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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1928
Page
4
The Winchester Virginia Evening Star lists second class publication status and daily issuance except Sundays. It provides mail and carrier subscription options with yearly and shorter-term rates and notes a weekly service.
A devotional fragment urges not envy of sinners but to fear the Lord continually. It prays that nothing may appeal to us and asks for steadfast faith throughout the day.
The second session of the Institute of Public Affairs begins August 7 at the University of Virginia. Leaders from across the country will discuss nonpartisan public issues affecting local to national government, promising a bigger, livelier program than last year.
A hundred and fifty blind men from the Blind Men's Improvement Club visited Palisades Amusement Park in New York for a day of rides circus acts fortune telling dancing and prizes. The group included broom makers menders vendors teachers painters and performers and most are self supporting highlighting a shift from past beggar stereotypes.
New York World recounts Tunney's restraint in the eighth round when Heeney suffered an eye injury. Tunney stayed patient, withheld all attacks, and waited for Heeney to continue, adhering to sportsmanlike tradition despite a clear advantage.
The article lauds Gene Tunney for his sportsmanship in the final round of a championship bout. Heeney was knocked down in the tenth round and unable to continue. Tunney refused to subject him to further punishment, showing restraint and earning praise as a superior boxer and gentleman.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch argues city residents must feel superior to rural outsiders. It applauds the School Board for rejecting a Duquoin Illinois candidate described as countrified for city principalship, urging rural teachers not to presume inclusion in metropolitan education.
A doctor criticizes a patient’s mental state and argues that mental health now aims to cultivate habits in normal people for social control. Negative traits such as cowardice and jealousy are listed as health hazards while courage and confidence are promoted as positive forces to combat them.
An old advertisement claims Capudine eases headaches restlessness and fatigue caused by a strain on the nervous system. The liquid formula supposedly works faster than tablets or powders and is sold in 30c and 60c sizes at drug stores.
Executor of the estate of the late Mrs Maria KE Jan ney will sell at public auction at the former residence one mile east of Bunker Hill near Legge Mill on the Lamon farm August 2 1928 at 10 oclock a m. Items include mahogany tables four poster bed walnut desk Lincoln desk given to Charles S Lamon and various antique pieces. All items are antiques. Other furniture listed.
Miss Catherine Friel of Tampa Florida reports gaining 20 pounds in three months after taking McCoy's Tablets. The ad promises an ironclad guarantee: if a thin person does not gain at least five pounds after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes, the purchase price is refunded.
Personal property sale scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday August 7, 1928, located one and a half miles east of Middletown and one mile from Vaucluse. Items include livestock farming implements household goods and antiques. Conducted by Mrs Mary C Smith.
The Democratic national chairman warned that Americans should support temperance, but bootleggers in Indianapolis say the appeal will not win approval.
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