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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1931
Page
2
The snippet lists subscription options such as six months in advance at 1.75 and one year at 4.50, plus a national advertising rep. note. It credits Devine-Tenney Corp for national advertising and states AP rights for republication.
A compact religious notice presents Psalm 38 verses 16 and 18, with a prayerful entreaty to God. The speaker vows repentance and readiness to confess sin, expressing sorrow and seeking divine hearing.
Patricia Regina Morton of Winchester England served as Queen Shenandoah VIII in the Apple Blossom festival in Winchester Virginia. The coronation featured Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and a lavish procession with 40 000 liege subjects. The essay lauds the festival as a blend of spectacle and commerce drawing thousands annually.
In Catskill New York a road house hideout of Jack Legs Diamond is targeted by buckshot in an ambush. The incident follows a truck driver tale and echoes Rip Van Winkle era lore as residents hope gangsters hijackers and liquor runners are driven out to restore calm.
Mary Vaughn private secretary to Ronald K. Foster, an investment banker, balances family obligations with a growing attraction to Dick Baldwin. She contemplates deferring a dinner with Martin Frasier as she envisions a possible future with Dick during a world tour in India.
In a vivid late night drive through New Jersey Mary and Dick share a closeness that hints at a forbidden romance amid economic and social pressures. Mary navigates intense feelings as Martin Frazier returns to dominate her evenings, foreshadowing a stormy, perilous triangle.
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania instructs state officials to drop old fashioned phrasing such as your favor at hand and contents noted. He argues phrases are hoary with age yet language relies on crystallized expressions like Black as a crow and Yours truly for clarity and tone.
The text discusses how people rely on familiar phrases and avoid originality, arguing that established expressions aid mutual understanding. It notes that language evolves slowly and warns against overhauling phrases too quickly, while illustrating with a speeding car leaving a ditch and the hope it won’t affect other vehicles for days.
The Martinsburg Evening Journal reports the death of Harry M. 56 at his Winchester Virginia home Sunday. He served in Company A Second Virginia Infantry and was a member of Blue Ridge Camp No 19 Spanish American War Veterans. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 4 pm from the Winchester home with burial there. A local camp delegation will attend. He was a merchant in Winchester.
A slate of Democratic primary announcements in Frederick County Virginia covers state senate House of Delegates sheriff Commonwealth's Attorney Commissioner of Revenue and county treasurer races. Names include T Russell Cather Boyd R Richards Luther Pannet t E C Oates Jacob H Beaver William Erle Edwards Floyd M Brill B P Harrison Lee N Whitacre and others.
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