The Weekly Mirror publication line and postal note
Fragmentary OCR shows publisher Byrd in Virginia with postage at Win Ya and second class matter. Mentions The Weekly The Weekly Mirror and News distribution line.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1925
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows publisher Byrd in Virginia with postage at Win Ya and second class matter. Mentions The Weekly The Weekly Mirror and News distribution line.
The document lists subscription prices by mail with series of amounts in various formats. Figures include yearly and multi month prepayment options, showing different rates for newspapers or periodicals.
A terse notice states that Associated Press material is used for republication of Allen's dispatches and that all other local news published by the paper carries the AP credit or local attribution.
A Leesburg reader criticizes Governor Westmoreland and Byrd in Virginia politics. The piece argues for a Democratic party chairman focused on policy over faction, criticizing party bosses and the old guard. It notes nominations by primary and convention, the role of delegates, and calls for practical governance and better efficiency. The ad promotes coke as a fuel option from The Winchester Gas Co.
The writer criticizes the persistent triumvirate within party politics and argues for independence from party machinery. They insist every Democratic candidate should receive a fair, square deal, free from control by partisan groups that manipulate party agencies essential to its life.
Senator G Walter Mapp rejects Bristol Herald Courier claim he will retire to back Harry F Byrd. He calls the campaign chatter ancient twaddle and asserts he will seek the nomination unless new obstacles appear. He recalls a Winchester Star note on Byrd and Moore and signals readiness to respond with accuracy.
A playful piece recounts a deaf child mocked for hearing loss yet imagines friends inviting activities from plays to debates. It notes a mock advertisement for Dr Pete's Auditory Pad as a cure while lampooning social pressure and the dream of improved hearing.
J Willis Suddith mayor defends town progress in Boyce amid criticisms from Robert Goodridge. He cites road repairs, a new fire truck, and town amenities including churches, schools, bank, railroad station, stores, and utilities. He asserts positive city foundations and urges continued faith in the town’s improvements.
A brief note lists coke at 7.60 per ton and coal at 8.50 per net cash for gas customers and stockholders. The document shows a 15.00 per ton price for other customers and 8.50 net cash figures for certain arrangements.
Wheat prices collapsed today with May deliveries dipping to 1.85 dollars per bushel, 21 cents below last week's peak. The drop followed early selling on an upturn, showing little support from new speculative buyers in Chicago.
The Star lists daily wholesale prices with typed blanks and incomplete words for corn, chickens, hens, roos, bran, flour, middlings, mixed feed, butter, hay, straw, stock feed, horses, calves, and sheep. Prices show ranges and unit notes though many entries are garbled or partial.
The text notes that China monopolized papermaking for about 800 years, and that Arabs learned the process from the Chinese. It adds that Arabs improved the method by using linen or cotton rags instead of mulberry bark.
Three men died when their automobile collided with a passenger train at a crossing in dense fog in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Victims were C A Perry C J Demmerest both of Buffalo New York and L C Lavell of Ambridge near Pittsburgh.
Mary Lamkin a middle aged colored woman died today from heart trouble at her home 518 North Kent street. She leaves her husband Benjamin B. Lamkin. Arrangements for the funeral are incomplete but the service will be at Shiloh Baptist Church with Rev. Benjamin Layton officiating.
A short classified notice highlights the value of advertising in local papers. It emphasizes increased visibility for businesses and notes quick reader reach and potential sales gains.
A fragmented note stresses manners as essential, asserting they guide behavior more than wealth or power. The terse line mentions Burke and a notion that good conduct underpins status, urging open consideration of etiquette in public life.
A cave discovery near Collins area prompts discussion of the cause of a noise linked to a carbon filament. Timbers are needed as a new shaft is sunk to about 55 feet, with estimates of 24 to 72 hours to reach deeper levels. Modern equipment replaces primitive methods while workers stay guarded against possible caverns.
An Italian scientist has developed a special light that penetrates water up to 800 yards and shines at any depth, enabling illumination at great underwater distances. The invention promises improved visibility for divers and underwater exploration.
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