Winchester Evening Star Subscription and Advertising Rates
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices by carrier and mail with annual and short-term options. It also details classified and display advertising rates, memorials, and deadlines, noting national AP dispatch rights and office hours.
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Evening Star Publishing Co
Winchester
Virginia
Tenney, Woodward & Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Stay With the Lord Verse Echoes Faith Guide
A brief verse highlights divine presence and guidance. It urges remaining faithful to the Lord to find him, warning that turning away leads to forsaking. The quotation from 2 Chronicles 15 2 frames concern with spiritual fidelity and divine companionship.
Relief Bill Debate Prompts Call to Cut Spending
The piece argues for reducing next year's relief appropriation from about 4 billion to around 2 billion dollars. It notes WPA March expenditures near 200 million and forecasts a high total cost unless Congress lowers funding. Proposes a 1/2 to 1/2 billion cut to restore confidence and aid recovery while safeguarding the needy.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury
WPA
Hopkins
Tugwell
Congress of
United States
Ford Address At Washington and Jefferson College
Henry Ford told Washington and Jefferson College students that there are greater tasks ahead and progress is definite. After leading the college revival quadrille with Mr and Mrs Ford, he spoke to much of the stag line while questions flowed and the dance played on.
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Charlottesville
Henry Ford
Washington and Jefferson College
Ford
Ford's stance on work relief weighed by recovery views
The text argues Mr. Ford supports revival of commonplace truths and favors his view on labor. It notes his belief in efficiency and Darwinian survival as guiding economics, presenting his opinion as worthy of consideration while opposing work relief.
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Ford
Migrating swans take new rout to avoid Niagara
Staunton News-Leader reports large flocks of whistling swans and other waterfowl chose a northern route away from the Niagara crossing this spring. Many followed a Detroit region path, with several hundred birds dying after being swept over Horse Shoe Falls. Scientists seek to understand if birds shifted routes by instinct or influence from others.
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Niagara
Canadian
Detroit
Horseshoe Falls
Automotive industry defends high speeds amid road accident concerns
Leaders of the automotive industry argue that high speeds are not dangerous and push for proper laws and enforcement to regulate speed. They claim fixed limits would not reduce congestion or prevent accidents, while research shows speed contributes to most traffic incidents.
Applause and Laughter at White House Hearings
A Washington columnist discusses plans to designate someone to prepare audiences for presidential speeches after Baltimore audiences clapped and laughed at inappropriate moments. The Baltimore Sun defends audience reactions by noting passages meant to provoke applause or the “horse laugh.”
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Roanoke Times
Washington
White House
Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
Eat
Will Rogers Humorous Camp Tale About Wash
A city girl visiting a mountain camp complains about missing comforts like electricity and refrigeration. When asked where to wash she learns the host replies by pointing to the spring and she insists on the location rather than the season.
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Margaret
Apology Worsens View After Roosevelt Speech Critique
A Baltimore audience is framed more positively than Mr. Roosevelt in the White House. The speaker argues the apology fails to improve the nation’s view and, in context, makes the original offense look worse.
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Baltimore
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Young Democratic Club Leader Seeks Reelect Loudoun Commonwealth Attorney
One year ago John Galleher state president announced he would seek reelection as Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney. Lee Barr fire chief unveiled fire zones for festival days. Frederick County received 4741.52 dollars from the state for school purposes. D. J. Howard and W. R. Legge organized a Youth division for the festival parade. Miss Ethel Renner married Mr. W. W. Hawkins.
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John Galleher
Young Democratic Club
Commonwealth
Loudoun County
Lee Barr
Frederick County
D. J. Howard
W. R. Legge
Ethel Renner
W. W. Hawkins
Berkeley County Princess and Georgia Honor Report
Five years ago Miss Margaret Caskey from Berkeley county is named princess and Miss Patricia D Morton is chosen Queen Shenandoah. Dr Francis X Dercum attended President Wilson. Johnny Baker, foster son of Bill Cody, dies in Colorado. Miss Margaret Elrode of Forsyth, Georgia named princess by Governor Hardman in Georgia selection.
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Margaret Caskey
Berkeley County
Apera
Patricia D. Morton
Shenandoah
Francis X. Dercum
President Wilson
Johnny Baker
Bill Cody
Colorado
Margaret Elrode
Forsythe, Ga
Georgia
L. G. Hardman
Festival Dates Set by Director-General Ryan
Director-General W. A. Ryan announces May 4-5 as festival dates. Billy Stryker and Percy Miller recall the Rotary convention they attended at Durham North Carolina. Neill and Warden describe the Clarke county barns and the apple packing plant. Stockholders of the Union Bank name their directors. George N. Whitehead, an apple exporter, sails from New York City.
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W. A. Ryan
Billy Stryker
Percy Miller
Rotary
Durham
N. C
Neill
Warden
Clarke County
Union Bank
George
N. Whitehead
New York City
Virginia Senator Pushes Normal Training Into Schools
Senator R. M. Ward succeeds in adding normal training to Virginia high school curricula. Mrs. C. A. Williams travels to Toronto Canada. Mrs. Harry M. Baker visits relatives in Baltimore Md. Rev. C. D. Taylor to deliver first sermon as Market Street Methodist Episcopal church pastor this Sunday.
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R. M. Ward
Virginia
C. A. Williams
Toronto
Canada
Harry M. Baker
Baltimore
C. D. Taylor
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Shakespeare Born and Died Dates Mark Elusive Life
The article notes William Shakespeare born April 23, 1564 and died 1616, marking his birth and death as key biographical anchors for the famed playwright.
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Shakespeare
Good News For All Home Canners
A 48 page booklet offers over 100 tested canning and preserving recipes for fruits vegetables meats and chicken. It covers jellies jams marmalades fruit butters pickles bottled juices and salted vegetables. Berry season nears and new produce will enter markets. Order with ten cents to cover cost postage and handling.
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Winchester Evening Star
Reader Q and A: facts from The Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin offers readers answers to questions of fact via The Evening Star Information Bureau. Topics include tobacco brands over 250000, water gallons generated, Alec Templeton born blind and American, Mammoth Cave admission profits 77061.18, cotton road experiments in South Carolina, spring lambs born Jan-Feb, Edward VI as a prodigy, origin of Philip drunk to Philip Sober, and rayon production process.
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Evening Star Informaion Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Ashington
D. C
Alligator Rescued From Fort Myers Sewer After Week
In Fort Myers Florida a five foot alligator escaped a sewer prison after a week of inching 300 feet through pipes. G G Cook freed the reptile with a rope hauling it out via a drain. Afton Iowa Mrs Arthur Hammans rushed to safety as her house burned and supper was lost when her husband dragged her outside.
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Fort Myers
Fla
G. G. Cook
Cook
Afton
Iowa
Arthur Hammans
Blonde Frances Drake Stars in And Sudden Death
Hollywood star Frances Drake leads the motion picture And Sudden Death based on speeding and traffic accidents. She was arrested yesterday for speeding.
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Hollywood
Calif
Frances Drake
Burglary Target Hits City Officer’s Home
Oklahoma City patrolman Jack Silvey reported a burglary at his residence overnight. A police cap was stolen and investigators search for the intruder.
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Oklahoma City
Jack Silvey
Waukegan Fire Chief Responds to Basements Threat
Chief Adolph Francke ordered Mrs Mary E Wainwright to remove rubbish from her apartment basement two months ago. She allegedly threatened to shoot him. Neighbors later found her overcome by gas. a fireman revived her after more than an hour of artificial respiration.
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Waukegan, Jr
Adolph Francke
Mary E. Wainwright
Chief Francke
Sweden’s social model praised by visitor from United States
Swede Eric Bark recounts Sweden’s system with four quarts liquor monthly per person, Bratt system, private capital run distribution, pension for all at 65, state medicine and free healthcare, labor disputes settled by government as umpire, and universal education funded by alcohol profits.
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Washington, D. C
Eric Bark
United States
Sweden
Pension Office
Mer
Hoover era politics linger in Republican convention talk
The piece argues Hoover will be sidelined at the Cleveland convention as Republicans insist his 1928 line still defines them. It notes bankers trials in Detroit, Roosevelt administration actions, and concerns about anti New Deal groups. It warns Congress may widen corrupt practices law over large donations to front groups.
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Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Detroit
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Congress
Senate
duPonts
Southern Committee To
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Farmers’ Independence Council
Farmers
Wall Street
Crusaders
United States
Mussolini
Nasi Hiller
Oldest Living Organism Found in Mexican Cypress
A 604 ton ancient cypress in Santa Maria del Avle Mexico is dated 5000 to 10000 years old and considered the oldest living organism on Earth. In Germany clay money pottery coins circulated after the war. Colonial era pencils used graphite holders with tweezer clasps.
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Santa Maria del Avle
Mexico
Germany
Camden Ruby Murder unfolds in a mansion at midnight
Collector Don Van Every hosts Gary Maughan and Margalo Younger at his home to view a famed Camden ruby. After Margalo wears the ruby, she is found dead and police arrive as Narro explains his hurried arrival and the discovery of a needle-like implement in the victim’s brain.
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Don van Every
Gary Maughan
Margalo Younger
Camden
van Every
Margalo
Maughan
Narro
Seon
Dr. Narro
Keyes
The Camden ruby and Margalo’s mysterious death
The narrator recalls Margalo’s death and the Camden ruby while Van Every fears the stone’s power. He notes Joyce as a young woman, reviews the house’s two rooms, and contemplates calling Narro for a report while fearing sensational newspaper coverage.
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