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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1934
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices for mail and carrier delivery, memorials and cards, and display advertising rates. It names billing options, deadlines, and billing contacts, including national reps in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta.
A religious note quotes Matthew 6 31 33 urging believers to seek God's kingdom and righteousness. The text includes repeated phrases about Christ and a baptism theme within a devotional context.
Statistician Roger Babson cautions droughts abroad and in the United States will shrink wheat output. He notes Canada Europe and Russia face lower yields while Australia and Argentina suffer dry weather. He projects a US crop near 400 million bushels with a large carryover limiting exports and influencing future prices.
The Richmond Times Dispatch notes the New York Herald Tribune essay on Dixie titled The Rebel Tune describing its seventy five year legacy and its emotional pull for both sides of the Civil War era. The piece explains how the song moved audiences as secesh or damyank and remains a stirring piece.
The estimates for 1933 show that cows on farms produced about 102,309,000,000 pounds of milk in the United States. Sir Walter Scott is named as the author of The Waverley Novels.
The article notes a Rockefeller Center exhibit of Emmett's Dixie with pirated early sheets. It recalls Emmett as Bryant’s minstrels fiddler who, in 1859, polished the song before the Civil War. It portrays Dixie as American and symbolic of the Old South and evokes Southern pride without graphic detail.
Sims Jaynes of Muskegon Michigan admitted a 1904 speeding arrest in Grand Rapids when applying on June 12 for a license renewal. He was fined for driving five miles per hour over the limit of three, yet his license was renewed.
James and Amy Mollison travel over the Atlantic on a flight from Ireland toward the United States. George C. Peery and W. Worth Smith share a platform at the Bull Run Battlefield picnic addressing equinatorial race concerns. Junior Auxiliary promotes diphtheria immunization for local children. Lewis Jones Knitting Co. adopts a 40 hour week. Peery speaks to a large Court House audience on Saturday July 22.
The St Louis Robin remains airborne after twelve days as authorities monitor the ongoing situation. A wife and mother is detained in Belair Maryland amid findings of poison in the stomachs of her husband and son at post mortem.
Deed to Kenilworth delivered to Harry K Thaw as he pays 250000 cash for 56 acre tract. George Cross who escaped prison in Baltimore dies from four wounds. County picnic set for Vaucluse August 14 in Kline's woods. Mayor W W Glass marked on fifteenth birthday anniversary. Miss Martha Keating of Catonsville Md named superintendent Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Twenty five years ago Holmes and Miss Lottie DeHaven wed in Hagerstown Maryland as local Republicans attend the Newport News state convention. Factories prosper in Chicago with a steel plant receiving over 1 million dollars in orders in one week. Judge Mann and Richard Evelyn Byrd emerge as Democratic winners per the Washington Star. Lieut. James A. Bear, once a local boy now in the Philippines, kills the Moro desperado Jikiri.
Giles, Dilly, William and the doctor face a perilous storm ordeal and a fevered fight for life on Granitehead. Amelie and Scripps nurse him back while shadows of Joan, fear, and guilt linger, as the island community witnesses a Christmas voyage through illness and mercy.
The report lists present and past rainfall figures. It shows the 24 hour precipitation ending 8 a m, July to date 2.70 inches, year to date 17.18 inches. It includes 21 year average monthly and annual figures from Winchester Laboratory. Monthly averages range from January 2.41 to May 3.94 inches for May.
The Gore group met at Union Sunday Schoolroom with several members present. They planned for the makers convention in Blacksburg this week and elected Mrs. D F Kern as delegate. Miss Farrar demonstrated home dyeing and a prep committee was named for August. A food preservation demo by Mrs. Jerome Bowman and Mrs. Kern aided subsistence gardeners. thirteen families attended.
Walter Lippmann defends his critique of Fletcher Bolton figures in a July 10 exchange. He argues 27 billion taxpayer costs cited by Fletcher and Bolton mix routine past obligations and contingent guarantees with true New Deal costs, explaining investments and assets to distinguish expenditures from recoverable loans and credits.
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