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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1932
Page
4
Publication details outline the Evening Star Publishing Co. Winchester edition, its consolidation with other papers, and subscription rates by mail and carrier. Advertising representatives listed include Devine Tenney Corp. for major cities.
A New Year greeting featuring a biblical blessing from Numbers 6 24 26 is shared. The text invokes the Lord to bless keep shine gracious lift up countenance and grant peace to the reader. The message reflects traditional religious well wishes.
Dispatches from Bombay quote Mahatma Gandhi saying he will not flinch from sacrificing a million people for India’s liberty. The remarks follow his London Round Table Conference return, contradicting non-cooperation rhetoric and likely aimed at British readers amid ongoing bloodshed between India and England.
The Roanoke Times notes Senator Watson guides a Indiana Santa Claus bloc in Congress to counter Postmaster General Brown amid plans to rename the Santa Claus post office. The issue blends Christmas season mail demands with statecraft leadership and local relief for strained postal facilities.
The Yap island coin system uses sandstone discs called fel as small change. Bank samples from Chase National Bank note Yap currency as utilitarian, with no hoarding value due to digging time and utilitarian use as whetstones.
A garbled report from the Star-Telegram cites an Oxford professor suggesting social ties and companionship with attractive women may contribute to longer life. The fragment references aging, misrendered terms, and unclear context about American marksmanship.
Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio issues a New Year message to officers and employes urging generosity toward unemployed colleagues and neighbors. He expresses gratitude for past aid and hopes the new year brings continued support and shared burdens.
Virginia press leaders plan a mid winter meeting in Richmond from January 28 to 30. Harry F. Byrd will address the gathering. Dr. Douglas Freeman may also speak. The program, drafted by Rufus G. Roberts and James C. Latimer, will include engravings plant tours and a WRVA radio station visit.
Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty in The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy accuses Albert B. Fall of forging a telegram to secure his White House appointment. He says Fall signed Daugherty’s name and that Harding hesitated over the clash between them. The book, by Daugherty and Thomas Dixon, recounts post Harding era scandals.
Opequon Memorial Kernstown Round Hill Burnt Church and Stines Chapel list Sunday School times 10 a m except Burnt Church 3 0 p m and 10 30 a m at Stines Chapel. Worship sermons and Christian Endeavor hours noted. cordial invitation to worship.
Winchester U B Church announces services led by Rev C J Racey with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and sermon at 11 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p.m. Mt Olive in Mt Pleasant Va offers Sunday School at 2 p.m. and sermon at 3 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m. Fairview sermon at 7:30 p.m. All invited.
The Stephens City Episcopal Church hosts a 3 p.m. service led by Rev. F. A. Brown of Woodstock and invites the public to attend.
Sacred Heart Church on Loudoun and Cecil Streets led by Rev. Robert E. Hannon offers mass at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. with benediction after the late mass, and Sunday School at 10 a.m.
Calendar of services across Frederick Circuit M. E. Church South with sermons Sunday School Epworth League and Ladies Aid Society meetings. Includes dates January 5 7 and 9 and invitations to attend all listed activities. Names Mrs R O Daugherty Harry Hicks and families named in home meetings.
Crums Sunday School 10 a m preaching 11 a m Welltown Sunday School 2 p m preaching 3 p m Pye ey part 10 m Epworth meeting 9 45 Burnt actors Sunday 10 a m Epworth League 7 Brucetown Sunday School 10 a m Epworth League 7 p m
Reliance U B Charge led by Rev H E Richardson with services at Reliance and Ridings Chapel. Sunday School 10 a m at Reliance Yege Christ Endeavor 7 30 p m Ridings Chapel sermon 3 p m Greenway preaching 7 30 p m Sunday School 10 a m New Year sermons at each appointment Stephens City Sunday School 2 30 p m.
The two day meeting at Buck Falls yields a 1932 New Year message urging a nobler life and three focal concerns: Prohibition, world peace, and unemployment. It stresses obedience to law, end to arms, and transforming social and economic systems toward universal good will and fair distribution of wealth and power.
The statement speaks of sickness, accident, old age, and unemployment and notes present wealth and power contrasts. It commits to building a saner and more beautiful human society and is signed by the Message Committee with Jesse H. Holmes as Chairman.
GREEN SPRING Virginia December 31. Those spending Christmas with Mr and Mrs William Dix included Mrs Katie Heflin near Winchester Mr and Mrs Douglas Anderson and son and Miss Ethel Dix of Winchester Mrs Elsie Hensley Miss Hagel Dix and Mr Jack Strobridge of Martinsburg Master Ray Millon ill with double pneumonia slowly improving Mr and Mrs C H Fries and daughter Mr and Mrs Earl Fries and children Mr and Mrs Loring Smith and children Mr and Mrs Ray Lamp and children and Mr and Mrs Guy Webber were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs U S Fries Christmas day Messrs Ray Fries and Kenneth Strobridge of Winchester spent Christmas with their parents here Mrs Dale Denie of Winchester spent a few days last week with her sister Mrs Hunter Strobridge who has been ill for past two weeks.
Sybil Morse balks at her mother Mrs. Morse's plan to force marriage to Bruce Durand after a socially arranged engagement agreement. The scene reveals meddling family dynamics, control over Sybil's life, and simmering tensions as Sybil asserts autonomy and rejects the match.
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