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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1937
Page
4
Classifieds rates include 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum and memorials at 1.50 for four stanzas. Display ads 42 cents per inch, deadline by noon. National reps listed. AP content rights noted. Publication date Thursday August 26 1937.
The piece notes growing U S pressure to free streets from parking by requiring off street spaces for theatres and public venues. Riverside Illinois and San Marino California adopt space ratios while DuPage County and Los Angeles impose broader off street parking mandates. Auto makers raise car prices as industry cost increases ripple through to consumers.
A Business Week survey shows wholesale prices up 9 percent in the first half of the year from 1936, with raw materials up 14 percent and farm products 18 percent. Food costs rose 6 percent and overall living costs 5 percent, while auto prices held steady amid expectations of shifting demand.
Danville Register notes Shirley Carter, a Winchester financier, left a $50,000 gift to Winchester Memorial Hospital for the care of “persons of gentle birth” lacking hospitalization. The bequest, praised as wise and discerning, targets those who lack both poverty and self sufficiency.
The Christian Science Monitor discusses the divide between have nations such as the United States France and Great Britain and have not nations like Germany Italy and Japan. It argues that peace remains elusive while powers cling to favorable status quos and ultra nationalist aims.
The Sullivan orchard now owned by Hunter Brown sells apples to a New York firm with an estimated 5,000 barrels, marking the season's first large sale. Also noted are a fatal air collision near Romney West Virginia and various community notices.
A retrospective item recalls the wholesale firm of J G Haldeman destroyed in a Philadelphia fire. The note also mentions a Postoffice order closing all 1st and 2nd class post offices on Sundays and a Baltimore trial incident involving Rev J W H Beall. Mosby's men reunion plans are announced by Commandant W H Chapman.
On August 26 1920 the women suffrage amendment was ratified marking a landmark expansion of voting rights in the United States. The achievement, backed by key suffrage leaders and state ratifications, established women as equal participants in the electoral process.
Analysis argues the have not and have nations risk violence when goals remain out of reach. It notes a growing mass of abundance and a faulty economic system fueling unrest both domestically and internationally. It warns that concessions to have nations or labor are needed to prevent further conflict and violence.
A reader can get factual answers by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau J Haskin director Washington D C enclose three cents for reply Questions cover topics from building sizes to pensions and education including the RCA Building New York Giants camp Moon Nurseries and Panama Canal teachers
In Washington Aug 25 the White House and John L Lewis steer toward renewed farm aid and labor alliance. The CIO bends toward rural votes with an Agricultural Workers Union while the DoJ weighs trust busting in six upcoming Middle Western cases as Hopkins critiques lawyers. The Antietam speech looms, with the Roanoke address set to be hotter than ever.
Mary Barrett, aiming to be a dress designer, is fired for copying a gown at Tony Castle's New York shop but is offered an alternative path. Tony mentors her, suggests oils over sketches, and invites her to work as an advertising artist while she learns the business. The two grow closer as April hints at evolving feelings.
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