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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
4
Listing shows publication details for The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia including postal class, consolidations with local papers, and subscription rates for mail and carrier delivery with yearly and monthly options. Also notes Associated Press rights for news dispatches and local news.
A biblically flavored excerpt presents a call to repentance from wickedness and obedience to statutes. It asserts that turning from sins guarantees life and not death, and invites faith in God’s truth as a path to blessing. The fragment evokes devotional reflection on divine justice and mercy.
Editorial argues against buying from house to house or office canvassers for similar store goods. It notes canvassers may be honest but chances of cheating or unsatisfactory products are high and local shops with known backing deserve support.
Petersburg Progress Index notes Merchants Association of New York protests the US mail slogan Lets Go Citizens Military Training Camps Affected by word military in foreign relations and trade They urge removing the term but Washington has offered no reply Hoover should not intervene to avoid camouflage claims and confusion about training camps.
The piece notes week end storms and floods killed over fifty people and caused a million dollars in damage across six southern states. Tennessee saw thirty one drownings, Kentucky five, and Georgia Alabama Mississippi North Carolina fourteen deaths from tornadoes. Virginia reports few if any tornadoes.
The piece notes that mountains shelter the area from storms while warmer, open regions suffer more from atmospheric electricity and flooding. It contrasts sympathy for stricken regions with relief at local safety, observing floods often dominate newspaper reports from open ground.
A Los Angeles Times piece recounts a lighthearted panel at a national hairdressers convention. Speakers joked that women have long braided and styled hair since ancient times, citing Nero era tricks, Venus and lime, and the idea that beauty traditions persist from antiquity to modern days.
Poem to a beloved woman praising her character and expressing affection. The Easter card wishes peace and daily plenty and asks for God to be a guide on the journey toward an eternal heavenly home.
The Star prints a daily market update listing wholesale prices for wheat cracked corn bran corn meal mixed feed and screenings. It tracks prices for hens heavy and light, young chickens leghorn ducks creamery butter eggs and local flour middlings and scratch feed, plus Baltimore wholesale quotes for wheat hens steers sheep lambs hogs and pork products.
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