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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1935
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star is mailed at the Winchester Virginia post office as second class matter, indicating its mailing status.
The notice outlines mail subscription pricing: one year 3.50, six months 1.75, three months 0.90, one month 0.30. Carrier subscriptions: one year 4.50, six months 2.25, three months 1.20, one month 0.40. The final line appears garbled.
Devine Tenney Corp names national advertising representatives across New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta in a concise listing of agencies and coverage.
A devotional line quotes 1 John 4 7 urging believers to love one another as love comes from God and those who love know God.
Ethiopia rejects any mandate under League of Nations proposals to settle its dispute with Italy. Premier Laval Eden and Litvinoff are reported to craft peace moves but Addis Ababa says no foreign domination can replace independence. Ethiopians rally around liberty and courage, echoing Hugo on liberty as civilization’s sun.
John F. Rolfe of the Hartford Times argues that a community paper must sell ads to the same merchants repeatedly to survive. He claims advertising lowers living costs, supports local markets, steadies prices, and serves as a responsive trade instrument for residents.
Reads indicate weekend advertising yields are verified promptly and repeat business depends on payment. If not paid, another medium will be substituted, ensuring continued coverage.
A Dun and Bradstreet Review survey shows fewer business failures in the first half of 1935 than any period since 1921, with the second quarter lower than the first. The South reports the best June figures with 141 failures across sixteen states, far below national totals, signaling faster recovery despite the New Deal.
Gray Silver, a Virginia native long active in West Virginia politics and agriculture, died at his Martinsburg home after a short illness. Former head of a Chicago based $26 million firm, he later focused on farming and supporting legislation for the masses. He was known in Washington circles for backing policies aiding common people and was once mentioned as a possible governor or U S Senator. Peace to his ashes.
Cecil B DeMille complains that history teaching is sugar coated and pre digested He argues readers including children lack knowledge beyond legends and fiction He says schools distort history and mislead on international peace topics
The public slowly discovers history via historical novels and half fiction about figures, which narrows the view to individuals but invites readers to correct and expand the broader stream of people, events, and trends shaping a period. The study grows deeper as readers proceed.
Standard Oil of Ohio plans an August payroll of 110000 silver dollars to be delivered with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The coins weigh 7877 pounds and, if stacked, would reach 750 feet high. The move aims to observe money flow in industrial payrolls and stores will report receipts.
Reports indicate Austria intensifies removal of Nazi elements amid postwar stabilization. In other news, the Winchester Lions Club sponsors a local club in Front Royal and the Opequon district hosts a Sunday School convention at Reliance. Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes German president. Tri State gang member Arthur Misunas recounts details of a Richmond murder.
Five years ago July reports record ninety seven prisoners in local jail. Apple crop estimated at one million barrels for the county. R-100 dirigible crosses the Atlantic heading to Montreal. Virginia Glass Sand Corporation to begin Gore operations at once. Fire destroys Mount Hebron Cemetery from lumber sheds cracking old tombstones and elms and boxwood.
In Cumberland Maryland a ceremony reports Miss Anna Julia Conner becs the bride of James C Collins. The town pauses business to pay tribute to the late Judge A H Boyd. David Abner Peters the four year old son of Mr and Mrs William Peters dies from severe scalding. Virginia collects over 6 million in gas taxes in two years. Winchester Lodge of Elks celebrates payoff of a $2000 note.
Dr. George Murray Stuart prominent Pittsburgh physician found slain in his apartments. Summit Point West Virginia post office robbed. Ex Governor Claude A Swan son named United States Senator to replace the late Senator J W Daniel. Cooper Brothers build a new electric elevator claimed largest in the state. Franklin County gains 26582 36 more from state funds than it remits.
A string of light items: a marriage in Pennsylvania with a clergyman officiating, a dog detained at a Philadelphia station, a New York campaign for tighter divorce penalties, a Portland misregistered birth record, and Topeka chatter on Gov. Landon and a Detroit Tigers fan urging an outlaw of the soft ball game.
A whistler swan in Calgary is recovering at the Inglewood bird sanctuary after being wounded by a hunter. The bird's wing injury is being treated as wildlife officials monitor its recovery.
Washington observer Charles P. Stewart argues Congress should stay in session through summer. He notes heat and humidity in the capital but says lawmakers work in air conditioned chambers and complain less than the public. He questions the need for an early adjournment.
A New York report outlines a heated congressional conference split over a White House backed utilities bill. Wheeler and Huddleston clash over expert attendance as factions drift toward administration influence and opposing stances on foreign trade policy and steel industry impacts.
The text discusses conscience as the mental faculty for distinguishing right from wrong and notes that many authorities see moral judgments as referencing moral laws. It warns that conscience must be kept active to avoid atrophy. It then reviews estimates of Earth's crust thickness from ten to over fifty miles based on earthquake motion and radioactive rock studies.
A brief note traces the expression to a biblical phrase found in Job and popularized in medieval and early modern translations. It explains that the words describe a narrow margin rather than literal skin or teeth.
Literal translation notes a phrase meaning escaping by the narrowest margin. The patriarch says my bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Contextualizes the single biblical occurrence in Job 19 20.
The report notes the first talking picture was presented in August 1926 at a New York venue. It also lists U.S. egg production estimates and past 24 hour precipitation data, including year to date totals and long term rainfall averages from Winchester Laboratory records.
Blair Rodman drives through a storm to a remote western Canadian town and enters the eerie Boisevain mansion after a hostile dog guarding the place. A homely but silent Miss Morelle Boisevain, rumored to be old Simeon Boisevain’s granddaughter, dominates the household with an offhand refusal to admit visitors. The town grocer and a carrier describe a guarded, secretive residency with a rich, secluded legacy and untold danger. Blair, warned and unsettled, plans to leave for Vancouver then Mexico, after narrowly surviving the encounter.
Discussion of possible locations after Washington DC as federal seat, including Shooters Hill in Alexandria Virginia now home to the Masonic Memorial and Teukina as contemplated sites. Collier's Weekly notes Civilizations and pacific peoples as historical context.
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