Winchester classified ad rates and policies
The Winchester Evening Star outlines advertising charges and submission rules. Classifieds 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum. display ads 45 cents per line with border. cash with copy. deadlines 9 PM prior day. national reps listed in major cities.
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Tenney- Woodward and Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Opsas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Subscription Rates And Motto On The Page
The note lists subscription rates by mail and carrier for one year six months three months and one month. A verse reads We serve either God or evil and the people answer God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods from Joshua 24 16.
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Josh
Senate approves emergency relief for WPA funds
Yesterday the Senate passed an emergency bill boosting WPA funding by 100 million for the current fiscal year ending June 30. Roosevelt’s request for 150 million was rejected 49 to 28. Total relief outlay this year reaches 2.163 billion, the highest since the Depression began, with 10 million unemployed. The piece questions spending as a path to prosperity and echoes the old economic creed of thrift and private enterprise.
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Senate
White House
WPA
Roosevelt
America
Goldfish-eating craze warned by public health experts
Public health researchers in Boston warn that swallowing live goldfish risks fish tapeworms and serious internal ailments. The advisory targets college students and animal rescue groups amid reports of extreme live-fish contests and a record of 67 fish consumed in one session.
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Public Health Service
Boston
Opening of Baseball Season as Spring Elixir
The article argues that the season's start lifts public mood and sharpens thinking. It calls baseball the universal outdoor game essential to American life, easing worries over unemployment, business, love, prices, and politics as spring arrives.
Senator Wiley Pushes Tax Deduction for Each Dependent Child
The Wisconsin Republican urges Congress to allow a $400 tax deduction for each child 21 or younger. The current rule ends at 18, even if the child is a student. He argues dependency extends past 18 and emphasizes college costs and delayed independence.
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Senator Wiley
Wisconsin
Congress
Wiley
Emigration Then and Now Shapes U S Population
The article argues immigration is less critical than emigration. It notes 5,487,000 left the United States and 4,260,000 entered in eight years, with a net loss of 227,000 since 1931. It emphasizes more people are leaving than coming in for the first time.
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America
United States
Answers to Questions By Frederic J. Haskin
A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington DC. Enclose three cents for reply.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
What is an irrigation district and other quick facts
A quiz style list explains irrigation districts as public corporations under state law with power to issue bonds for irrigation works. It includes figures on editors and authors, Florida state song, Celotex from sugarcane, quetzal details, New York community forests, White House dining room seating, Candlewood Lake size, mahogany color, American Student Union aims, shorthand champion, bill counting at Treasury, tallest person, Mammoth Cave river depth, Lutheran membership, Hitler observatory, Custer burial, and acoustics rankings of major concert halls.
Continue the Fight Any Way
Columbia State reports in Charleston that President Roosevelt said none of the proposed freight rate changes can rescue the South from poverty. The piece notes freight rates influence the South’s industrial status and argues for continued freight rate reform despite its limits.
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Charleston
Roosevelt
South
And How! Great Onion Shortage Hits Germany
The Norflok Ledger Dispatch notes a sharp onion shortage in Germany. It laments the country’s inability to avoid a lingering bad odor amid the scarcity.
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Norflok Ledger-Dispatch
Germany
The Winchester Star Offers Budget Booklet
The Winchester Star promotes a Household Budget Booklet a practical guide with budgets charts and accounting pages. It invites readers to mail ten cents with a coupon to receive a copy in 1939 and lists submission details.
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Winchester Star
Harris elected secretary of Medical Society of Northern Virginia
Dr. J. E. Harris is elected to a 13th consecutive term as secretary of the Medical Society of Northern Virginia. Admiral L M Nulton, retired, speaks at the Handley F F A Father and Son banquet on small farm issues. Mr and Mrs Trone Sprint welcomed a daughter Sunday at Memorial Hospital.
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J. E. Harris
Medical Society of Northern Virginia
Handley F. F. A
L. M. Nulton
Trone Sprint
Memorial Hospital
Movement to oust Virginia tax collector at Charlottesville
Five years ago a drive to remove Republican J A Garber from the Va collector post began at Charlottesville during the city Democratic convention. Frank Gearing announces plans for a banquet by a bowling league that just finished a successful season.
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J. A. Garber
Internal Revenue
Charlottesville
Frank Gearing
Bowling League
Largest school children's parade set for spring fete
Hugh Duffey says the festival parade will likely be the largest in the event history. Rev. E. T. Clark leads the Lions Club Ladies Night. Mrs. J. C. Van Fossen lies critically ill at Memorial Hospital with little hope for recovery.
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Hugh Duffey
E. T. Clark
Lions Club
J. C. van Fossen
Memorial Hospital
Large hotel planned on Piccadilly Street in Winchester
Mrs Octavis L Jack announces work will begin soon on a new large hotel to be built beside the Shenandoah Valley National Bank on Piccadilly Street in Winchester. Easter parade fears rise as weatherman predicts rain. David S Glaize 72 dies at home after a long illness. longtime county official and businessman.
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Octavis L. Jack
Piccadilly Street
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Winchester
David S. Glaize
Friendship Fire Co Plans All Day Mount Vernon Outing
Fortyy years ago members decide to hold an all day outing to Mount Vernon near Washington with a uniformed band. Rev Dr S L Cox is reappointed pastor of Braddock Street M E Church by the Baltimore Conference. The marriage of Miss Emily Ridgeway Funston of Alexandria and Robert Marion Ward a Winchester attorney is performed in Washington.
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Friendship Fire Co
Mount Vernon
Washington
S. L. Cox
Baltimore
Braddock Street
M. E
Emily Ridgeway Funston
Alexandria
Robert Marion Ward
Winchester
How to Win an Angry Donor by Talking From His View
A hospital fund appeal shows Terence K. Clancy converting a furious prospect, Morton, into a donor by approaching him from his point of view. Clancy’s door approach, polite apology, and shift to concrete hospital needs led Morton to contribute 1200 dollars and invite a return visit.
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Terence K. Clancy
East 42Nd Street
New York
Mr. Morton
Clancy
Morton
Mr. Clancy
McNaught
Convict's Daughter Starts Over With New Job And Friend
Lona Ackerman, daughter of a life-term murder convict, lands a job at Western Realties and grows close to Jim Claridge. She enjoys a fresh rod of independence, buys a cheap hat, and keeps secrets to protect him while memories of hardship linger. A Sunday lake trip hints at new beginnings.
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Lona Ackerman
Jim Claridge
Claridge
Jim
Lona
Western Realties
Hardy
Sanders
Miss Ackerman
Tiny
Daddy
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