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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1930
Page
4
Public notice text indicates Associated Press rights and distribution terms for The Weekly Times and The Mirror. It mentions publishing cadence and advance subscription rates and states AP news is exclusive to the paper.
The text frames Christ as intercessor and condemner, citing Romans 8 34 and a love prayer. It includes a devotional line O Love that will not let me go and a note of trust in Thee. The garbled OCR repeats phrases about Nek mal MAE and peek-Prade.
Lynchburg News surveys the fifth anniversary of The Quarterly Review, praising its national reach and thoughtful essays. The magazine aims to present current life and thought with a southern focus, resisting geographic or political confines.
A discussion of a newly coined term carbarians by a London Times note as a clever proofreader's invention for drivers who clash with road dangers. It traces how terms like carbarians arise from usage rather than contests and contrasts with the failed scofflaw.
A psychologist notes that children mostly fear two things, fear of falling and fear of loud noises, with other fears like thunder, lightning, the dark, and snakes learned. The text hints that an instinctive fear of falling may be a racial imprint appearing in children.
The passage discusses human fears rooted in ancestral life in trees and the dangers of loud noises. It urges parents to teach children to cope with fear without instilling unnecessary panic, to protect their nervous systems, and to avoid scaring them excessively.
Lord Balfour former prime minister and lifelong aristocrat died at his brother’s house in Surrey at age 82. Tributes poured in from King George and global leaders as the Houses of Parliament adjourned in his memory. He was praised as a gentleman and Philosopher who loved science and the soul. Funeral planned for Whittingehame in Scotland.
The Farmers National Grain Corporation reports a survey of U.S. elevators and readiness to lend for the year’s construction program. Loan commitments for all stockholders are arranged with applications judged on merit. Wheat values rise amid cold weather forecasts and rye crop damage worries.
Treasury reports March 15 income tax receipts at 314,200,558 dollars, more than 40 million above last year’s level and nearly three fifths of the first quarter budget. The March total reflects receipts turned in by the close of business the previous day.
The Evening Independent of St. Petersburg Fla. distributed its entire edition free after the sun failed to shine on March 13. Walter E Huntsberry and accompanying party received a copy via message from the Star. The city known as Sunshine City had its sunshine day with a free paper offer ending February 6.
Fragmentary text references new facilities, cooperative housing, and reform efforts across states. Mentions farms, spring wheat, and modern handling facilities, with unspecified timelines and locations. Entities are sparse and wording unreliable due to OCR issues.
A fragmented Arkansas text notes robbers at a basement restaurant where a waiter alerted Patrolman James Rogers who fired at an open door, hitting a robber through a glass panel. One assailant was shot and killed. a second pistol jam prevented further action. The piece ends with a stray verse about Jason and the golden fleece.
Staunton city crews have trimmed trees to improve radio reception. City Manager Willard Day oversaw four weeks of work under Officer Stone at Gy Hill park. Nearly 1,000 trees have been trimmed after complaints from union radio fans and a national expert noted that overhanging branches near wires disrupt service.
An airplane carrying 3,000 pesos was chartered to fly from Mazatlan to rescue J. E. Bristow, a 60 year old American oil operator held by bandits on the western coast of Mexico. Gordon Bristow, his son, planned to depart for Mazatlan with the money, stopping at El Paso, while Sam Kimberlin arranged the plan with William Blocker, the Juarez consul. The ransom effort follows a report of kidnapper activity in a bandit plagued region south of Tepic and Nayarit, considered highly hazardous.
In the Western District of Virginia Cecil E Huff of Winchester was adjudicated bankrupt on February 25 1930. The first meeting of creditors will be held March 29 1930 at 11 am at the law office of Warren Rice in Winchester Virginia to prove claims examine the bankrupt appoint a trustee if needed and conduct related business. Referee Edward C Martz Harrisonburg Virginia March 18 1930.
Oliver D. Heley, long reputed as the oldest railroad man in the United States, died last night at 91 in Columbus. He began a career as a train bay burner in 1851 and spent 79 continuous years on active payrolls for various railroads.
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