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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia publishes daily except Sunday and lists subscription rates for mail and carrier delivery. Rates: yearly 3.50, six months 1.76, three months .90, monthly .30. Carrier rates: yearly 4.50, six months 2.25, three months 1.20.
The text declares that The Associated Press owns exclusive republication rights to all AP and local news published in the paper. It asserts the AP’s exclusive entitlement to use and distribute the dispatches and local content.
Election June 8 1926 lists nominees for First Ward Fred W Forney Herman Hable J Henkel Henry and J Henkle. Second Ward includes R Frank Barr J George Baetjer and W W Dellinger.
The Pennsylvania primary yields a Vare plurality over Pepper and Pinchot with a minority of total votes. The result weakens Coolidge administration influence, as Pepper backed by Mellon interests and even Mellon himself running a campaign speech.
The piece denounces plans to turn Arlington House into a memorial for Robert E. Lee and condemns the Daughters of the Confederacy. It also mocks the Daughters of the Union Veterans and advises sending them to Japan for world peace outreach.
Miss Gertrude Dowell of the State Normal School Towson Md says the honor system fails her school due to widespread cheating on exams and students not reporting violations. She cites lack of enforcement and asks for stronger measures requiring all students to know cheating provisions.
The passage urges reporting offenses to the faculty or student committee and notes the inconsistency of students who fail to recognize cheating by others as a breach as serious as violating rules against seeking help. It frames cheating as a moral and legal failing within college conduct.
The famed conductor Toscanini retired from La Scala Milan after censorship and Fascist pressure led to anti-Fascist musicians being ousted. Black Shirts replaced members with loyal but inferior players, forcing frequent rehearsals until the director resigned.
The White Plains Daily Reporter notes the Jefferson Valley Horse Thief Detective Association has dissolved after twenty years of service by order of Justice Marschauser. The piece laments decline of horse thefts and reflects on a imagined final rally rather than a public farewell.
A reflective poem laments aging and dental neglect. The speaker recalls warnings from teachers about dental care, recounts pain from decayed teeth, and questions the wisdom of past choices.
Grover Cleve land Loy, age forty one, died in Kearney City Hospital Nebraska at 1 30 p m Monday after a long illness with paralysis and complications. He was born near Hayfield and lived much of his life in Hastings Nebraska as a merchant and farmer. He is survived by his widow four children and four sisters and two brothers with several relatives in Virginia.
The sun shined on opening day as the All-Steel show trains appeared. Doctor Waddell rode Waddy the Globe-Trotting elephant with Charley Rooney leading a flawless parade of 300 horses and the famed riders.
Spectators describe a lively show with elephants, a Giant and Midget acts, propulsive chatter from Ruth and a Lady Hilda enjoying a Morning Massage with trained snakes. Ma and family rush to Big Tent seats for roars of lions and in-house entertainment praised as the best circus.
Lewis and Valentine Co announces a reward of 10 percent of the purchase price for information leading to the location of Boxwood plants or hedging. Send tips to Ardmore Penna.
An advertisement touts MELLO GLO Cream as a pure French process whitening lotion. It claims rapid complexion improvement after first use and promises smoother brighter younger skin, endorsed by Peoples' Drug Co.
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