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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1936
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists Galera at the post office in Winchester Virginia as a daily second class publication except Sundays. The Evening Star Fubleh Co of Virginia offers advance subscriptions: one year 3.50, six months 1.75, three months .90, one month .30.
Campaign slate presents John N. Garner as vice president and Carter Glass running for the United States Senate. Voters are urged to consider the pair in upcoming elections. The brief item notes two named candidates without further details.
A devotional note quotes Hebrews 12 1 urging readers to lay aside weight and sin and run with patience the race set before them. The line emphasizes perseverance and spiritual focus as a guiding theme.
Illinois and Missouri platform tours and a Lincoln tomb visit capped eight days of campaigning. Alfred Landon spoke to 400,000 to 500,000 people, delivering three major speeches and over sixty short talks. The paper notes his strength in small-group conversations yet finds him weaker on radio and in dramatic phrasing.
The text notes the situation has become more remote than it seemed weeks earlier and questions whether this outcome is due to or contrary to Governor Landon's initial campaign tour.
A Cumberland Times reflection on battlefield courage. It recalls Browning’s tale of a lad mortally wounded carrying news to Napoleon and contrasts it with a Spanish frontline assault where a captain sacrifices himself to enable his men. The piece argues that small acts of cowardice contrast with bold acts in war.
From The Nation reprinted in the Manchester Guardian a confidential Nazi circular to rural Germans outlines behavior during the Olympics. It urges politeness to Jews, proposes cheap paint to whitewash houses, and bars political prisoners and camp inmates from farm work, critiquing the regime’s facade for the Games.
A year has passed since the Ferr dam failure at Holly Colorado flooded the town and forced 1000 residents to relocate. Mrs Charles C Robinsons home on North Cameron Street is being razed for a filling station. Four Hagerstown youths died when their car hit a derailed freight train car. Miss Gertrude Eddy broke a hip at home. Mrs Arthur B Leafe and daughter from Dallas arrive to visit relatives.
Five years ago reports claimed part of next spring's Apple Blossom Festival would be staged in Washington D C. Officials deny the plan. A hound dog held officers at bay as a suspect escaped a warm still on Babb s Run near DeHaven. Farmers gather at Gainesboro to take initial steps toward forming a group.
Will Rogers recounts a lively scene where two office boys fought loudly over a trivial matter. The narrator notes the clash arose from a heated argument and the ensuing uproar disrupted the office.
In a fragment from American News Features, Inc. a boss negotiates stamps and tasks amid an argument about who should start the ball. The exchange hints at boxing as a means to prepare for an upcoming finish.
A compiled Q and A set from The Evening Star Information Bureau with Frederick Haskin as director answers on topics from Spanish Civil War casualties to postage rates and Latin plant names. It includes questions about vitamins in beer climate of the Virgin Islands water use at cities and other curious topics.
Clarence Boyce near Winchester finds a gold watch lost four years earlier by Thomas S. Cooper and returns it to its owner. Gertrude Ederle sails back to New York to receive a wild ovation after swimming the English Channel. Mrs. Mary Parish, 92, Gore’s oldest resident, dies. Mrs. Clemington Carson of New York becomes second American woman to swim the Channel. W. J. Muse of Trone is named Back Creek supervisor by Judge Whiting to succeed the late F. Dick Good. Walter R. Talbot of Akron now residing in Winchester is named G O P candidate for Congress in the Seventh District at Woodstock.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad surveys a route to connect with the Cumberland Valley Railroad in north Winchester. The notes show regional transport planning from twenty five years prior as the era shifts toward intercity linkages and trade routes.
A devotional exhortation on loyalty to the church as the body of Christ. Emphasizes seeking God’s kingdom, brotherhood, and obedience, urging readers to support and lovingly serve the church. Concludes with a prayer for devotion and responsibility for its good name. Rev Thomas Morgan delivers the piece.
The horse named Asbestos, wearing firefighting gear, perished in a forest fire in a National Park. Firefighters found the animal the next day on a damp Muskeg patch with the pack burned away and the halter still smouldering.
Governor Alf Landon speaks in his own voice, resisting ghostwritten scripts and facing critics who want practical detail. He refrains from a heated attack on Roosevelt while acknowledging the New Deal, insisting he has no clear program yet prompts questions about how he would realize his ideals.
A cheeky musing on social trends and public life features jokes about bridge dining tea parties and hay fever. The piece notes shifting politics and fashion takes from a columnist with wry worldwide observations and a hint of satire.
Byline cites R J Scott with 2S copyright and Central Press Association credit for 1936 material.
Gay Elwell visits Dr John Wilson after an infected hand. That late night gathering introduces Eleanor Randolph and Tim Keenan, revealing opulent social scenes and hinted affairs as Gay contemplates the wealth and intrigue surrounding the city’s elite.
Sam Strawitz told the court he sped while sneezing due to hay fever. Judge A. J. Hedding called it the most novel excuse ever heard and fined him ten dollars.
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