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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1928
Page
4
The Evening Star publishes daily except Sundays and lists subscription prices for year, six months, three months and one month in advance. Carrier rates for one year, six months, three months and one month are also shown. The notice mentions consolidation with local papers The Morning News The Weekly News and The Weekly Mirror.
A devotional note urges parents to have children memorize daily Bible selections as a priceless legacy. It cites Isa 33 5 praising the Lord on high and emphasizes prayer declaring the Lord as strength and blessing His holy name.
A Star excerpt portrays Democratic VA leaders rejecting the claim that they praise Tammany Hall as ideal. The piece notes the accusation is unproven and criticizes Republican and other groups for injecting Tammany into Governor Smith’s campaign while praising his clean eight year NY record.
Harding defends ministers and denounces Virginia Democratic leaders for political attack on religion. He cites Bishop Cannon and Rev. Hepburn, condemns religious agitation and false boasts, and calls for debate on real issues affecting public welfare.
The Baltimore Sun notes Democratic optimism from national developments and a New York Times read of a Smith swing. It reports Republican strategists calling in “big guns” including Dawes, Hughes, and Elihu Root as the election nears, while Dawes and Hughes deliver guarded stump remarks.
The piece questions the stance of Hughes and Hoover on the League of Nations and Harding era policy. It contrasts their wartime manifestos with cabinet actions and asks whether the salvage effort belatedly lacks zeal, noting Dawes and Hughes.
Pasadena reports plans for a 200 inch reflector telescope to be built on a California mountain top. California Institute of Technology announces the project with funding from the International Education Board and aid from the Carnegie Institute and Mount Wilson Observatory. The aims include detecting millions of unseen celestial bodies and coordinating a national science effort.
Firemen report nearly one million dollars in damage after a blaze swept two three story warehouses on West Eighteenth Street and Canal Port Avenue. The Bernard Paper Company and Producers' Warehouse Company buildings were destroyed, with 50,000 bags of sugar valued at 300,000 feet.
An old advertisement contrasts housewives' cleaning with lye to modern women who use rubber gloves and long-handled mops. It promotes Red Seal Lye as 97 percent pure for quick, hands free cleaning, claiming pots and pans sparkle in seconds.
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