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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1927
Page
4
Public notice lists mailing details for Winchester Virginia publications The Evening Star The Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror. Pricing shows annual six month and three month subscription options with advance payment amounts.
A formal Associated Press notice declares exclusive rights to use all news dispatches and local news published in this issue. The notice is dated Thursday January 20 1927 and outlines ownership of credited and uncredited AP material.
A devotional piece asserts daily Bible selections build a priceless heritage for children. It cites Job 28:12 13 and proclaims wisdom comes from the fear of the Lord as the starting point.
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce is hailed as a valuable instrument for Virginia's development. It promotes industrial, commercial and agricultural progress, cooperates with local groups, and has boosted publicity for the state. The text notes rising support across regions and expanding ambitions for membership and budgets.
Reuben, a 72 year old widower with 34 children, is described as the president's self styled "champ papa" and briefly gains access to the White House while affairs of state pause for a tribute to the "father of a mighty race."
The article contrasts American and English jury selection rules, noting the English judge controls questions to ensure unbiased jurors in high profile cases. It argues English law aims for intelligent juries, whereas the American system gives lawyers broader latitude to influence juror pools.
A Rhode Island weather fan notes that even over 34 years rainfall totals would imply a flood if dropped all at once. He argues weather shows frequent, moderate variation and that occasional complaints overlook the overall distribution. The long-time rainfall tracker recalls 84 years of data and teases reformers who fixate on figures.
The Richmond jury finds cop N Sanders guilty on two counts of robbing the Baptist Foreign Mission Board of 103 dollars. He pleads guilty without extenuating circumstances and faces ten years in prison on each count. His defense notes the theft is his responsibility, not his family’s extravagance.
Staunton News-Leader argues Congress should remove remaining wartime second class postal rates. Publishers demand fair treatment, citing a $40 million deficit turning to profit with proper cost accounting. The piece decries discrimination and supports fair rates for newspapers and readers. The note ends with engine mileage figures for passenger and freight locomotives.
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce issues a letter to national organization reps urging Virginia delegates to promote the state at 1927 national conventions. The plan offers literature on Shenandoah National Park and Virginia’s assets for distribution, aiming to raise Virginia’s profile while maintaining advertising standards.
An advertisement offers a job opening for selling auto and tractor oil to the farming trade. It invites replies to Lennox Oil and Paint Co of Cleveland Ohio and mentions earnings of 5000 per year.
The Dearborn Independent cites a Chicago professor stating dense forests once covered the Sahara and a race of hunter tillers lived there, subsisting by hunting and farming before the desert climate prevailed.
A catalog of papal attire enumerates items such as amico alb cincture maniple stole tunicle dalmatic chasuble surplus cape sandals stockings or buskins gloves miter pallium succinctorium and fanon.
A dated listing of stock and implement sales across multiple towns including Berryville White Post Kernstown and Rippon with sellers such as J Mack Cain Landon Kackley J F Lanhan Harmon Brumback A B Orndorff W H Hollida and many others through March 23 plus entries noting mules and horses at several sales in Virginia and West Virginia communities. Many entries specify stock and implements with occasional house hold goods and ponies and purebred hogs or grade horses.
Miss Mollie B. E. McCarty died suddenly at the home of her cousin near Stephens City January 5. Heart attack following indigestion was the cause. Survived by R. Lee McCarty and Annie L. Wilms of Stephens City. She was 71. Funeral at Methodist Church in Sharport City conducted by Rev. J. A. Johnson. Burial in Green Hill Cemetery.
Berryville Virginia plans to issue 66 000 dollars in waterworks bonds to fund new reservoirs. Bids will be opened at a stated time and awarded to the highest bidder. The bonds carry five percent annual interest and were approved as part of the waterworks project. The reservoir construction has progressed rapidly and is expected to be installed soon.
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