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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1929
Page
4
The Evening Star reports annual subscription rates and service details for reading and news dispatches. It notes Associated Press credits and republication terms, with religious verse and moral reflections interspersed amid the page text.
A reverent tribute celebrates Robert E. Lee highlighting his valor chivalry and leadership in battle. The piece frames his life as a standard of Southern tradition inspiring pride and admiration across the nation.
A garbled recounting describes dogs escaping, a fragile cliffside home, and a crowded, hard landing by Bol. The narrator compares modern exploration to Sven Hedin style expeditions in Tibet with camels and deserts, noting plans to endure winter camps as Byrd’s men stay close.
The piece discusses a young nobleman who plans to donate his fortune to a political party while living modestly. It cites Arnold Bennett's novel Accident, which questions wealth, poverty, and Socialist aims. It notes a split among socialists between idealists and critics of behavior of the affluent.
A report says Mr Owen Young is favored to join a new expert commission on German reparations. His prior Dawes Commission work and postwar experience would lend weight. He would work with one to three other American specialists while President Coolidge and Kellogg maintain official aloofness from the European debt issue.
The Newport News presentation indicates Virginia would shed one of its ten congressional seats under the Fenn reapportionment measure as the state's population growth lagged behind the national increase.
The measure, approved by the House and likely to pass the Senate, follows a constitutional mandate argument. The 1920 census already reduced rural representation, with another census next year set to affect Virginia further. Virginians should study the issue and act without delay.
Daily price quotes from local buyers show wheat and corn at varies, hens and turkeys noted, and retail flour and butter prices listed. Baltimore wholesale prices are updated to the previous day close, with calves beef and lambs also reported.
M G Gibbs president of Peoples Drug Stores Inc announced a group life and total disability insurance plan with Equitable Life Assurance Society for employees at nominal cost. The program, effective December 26 1928, covers over 850 workers with more than 2 million dollars in coverage and will apply to new hires after a brief service period. The firm operates 97 stores across Washington DC Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia with 1929 sales expected around 14 million dollars.
Funeral services for William L. Henry a veteran Baltimore and Ohio railroad conductor will be held Sunday at 3 30 p m from the Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg with Dr B L Wilson officiating He died from injuries after his train struck him at Weverton Junction Maryland Slipping on ice he was caught by his moving train while attempting to board It was noted he had been with B and O for 40 years and would have retired next August Burial will be conducted by the Union Lodge of Masons with Stonewall Lodge Knights of Pythias and Brotherhood of Railway Conductors assisting
Casts of musical shows in New York held a contest to select the most beautiful girl in each production. The results and photos of the winners will appear in a full page of next Sunday's World Color Gravure Section.
Funeral arrangements list honorary escorts and pallbearers led by John F. Noll and others. Survived by a widow formerly Miss Kenny, three children including Mrs William Shifflet of Harrisonburg, Ernest and Ige, two brothers Charles and Addison Henry, and sister Mrs Robert Goss of Winchester.
Jolson also known as Asa Yoelson is identified as a Jewish cantor and a Ballyhoo man. He performed in cafes and later in burlesque with Al Reeves before appearing in Dockstader's and as Jolson Palmer and Jolson with his brother. He toured in Washington Theatre and at the Capitol Theatre.
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