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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1924
Page
4
Consolidated paper listing morning news and weekly editions with Associated Press dispatches credited to this paper. Includes local news and notices published Saturday March 29 1924.
The article notes a 2 cent gasoline tax approved for all gasoline sold in the District of Columbia as a funding measure for road construction and maintenance. It argues the tax is collected efficiently and fairly by wholesalers, with Virginia highlighted as a model for pay-as-you-go road funding, contrasting state debt pressures.
A proposal by Albany figure Al gen lyman Burehill suggests punishing parents for their children's sins. Critics argue laws cannot cure human flaws and may impose undue severity. The piece questions whether legal action can restore the home’s influence or solve social ills.
A Virginia lawmakers special committee wrapped a dull session as it continues hearings into the Game and Inland Fisheries Department. Commissioner Lee faces cross examination over alleged waste of funds and improper conduct aboard state boats. Roy Hodges will testify, with further witness lists to be decided after Wednesday hearings.
Fragmentary note references a 16 year old film problem about portraying denouement and oil romances as a challenge. No clear facts or identifiable individuals, organizations, or events are discernible from the text.
Washington reports the anti administration coalition in the Senate shifts focus to Secretary Mellon after Attorney General Daugherty and Secretary Denby. Senator McKellar introduced a resolution to probe Mellon for possible law violations, with debate set for Monday, as cloakroom confidences hint at future targets including Wallace and Hoover.
Solenberger land near Winchester in Shawnee district sold at public auction. Executors S Lanrick and C M Solenberger witnessed sale of five tracts totaling 661 acres. B F Solenberger bought 260 acres for 6150 dollars, John J Harmer 121 acres at 27 dollars per acre, and Isaiah Wright and others 140 acres at 37 dollars per acre.
Operators and United Mine Workers in the central Pennsylvania bituminous coal field sign an accord to renew the current wage scale for three years. Officials will meet to formalize the agreement and set terms.
Three armed men held up a dozen Hava-Tampa Cigar Company workers in the factory offices in Tampa on March 29 and escaped with the weekly payroll of 24000 dollars. The robbery was reported by The Associated Press.
Washington March 29 The Senate committee in recess plans to question William Boyce Thompson former chairman of the Republican finance committee about the liquidation of the Republican deficit from the 1920 campaign.
Plant pathologist F J Schneiderhan cautions growers on spraying mixes. The article classifies combinations as safe dangerous or doubtful for fungicides stomach poisons and contact insecticides and notes implications for 1924 season timely oil sprays frost risk and the importance of early calendar sprays to control scale aphids scab and codling moth.
Mrs Mary ML Bayliss widow of Marshall E Bayliss died at her Cedar Creek Grade home near Opequon aged 78. Funeral services set for tomorrow at 2 PM from the house with Rev E O Graham of Stephens City officiating and burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery Winchester. She leaves sons Venner and Minnie Bayliss at home and Mrs Carles M Lupton of Stephenson, plus brothers Arthur and Clarence Wilson of Nebraska.
A Meriden Connecticut factory superintendent left nearly his entire $59,000 estate to a young newspaper peddler who cheered him daily. The will reveals the boy’s steady kindness and his impact on the elder man’s life.
A Charleston woman credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength and enabling daily tasks. A nationwide canvass shows 98 out of 100 women reported benefit from the product, supporting its widespread use by druggists.
Washington officials vow a relentless war on bootleggers after conferences in Philadelphia with Smedley Butler. Police Superintendent Sullivan says rim running drinking and gambling will be swept from the city with no quarter, even if prominent citizens are caught.
A gypsum bed 99.8 percent pure extends ten miles inland and a mile along a Mosse river branch between Cochrane and James Bay. Discovered recently, the outcrop at the riverbank shows a forty foot thick deposit, deemed one of the world’s most important.
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