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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star Publishing Co. in Winchester Virginia lists post office second class mail rates. Prices cover yearly, half year, quarter and monthly subscriptions by mail and by carrier with weekly options.
Advertisement pricing and deadlines outline charges for ads including memoriams cards of thanks and display ads. Details include 2 cents per word, minimum 25 cents, 150 per 4 stanzas memorials, 75 cents for cards of thanks, 42 cents per inch for transient ads, and 10 A.M. day-of-publication deadline in this office.
A church sermon cites Isaiah 55 6 7 urging seekers to call upon the Lord while he is near. The message stresses repentance for the wicked and a return to God through mercy and abundant pardon.
Report notes ongoing push to cancel the 1936 Berlin Games amid Nazi persecution. IOC president Latour remains confident the event will proceed next summer, with 325 acres cleared and 600000 tickets sold. The games mark the 11th since 1896 with past U S host cities St. Louis and Los Angeles.
A tailless low stall risk plane with rear propeller completed a 2655 mile Pacific to Washington flight in 31 hours from Santa Monica. It uses a 4 cylinder 95 hp engine, delivers 80 mph, 13 mpg, and is projected for under $1000. Officials expect mass production and wide use by business travelers.
The Richmond News Leader notes Mussolini is too committed to back down and argues Ethiopians must force a costly stalemate. It suggests the Negus should avoid large battles and retreat to mountains to prolong resistance, hoping natives adopt costly guerrilla warfare.
The article argues Mussolini may push ahead while signals suggest a possible Austria Germany understanding after Dollfuss. Observers think Italy aims to secure Ethiopia while seeking a compromise with Germany to dominate Austria. Mussolini sees Ethiopia as a prize worth the risk, expanding Roman power.
A writer ponders women's dependability after a Summer Championship bridge event at Asbury Park where a betting syndicate declined a women’s bet. The piece questions if women champions in tennis golf or swimming sustain titles like men and notes Culbertson and Sims quarreling with wives over strategy.
The piece argues for minting one mill and half-cent coins to ease sales taxes on small purchases. It notes West Virginia taxes reach high effective rates on tiny buys, proposing two mills would lower costs to about three percent of a six-cent item. A legal change would be needed to allow smaller coins and tax adjustments.
A humorous feature imagines Antarctic vacations for tourists as explorers answer the South Pole call. It notes summer heat in temperate zones, travel by beat plane and train, and speculates about air conditioning Antarctica for comfortable trips in the future.
The article notes small colored reflectors along curbs or pavement edges to outline roads for approaching drivers. It argues reflectors help gauge distance to the right, especially in fog, while criticizing glare from headlamps and urging dimming and mutual courtesy to reduce eye strain and collisions.
The state auditor commends C. C. Brannon for tidy accounting records. More than 200 Charley Rouss Fire Company members will attend the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's convention in Waynesboro Pennsylvania.
President Hoover halts his planned western journey due to severe growth affecting the nation. Old Kent Street Presbyterian Church suffers fire damage as investigations begin. The State convention of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America meets in the area while city books are audited and Argentina lifts limits on apple containers.
Ten years ago Cora Vaughan of Franklin is chosen as president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Other items note Colonial Brick Company plans to produce 60 000 face bricks daily soon and Morgan County W Vaman shot dead by officers after refusing to halt. Doris Kenyon stars in If I Marry Again at the Empire Theatre. Engagement announced for Marian Grace Barr and Leonard Wilson Leech of Washington DC.
Twenty five years ago thirty eight locals boarded an excursion to Atlantic City. John A Johnston, Mary Johnston’s brother, married Laura B Bishop widow of an Atlanta contractor. A Norfolk and Western depot at Berryville was completed. Staunton suffered a large cave in swallowing houses alarmed the city. The 80th Virginia Synod meeting was held at Shepherdstown West Virginia.
President Roosevelt signed the Spanish-American war veterans pension bill, restoring pensions for Spanish American War Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection veterans and dependents at an estimated $45.6 million yearly, benefiting about 50,000 people with widows gaining roughly $6,000. The act closes a long pension gap while noting World War veterans' separate benefits system.
A man named Richard Adams was held up at gunpoint by three men in an automobile in New York. He slipped 60 cents into his shoe when his money vanished from his pockets, and the robbers threw him out when they found nothing. The incident is reported as not a gag.
In Clifton Forge at the Virginia State Firemen Association convention, attendance surpassed 300 with delegations from a dozen Virginia cities. Officials expect numbers to rise further as the crowd is projected to double within 24 hours. Wythe district company appears favored for the trophy awarded to the first entrant.
At an executive committee meeting President Frank H. Wheeler was authorized to appoint a sub committee to determine what action should be taken regarding court action on the firemen relief bill.
Bamboo described as a valuable gift to uncivilized man is cited as the fastest growing higher plant. A Ceylon species, dendrocalamus giganteus, reportedly grows about one inch every 90 minutes, per H. Wetmore of Tacoma Washington in Collier's Weekly.
Article recalls Charles P. Stewart's reminiscences of the Ford peace voyage's 20th anniversary. It describes the correspondents faction forming the Vacillating Sons and Sisters of St. Vitus aboard the ship, clashing with peacers, and staging humorous rituals led by Theopholis D. Montgomery. A New York column reviews Henry George's Progress and Poverty arguing taxation on land values could benefit all, with no harm to production or wages.
A fragment from a school days section presents questions and answers. It notes a flight of steps as a person, the Gutenberg Bible copied in Mainz as the first movable type book, sold in 1926 to Dr. A W Rosenback of New York, and the parcel post service starting January 1, 1913.
The report lists precip per past 24 hours ending 8 a.m. and monthly figures from February to August. Year to date total is 21.59 inches with an average 22 year record of 1.94 inches in February through 3.60 inches in June and 3.35 inches in August.
Janet Lord answers a newspaper ad and stays at Miss Boisevain’s ominous estate with a talking dog Rajah and a hidden girl in the tower. Janet seeks escape as the house’s secrets unfold and Nita warns of danger in a stormy night sequence.
Countess Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow and her husband escaped injury when their car collided with another en route from Hardenberg toward the ferry to Paris. The couple had planned to go from Denmark to London then Paris but will now proceed to Paris first to meet the heirs of the late Prince Alexis Mdivani to discuss the division of his real estate.
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