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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1927
Page
4
The Evening Star Publishing Co. operates daily except Sundays from Winchester Virginia. It consolidates with Morning News Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror as part of its regional newspaper network.
The page contains mixed text including service charges, Associated Press credit notice, and religious verses. It references daily Bible selections for children and prayers asking for God’s deliverance and cleansing. The OCR shows pricing notes and a Psalm 119:105 and Psalm 79:9 devotional content.
Six Sing Sing guards with guns restrained prisoners from aiding three canoeists who toppled into the river near the prison. The three boys died while prisoners urged restraint. The guards kept to rules, possibly preventing escapes, while three lives were lost due to what critics call cowardice and stupidity.
The Winchester playground movement gains momentum with backing from service clubs, the American Legion, and civic leaders. Three playgrounds operate under trained directors near Harris Addition, the Quaker Church, and Handley School, with a swimming pool at the American Legion building. Interested helpers may contact John I. Brown Jr. or William G. Hardy.
The New York World notes a 7 percent rise in business failures in the first half of 1927 versus 1926. It cites heightened competition, easy money fueling new ventures, and continued price declines as key factors behind the higher mortality rate, unlike prior wartime readjustment years.
TheText discusses how rising trends test those who lack financial and intellectual capacity. It notes a Florida boom collapse and low mood in agricultural districts aiding the increase in insolvencies. The chief takeaway is not a sharp recession but too many people start business without necessary skills or capital.
The Literary Digest reports a two year study of the average urban American home. It finds two thirds own cars for recreation, four in ten have radios, six in ten phonographs, half have pianos, most have electricity and labor-saving utilities, and many own homes, savings, stocks, and bonds. The survey covered 37 cities from Bangor to San Bernardino with one town of 34 000 visited in full. Main Street, in investigation, shows up pretty well.
Local hotel managers urge City Council to curb loitering near hotels stores and certain street corners. They allege youths with police records frequenting cars invite rides and harass women. Editors urge prompt enforcement deeming the nuisance harmful and requiring a public crackdown.
Newport News Daily Press notes several southwest Virginia counties pool issues and plan a common almshouse. If successful they may extend the system and ultimately consolidate counties under one set of officers to save money and improve governance.
Michigan City Indiana July 5 D Stephenson former dragon of the Indiana Klan discusses alleged political corruption in Indiana during a multi hour conference with Marion County Prosecutor William Remy and three assistants. Shaeffer says Stephenson was telling it all as Remy pledges to disclose any findings to the public. The session continued with hints of resuming tomorrow. The piece notes a Massachusetts 1837 board of education creation and Horace Mann’s role as secretary.
Mrs. Frank M. Hawks of Houston travels with her husband on a 4000 mile air tour starting from Ford airport in Dearborn near Detroit. The tour visits 24 cities and ends back in Detroit on July 12, marking one of the longest flights undertaken by a woman.
The Star lists corrected local wholesale prices for grains, feeds, butter, eggs, and live poultry. Entries include flour 7.00 to 7.50 per barrel, cracked corn 48.00 per ton, middlings 44.00 per ton, creamery butter, country butter, eggs, and live poultry prices with multiple line items and units.
Richard Helsley of near Columbia Furnace was shot by his cousin Frank Helsley after a daytime quarrel. Frank borrowed a shotgun, fired through a screen door, wounding Richard in the face and neck. Richard was taken to Rockingham Memorial Hospital in critical condition. Frank was jailed in Woodstock to await trial.
The term Fabianism refers to making haste slowly from Quintus Fabius Maximum, a Roman general known for cautious and dilatory tactics.
Advertisement touts Baalmann's Gas Tablets as a cure for stomach gas and its effects. It claims the product ends belching gnawing stomach discomfort and nervous symptoms, improves breathing after meals, and prevents chills from gas interference, urging purchase of the genuine yellow package for $1.
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