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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star issued in Winchester Virginia lists publisher Harry Flood Byrd and details its post office classification second class. It notes consolidation with Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror and provides subscription rates by mail and carrier for various terms.
A short 1926 political notice promotes THOMAS W. HARRISON for Congress on the Democratic ticket. The entry includes scripture and a poetic verse about voyage and resilience, ending with Selected as the source of the poem.
In the November American Mercury essay Gen Eli Huggins recalls the Custer massacre and earlier frontier events to show shifting public sentiment toward leaders. The Illinois born veteran rose from private to brigadier general, earned a Medal of Honor in 1880, and laments unknown Custer details while venerating Civil War heroes as national property.
The Roanoke Times extols Virginia Polytechnic Institute now dedicating a war memorial building and a new athletic stadium. It lauds Tech alumni worldwide for loyalty and service, praising the institution’s impact in arts and leadership across regions and fields.
A fragment references the advancement of civilization and the progress of the nation, suggesting a discussion of societal development and national improvement in a broader context.
The Alexandria Gazette laments trivial gossip cluttering papers with subjects like Stillman and his fiancée and Peaches Browning. It argues readers crave human-interest items including royal news and campaigns, insisting editors must balance levity with serious reporting to stay financially viable.
Richmond reports Governor Byrd endorses the Made in Virginia plan urging the state purchasing department to favor products made in Virginia when feasible without harming the public. The Times-Dispatch notes many Virginia firms buy coal printing and supplies from outside the state and banks overlook local printers for calendars and other services.
Charles Vandevender of Pendleton County West Virginia convicted of murdering Ada Hammer during a 1925 revival tent meeting. He was sentenced to life, lost appeals for a new trial, and was moved to the Moundsville Penitentiary for his life term.
The Martinsburg Evening Journal reports a light six Studebaker touring car owned by George Manuel was sold for 165 dollars on the local block after he, a Winchester Virginia barber, was arrested on Berkeley County roads for alleged violations of multiple laws.
A fragment describes a court sale near the courthouse Saturday afternoon. M. A. Little bought the wrecked motorcycle at 165 dollars after a motorcade crash involving State Trooper Huff. Private cell aided the other trooper, preventing further harm to Huff.
Washington reports 565 auto fatalities across 78 cities in the four weeks ending October 9, an increase of 125 from the prior four week period, according to the Department of Commerce.
A historical remark attributes to Chauncey M. Depew the thought that no one can truthfully claim they have never made a mistake and that the speaker would not want to meet such a man.
Thackeray counsels young readers to seek the company of their betters in both literature and life. He insists that wholesome society comes from admiring worthy figures, and the greatest pleasure in life is found in such associations.
Miller Train Control Corp grants a license to General Railway Signal and Union Switch and Signal to manufacture and sell the Miller system of train control and top devices in the United States and Canada. The Miller company reserves rights to sell west of the Rocky Mountains and to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway and Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railroad. It also covers use on the Toledo Detroit division of the New York Central. The Miller system marks the first train control installed on a full engine division of a steam railroad in the United States, now in operation with a second division recently added on the same road.
An advertisement touts GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC as a strengthening invigorating tonic. It claims the product improves appetite and restores color in the cheeks, promising noticeable effects for a hungry feeling.
Mattie Adams of Brewton Alabama shares relief from Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She enjoys time for reading, church and civic work with grown children and grandchildren, noting many women past fifty credit the remedy for health and vitality.
Mrs. W. P. Wade of Virginia describes a six year battle with indigestion fatigue and nerve strain. After taking Tanlac she regained appetite slept better and gained weight and strength. She credits Tanlac with restoring her health and urges others to try it.
A Boston Transcript quotation lampoons self praise in schools with a quip about a man singing his own praises being drowned out by someone blowing his own horn.
Assistant Secretary Andrews, head of the dry forces, notes that today the only liquor worth drinking comes from moonshine stills in the Kentucky Tennessee and North Carolina mountains.
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