Prayer Verse From Psalms Quoted In Winchester Evening Star
The Winchester Evening Star prints a Bible passage from Psalms 27 9 shared by editor H F Byrd Jr. The excerpt emphasizes seeking divine aid and assurance of God’s presence.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1938
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star prints a Bible passage from Psalms 27 9 shared by editor H F Byrd Jr. The excerpt emphasizes seeking divine aid and assurance of God’s presence.
The Alexandria Gazette notes a nationwide push for public pension schemes from Maine to California. It warns many plans risk ruinous costs, higher taxes, and state socialism, urging focus on work and production rather than expansive pensions. It cites hearings by the Bennington House Ways and Means Committee in January and stresses prudence for lawmakers and voters.
A Staunton News Leader report notes high Russian aviation leaders denouncing Colonel Lindbergh over a claimed 8 percent remark about Soviet air forces. The claim ties to a London weekly and a dinner with Lady Astor, both unverified by Lindbergh. The piece suggests the incident is minor but could influence Russian morale until combat.
The obituary recalls Miss Annie Jo White as a longtime librarian and founder of the Fancy Dress Ball at Washington and Lee and a beloved link to the school’s past. Her death leaves an enduring mark on the campus and its traditions.
General Custie Lee stood as a contemporary figure with President Wilson as a younger brother. The versatile Smith and infant Gaines populate a portrait of lively youth and humor. She championed patriotic causes and homesick lads, blending sentiment with sharp humor. Her fashion and grounded realism marked fifty years as a unique, indefatigable friend and storyteller.
Gerhart S. Seger, former Reichstag member now in the United States, disputes Nazi claims of a unified Germany under Hitler. He describes extensive German concentration camps, mass surveillance, and fear-driven loyalty, noting many prisoners are gentiles and mail censorship results in long penalties. A side column mocks marriage and American pride references.
Police believe they captured a youth tied to recent auto thefts who wrecked Rev. Norman Cooper’s car. County treasurer Harry McCann reports Frederick had a balance of $20 641.16 on Sept 30. Game Commission to hold hearing in Berryville on open or closed season. Engagement announced between Miss Martha Jane McEwen and Dr Raymond H Kerlin.
Five years ago more than 3,500 people rioted at the NRA headquarters in New York City as police blamed communist factions for instigating clashes.
Washington reports claim that baseball great Walter Johnson will manage the Senators in the upcoming season. In other news Maurice Seabright, 26, dies after his car strikes a large stone on an embankment on the Millwood pike. Sophie Thwaite, 91, dies at relatives' home. The Graf Zeppelin battles storms over the Atlantic returning from Chicago's Century of Progress.
A Chicago artist declares the slit in women's skirts should be longer rather than shorter amid fashion expert dicta. Miss Eva Click is bitten by a snake while hunting for a ring behind kitchen plaster. Leroy Eustice Williams, a Clarke County native and former Confederate veteran, dies at his Anchorage Kentucky home. The United States will not oppose the German Kaiser sending warships to Mexican waters during internal strife.
Forty years ago six prominent Winchester men were caught sneaking over the fence at the Winchester Fair and fined. Charles B. Rouss received a rousing college cheer as he passed Valley Female College in yesterday's parade. Miss Fannie Chapman and William Cline were married in Hagerstown and will live on North Market street. William Arnold, a Confederate veteran near the city, was visiting New Market with old war comrades.
A digest of Q and A on topics from Futurism to Lenin's death. The piece lists origins of Futurism, Easter Island naming, Temple University founder, and details about wool manufacturing and absorption. It also notes National Book Week dates and Mark Twain burial facts.
A promotional message urges women to buy the booklet BEAUTY AND CHARM by the Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director. It covers care of the face body figure hands teeth hair exercise poise and makeup and invites readers to mail ten cents postpaid with name address and location.
Washington reports outline US air power plans to outpace Europe for twenty years. Proposed advances would render allied and enemy aircraft obsolete, with Roosevelt notes cast as a peace strategy. additional items cover wage and hour funding, Supreme Court dissents, social security board appointments, and a government junket to Brazil.
Judy Rogers learns her fiancé Craig Denby is involved with another woman as she grapples with her family’s financial crash. Ronald Birrell, a driven attorney from Tennessee, joins her by car and reveals his own rise from a one room cabin to a high legal berth. Their late night river ride exposes class clashes, ambition, and a dangerous attraction as Judy questions her future in New York.
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