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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1960
Page
4
National Representatives Gallagher DeLasser Inc at 11 Mast 44th Street New York City handles local business affairs and client relations from a central New York office. The note lists the firm address and general corporate role in representative services.
Public text fragment with dates and prices. promotes moral wisdom on the value of a wife. Mentions Proverbs 11 10 and emphasizes the character of a wife as crucial to home life. No clear event or identifiable entities beyond general references.
The piece notes Kennedy leading polls while Truman attacks the convention as a Kennedy rally in seed form. Johnson Stevenson Symington replies mix with Rockefeller remarks keeping the Democratic contest lively versus a subdued Republican horizon. Americans crave contest and the show goes on.
The piece recalls Brother Lawrence and his practice of the presence of God. It defines the method as more than reflection, resolutions, reading, prayer, or duties and urges relaxing the mind to empty thought and focus on God as a whole.
The passage urges total mental focus on God through steady persistent practice. It describes occupying the entire consciousness with God rather than a mere thought and suggests repeated attempts to lift one's personality into contact with the divine.
National Park Service aims to push bears away from tourist scraps to protect the animals and visitors. Bear ranger Buck Evans warns that hand feeding harms cubs’ foraging instincts. Park plans an intensive study to curb food begging, with the blunt caveat that failing fixes could mean harsher actions toward people.
The bicycle craze reshaped society in the Gay Nineties driving shorter skirts and roads improvement. By 1895 over a million Americans rode bikes with major manufacturers and clubs forming including Wrights and Vanderbilts. The trend boosted mobility, health, and urban life before interurban rail and the auto ended the era.
Bert Leonard, 90, marks two events on the same day each year at Logan County Courthouse in Lincoln. He pays the 1960 property levy amid a quip about memory fading and never finishing taxes.
Senator Harry Byrd speaks at the 1000 foot James River bridge ceremony on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Bedford County near Peaks of Otter. The bridge opens to traffic linking Waynesboro to Roanoke area, as work continues toward a 469 mile continuous scenic highway near Roanoke expected by the late 1960s.
Reports indicate seven towns in Colombia were struck by five earthquakes leaving 211 dead and 17,000 injured or homeless. The Reuss Fire Company won first prize for traveling the longest distance to the firemen parade at Ship Pensburg, Pennsylvania. Mr and Mrs Clarence Lewis and sons Jimmy and Philip returned from a trip to Canada.
A 1935 Upstate New York cloudburst killed 37 people and left eight missing with about 10 million dollars in property damage reported. Two hundred Chinese students rioted as Doo Yoong Yuen received 14 months hard labor for an article insulting the Japanese emperor. Ma Nincheater in The Star imagines a pest free garden with potatoes and beans free of beetles.
A 1910 item notes Miss Willie McGuire entertaining at her parents home on Amherst Street. A Berlin telegram reports Baroness De La Roche, a pioneering aviator, fatally injured when her aircraft crashed over Bethany. Mr. and Mrs. John Barr of Davenport, Iowa visited local friends.
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