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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1929
Page
4
Public notices list postage details for Winchester Virginia editions and related papers. It outlines annual, half year, and quarterly rates, with different prices for six months and three months, and notes Associated Press rights for republication of news dispatches.
A sacred excerpt blending Zechariah 9 9 with a Christmas hymn. It presents the verse about the king entering Jerusalem on an ass and the accompanying Joy to the World prayer inviting Earth to receive the Lord.
The piece discusses Ned McLean the Washington Post publisher as victim of a libel suit over a Philadelphia Record claim he dined at the Belgian Embassy and consumed wine excessively. It notes his political ties, Teapot Dome era connections, and disputed dinner incident while urging skepticism and a small moral verdict on his social standing.
A Virginia sightseeing note describes 60 000 plus visitors from across the country, including New York schoolchildren and Helen Woodward, who wrote of the trip to the New York World’s Conning Tower. The piece recalls historic sites from Maryland to Pennsylvania and playful candy references along the way.
The text recalls missed exhibitions at Virginia House and garden sites along the James York and Rappahannock, noting New Yorkers care more for window sill gardens. It jokes about death and eternity road signs and questions where a Petersburg barber lives, then suggests Helen would enjoy Virginia’s cinema offerings.
The White House offers Dwight F. Davis the governor generalship of the Philippines. Davis, a former Secretary of War, would oversee affairs in the Philippines, Porto Rico, and the Canal Zone, with emphasis on tact and a non snobbish approach to the Filipino people.
The article describes a shift in home design where basements are transformed from damp, cobwebby spaces into bright, finished areas. New basements include daylight windows, electric outlets, waterproofed floors and walls, and rooms for games, viewing, and even fireplaces while keeping furnace and laundry spaces clean and airy.
The writer likens Jeremiah to a reformer wielding a hammer of divine word to force change against complacent elites. He notes Savonarola, Luther, and Jesus as reformers and warns that opposing reform can provoke deadly backlash. The piece urges readers to become reformers and apply Jeremiah's method today.
A speaker reflects on reform accusations and public piety during bustling prosperity. He notes religious hypocrisy, the lure of churchgoing for social credit, and moral clashes seen in small town memories, including a boyhood apple-house tale and a Sunday in Mexico with a conflicted churchgoer.
A religious reflection contrasts ceremonial law with Divine law. The speaker notes how true sacrifice requires sincere spirit, not mere offerings. A Jeremiah figure shatters excuses and changes habits when insincere pieties prevail.
A lexicographer notes a New York shoe store term epate is sold by a person called a spatician. The remark highlights a trade term used locally in the footwear trade.
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