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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1940
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates and subscription prices. Display ads with borders due by 9 PM prior to publication. rates 45 cents per inch. Classifieds limit 25 cent minimum. cash with copy. Subscriptions: one year $3.50, six months $1.78, three months 40 cents. monthly and weekly rates shown. National ad reps noted in New York and other cities.
A 1940 newspaper item presents the biblical verse Romans 12:20 about feeding and giving drink to an enemy, noting the Saturday April 6 date. The quotation emphasizes turning foe toward kindness to heap coals of fire on his head.
Virginians applaud the Roosevelt selection of Frank S. Tavenner Jr of Woodstock to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. He served as assistant district attorney since 1933 and has a seven year record of accomplishment and public service.
Philadelphia schools are told to halt new geography materials until hostilities end. The city cites continual shifting borders from Mussolini to Stalin and new territorial changes as reason to pause updating maps and country books.
The Department of Agriculture projects 300000 bushels of wheat in storage by July 1 as new crop hits harvest. Despite surplus, exporting faces cross pressures from Europe’s war rationing and a wary Treasury. Hull trade accords trigger protests from farmers and manufacturers seeking markets without inflating imports. Gold flows and anti hoarding laws add to the tension.
The New York Times notes Wisconsin produced a striking result for Dewey with broad Republican delegation support. It also discusses Garner and Roosevelt dynamics, noting Republicans may have aided or opposed Roosevelt in the Democratic primary, affecting the vote's interpretation.
Robert E. B. Lee, a famed general, urged total abstinence from all alcoholic drinks. He advised a temperance stance to his students and wrote to a son in the army urging avoidance of whiskey and immorality. He refused to promote officers who drank too freely, saying one must control himself before guiding others.
A Raleigh sighting reports a man with a long black beard dropping nickels in parking meters to spare drivers tickets. The tale notes the unknown donor refused to identify himself, prompting laughter and belief it was Santa Claus in disguise.
In Berryville an ordinance to ban hogs within town limits is under consideration. Mrs. B F Arthur is re elected president of the Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club.
Five years ago Mrs A C Halvyosa sang two solos at the Shenandoah district Cooperative Education Association convention in Stephens City. Walker Bond and John Scully Jr were elected delegates to represent the local Red Cross chapter at the National convention in Washington. VPI plans to send a cadet band to escort the queen at the festival with the Southern Colonels orchestra to play two dances.
Ten years ago a new fifty thousand dollar bridge and approach across Cedar Creek on U S route 11 south of Middletown opened. The Medical Society of Northern Virginia met in annual session here. At a special meeting Sarah Zane firemen voted to buy new uniforms aiming for festival time.
Twenty five years ago reports froze wheat fields as cold weather persisted for 33 consecutive mornings. Farmers fear a ruined crop while Mrs. E. B. Smoke is injured in a car accident en route to White Hall. Thomas A. Edison announces a new benzine plant in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Two British ships are sunk off the coast by German submarines. undersea warfare continues despite Allied control measures.
Forty years ago Miss Edith Massie and Mr William F Pannett of Welltown were married. Attending were John P Hyde W H Taylor G W Kurtz W T Hotts and James Haymaker as Turner Ashby Camp delegates to the Confederate Veterans Reunion at Louisville between May 30 and June 6.
A list of ten trivia prompts covers pronunciation, wheel dynamics in curves, star motion, wheel center, World War nickname for ANZAC soldiers, Chuck Fenske and Gene Venzke sports, mountain lion hunting dog breed, syphilis cure discoverer, Biblical king Jehoshaphat, and two riders who warned the Lexington Minute Men.
A language guidance note highlights how to use at home correctly instead of the phrase Is John home. It stresses avoiding informal wording and stresses proper placement of the preposition in questions and statements.
Dr Logan Clendening discusses geriatrics, its status as a field, and key factors in aging. He notes heredity, organ changes, and diminished reflexes. symptoms vary with age, and treatments pose risks while surgery can be better tolerated. He highlights diverticula, skin atrophy, infections, and cautious drug use in elderly care.
An article outlines epilepsy as a functional brain disorder with increased motor cortex excitability. It notes available lightening measures including sedatives and a ketogenic diet, stresses physician guidance, and mentions pamphlets by Dr. Clendening offered for 19 cents each via mail order.
A note claims Scotts Scrap Book by R J Scott Plumkins can be made to grow five times as fast as normal. No further details or sources are provided.
In chapter twenty eight Dr Burcham explains Tony Pappini vanished after a drug addiction episode. Louise and Bill search Tony's room for clues while a masked figure flees by boat. A note warns the kidnapper still pursues them as they uncover a pocket seam marked 732.
Good manners consist in saying nothing unless you have something pleasant to say. Bad manners consist in saying nothing when you have something pleasant to say. Nor is it courteous to call attention with a jolly superior laugh to a man’s scarred lip or a woman’s Southern accent.
Reader questions cover odds of a 13 card single suit hand, state symbols on flags, Cannonism, peanut salting, Middle West scope, electric lights in Capitol and White House, hearts of palm, Mann Act origin, SOS antecedent, standard time adoption, police cost for Queen Elizabeth guard, Lanier grave inscription, Nobel Prize awarding bodies and governance.
Public notice promotes the Home Law Book offering 48 pages of essential legal information. It covers business property family copyrights patents trade-marks and citizenship with state marriage and divorce requirements. Order form requests ten cents to be mailed to Washington DC.
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