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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
4
Winchester star lists subscription rates for mail and carrier delivery with various terms and prices in advance. The notice outlines annual and shorter plans, reflecting a historical pricing structure for readers in Winchester Virginia.
A biblical note urges doing good seeking justice aiding the oppressed judging the fatherless and pleading for the widow as guiding ethics. The verse from Isaiah 1 17 appears as a call to social responsibility and mercy.
John Garland Pollard dies at an advanced age. A lawyer and educator, he began public service in 1902 at Virginia’s constitutional convention and later served as attorney general from 1913. He was a Federal Trade Commissioner, William and Mary professor, Virginia governor 1930–34, and chaired the Board of Veterans Appeals before his death.
John Garland Pollard dedicated sixty six years to his state and country, never wavering from courageous duty. He embodied patriotic devotion and held the highest qualities of public service, inspiring with unflinching commitment and noble conduct.
The eleventh day of Spanish Civil War bombardment roils Madrid as fascist artillery shells pound the business district. officials warn massed shells could ruin the city, with total deaths under 200 and hundreds wounded, as propaganda circulates gruesome images from Catalonia.
The item surveys exclamations like um hum and uh huh in early American usage and notes its possible origins, humor about pig talk, and a aside about brain disease from raw milk with brief newspaper quips from the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch.
A compilation of reader questions answered by the information service covering topics from riderless horses in the Grand National to box office returns for William S Hart films. Also includes notes on dry states, red rice in Arkansas, the Battle of Leipzig, Carnegie biography, Arlington Cemetery size, kid goats, cottonseed oil origins, harness bull slang, edible crow, calendar changes, LeBrun Scholarship, soilless farming, rope care, and English address etiquette.
The article notes apple buds bursting as the festival begins and mentions Roosevelt pleased with primary returns in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. It also lists various local notes including a coronation pageant at Handley and a princess from St. Hilda's Hall in Charles Town.
Twenty years in Sing Sing, a massive three reel feature, now playing at the Empire Theatre. William Payne, Sr. suffers serious farm injury near Ridgeway West Virginia. Henry Baetjer, longtime valley merchant, struck by paralysis. Gray William addresses Century Club on The American Newspaper and Whence it Came.
Forty years ago the Wheat Drug Store advertises a fresh shipment of Teddy and Drum cigarettes. Master Fred Athey is knocked off his wheel when he runs into a horse on Market street. Historic Event April 29 1905 Czar decrees religious freedom.
Harold I. Baumes, director of personnel training for the League of Virginia Municipalities, asks to borrow the front page cartoon and the newspaper mat from the April 24 Star to use in announcing a proposed state-wide police recruits school at the University of Richmond beginning June 21 for two weeks.
Washington reports a political skirmish over appointing the FCC secretary, with Jim Farley backed Berger facing White House intervention via Jimmy Roosevelt. The episode underscores power plays in a lucrative post as Iowa’s delegation leans toward the president’s Supreme Court plan.
In this installment, Jacqueline rebukes Jim as they debate a lawful marriage plan tied to her inheritance. She exposes the rotten money climate behind her uplifted life and demands genuine stability, while Jim proposes marriage as a cure, but she seeks a real home and independence instead.
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