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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1929
Page
4
The Evening Star lists second class post status at Winchester Virginia and combines with the Morning News Item Weekly News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror. Subscription rates show mall in advance yearly three fifty semiannually one seventy five quarterly or monthly amounts. Carrier delivery options and association with the Associated Press are noted.
A devotional line urges obedience to the Lord’s will from Jeremiah 38 20 and asks for delight in doing Thy will. The message emphasizes spiritual guidance and personal submission to divine authority.
The column mocks Mussolini’s remark that he seeks peace while Italy prepares for elections favoring Fascist candidates. It argues the dictator’s proclaimed peace is cynical and hypocritical, likening him to Napoleon and Caesar and warning against trusting a military tyrant who speaks of peace only to protect tyranny.
Queen Mary bought two pails and two shovels at a British industries fair and took them to the beach where King George convalesces. Baby Betty, the royal granddaughter, will play with a sand castle and a simple Taj Mahal imitation, while grandmother retrieves another bucket for her.
The Amer Telephone and Telegraph Company reported net income of 143 million in 1928 while the Radio Corporation of America earned just over 23.6 million. The brief life of RCA is set against decades of telephone industry history.
Radio, still in infancy as a commercially exploited medium, shows broader possibilities than the telephone. It already dominates in sound motion pictures production and distribution and is expanding facilities for entertainment on records, films, and through the air in theaters and homes.
A survey shows Kansas has planted nearly 300 million trees under the state agricultural program, including more than 3.5 million fruit trees. The effort fosters beauty and a future timber crop, inspiring private planting and the growth of an orchard industry across the prairie state.
A hundred years after John Quincy Adams returned to Massachusetts, Federals scorned him as a deserter yet he declined a public role. He later suggested that an ex president could serve as a town selectman, viewing it as no degradation.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes that during a recent Congress session 17 273 bills were introduced in the House, with 2 716 reported by committees. The piece questions lawmakers’ capacity to properly review so many measures and suggests a body to filter out useless bills.
Secretary of Interior Wilbur Jay Secretary directs land offices to stop accepting oil and gas prospecting applications and to reject all pending permits as part of the Hoover administration conservation plan. A comprehensive review of the $2 000 permits is planned with revocation of those held.
The land office warns many prospectors fail to spend enough to develop wells, with a broad new policy. Leases will go to those who have invested reasonably under the general leasing act, but leases will not cover adjacent lands as outlined in the 1920 act.
A brief quotation attributed to Milnes emphasizes that virtue resides in the struggle rather than the prize, reflecting a thoughtful view on effort and reward.
Al Stone a singing waiter marries Molly Winton, while Grace Farrel loves him from behind the scenes. Molly’s Paris divorce sends her away with Junior, leaving Al to cope with illness and betrayal as Grace awaits a reunion. Junior lies dying as Molly returns to ask for help, and Al races to the Good Samaritan Hospital.
The San Diego Union and Dallas News warn that outlawry of war may drive future conflicts to be deadlier and pricier if it mirrors the effect of prohibition on liquor. They argue human life is valued in Texas as powder and lead prices rise.
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