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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1931
Page
4
Note shows a newspaper notice stating mailing as second class matter at Winchester Virginia with publication by The Evening Pea and grety Gad onesee unclear names and dates.
Fragmentary religious verse notes mountains encircling Jerusalem and describes the Lord as a protective surrounding presence for his people from this time forward.
Roanoke World News notes a McGuffey memorial honoring Dr William Holmes McGuffey. The monument will stand at Oxford Ohio near the 1828 house built for his bride. The six editions of his readers ran 1836 to 1879. royalties would total about 1 220 000 if calculated by copy.
The Richmond Times Dispatch reports the battlefields around Richmond will be transferred to the Conservation and Development Commission for perpetual care after a subscriber-funded purchase. Dr. H J Eckenrode and Col. Bryan Conrad lead efforts to verify records and mark sites, ensuring public access and historic accuracy for scholars and visitors.
The piece describes Arthur Henderson and British Labour members blaming bankers for political meddling and upsetting the Labour apple cart. It notes denials from Washington and the New York Fed about political loan conditions and cites MacDonald denying Bank of England interference while stressing bankers offered only economic advice on loan yields.
Local notices from Middletown Virginia highlight residents visiting relatives in Washington and Martinsburg, teaching assignments in Star Tannery Flint Hill Hume and Winchester, and family moves. Individuals include Miss Bessie Sperry Miss Martha Reely Miss Elizabeth McInturff Rev Henry Wilson Rev R V Whitehurst William Weirick Cephia Clark and others with travels and teaching postings across the region.
Virginia farm income in year will rise from last year but stay below the five year average. August weather boosted production on September 1 though late August rains damaged white and sweet potatoes and tobacco. Soil remained ready for plowing as much work ended by September 1. Prices for most crops were lower than last year.
The writer argues for gentler conduct in future wars, suggesting we should restrain force to avoid crippling adversaries and the long obligation to aid their recovery for two decades. The remark reflects a pacifist or realist strain on postwar reconstruction.
Conwright 1991 reports a maximum punishment of 1530 years in the prison settlement on Fernando Noronha Island as noted by Central Press Association.
A terse note from the Toppenish Washington Review suggests the Prince of Wales favors cars over air travel. The item quips the prince has never seemed short of judgment.
Orphan sisters Nita and Natalie Dudley leave Truesdale for New York to start over. Nita, a nightclub entertainer, seeks publicity with playboy Alyn Brady while Natalie longs for a real job and resents Nitas schemes. New York tabloid attention and rival ambitions drive their clash.
The report notes that in the grain market the sole gauge of prosperity appears to be liquidity, implying trading ease and cash flow as the main indicator of market health.
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