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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1929
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia outlines subscription rates and carrier delivery details. It notes consolidation with Morning News and Weekly papers and credits the Associated Press for news dispatches.
A fragmentary devotional passage quoting Haggai 2 8 9 about silver and gold belonging to the Lord and the greater glory of the future temple. It includes a prayer line asking for strength to bear toil and worry and reflects a religious exhortation.
A reflective piece compares unread letters to a source of danger yet portrays their writers as innocent, happy, and oddly insightful. It suggests society underestimates these petitioners while noting a paradoxical wisdom behind their naïve optimism.
Louis I Jaffe editor of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot receives the Pulitzer Prize for best editorial. His piece An Unspeakable of Savagery condemns lynch law on the Virginia Kentucky border and praises clear moral purpose and public influence.
Virginia newspapers celebrate I James Jaffe editor of the Norfolk Virginian Pilot for winning the Pulitzer Prize. Colleagues recall his clean direct English, incisive thinking, and courage shaping his career from the mill to top newsroom leadership.
Danville Register reports Miss Anne Morrow, fiancée of Col. Charles Lindbergh, receives heavy mail daily. A secretary sifts through letters urging elopement or staged air wedding ideas, with many writers eager to shape the country’s aviation image.
The Alexandria Gazette notes color used to enhance film drama with 16 hues and dynamic combos from argent to purple. It claims color will heighten emotional atmosphere alongside sound and radio, and mentions Doheny buying Fall’s ranch in New Mexico, hinting at oil prospects.
A New York publisher proposes using good books in paper binding at 50 cents a copy, while shorter novels now cost about $2.50. The plan aims to make literature more affordable for readers.
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