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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1930
Page
4
A damaged OCR snippet shows a price of 3.50 with scattered tokens including month references and a year noted in advance. The readable portion hints at a product listing or advertisement. No clear event or identity established.
A devotional fragment cites Romans 1 18 and praises divine mercy while noting God’s slow anger toward unrighteousness, blessing the Lord for restraint and compassion in the face of judgment.
The piece argues Chicago risks political and financial bankruptcy under an extraconstitutional rescue committee. It likens Chicago to Mussolini's Italy, holding strings of power while Strawn and a city panel control spending. It urges genuine, diligent governance and resists outside private management.
A New York Evening Post piece notes early motion pictures become valuable antiques. London sale expected at high prices for films depicting Queen Victoria’s jubilee and King Edward's coronation, wartime newsreels, and other historic footage. It argues historians now treasure these films as living pictures from a century past.
Detroit firemen voted a 6 percent pay rise but will request the board to apply the $215 000 annual increase to hire men in need of work for their families. The move is presented as a rare public-spirited stand against accepting more than law allows and is praised as a model for public servants.
President Edwin A. Alderman promotes scientific study as the spirit of national prosperity. He notes vast lab networks costing two hundred million annually, proving research drives business success. a cooperative effort between industry associations and scientific agencies is urged. Readers can obtain a free nineteen page bulletin from the University of Virginia Extension Department.
The text argues X rays are essential in dental work to avoid blind extractions and ensure tooth and bridge abutment viability. It notes radiographs detect buried roots granulomas cysts and guide extractions and plate fittings. An extra fee for X rays is justified by increased success and patient safety.
Representative Henry St. George Tucker opposes a bill to enlarge powers of U S commissioners in prohibition cases. He says setting up commissioners courts to try many cases would push more work from federal courts and juries, addressing congestion noted by President Hoover's law enforcement commission.
Advertises grapefruit deals with doz 240 and large grapefruit at 4 for 50 cents and 15c extra large, plus vegetables at low prices. Includes phone number 1257 for contact.
Mr Tucker plans a minority report opposing a proposed arrangement seen as weakening the trial by jury. He may push the issue to the House floor, arguing the right is a fundamental protection of the United States Constitution.
Bloom Virginia February 8 The Friendly Grove Civic League will hold a League meeting and Valentine Social at the school house Friday February 14 at 730 P.M. There will be a short program Valentine games and refreshments served All are partially invited Mrs Paul Glynn spent a week end with relatives at Stephens City Dinner guests at the home of Mr and Mrs EB U Richards last Sunday included Rev J Russell Carron Mr and Mrs SB Green and family Miss Thelma
In a noir tale by Frank L. Packard a mystery mastermind known as the Big Shot directs wholesale crime in a metropolis. Enid, disguised, investigates Izzy Myers’s junk shop after a staged gun exchange leads to a deadly ambush and a stakeout in a dim junkyard lair.
Richard and Mrs. Herman Barr guests include Miss Ruth Naomi and Arthelia Richard. Mr. Joseph Hershman and Mr. J. B. Crowell also mentioned. Mrs. R. L. Long visited her mother Mrs. G. W. Hulver last Sunday. Miss Sadie Hulver and Raymond Hollie stayed weekend with Mrs. G. W. Hulver. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Cooper and child called on Mrs. A. F. Willame last Sunday.
Thieves entered the businesses of J. Jos. Sullivan and Emory J. Snapp. The Sarah Zane Fire Company will have their annual sermon Sunday night at United Brethren Church by Rev. George W. Stover. Harry A. Miller turns business over to son Harry A. Miller Jr. Dr. Robert H. Tucker, Washington and Lee University, cites new Virginia state polity from years of study. Five Years Ago notes Mrs. J. S. Larrick died of pneumonia and a police action ending an argument about the end of the world. Floyd Collins heart rate 20 bpm. shaft digging hindered by heavy rains. Industrial stocks dip on New York Stock Exchange. Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Pitzer return from Florida and Cuba. Fifteen Years Ago recalls Belgian War Office claims death blows to Germans. cider sale fined. York Imperial apples sold in New York. evangel of Sunday run with $100,000 cost.
Mrs Gibson testified at the trial of Mrs Hall and brothers Henry and Willie Stevens for murder. She said a gray haired woman and two men bent over two prostrate bodies as they rode a mule down the lane that night. She identified Mrs Hall. Hall and the Stevens brothers were acquitted.
Two South Carolina state senators W Claude Martin of Orangeburg and William S Legare of Charleston were fatally injured in a late day automobile collision near Orangetown D C Residents reported Martin was dead at the scene and Legare died later A third legislator J R Smith Jr of Charleston was seriously injured in the crash
Mrs. Jane Gibson, famed prosecuting witness in the 1926 Hall Mills murder case, dies of cancer in JWASBY. She owned a farm near DeRussey's lane close to where Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and singer Eleanor Mills were found on September 14, 1922.
Senator Legare died in a hospital tonight after a collision between two cars injuring him and Senator Martin and Representative Smith. The lawmakers were returning home for the weekend when their car collided with another vehicle. the other occupants were reportedly unharmed.
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