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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1928
Page
4
The Winchester Virginia Evening Star details daily publication with consolidations from Morning News and Weekly News. Subscription rates are listed for in advance periods by year, half year, quarter, and monthly, plus carrier rates and weekly option. The paper notes Associated Press rights for news dispatches.
Daily Bible selections suggested for child memorization to prove priceless in later years. Emphasizes right actions and pleasing God in life, urging parents to guide children in scripture and prayer.
Charles Evans Hughes praises Alfred E. Smith at a New York City Bar Association gathering on March 8. He offers baronial and peerage imagery to honor Smith and asserts Smith’s public service merit and qualification for the presidency.
Richmond News Leader highlights actions by A. Smith during four terms as New York governor. It lists housing reform through a state housing bank and land condemnation powers, boosts to public education with big funding increases, resistance to court politicization, reduction of boards to a cabinet system, and apolitical department head appointments with a mix of Democrats Republicans Protestants Catholics and Jews.
The piece recounts actions by a New York leader who cut millions from opponents budgets, opposed Republican efforts against workmen compensation, oversaw a 15 million state park and water power plans, and backed Wilson era foreign policy including the 1919 Metropolitan theatre introduction. It notes opposition and persistence against private power and park opposition on Long Island.
The Virginia spring fire season burned 77 620 acres across 57 counties with an estimated $175 000 damage. State forester Chapin Jones attributed most blazes to careless smokers and brush burning, warning annual losses could exceed a million dollars if preventive habits are not adopted. The dispatch urged conservation education and outdoor stewardship.
Ohio's state highway director orders removal of all political posters from state highways and bans future political advertising on roads. He argues posters devalue warning signs and violate advertising rules, while motorists and highway beautification supporters praise the ruling.
A mother in Cedar Rapids Iowa handed her daughter a preserved Teddy bear from a measles patient a long ago. The daughter contracted measles with no other visible exposure. Doctors caution germs can persist differently with some strains and stress disinfecting all items in contact with contagious cases.
Yard party at Clevenger's Lawn near Grimee Thursday night July 19 to aid White Hall Mite Society. Lunches fountain drinks confections ice cream and soft drinks available at Potts Confectionery next to B 40 depot. Everything sanitary modern and up to date. Patronize your home town friends. H Russell, owner. Phone 739 18 E Piccadilly.
Staunton, July 1. The sale of purebred rams and ewes on July 19 at the Fair Grounds offers breeders and landowners a chance to improve flocks. The ad notes a purebred ram can boost market lamb value by 2.50 to 3.00 per head, citing W. S. Moore of the Rockbridge County Shipping Association. Consignors include K. M. Lawson & Sons, L. Crowgey, B. Huff, Lunsford Farms, J. Hiner, Garnett Painter, Elwin Jones Jr., and others for Hampshire and Shropshire stock.
A San Francisco Chronicle quip notes that while all swellings are sensitive none match the sensitiveness of a swelled ego in contemporary commentary.
A Buffalo News quote notes that dressing simply can make a saddle seem expensive while a solar powered pony appears cheaper by comparison. The remark plays on perceptions of value and presentation in equipment and gear.
An advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets promising rapid weight gain. It cites George H. Bulkely of Connecticut who reportedly increased from 119 to 152 pounds after using six one dollar boxes. The copy sells a money back guarantee and urges readers to ask for McCoy's Tablets at Baker's Drug Store or any drugstore.
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