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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1926
Page
4
Publisher Garry Flood Byrd announces the Winchester Virginia Evening Star is published daily except Sundays and consolidated with several weekly papers. Subscription rates listed: Mall plan $3.50 yearly, $1.75 half year, 90 cents quarter, 30 cents month. Carter plan $4.50 yearly, $2.25 half year, $1.20 quarter. Associated Press rights noted.
Daily wholesale and retail price quotes for wheat, corn, bran, meals, middlings, hay, flour, and farm products. Includes local and Baltimore wholesale figures with ranges for barrels and per ton prices. notes market corrections and yesterday’s closing values.
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce issues a second Summer Number featuring eighteen pages of photographs. It showcases Gate Way Falls at Front Royal and scenes from Virginia’s mountains to seashore, highlighting vacation and tourist attractions.
The article discusses American reactions to France's protest of the war debt terms. It explains the principal debt of 3.34 billion, a sixty two year payoff plan starting low and rising, and that under the armistice terms the United States effectively cancels wartime borrowings. It argues American leniency toward France compared with Britain Italy and Belgium.
Miss Anne Garrett of Danville Va won a Sesqui Centennial prize for the best all around high school girl in Virginia at the Philadelphia exposition. The writer applauds her achievement yet rails against the phrase all around as a vague catchall for mediocrity, favoring specialization and excellence in chosen fields.
A short reflection on doing tasks oneself versus relying on others. It argues that while self-reliance boosts quality, it cannot eliminate inefficiency and the need for better systems in industry and commerce.
The text argues that careless unfinished work harms workers and businesses alike. It cites Elbert Hubbard on finding happiness in good work and urges public accountability for service, noting foremen and manufacturers bear responsibility for quality and productivity. It stresses collective benefit from striving for better performance.
B. H. Kibler, blinded in a mine accident, now runs a mattress and chair caning shop at 131 South Main street Winchester. He credits Virginia’s Commission for the Blind and Charlottesville school for empowering him to become self-supporting and productive.
Miss Anne Lew is offering furnished camp cottages near Shenandoah in Charles Town Jefferson County West Virginia. Located on R F D No 2 with telephone contact 204-41. Includes rental details and dates listed.
An advertisement urges readers to purify the body with Calotabs as a foundation of health. It claims chronic ailments are cleaned through a course taken weekly for several weeks and offers a family packet for 35 cents at drugstores.
Washington July 14 Virginia residents paid more income and miscellaneous taxes in the fiscal year ending June 30 1926 than in 1925. Income tax receipts totaled 17 827 071 while prior year were 15 303 807. Miscellaneous taxes reached 42 890 032 bringing the total to 60 717 104.
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