Winchester Evening Star masthead and staff list
The fragment shows the Winchester Evening Star masthead with staff roles including Director of Advertising Rufus Josey Associate Editor Eugene Miller and Managing Editor. It notes Associated Press membership and submission address in New York City along with postal information and subscription rates. A Bible verse Psalm 57:2 is cited, followed by a note about God’s providence motivating prayer.
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Winchester Evening Star
Sapene
Sally Serviees Saetay
Mohawk
News Room
Rufus Josey
Eugene Miller
National
Gallagher-DeLisser, Inc
East 44Th Street
New York City
Sendin Miers
Associated Press
Winchester
New Library Board Established for Handley in Winchester
City Council created the Handley Library Board to oversee the library’s growth and use. Trustee proposal named Harry K. Benham A Hotinger, Bales V. Monahan, Mervyn C. Teague and Mrs. E. M. Whiting to take duties July 1. The Handley Trustees urged citizen involvement to maximize library growth.
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City Council
Handley Board of Trustees
Winchester
Handley Library
Board of Trustees
Handley
Handley Library Board
Harry K. Benham
Acti
A. Hotinger
Bales v. Monahan
Mervyn C. Teague
E. M. Whiting
Handley Trustees
the Star
Admiralty
No-Grades Education Attracts Attention In Early Years
The article explores non graded primary schooling as a potential solution to varied early student abilities. It notes traditional advancement by age and grade, with automatic promotions and occasional skipping for bright pupils, highlighting parental observations across siblings.
Daily Meditation on Keeping the Sabbath Today
The excerpt reflects a view of the Sabbath as a weekly gift from God and a day of rest and joy. It emphasizes Sabbath as a period of uninterrupted fellowship with God and a holiday-like privilege rather than dull obedience.
Sabbath as a day of rest and worship
Earl L. Douglass urges keeping the Sabbath as a time for relaxation and renewal. He urges Bible reading meditation and prayer and calls for helping others and attending public worship as essential duties of the day. He stresses the Sabbath as a precious gift from God and a test of wisdom to remember and keep it.
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God
Non graded primary education offers flexible early learning
The article argues traditional averages misjudge pupil readiness and that non graded primaries remove early grades. Students advance through up to 20 levels in three years based on aptitude tests report card remarks and teacher opinions. Slower pupils receive full time in each level, aiming to reduce frustration and boredom.
Tax collections then and now show dramatic growth
In 1913 federal tax receipts were 663 million dollars. Today they are about 76 300 million annually. State taxes rose from 301 million to 17 400 million and local taxes from 1 308 million to 16 800 million. In 47 years, tempus fugit.
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Tempus
Lee Quote Cited in Memorial Day Address
General Robert E. Lee’s remark about fighting the North but praying for them is quoted in Calvin Robinson of The Appomattox Times Virginian Memorial Day speech. The editor presents Lee’s stance on rights and reconciliation without bitterness.
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Robert E. Lee
Calvin Robinson
Appomattox
Clarke County High grads highlight 1955 honors
Agnes Joan Brubaker was salutatorian and Chester Hobart Jr. valedictorian of Clarke County High School. Mrs J A Hotinger elected president of the Woman's Civic League. Mrs Harry Geiman and Mrs Robert Gaines entertained in honor of Mrs Raymond Rogers Jr.
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J. A. Hotinger
Woman's Civic League
Agnes Joan Brubaker
Chester Hobart, Jr
Clarke County
Harry Geiman
Robert Gaines
Raymond Rogers, Jr
Bahrain Wins 1935 Epsom Derby in Sixth of June era
The 6th Derby at Epsom Downs was won by Bahrain and the silks of the Aga. The Star notes two veterans in the area, George W. Dellinger aged 90 and Daniel Miller aged 97. Mr. and Mrs. J Herbert Babb of Bristol Tennessee visited Mr. and Mrs. C E Babb on South Loudoun Street.
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Bahrain
Epsom Downs
England
The
Star
George W. Dellinger
Daniel Miller
J. Herbert Babb
Bristol
Tenn
C. E. Babb
South Loudoun Street
Snow Storm Halts Traveler in June Fifty Years Ago
Fifty years ago in 1910 W R E Griffith returning from Preston County West Virginia was caught in a June snow storm. Prof J O Faulkner arrived to spend summer with his mother Mrs Lucy Faulkner. James Pulliam Virgil Brill Henry Seal and Charles Hamilton returned from Woodstock.
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Preston County
W. Va
R. E. Griffith
J. Olin Faulkner
North Carolina College of Agriculture
Lucy Faukner
James Pulliam
Virgil Brill
Henry Seal
Charles Hamilton
Woodstock
Charlestown Peninsula Battle Red Riflemen at Breed's Hill
The article recounts the June 17 1775 assault on Charlestown Peninsula during the Siege of Boston. British ships and land batteries bombard Breed's Hill and nearby lines while American forces under Artemas Ward defend with limited supplies. The costly repulse ends with heavy casualties and a costly strategic stalemate for the British.
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Boston
En Army
Wadsworth House
Harvard Yard
Artemus Ward
Dorchester
Roxbury
Charlestown
Charles River
Dorchester Heights
Messrs
Breed
Bunker
Mystic River
Cambridge
Ward
Bunker's Hill
Breed’s
Royal Navy
Thomas Gage
William Howe
Henry Clinton
John Burgoyne
The
Charles
Howe
Breed’s Hill
I. i
James Abercromby
Grenadiers
John Pitcairn
Marines
Artemas Ward
Prospect Hill
American Heritage Magazine
How's Your I Q A Quiz From A U S Office
The questions ask who heads the General Accounting Office whether plants have hormones if Port wine is fortified or fortified and the religious faith of Herbert Hoover plus citizenship of children born in the United States and whether the pupil iris can change size which weighs more skeleton or muscles and if copyrights can be extended and whether tin rusts Walt Whitman notes four Rs reading writing arithmetic rest.
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Herbert Hoover
U.S
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