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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1931
Page
4
The snippet shows postal registration and publication details for The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia. It lists subscription rates, including annual and half year amounts, and notes advertising representatives and AP membership.
Virginia shows economic strength with rail earnings above fair rates and higher internal revenue payments in 1930. The Pocahontas rail group led eight regional divisions with 8.81 percent income in 1929 and 7.14 in 1930, while Virginia and Colorado were the only states raising 1930 tax receipts from 1929.
The piece profiles Diamond a longtime defendant known for repeated acquittals and alleged murders at the Hotsy Totsy Club in New York. It notes his youth crimes, reform school sentence, and a spree of violence while arguing his notoriety as public fascination despite condemning him as one of the worst insurance risks in the country.
The Baltimore Sun notes Albert B Fall breaks official silence on naval oil reserve deals and the Ohio gang. It questions whether his memoirs will illuminate the era and suggests they may prompt other insiders to reveal more about the Jekyll and Hyde Harding Administration and the Hughes era cabinet dynamics.
Washington Star describes the New York underworld figure known as Legs Diamond as a resilient target of gangster bullets. The piece notes his repeated survival and his notoriety as a marksman in a world of crime.
Milldale residents hosted and visited over the weekend with guests from Bayard Hardesty Martinsburg and Martinsburg families. Mrs W B Browns visitors included Oscar Ompson and family from Martinsburg West Virginia. Gray Kirby's family joined relatives for Sunday gatherings.
Mr Orm Stickley hosted guests at Armel residence with Marguerite day attendees. Edna and Clark Maligan joined William Maligan and family at a Saturday night church yard gathering, noting a strong crop of Linda Dewberry picking in the community.
A brief remark attributed to Covington Virginian noting the speaker and his wife have not exchanged a cross word in ten years. The line highlights domestic harmony as printed in the Vir eginian publication.
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A flood of political notices from Frederick County Virginia list candidates for state senate House of Delegates sheriff supervisor and other local offices. Names include T Russell Cather Joseph Denny Boyd Richards Luther Pannett C. Oates H E Shall Jacob H Beaver Chiles and others. Primary set for August 4 1931 with various offices highlighted.
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