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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1924
Page
4
Advertising and subscription rates listed for The Evening Star Winchester Virginia including daily publication excluding Sundays. Rates show one year 3.60 six months 1.75 three months .90 one month .30 carrier rates year 4.50 six months 2.25 three months 1.20 one month .40. Phone numbers and postal information appear.
A newspaper notes that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republication of all AP credited dispatches and all local news published by the paper. The notice emphasizes licensing and attribution for reuse of wire and local content.
Governor Trinkle argues the pay-as-you-go plan works well in Virginia and should influence Kentucky voters. He cites rising road funding, ongoing construction, and projected 3-cent gasoline and license tax revenues surpassing earlier estimates, with the plan reducing bondholder payments.
An inexperienced American squad defeated the veteran French team at the Olympic games on Sunday. The Stars and Stripes were hoisted as the crowd witnessed the victory amid questions of sportsmanship.
During a game the American team was cheered but a later outburst during the flag raising drew calls of jealousy. French canoes were used and several American students in the grand stands were beaten. The American team is praised for clean play, while the incident reflects poorly on French sportsmanship and manners.
Poem laments speeders and frauds, praising justice for Charles H Chief who was jailed after a fast chase. It contrasts sharp critique of crooks who profit from fraud with sympathy for the speeding man, noting he caused no direct harm yet received thirty days in a granite cell.
Miss Gertrude Cooper and Albert Wright were married May 17 at Boyce Baptist Church Boyce Va. The bride wore canton crepe and carried white carnations. She hails from Clarke County and the groom from Johnston City Tennessee. The couple honeymooned in Roanoke and Cincinnati, with friends sending best wishes.
In Winchester at the apple blossom festival parade the Boyce High School Junior League unveiled a parade float themed around the five lines of League activity. The pink and green mobile exhibit featured a decorated truck cab, blue banners, and apple blossom accents signaling Self-Improvement School Spirit Citizenship Health and Athletics and Recreation. Miss Elizabeth Grim led the display as League president with Miss Elsie Brockdorff from Shenandoah Valley County Federation accepting fruit offerings.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church's ninety fourth General Assembly in Austin adopts reports opposing liberalism and endorsing basic doctrinal tenets. It reaffirms belief in the virgin birth and Genesis origin, with plans to meet in Nashville in May 1925.
ARIS May 21 Men are accused by a woman fashion writer of following women's style in dress. She says when women wear plaid fabrics men adopt jazzy neckwear and sober ties lose color. One man last winter copied bright frock designs in his neckwear.
American army aviators circling the globe are delayed at Hitokapu Bay on the Island of Yotorofu in the Kuriles by fog. An official dispatch to the Japanese navy said they will wait for clearer weather before resuming toward Minato in northern Japan, with Thursday as a tentative restart date subject to delay.
William G. McAdoo, Democratic presidential hopeful, stated that Florida should send William Jennings Bryan as a delegate to the Democratic national convention and urged supporters to back him. The remarks were made public in New York on May 21.
The minority report of the Virginia legislative committee finds Commissioner McDonald Lee of the Game and Inland Fisheries Department guilty of extravagance and improper conduct. It accuses him of carrying women aboard the state boat Commodore Maury without a chaperone and urges reforms in the department.
Train timetable lists connections and services from Berryville to Roanoke with Pullman parlor cars to Bristol and Shenandoah, sleepers to Williamson and Roanoke, dining car Shenandoah, and through connections to Memphis, Philadelphia, and New York. Various No. trains run daily with intermediate stops and junctions at Shenandoah Junction and Hagerstown. For fares, schedules, and reservations contact Berryville or Roanoke offices.
A. Stewart MacLaren, British aviator, flying around the world, arrived at Akyab Burma today from Calcutta, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Shanghai dated May 21.
Advert resume advertising Red Pepper Rub claiming instant warmth and relief from rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis and backache. It promises tingling heat within minutes, improved blood circulation, and relief from chest colds, urging readers to buy the genuine with the R logo.
In Scotland plaids serve as identification indicating the wearer's occupation or year of service, showing whether the wearer is in business or a time-in status.
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