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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1932
Page
4
Evening Star publication note states it is published daily except Sunday by The Evening Star Pub Co of Winchester Virginia. The line denotes standard newspaper distribution practice and corporate branding.
The excerpt credits the Associated Press as the exclusive source for news dispatches and local news published in the paper. It announces republication rights and indicates reliance on AP content.
The notice lists subscription prices in various terms. Rates shown include one year in advance at 63.50, six months at 2.25, three months at 1.75, and one month at 0.30, with carrier subscriptions also offered at 4.50 per year and 2.25 for six months.
A brief devotional line from Isaiah promises divine aid with the message Fear not for I will help thee. The verse emphasizes God supporting believers in times of trouble.
In a federal injunction proceeding, R Gray Williams of Winchester rebuked Huston Thompson for attacking a fellow lawyer in open court. Judge Way allowed Williams to explain his practice while denying Ward’s bid to intervene, leaving the record to reflect the heated exchange without altering the case's merits.
Portsmouth Star reports six skeletons found in an Ohio Indian mound. The find could shed light on the mysterious mound builders of the Middle West, whose serpent and rectangular enclosures suggest a high level of civilization and a broader ancient presence in the Ohio valley and upper Mississippi area.
The piece recalls a rumor that Queen Victoria used a self rising bowing device in her carriage to ease the strain of alternating bows. Readers note it as a humorous example from a discussion of odd patents and popular myths about royal etiquette.
Retired Major General Smedley D Butler is criticized for encouraging the Washington based bonus army amid rising demonstrations. The piece urges the group to return home and calls Butler’s actions dangerous and counterproductive.
One year ago a Church of the Brethren Choir from Hagerstown Md planned a Sunday concert at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. A Greensboro NC man spotted his neighbor’s stolen car during a local pass through the area. Winchester resident G Casper Fries died. Joe Flickinger won a local Boy Scout tennis tourney. Mr and Mrs Grover Grim recently hosted a birthday reception for their daughter Kathryn E Grim.
Five years ago Richard S. Wright of Strasburg receives strong hometown backing for the Virginia State Senate. The piece notes stock market gains amid profit taking and farm prices about 20 percent lower than a year prior. It reports Virginia Children’s Home Society needing funds and Allen B. Gray named to the Winchester Electoral Board by Judge Philip Williams.
President Wilson increases oversight of committee work to speed wartime mobilization. Alexander Kerensky works to unite Russia with the Allied cause. National Guard reserves ordered to report for duty July 25. Citizens urged to save magazines for soldiers. W L Fultz offers limestone land at 65 dollars an acre. Japanese flowering cherry adapts to regions where fruiting cherry grows.
The piece highlights early book clubs such as the Roxburghe Club founded in 1818 and the Ballantyne Club founded in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott. It notes each member’s duty to print a book and the focus on reprinting important works. A mention of Birds Interested in Sport and a parrot linked to a golf course closes the excerpt.
A humorous quote from the Houston Post-Dispatch notes a woman filing for divorce over her husband who allegedly keeps eleven Sweethearts, suggesting any ordinary woman might envy such attention.
A 1,600 year old Roman wine flask is exhibited in Speyer on the Rhine. It was unearthed during excavations. The piece highlights that parenthood's core is rearing children, not merely bearing them.
In a tropical tale a shipwreck and a red haired survivor drive a quest to locate a log book linked to great grandfather Peter. Pauo reveals how a murderer’s island, Nu worship, and a long chase through Papeete tie to an old log book that could unlock a family fate, ending with a promise to continue.
A damaged OCR fragment reports rainfall data, noting present and past totals. It lists measurements ending at 8 a.m. and year to date figures, with monthly precipitation values and normal levels for a Winchester area, though several words are garbled.
Market report shows mixed commodity prices at Baltimore and local wholesale markets. Wheat corn hay eggs and livestock futures drift with dairy feed and middlings listed, while butter and hens prices appear among the day’s corrected close figures.
The article explains white granulated sugar is about 90 percent sucrose while brown sugar ranges 96 to 99 percent. It notes brown sugar may taste sweeter, but white sugar contains more of the sweetening agent overall.
Public health officials report zero yellow fever cases since 1905. The famed Prussian general Prince Frederick Charles earned the nickname Red Prince due to his conspicuously bright red uniform worn in battle.
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