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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1936
Page
4
A election notice urging voters to support the Democratic ticket led by A Willis Robertson for the House of Representatives. The message highlights candidate affiliation and the contest for the federal legislative seat.
A devotional note cites James 1 21 urging believers to receive the engrafted word with meekness to save their souls. The verse counsels laying aside filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and embracing instruction for spiritual salvation.
The Sharkey bout in New York last night ended with Joe Louis winning by a third round knockout. The match provided little insight into durability, while Sharkey’s career is described as winding down at age 33. Louis, at 22, illustrates youth’s edge in boxing.
Henry W. Taft, brother of the late ex-president and a noted Miami lawyer, spends time at White Sulphur Springs and the Greenbrier. During a vacation he wrote a treatise on the liability of a beginner at golf citing Judge Mc Dade of Pennsylvania and his remark about an irregular drive due to improper posture.
Taft argues that frequent negligent acts on golf courses would make the pastime ultra hazardous for players and caddies. He notes most players have moderate skill and that professionals’ advice is not a solution. He points to policies covering all liability and argues that accidents are rare, keeping premiums low.
A guidance piece argues that one who fails to tell customers and create desire cannot sell. It contrasts a small service fee with a potential capital loss and warns against selling without informing potential buyers of needs or benefits.
A critique of the phrase not for publication used by newspapers and sources. The piece argues editors rely on defined news sources, avoid betraying confidences, and resist hype from premature publicity. It notes the phrase can mislead and misstate public record.
Will Rogers relates a Ver mont storekeeper Bill Dye who accuses milkman Kirby of borrowing a dollar and not repaying it. The milkman offers to keep the debt, while Dye declines cash and keeps venting his opinion, showing shop humor of the era.
A reader asks facts answered by Frederic J. Haskin and others through The Evening Star Information Bureau. Topics cover the National Better Business Bureau, Jeritza at the Met in 1921, shark biting, Chief Justice Marshall's shrine, British health insurance, Sir James Barrie, Confederate stamps, lemon juice contents, the University of Naples, Bull Run battles, American coinage history, cemetery counts, the Piedmont district, and the curfew word origin.
The speaker notes that business is run by discreet, literate individuals and after a frank pause will resume a philosophic calm. They pledge to be polite and patient when told that certain information is not for publication.
The Evening Star shows recent photographs of the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Mayor Anderson Judge Don ald Weems and Col Reinberg will judge a flying regatta at the airport this Sunday. The Byrd picnic is set for August 22 at Rosemont Orchard. The Ethiopians place a big order for arms with Colt. Miss Helen Massey will address the Shawnee Garden Club Thursday afternoon.
Fifty thousand railroad ties were taken from local yards by the Pennsylvania line. Anna Lee Fries, six, daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Fries near Green Spring, was killed by a truck. A Valley orchardist sold 25,000 barrels of Yorks for $3.25. Mrs Richard Harding Davis, widow of the war correspondent, dies in Bayonne France. September wheat quoted at 50 1/2 cents in Chicago.
Ten years ago a heavy rainstorm struck Strasburg and the Strasburg Junction area with disruptions noted. A Washington paper advised motorists to use the Valley via Harpers Ferry provoking local ire along Route 50. Miss Margery Magruder formerly of Woodstock marries Claiborne Riggs Mobley at Virginia Home Prairie Grove Ark. Esther Hollis Shaffer is chosen by Martinsburg Ellis as queen of their annual parade tonight. Mrs Maynard Baker and Miss Alice Baker return from Philadelphia where Mr Baker works on a large hotel project.
Central Press reports Republican campaign management in Chicago shows three conflicting publicity divisions Publicity proper Public relations and Research with no unity of purpose. Critics say John D M Hamilton spends too much time traveling as the party struggles with who is the candidate and how to mount an effective national campaign.
Twenty five years ago Major Holmes Conrad presented three framed pictures of Charles Broadway Ross to the Charley Rouss Fire Company. The United States Leather Company faced blame for mass fish deaths in Hampshire County. Five thousand attended the horse show at Front Royal. Company I agreed to attend a lawn party at Valley School House. Rev. J. W. Link of Bristol may be called to Toms Brook Lutheran pastorate.
A reader column of humorous quips and questions on public figures, elections, and daily life. Snappy lines mock political campaigns, urban funds, and class issues while riffing on media and culture. The piece playfuly surveys public sentiment and skepticism with tongue in cheek remarks.
Announcement by the local army recruiting officer that Hunter M. Vaught of Arco and William A. Reynard of Edinburg have enlisted in the regular army. Vaught to the Third Cavalry at Fort Myer Virginia and Reynard to the Twelfth Infantry at Fort Howard Maryland. The agency notes many vacancies in Hawaii Panama and the Philippines with some openings at ports in Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
Gay, a Detroit restaurant check girl, becomes entangled with Dr. John Wilson when he recruits her to fill a seat at a society dinner party to avoid a jinx. He promises ten dollars for the night as she contemplates the risky social leap.
In Pasadena California, the west foothill annex population voted unanimously to join Pasadena. Four votes were cast with nearly all voters holding official election roles. Alfred Illard and Mrs. Illard organized the petition and polling at their home, with Mrs. Carl W. Koiner as inspector. Koiner voted early but the poll stayed open until 1 p.m.
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