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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1931
Page
4
The snippet shows a Winchester Virginia post office rate card with prices in advance and mentions The Evening Star. It references annual and monthly subscription terms and an advertising representation network across New York Des Moines and Chicago. The text is a damaged OCR fragment and lacks a clear single event.
This item notes that The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to use all AP dispatched and locally published news in the paper. It outlines attribution and reprint privileges for AP content.
A fragment cites scripture about love driving away fear with the line There is no fear in love. The verse 1 John 4 18 is quoted and the passage emphasizes perfect love casts out fear.
An article traces the brief Roanoke Island English settlement linked to Raleigh Grenville and John White. It notes Drake's arrival, the disappearance by 1590, the Croatan carving, and lingering questions about massacre or starvation, calling the piece a hand made story.
The Yorktown sesquicentennial commission debates whether Cornwallis surrender will appear in the October 19 pageant. Conflicting reports say the surrender may be cut or restored, with the Union Jack to be raised over a British redoubt to acknowledge British roles. Some urge a Washington tableau if surrender is banned.
New York Times notes a section in the Exposition of Women's Arts and Industries featuring patented devices by women. A model electric iron with rounded edges is highlighted as a labor saving household device.
A report notes women patent creators design tools for sewing and housework as well as complex devices like a collapsible umbrella and a Coston flare. More than three fourths of their 15,000 patents cover industrial arts, transportation and agriculture.
The piece notes a high rate of incendiary starts in recent western wildfires, with investigators finding deliberate ignition evidence. It questions whether a national surge of firebugs exists and ponders the social strains behind property destruction. It contrasts with Russia and includes unrelated fashion observation about shirts.
Orphaned sisters Nita and Natalie Dudley leave Truesdale for New York where Nita lands a nightclub job through Charles Young. Nita toys with Alyn Brady for publicity while Natalie, smitten with Alyn’s rival, Warren Menken, endures a pushy date and liquor fueled advances in a club and taxi after midnight before retreating to her apartment.
A mixed list of across and down crossword clues with partial and garbled entries. Includes several misread phrases such as mea ehta ha wwo and scrambled lines, suggesting OCR damage and puzzle fragmentation.
Riot leaders Robert H. Elliott and Delbert Pfoutz may be executed or hanged after Utah statute requires death for any lifer who assaults a prison guard. The riot at the state prison was unsuccessful and could end their careers.
A remark suggests the man who devised the battleship steering device may apply his know how to develop a system to guide a car steered by a drunken driver. The note appears in the Los Angeles Times.
New York Mayor Jimmy Walker expresses interest in becoming a United States senator. He hints vacations as mayor may be limiting and suggests time for a broader political role.
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