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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1934
Page
4
The page lists classified ad rates including 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum, memorials at 1.50 for four stanzas, and 75 cents for cards of thanks. Display ads must arrive by 10 AM. transient rate is 42 cents per inch. national reps include Devine Tenney Corp. The page also cites Proverbs 22 1 about a good name.
AABA report says crime connects with politics via police in large cities and DA offices in major cases. It notes political influence outweighs money in policing and cites public sentiment rising against crime, with Congress and churches backing tougher enforcement.
Norman Davis, former American ambassador, returns home for summer and says major conflict is unlikely for now. He notes widespread domestic ill will toward governments and rival groups rather than interstate hostility, with cross border enmity aimed at factions rather than nations.
A historical note states that last year the government absorbed nearly 33 percent of the national income. It also defines a Cossack post as an outpost of four men and identifies Hendrik Willem van Loon as the author of The Story of Mankind.
The text argues that economic distress, not political or racial factors, shapes public sentiment. Governments, aware that their people oppose war and may revolt if it begins, are cautious and back off from real decisions to avoid triggering conflict.
Roanoke Times notes Virginia remains without primary contests as the Democratic delegation led by Senator Byrd faces no renominations. State party leaders wrangled over whether to contest seats, ultimately deferring to the executive committee. Byrd faces opposition mainly in editorial circles, but remains firmly in control as the star and Herald-Courier show little impact on his renomination prospects.
An American in a UK Chancery suit claims belief in King John’s buried treasure, spending about £20,000 in months of pursuit. The piece wryly notes the romantic dream, seven centuries after the legend, and questions the relevance of King John to contemporary law and fortune.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour total ending 8 a.m. at 0.87 inches. August to date 1.42 inches and year to date 19.46 inches. 21 year average annual 34.71 inches with monthly averages listed from January to December.
A two film lineup includes Thirty Day Princess a Sylvia Sidney Cary Grant led comedy about an American woman posing as a European princess to win a bank loan and Most Precious Thing In Life a Travis Ingham McCall story with Jean Arthur Donald Cook and Richard Cromwell. Also Betty Boop Life Guard and MGM Murder in the Private Car starring Charlie Ruggles and Mary Carlisle.
The Colonial presents a Tom McCoy Shirley Grey double feature with Beyond the Law and She Made Her Bed. Tim McCoy stars as a railroad detective in a desert canyon robbery thriller while Shirley Grey supports. Also shown is chapter six of Vanishing Shadow.
Jean Parker and Tom Brown headline the Palace today in Two Alone a romance of youth enduring hardship. Zasu Pitts and Arthur Byron also appear. Also shown is Fighting With Kit Karson, a Mickey Mouse cartoon followed by Ken Maynard in Fargo Express with Tarzan. Performances at 3, 8 and 10 p.m. plus daytime screenings.
By virtue of execution I will sell a 1934 Chevrolet coupe Virginia license 24301 on Rouss avenue in Winchester on Saturday August 11 at 12 oclock. Terms cash. Lee Barr Sergeant Winchester Virginia.
The reader provides a mix of trivia questions and statements. It identifies Greenland as the largest island, places Aland between Sweden and Finland in the Gulf of Bothnia, and notes Kamchatka as a peninsula in Iberia. It also includes language notes and a dated quotation about time and regularity.
Drew faces heartbreak as Joan ends their engagement after learning his past. Nancy, unsettled in Paris, grows closer to Alan Vincent while Giles Armiger schemes and Drew contemplates a future away from happiness. Nancy and Vincent reconnect, hinting at renewed possibilities.
The Johnsons describe a 70 member lake tribe on Lake Rudolph straddling Kenya and Abyssinia. They say the people, ignorant of other humans, live with figs and few children, are extremely thin with enlarged joints, and may die out within years after the expedition.
Col William Jackson Armstrong of Columbus Ohio surveyed global leaders under Grant era as foreign consulates inspector and concluded in his book The Greatest Living Man that Thomas Alva Edison, a Milan born dullard in school, is the world’s greatest living man.
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