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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1960
Page
4
Page shows newspaper masthead and poetry verse, with newspaper contact details and a Psalm quote. Reads like a fragment from a Winchester Virginia paper with Associated Press credit and subscription rates.
The Staunton Leader notes U S Highway 11 carried 65 million miles last year, surpassing Route 1 as Virginia's busiest road and also ranking as the bloodiest with sixty fatalities. The piece urges safety despite strong marking and engineering, and cites education and enforcement as steps to reduce the toll.
In 1861 Col T J Jackson and his brigade north of Martinsburg used stratagem to seize over 50 Baltimore and Ohio railroad engines and freight cars for the Confederacy. Much rolling stock was burned due to bridge destruction but Winchester saw 20 engines hauled through town by 32 horses each to Central Virginia. Col Thomas S Sharp advised broad tires on wheels enabling the removal. Postwar B and C recovered all but one. officials later offered Sharp a master of transportation role.
The text describes a strong urge to cultivate a personal garden whether a large plot or a window box. It emphasizes the irresistible pull to dig plant and watch growth, noting the allure of growing from seed and nurturing greenery.
The meditation recalls Amos as a shepherd and dresser of sycamore trees who challenged Israel’s rulers at Bethel. He condemned vanity in worship, exposed tyranny as theft and murder, and denounced corrupt religious leaders who pretended piety.
The author rails against hollow worship and double standards, citing Scripture to condemn loud praise that masks evil. He argues God rejects such duplicity and welcomes repentant sinners who choose righteousness over sin. He warns that one cannot love both good and evil at once.
John D. Rockefeller Jr who died this week remarked that his father built an organization to create wealth and it is his duty to ensure the vast funds are used for the public good. The quote frames philanthropy as a family legacy guiding vast holdings toward humanity.
The United States government released one million doses of Salk polio vaccine after a safety check. An Appalachian region forecast an 18 million bushel apple crop, signaling strong agricultural prospects.
In 1935 The Star ran the daily serialized romance Gypsy Girl billed as an impassioned love story by author McDonald Fender. The Capitol theater showed The Devil is a Woman with Marlene Dietrich Lionel Atwill and Cesar Romero.
Fifty years ago in 1910 Surgeon D Cather of the U S Navy received orders to report to Annapolis and serve at the Naval Academy. Jonah Tavenner returned to Winchester after visiting his brother Judge Frank S Tavenner at Woodstock. The annual Society of Friends meeting began at Hopewell Meeting House with many Friends arriving from Winchester and Frederick to attend.
The article recounts William Walker and his filibuster campaign in Nicaragua from 1853 to 1860. It details his ascent from a lone leader to commander in chief, his two invasion strategies, key battles at Rivas and Granada, and his eventual defeat and execution, framing his career within U S expansionist ideas and the slavery issue.
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