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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1941
Page
4
The text states that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republish all AP dispatches and local news printed here. It notes rights for credited and non credited material and reserves local publishing rights.
Vague quotation framed as an exhortation about making life meaningful. Lays emphasis on turning a life story into value through thoughtful living. No concrete persons, places, or events are identified.
The piece argues against labeling America as senile and urges ongoing growth through science and technology. It likens mental-intellectual frontier expansion to lifelong development, citing Edison as an example, and insists character and imagination will drive tomorrow’s opportunities and jobs.
The piece notes that despite taxes seeming aimed at the wealthy, the lower five sixths still face numerous levies. It lists duties on gasoline and fuels, alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco, papers, cosmetics, conveyances, telecommunication, firearms, and safe deposits, highlighting broad tax reach across everyday goods.
The discussion centers on extending and raising temporary taxes, introducing new excises on goods from sporting items to transportation and entertainment, and shifting the burden toward lower income groups. The World Telegram argues for replacing sales taxes with broader income taxation to ease the lower five sixths.
New York Journal of Commerce reports Roosevelt proposed including control over instalment credit terms among powers for the Federal price regulation agency. He cites 50 percent cash down and balance in a year, but critics warn such federal control could set a lasting precedent and disrupt established credit practices during a defense emergency.
A Brooklyn dairy farmer was fined for letting cows graze in a street in an outlying section of the borough. The note hints at grass in city streets as a growing urban oddity, contrasting New Yorker jokes about fur trapping with rural grazing.
The Red Cross chapter in Winchester and Frederick counties dispatched its eighth load of war relief clothing as part of ongoing WW II aid efforts.
Ten years ago Glaize and Bros. posted a $200 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone believed to set fire to their lumber yard destroying about $100,000 worth of wood. Dr. L. M. Allens Ostend heads the Berryville working hunter class. Randolph Shields wins the 12th Western Maryland tennis tournament.
Twenty five years ago the Beatty family gathered for a reunion at Woodman’s park near Middletown with more than 100 attendees. President Wilson urged railroad workers to avert a nationwide strike that could halt the country. Rumor says Mary Pickford may earn 1.5 million dollars for film work over the next two years.
Forty years ago the plans by Washington architect C B Kerferstein are approved for Winchester's hospital construction. The council repeals a cyclist lighting horn rule but riding on sidewalks remains illegal. George Ginn bitten by moccasin near Relief home and ingests poison with an onion.
Vice Premier Jean Darlan, now minister of national defense, tells France’s land sea and air forces he will lead them per Petain’s road. Newspapers in Nazi occupied Paris note Darlan’s expanded power over colonial commanders and his aim to unite defense under one authority. He calls for loyalty, study of defeats, and discipline toward a national revolution.
A set of seven questions tests readers on vocabulary biology geography and history. Topics include bivouac meanings prairie dogs constitutional signers presidents pate de foie gras fountain of the nose and the Iron Duke. The list ends with a question about Jo Davidson Greenland versus Iceland and General Israel Putnam’s war.
A note on usage shows shall in direct statements marks determination by the speaker. Examples like They shall not pass illustrate how shall conveys firm resolve in 19th and early 20th century prose.
Q and A excerpts cover the Nine Worthies Hector Alexander the Great Julius Caesar Joshua David Judas Maccabeus King Arthur Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon. It notes presidential middle names, Philadelphia mint, horse shoe manufacture, yo yo origin, Venus de Milo discovery, Patrick Henry’s legal study, tea invitations, and Baltimore maternity wards fullness.
Hugh S. Johnson writes from Waterloo Iowa about the fear of centralization squeezing small local businesses. He argues that the little factories are a key bulwark against power consolidation and highlights material and transport constraints that threaten these firms and employment.
The author discusses Waterloo as an ideal or goal for American development. It combines industry with a rich agricultural base, offering off season work for diverse groups and buffering regional economic downturns. It preserves local self government and economic independence, reducing reliance on distant powers.
The speaker highlights preserving strong local centers like Waterloo and celebrates Bath Packing Companys 50th anniversary. He argues bulk processing near production supports Iowa and Waterloo, views small manufacturers and distributors as vital to the communitys strength and future. He reiterates a guiding point about regional industry.
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The piece warns that without oversight, local communities face eroding self rule as vast defense spending pushes power upward. It argues for safeguards to preserve municipal governance, funding decisions, and accountability amid growing centralized control.
A special Senate committee reported the Army’s one billion dollar housing program was unnecessarily expensive mainly due to cost plus fixed fee contracts and poor advance planning. It found no evidence of officials’ dishonesty and noted housing for 1,216,459 men was completed rapidly with better facilities than in the last war.
Lord Beaverbrook British Supply Minister lands in Washington to discuss war supply issues. He attended the sea meeting with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and is escorted to the British Embassy with General George C. Marshall.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Willis R. Peck of California, currently counselor at the American embassy in Peiping, China, to be minister to Thailand.
A Winchester Evening Star information notice promotes FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES, a booklet on flag history and display rules. It asks readers to send twenty cents and fill a coupon to obtain a copy, directed to the Information Bureau in Washington.
Doctor Logan Clendening discusses ragweed hay fever as a seasonal foe with August 15 pollen onset. Readers report remedies from nose protection to a bath spray method, while questions about rheumatic heart outcomes and simple treatments are addressed for late summer health.
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