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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1927
Page
4
Partial OCR notes show a nightly and weekly publication listing post office rates, carrier options, and associated notices. Mentions Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Mirror and Associated Press then includes Bible Thought and Prayer features and Sweet Meditation verses.
Senator Carter Glass denounces federal authority to judge private foreign loan proposals. He cites a $100,000,000 package and warns such action concentrates power, misleads investors, and shifts finance into politics, urging legal limits and accountability.
Scientists bid for the brain of Russell Scott, once a noted financial figure, to study its structure and potential links to his strange character. The discussion covers cerebral cortex, cells of thinking, and whether brain anatomy reveals moral insights, while noting the limits of current knowledge.
The passage asks whether a mind can think and act without a brain. It notes doctors and lab psychologists gain little from dissection and suggests Shakespeare, who studied minds, would have understood Scott.
The National Council of Catholic Women denounces beauty contests bathing pageants and similar displays as exploiting young women for commercial gain. The resolution calls for other organizations to imitate this protest and condemns the displays as unwholesome and harmful to participants and observers.
Charlottesville Progress reports special counsel Pomerene and Roberts seek 100000 to finish criminal and civil oil scandal prosecutions. They criticize the rushed outcome of the deficit bill during Congress and praise the Supreme Court ruling canceling the Sinclair lease as a notable success.
The article cites National Safety Council data showing 23 daily deaths in July 1927 and similar totals through seven months, with September to November as the peak period. It notes about 70 percent of auto fatalities are pedestrians and one-third involve children under fifteen, urging citizens on the Eastern Shore to heed the risk.
A monument titled The Cross of Sacrifice will be shipped from Canada to Arlington National Cemetery to honor American volunteers who joined Canadian forces in World War I and died on French and Belgian battlefields. Dedication ceremonies are expected later this month with Canadian government representatives and President Coolidge in attendance.
Prices at the Liverpool auction show little change from the prior week as demand for American fruit in southern England declines due to abundant home grown supplies. Virginia Jonathans led the market, with prices from $9.73 to $10.95 per 2 1/2 inch, while Washington Jonathans and King Davids sold for $3.53 to $4.20 per box and per case for pears and other varieties.
Advertisement for MELLO GLO face powder from People's Drug Co touts a soft non shiny finish. Claims long wear and high purity with amazed beauty benefits as a superior cosmetic option.
Fifty years ago women found few jobs beyond teaching, nursing, or homemaking. Now women work in factories and hold roles as architects, lawyers, dentists, executives, and legislators. Elizabeth Chamberlain of 500 Monmouth St Trenton NJ says Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped her health while working in overalls manufacturing.
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