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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1928
Page
4
The notice details pricing for subscriptions with rates for one year in advance at 13.60, six months at 6.90, three months at 3.90, and one month at 0.80. Carrier rates show one year at 4.50, six months at 2.25, and three months at 1.20.
Daily Bible selections encourage parents to have children memorize the verses. A fool’s sport leads to mischief. a wise person has understanding. Prayer asks the Lord to teach us to build and not destroy.
A Mother’s Day ode celebrates maternal love as protective and eternal. It urges remembering and honoring mothers daily, noting how mothers guide children through life and offering a vision of shared memories and gratitude in old age.
Three Virginia counties join a cooperative almshouse plan expanding to Amherst Campbell Halifax Batavia and Franklin Bedford counties. The move lowers costs and improves care for dependents while easing travel for residents. Health cooperation and jail farm ideas follow the same cost and service efficiency logic.
The World quotes Tunney explaining that a boxer’s courage is measured by facing hardships outside the ring, not by taking fights for money in front of crowds. He contrasts ring battles with the true bravery shown by the crippled and disabled in the institute, arguing real courage lies elsewhere.
The piece contrasts Gene Tunney’s dignified, tasteful persona with public doubts about his boxing prowess. It argues that audiences want bold showmanship from champions even as they value restraint in men of character, noting Tunney’s measured conduct despite mixed boxing results.
The article notes two Mexican mummies presented to Japan as symbols of goodwill. One is a middle aged woman and the other a baby, both in excellent preservation. Japan answered with a gift of fancy long tailed fowl. After a delay caused by the bearer’s death, the mummies were exhibited amid modest Cuban reception.
Liberty notes that eighty percent of the nation's money supply comprises one dollar bills and that about 1.5 million $1 notes wear out daily.
Prince Carol of Romania is confined to bed with chills and fever as the British government expects him to depart by Monday for violating hospitality by seeking the throne of Romania. A statement from M. Ionescu's home in Godstone Surrey says Carol has a high temperature during his visit this week.
Cetaceans are mammals adapted for life in water including whales dolphins and porpoises. The paragraph notes their modified anatomy enables efficient aquatic locomotion.
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