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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1924
Page
6
A buggy struck by an auto on a state road near Strasburg injured a man from Fishers Hill and his son. The pair were traveling from the Apple Blossom festival when the car approached and failed to avoid the collision. They remained sore but were not reported critically hurt.
The Associated Press reports Baltimore and Potomac Telephone plans ask the Maryland Service Commission for a rise around ten percent. The increase would apply to some classes with lower rates on others, based on the legal value of property, and aims to raise about 000 additional.
A brief item notes Sunday attendance in a classroom or gathering with most present and one unnamed person absent. The tone suggests a small, hopeful remark about the missing attendee. No further names or places are provided in the readable text.
An Alaska search for Maj. Frederick L. Martin shifts after two locals near Port Moller report seeing a plane yesterday. Martin’s squadron, minus his craft, had been at Atka preparing to depart for Attu as the coast guard and natives extend a Behring Sea search from Chignik toward Dutch Harbor.
The hymn Nearer My God to Thee is attributed to Sarah Adams born Flower and appeared in W. J. Fox Hymns and Anthems in 1841. Later editions in Hymns and Hymnology indicate numerous edits and adaptations during the 1860s to suit various individuals.
By May 5 the Missouri Society and about 150 ministers protested Butler's remarks at Columbia University calling his view on prohibition radical and unfounded. Parents threaten to pull their children from Columbia while some students back Butler's stance on citizenship education.
The Endicott Johnson firm runs maternity centers in Johnson City and nearby facilities in Endicott and derives a community health program from its large shoe-making operation. Centers provide prenatal care, hospital births, postnatal nursing, and financial gifts like ten dollar bank books and first shoes to babies, aiming to improve mother and child welfare as a core business principle.
A notice indicates a deed from Charles ... go clerk in Frederick County Virginia in Deed Book 150 page 224 has defaulted on the debt secured. It lists sale at noon on May 41 1924 at the County Court House Winchester VA for a farm of about 179 acres, improved, with one third down and balance due in two years, bonds bearing six percent interest, secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. James P trustee.
A compact meditation recalls voters shaping fate in a republic while kings claim omnipotence. The fragment sketches tension between popular will and monarchical authority, implying democratic limits and dangers.
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