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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star reports consolidation with Morning News The Weekly News and The Weekly Mirror in Center Virginia. The notice lists publisher Harry Floop Byrd and routine post office mailing classifications for the newspaper in Win Virginia.
A fragmented line lists subscription rates in advance for various periods and notes that The Associated Press news dispatches are credited where not otherwise indicated. It states AP exclusivity for republication and local news use.
Lynchburg News finds widespread support for Harry Byrd's tax reform ideas while noting uneven reactions across Virginia newspapers. Editors praise the segregation concept in principle but assess practical issues of local versus state funding and the need for a full time tax commissioner to aid equalization.
The Virginia representative H. St. George Tucker saw his amendment to bar government funds from aiding deceit in enforcing prohibition voted down by a large majority. The Louisville Courier Journal praised Tucker as a man of honesty and chivalry, noting his refusal of a salary increase and his steadfast ideals against expediency.
Cross Roads Virginia notes include Kenzell Whitacre returning to Potomac State School at Keyser West Virginia after Christmas visits. Oliver C. Good resumes teaching at Cross Roads school after holidays with friends at Rock Enon. Various residents visit family in Winchester Washington DC Miami and with George McKee Sallie Oates and others during Christmas.
An 19th century style medical ad touts Catarrh Medicine as remedying catarrh or deafness by a two part preparation. It asserts internal action, long selling history, and nationwide distribution through FP Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
Daily price quotes for local wholesale markets cover Wheat Bran Corn Meal Butter Creamery butter and eggs. The list includes Local flour barrels and 12 lb sacks, mixed feed hay shelled corn middlings and hogs cattle calves sheep lambs and hogs with figures in dollars and cents from Baltimore wholesale.
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