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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
4
The Evening Star Publishing Co. Winchester Virginia publishes daily except Sunday. Entered at Win Virginia post office as second class matter on the 28th. Consolidated with Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Mes The Weekly Mirror.
Subscription rates listed for mail and carrier service. By mail prices include one year three months and monthly options, with amounts 3.50, 1.75, 0.90 and 0.80. By carrier pricing shows one year 4.60, six months 2.24, three months 1.20, and one month 0.40.
The notice states the Associated Press is exclusive for republication of one news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to the paper, and applies to all local news published. It outlines usage restrictions and credit requirements for republishing AP material.
The item presents a devotional line for Thursday June 25 1925 praising the God of Wacod and Psalm 146:5. It expresses comfort in divine help and hope in the Lord, inviting guidance through life and rest in divine care.
A disputed Associated Press report from Nashville Arkansas describes 2000 farmers thwarting a court sale of land for food bond taxes. The Nashville News says a truce with bondholders and Governor Terral delays the sale until after the Arkansas legislature, hoping to avoid lawsuits for bond taxes.
The Nashville News reports Howard County farms were placed on auction to satisfy taxes for road bonds. Farmers raise five main objections including excessive taxes, road costs, and burdens on landowners along connecting highways. They seek legislative relief and an extra session, but Gov. Ano has refused.
In SPVIER COUNTY Arkansas farmers faced the sale of their lands to cover road bond taxes. A crowd gathered from early morning, voices rose as speakers were heard, and Dr W H Toland declared Gov Terral unable to defer the sale. He read the notice but a several thousand strong crowd stopped the proceedings.
A fragmented lament portrays harsh taxes on autos income and property, taxing a dying man’s widow despite poverty and famine. It accuses government tax collectors of cruelty, suggesting widowed sorrow persists after the hearse and muffled funeral rites.
A fragment denounces state tax on a deceased man’s widow to fund gate hinges. The author calls the tax on widows a disreputable act that should embarrass a nation state or town. The text laments the hardship imposed as the State profits from a survivor’s loss.
Tokyo police records show 1,263 personal crisis reports for the year ending in March, 300 more than the prior year. Most suicides stemmed from jealousy or love disappointment, with firearms being the least common method.
The record notes that self-destruction was carried out by four individuals, two men and two women, with poisoning identified as the most common method, accounting for 221 men and 271 women.
Rome reports that Italy’s Holy Year visitors have stretched language skills among police, taxi drivers, hotel workers, and other staff. Multi language notices now often include six or seven tongues while cabs provide price booklets in Italian French German English Spanish and Polish. Even expert linguists confront peasants from remote regions who speak only local dialects, testing communication to breaking point.
Advertised as a quick stomach gas remover, Adlerika combines buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients to evacuate intestinal waste. It claims to reduce bloating and improve appetite by removing old waste matter within ten minutes, aiding obstinate constipation and related stomach issues. Miller's Drug is noted as ready.
The notice invites contracting builders to assist with plans and specifications for a home project. It urges action now and frames the July Fourth letting as a joyous memorable occasion. It emphasizes readiness to help and to base the contract on detailed plans.
An old classified style notice promotes Marcelling services at the Harper Method Shop located in the George Washington Hotel and invites advance engagements by calling 570-J. The item includes a date code (6-23-6t) indicating publication timing.
IF Winter Comes ND finds your fuel bins empty you will pay dearly for neglect. Buy coke now at $6.50 per ton with cash discount, store up to November first, and reduce winter costs. Manager W A Ryan urges large stock of coke as smokeless, ashless fuel alternative to coal.
Next Sunday World World highlights Ellen Glasgow story Romifce and Sally Byrd selected by B Lane editor of the Women’s Home Companion as one of the year’s best. The romance tale appears in the Magazine Section as number eleven of sixteen top stories chosen by editors for The Sunday World.
The Berryville timetable lists trains from Norfolk and Western with times for Roanoke Bristol Welch Norton Shenandoah Junction Hagerstown and Philadelphia. It notes Pullman sleepers to Bristol Gary W Va and Philadelphia and dining and parlor cars. Contacts H H Burks Berryville and W C Saunders Roanoke for fares schedules and reservations.
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