount and method. Initial estimates varied from 12 000 to 112 000 dollars with theories ranging from a sweetheart informer to a bank clerk who sent bond numbers to New York. The case now centers on how a crew member gained access to registered mail sacks and forged seals aboard the ship before arriving in England.
A New York Herald Tribune piece surveys how Western kissing traditions clash with Japanese censorship. It notes initial bans as unsanitary and immoral, then gradual acceptance on screen limited to thirty seconds, highlighting differing censor attitudes and the belief that American censors may know more about film norms than Japanese officials.
The piece critiques a New York representative's opposition to prohibition and weighs Representative Black's bill to ban religious references in presidential and other high offices. It argues laws alone cannot fix moral evils and questions the naive faith in legislation to resolve deep issues.
A remark framing prejudice as a social issue rather than a legal fault. It emphasizes that remedy comes through education and informed discourse. The statement suggests focusing on changing minds over codifying punishment.
Interior bulletin notes the Northwestern ignite field spans about 1 800 square miles across the Dakotas and eastern Montana with beds 8 to 30 feet thick. Deposits are largely untapped and strip mining or tunneling from banks can extract coal easily. Over 15 000 000 000 tons seen, comparable to all U S coal mined since discovery, with powder coal suitable for steam and engines.
Announcement today calls for a large shooting event at Gore in the county on New Year s Day Tuesday of next week. Winchester Gun Club members and other local trapshooters and sportsmen are invited to attend with their guns. Merchandise prizes are offered.
The passage from Every Day Religion by Bishop James E. Freeman outlines a pledge for the new year: seek worthwhile work, a fearless, humorous, loving mind, quiet meditation, beauty, and a sense of God. It argues that partnership with God motivates greater effort and higher service.
Paul V. McNutt national commander of the American Legion will visit Richmond Virginia on January 7. He will attend a post commanders and adjutants conference then address legionnaires and ex service men. Virginia leads the legion in paid up membership for 1929 with 2630 of the old members paid to date and six new posts formed since October 20.
Principal crops in Virginia this year are valued at 147,553,000 according to the Virginia Crop Reporting Service. Potatoes and tobacco show lower values than 1927 while fruits grains peanuts and sweet potatoes rise. Harvested acreage totals 4,161,000 with increases in barley buckwheat corn cotton potatoes rye sorghum and tobacco and declines in hay oats and wheat. Most crops produced more than last year despite floods affecting corn.
Special commissioners announce a public auction of the Winchester and Western Railroad Company properties and all related real and personal assets. The sale, conducted under a U.S. District Court decree, will occur at the Romney courthouse on January 26, 1929, at 2:30 p.m. The parcel includes track rights, equipment, and related interests across Virginia and West Virginia.
A Pittsburgh Post Gazette report notes a town professor attempting to train an oyster to sing and dance. The audacious project aims to revolutionize teaching by using live mollusk performance as a classroom spectacle.
Detroit News reports a doorball player known for habitual offside behavior begins plays on the amber light, a practice noted during driving.
The note suggests a weather based cue linking cold in Boston to cash gains and warm Florida sunshine to profits, implying a seasonal market or trading pattern across regions. The terse transcript hints at regional indicators guiding financial outlooks in winter and summer.
Titus Nursery Company of Waynesboro Virginia announces the New Red Delicious apple, Richard Delicious, now propagation rights secured and first eastern planting planned. Readers urged to request the Descriptive Catalogue for full information and pricing.
In loving remembrance of our dear son and brother Ralph Calvin Clem who passed away seven years ago today. He is gone but not forgotten. Remembrance stays in our hearts and we wish you rest in peace. From his mother father sisters and brothers. 1227-11
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