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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1927
Page
4
By mail rates listed for one year six months three months and one month with carrier options and prices. The page promotes Christ for all and urges memorization of daily Bible selections as a priceless heritage and offering to the Lord with a prayer of consecration.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot questions Secretary Wilbur’s belief that ocean disasters make the United States safe from aerial attack. It notes powers build aircraft carriers and ships with planes and suggests a fleet could approach the Atlantic coast. It warns dirigibles offer trans oceanic reach and foresees 1000 navy air lanes in five years.
Antonio Albano applied for naturalization in Wheeling, was denied, and returns to court. The piece notes admiration for study while warning that reciting the Constitution verbatim does not guarantee citizenship or understanding of duties and responsibilities. It contrasts rote memorization with practical civic virtue.
The article notes concerns about U S crowding with a Farmers' National council claim of a 312000 population and food sufficiency. It quotes the agriculture secretary on the difference between country population and food production amid dairy farm and producer remarks.
The text notes that producing 100 pounds of milk can require from $1.00 to $2.00 of feed, and converting grain into pork shows similar variance with 250 to 500 pounds needed per 100 pounds of meat. It argues American farmers must improve to support a larger population.
RichmondTimes Dispatch analyst James M. Hayes Jr. breaks down Virginia automobile taxes for 1926. He shows average tax per car at 32.27 dollars with 14.24 for license and 18.03 for gasoline, adjusts for tourist shares, and argues motorists pay about 2.4 cents per mile for highway construction and maintenance plus depreciation savings from paved roads.
A Martinsburg Journal summary notes 1790 census figures of 757 208 and 1920 counts of 10 463 141. It cites Dr Dublin of Metropolitan Life asserting fourtyfold growth over 1300 years, warns about slave trade impact, discusses smuggling after 1808, and projects under 8 percent black population by 2000.
Lima Peru Sept 11 Roger Courtevile the Brazilian explorer claims to have met Col Fawcett who disappeared while seeking a lost city in Matto Grosso government funds supported the search and he later lived as a farmer near Diamantina with his son malaria and Indian trouble halted the expedition and he settled in a paradise region after returning to the start point.
In a dispatch from Sept 11 Premier Mussolini met Mayor James J. Walker and publicly praised him before returning home. The item appears amid a transcription of court notices from Frederick County Virginia detailing an order of reference in the Samuel Larew estate matter and related land and debt questions.
A private statement from an Italian leader describes Mayor Walker as young in appearance and spirit yet practical and talented. He notes Walker’s governance of a metropolis with many Italians and commends the mayor for fostering better understanding and friendship between the two peoples.
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