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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1927
Page
4
The Evening Star announces publication from Winchester Virginia with daily issues and consolidation with Morning News. Subscription options include one year eight dollars fifty in advance and monthly rates. carrier annual four dollars fifty in advance with six month and three month options.
Bible thought and prayer urging daily Bible selections as priceless heritage for children. Psalm 84 2 expresses soul hunger for the courts of the Lord and prayer notes blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.
The state reports ninety of one hundred counties receive tax reductions in 1927 under the segregation law. Frederick county praised for passing full 25 cent tax relief to residents and for being the first to set the example, with a county saving $14 314 and the state saving $1 569 000. The law removes assessment disparities and avoids a central tax board.
Rockbridge County News reports 6174 people visited the tomb of Robert E. Lee in Lexington in June this year, a 60 percent rise from June last year and 100 percent more than June 1925. The piece links growing tourist travel in Virginia to good roads and a statewide road-building program, noting upcoming parks, battlefields, hotels, resorts, favorable climate, and hospitable people.
Norfolk Ledger Dispatch reports Governor Byrd defending segregation policy as a taxpayer savings plan. He argues the plan benefits landowners and investors, backed by figures he claims prove the positive financial impact amid legislative options and official statements.
Governor Byrd argues 1926 27 reforms reduce real estate taxes by 1.701 million dollars benefiting landowners 45 counties and three cities cut the 25 cent state land tax while other reforms shift burden to income tax and adjust railroad rolling stock and auto license valuations. He touts projected 750 thousand annual state savings and a current surplus replacing a 1.3 million deficit. Segregation under the plan is pitched as cheaper than full equalization and preserves local assessment control.
In France Charles Levine backs Maurice Drouhin for a year long contract worth about 150000 dollars after failing to convert Chamberlin to a return flight. The move stirs criticism as Drouhin may fly in a French plane to beat Koennecke toward an Atlantic crossing, while Chamberlin splits with Levine over a joint Byrd transatlantic challenge. Meanwhile American aviation earns praise for its achievements and a Boston garden movement begins in 1891 with Henry L. Clapp establishing a wildflower garden at the George Haven Putnam school.
Daily market summary lists local wholesale prices for Wheat flour and products, corn meal, middlings, butter, lard, and chick en varieties. Prices span per ton and per barrel with quoted ranges and noted corrections applied to prior day totals.
A strong earthquake struck near Euroa Victoria with buildings badly shaken after weeks of minor shocks. In Jerusalem region, a quake caused hotel collapse in Jericho and deaths at Olivet Ramallah and surrounding villages.
Fourteen witnesses will be used in a bid to indict Mrs Ida Leboues widow of the victim Dr Thomas B Dreher and James Beadle for the murder of James J Leboues nine days earlier in Franklin Louisiana A special grand jury session was called and indictments could lead to arraignment and trial scheduled for July 26 with the trio in parish jail awaiting action by the jury.
In the Corporation Court of Winchester on July 7 1927 executor M M Lynch seeks to have the will of Wren Trammell deceased construed and estate settled under court supervision for general relief. Defendants Minnie Bryan Walter M Greybeale and Arneta Snyder must appear within ten days of publication to protect their interests. A weekly notice for four weeks is ordered in Evening Star and a copy posted at the courthouse front door by July 11 1927.
In Venezuela and Colombia oxen remain common beasts of burden. They are slow yet reliable and can pull more than a mule. In Ecuador as many as 32 oxen are yoked together to haul especially heavy loads.
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