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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1931
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered at the Winchester Virginia post office and published daily except evenings. It lists Devine Tenney Corporation as national advertising representatives with offices in New York Des Moines and Chicago.
An Associated Press notice explains credit and rights for news dispatches and local items consolidated with Morning News Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Wee Mirror.
A garbled excerpt presents a biblical quotation about obedience and covenant from Exodus 19 6. The fragment includes phrases about being a peculiar treasure and a holy nation and repeats terms like Christ for all and Farr IP wi smd. The readable portion centers on divine selection and priestly identity.
An editorial from the Progress Index argues Virginia constitutionally bars state taxation of real estate and tangible personal property, keeping local levies while ensuring revenue via other taxes. It cites North Carolina’s new 15 cent per hundred state land tax as a contrasting example of funding needs.
The passage traces Virginia’s shift from real estate taxes to a segregation tax system adopted in 1926. It notes the state constitution now bars taxation of farmers and landowners through property, eliminating the state real estate levy and anchoring farmers against such taxation amid economic stress.
Mervyn LeRoy to direct Local Boy Makes Good starring Joe E Brown. Plot follows an inept youth who pursues boxing, endures abuse, then breaks through in a vaudeville act. Casting underway. production slated in a couple weeks at Warner Brothers.
The Corporation clerk reports deeds recently admitted to record. Transactions include Herbert S. Larrick trustee to M. F. Harkins for West Pall Mall street land and improvements at 4 075 dollars, and Harkins to 916 South Kent street bungalow for 1800 dollars. Several nominal consideration transfers follow for properties on South Cameron street 1013 and 1015 and Berryville avenue area, plus a corner Boscawen Stewart street house and lot to Annie M. Little and Eleanor B. Carson for 1500 dollars. Other filings include Euclid avenue property for 1000 dollars and Parkway avenue lot with Shawnee Realty Company inc for nominal consideration.
The Portland Oregonian notes Czechoslovakia seeks to reduce road accidents by banning smoking while driving. The paper suggests the idea targets smoking wheels rather than drivers, implying danger lies in smoking wheels.
An advertisement for MELLO-GLO face powder from Baker's Drug Store touts a youthful bloom, pore minimization, and flawless complexion. It promises irritation free, non pasty skin with a pure powder formula.
A Western woman claims she fired at her husband out of love. The item notes spring as a time for tender shoots and reflects a personal, somewhat sensational phrasing from a Boston Herald line.
By virtue of a distress warrant Lee Barr schoon, Winchester, Va, will sell at the Court House on June 3, 1931, at 10 a m, goods including antique love seats, leather chairs, beds, tables, desk, bookcase, adding machine, typewriter, dictionaries, maps, zinc plates, signs, and more. Cash terms.
Social notes from Epworth Chapel trace Sunday visits among Shileys Derflingers Warrens and other residents in Winchester Riverton and nearby areas. Items mention Geraldine and Charlotte as young attendees with families, plus a Punch quote on hard work and secrecy.
Banks will be closed Wednesday June 3 for Jefferson Davis Birthday Anniversary. Paper maturities due that date may be paid Thursday June 4. Signatories include J H Yost WM G Hardy John L Sloat and AU Chas Summers serving as cashiers of local banks.
A flood of notices list candidates for Virginia Frederick County 1931 Democratic Primary positions including State Senate House of Delegates Sheriff Commonwealths Attorney and Revenue Treasurer. Named enter run for Supervisor and Commonwealth offices with pledges to serve, support, and reduce costs.
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