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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1931
Page
2
The New York Times notes how the year 1930 still echoes across the cosmos, shaping expectations for celestial observations and inspiring future astronomical work despite vast distances and time.
Stockholders meeting to be held at the banking house at eleven o clock. H Yost is named cashier.
An automobile advertisement promotes buying used Packard cars at low cost. It touts several listings including a 1928 Packard 6 Sedan a 1927 Packard 6 Club Sedan and a 1926 Packard 6 Phaeton as high value options with factory guarantees and minimal prior wear.
The piece traces Jesus childhood and boyhood through Christian memory and biblical references. It notes He grew up in a religious home, learned Hebrew, and spent time in the synagogue school, with stories of Egypt Greece and Rome shaping His early questions.
A reflective sermon-style excerpt recounts Jesus at twelve visiting Jerusalem, hearing teachers, and engaging with questions. It emphasizes balanced development of wisdom, physique, and spirit, urging youths to grow wholesomely and align actions with faith and kindness.
Mount Pleasant Mich. resident Nugent Dodds was named assistant attorney general by Attorney General Mitchell. The AP photo features Dodds as he takes the new post and begins duties in the state justice office.
December 15 1930 report on the North American Home Missions Congress in Calvary Church Washington DC with about a thousand representatives from twenty eight denominations. discussion groups covered rural urban interdependence farm population stabilization and rural church work led by Dr Charles L White Rev Malcolm Dana and others. also notes on Boy Scout troop activities and Christmas charity visits to alms house by Troop 1 and Girl Scouts with Christmas gifts.
Eagle Scout Club of Winchester held a dinner at the Southern Inn with John Taylor organizing the event. Eugene B. Cooper was named the club’s first honorary member for his leadership and service to Scouting.
At the stockholders meeting the Bank of Clarke elected W. A. Bradford to continue as president and reappointed Lewis N. Oliver as cashier. Directors named were J. M. Whiting J. M. Lee P. Moore H C Warden and J. Bradford. Dividends were reduced to 14 percent par value due to national depression. Miss Augusta Forester praised for accurate books and Julian Glasscock named clerk.
On the outskirts of London gardeners set inflated balloons on sticks to deter birds. A bird pecks at a balloon, is startled by a pistol like explosion, and avoids the area thereafter.
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