1933 Sports Icons and Christmas Church Programs Highlight Era
A collage of 1933 sporting stars like Jacobs Goodman Lovelock Van Wie and Dunlap is paired with a local notices page detailing Christmas church services across Warrenton area. It lists holiday sermons cantatas pageants and community programs at Episcopal Lutheran Methodist and Presbyterian churches with pastors and themes. The piece blends athletic milestones with seasonal observances, reflecting a bustling year-end snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Jacobs
Cecil Smith
Johnny Goodman
Jack Lovelock
Virginia van Wie
George Dunlap
Carl ‘Hubbell
Giants
Mar- Perry
Football Tops List With Most Gate Receipts
New York observers in 1933 note a surge in professional sports popularity and gate receipts, with pro football and pro teams growing, horse racing legalized, and the end of the Pennsylvania blue laws allowing Sabbath games. The Associated Press survey cites increased attendance, a shift toward open attitudes in college athletics, and a decline in prize fighting interest. The year’s top developments include bigger gate receipts for football, growth of pro sports, lower ticket prices, and changes in regulation and public sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Sunday Blue Jay
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Io College
Carnegie Foundation
Plumbing Service Ad Notices Repair Work Call 347 W. E. Rightmire
An advertisement announces plumbing service with repair work offered and a contact address at 347 West E. Rightmire. The brief item notes urgent home plumbing assistance and a phone contact for scheduling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Rightmire
Daily Cross-Word Puzzle Across and Down Clues Fragment
Mosaic of puzzle clues and garbled text lists across and down entries. Names like Minnesota Nevada and various incomplete phrases appear mixed with stray digits and misprints.
Codes Ahead of FDR for Approval in Major Recovery Drive
Washington December 23 The recovery administration conducted its largest code drive yet submitting nearly 50 codes for President Roosevelt approval. When added to previously approved codes the total would reach 225. Edison Electric Institute drafted a code proposing voluntary or obliged adherence for public and private power producers and a ten year plan for efficient resource use. Hearings on the code start January 1. Also reported were orders surrendering 19 Blue Eagles and 13 Cincinnati hand laundries after wage terms in the re employment pact were abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Edison Electric Institute
Cincinnati
Ohio
Johnson
Hugh
Stolen Goods Recovered Two Nabbed At Downtown Store
Two men implicated by police in a burglary at the Love Drug Store, 60 West Main Street, Thursday night. They allegedly forced entry by tearing away a boarded up entrance, with officers recovering stolen goods and detaining the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Demoss
T. C. Demoss
Beech Street
Howard “Bud” Shaw, Jr
Howard Fhaw
West Bluemont Street
Shaw
H. L. Potts
Love Drug Store
West Main Street
City Churches Plan Beautiful Xmas Services
Christmas spirit fills city churches with programs at Sunday and Christmas day services. United Brethren offers a morning program directed by Elizabeth Hoffman Opal Canfield and ward Cue with an evening cantata His Natal Day by Edward W. Norman performed by the church choir and Christian Endeavor under Mrs B F Poe. First Baptist features a Mildred Bartlett solo during the morning service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D. Wilkinson
Perod
Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church
Morry
Cedrick C. Reynolds
Children of the Starlight
United Brethren Church
Avenander
Elizabeth Hoffman
Opal Canfield
Wud Cue
Edward W. Norman
Christian Endeavor
B. F. Poe
First Baptist Church
Mildred Bartlett
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Circle Bar Ranch
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Cay
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