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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1933
Page
4
Public notice from The Evening Star Publication of Winchester detailing subscription rates for mail and carrier delivery, advertising charges for classified memorials display and transient ads, and contact details for national reps. Includes price structures and payment terms.
A brief devotional fragment references Psalm 69 5 with a prayerful note on human foolishness and hidden sins. The line emphasizes divine knowledge and repentance within a religious context.
Roanoke World News discusses upcoming Tuesday prohibition election notes and the two ballot formats. One ballot shows federal and state prohibition with a thirty-name slate for a state convention to cast Virginia's vote, while the other asks whether to continue prohibition or adopt a liquor control plan with local option to ban sales.
Norfolk Ledger Dispatch recalls a tale of Bishop Randolph famed as a leading preacher yet famously absent minded. On a visit trip the conductor lacked instructions for drop off and the Bishop misplaced his ticket prompting a kind exchange about where to disembark and a promise to pay later.
Baltimore Sun notes that while no pot of gold is found yet, occasional prospectors uncover a remarkable diamond, signaling a potential treasure ripe with promise. The piece frames the rare discovery as a beacon of wealth and opportunity in uncertain markets.
Reports from Rio de Janeiro describe a Brazilian find in Minas Geraes province a diamond weighing over 2 000 carats. Details are sparse but the rough is valued at about 7800000 dollars. The stone ranks behind the Cullinan but could galvanize prospectors and syndicates.
The report shows past 24 hours rainfall ending 8 a m none for the day. September to date 3 56 inches year to date 34 26 inches. It lists 20 year average monthly rainfall values with January 2 36 February 2 to be completed.
Winchester notes report tax matters and a 1933 jubilee plan. Local leaders speak at Kiwanis while high school teams open the season. A grand jury returns indictments and a merchant disperses Ford airplanes. Marines parade and a revival continues as gasless Sundays spread nationwide.
Virginia voters will go to polling places on Tuesday October 3 to decide on repealing the eighteenth amendment, the Volstead act, and to choose between continuing state prohibition or adopting liquor control if repeal occurs. Voters may also express support for or against ratification by marking through the appropriate line on the ballot.
Sally battles salt spray and a pursuit by Proctor as an airplane plucks her from a stricken yacht. Ted and Herb Hall fight to keep the craft aloft, then a crash leads to a calm hospital recovery and a lavish media and public wake. Ted and Sally plan to elope, heading toward Daytona Beach aboard Curly McGuire’s plane.
Voters on October 3 1933 vote on a joint resolution to repeal the eighteenth article and prohibit transport of intoxicating liquors into states. The article advances ratification within seven years by state conventions. To vote for repeal strike against ratification. to vote against repeal strike for ratification.
A long roster of individuals including Mrs Elizabeth Hull C O Conor Godrick Larkin F Bristow James Barron Mrs Elizabeth Gregory Hill W J Sebrell Jno B Minor Mrs Eleanorg Parrish Barton Cyrus Beale Mrs Lottie Hines D L Elder Robert Brock Jas Basley Parsons Kennon Whittle Whitewell Coxe Mrs R A Owen O L Stearnes Bernard Chamberlain Rostel Genevieve Hitt v J Strother Charles Pickett Mrs Margaret Keith Robert Lane Anderson William Bane Sindow Charles W Crush W N Breckinridge Duncan Curry 8 D Timberlake Jr appears in a ratification context.
A voter notice describes a special election on October 3 1933 to decide the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Ballot options include continuation of state prohibition or a plan of liquor control permitting and regulating liquor with county or city prohibition by popular vote.
On Labor Day Miller climbed Pike's Peak in 19 minutes 55.2 seconds in a Hudson Essex Terraplane wearing Goodyear All Weather tires. He praised tire performance for handling 160 curves and rough gravel from 9150 to 14109 feet, noting Supertwist cord construction and tire durability.
The will of W. F. Kimball of Riverton Kansas leaves $7 060 in cash to Tuffy a cross breed bulldog German shepherd as sole heir with Mrs Maude Livingston executrix to receive the residue after Tuffy dies The note also mentions J T Kimball the missing son and the executrix shown with her son Maxie in a dated photo
A semi monthly dental health series compiled for the North Virginia Dental Study Club and published under its auspices by Dr CG Bruce Harlee, the correspondence secretary.
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