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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1934
Page
4
A historic newspaper notice outlines advertising rates. It lists classified rates at 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents, memo charges of 150, card ads 75 cents, and display ads 42 cents per inch with deadlines by 10 AM. National reps include Devine Tenney Corp with several major cities.
A devotional line echoes Psalm 37 urging trust in the Lord and doing good to prosper. It emphasizes that faith and patience will lead to fulfillment of promises and divine provision.
A recent reduction in Virginia electricity rates saves users 552000. The Virginia Corporation Commission evaluates power companies and may approve further cuts. Governor Peery championed rate relief and should welcome ongoing changes to benefit the public.
Washington dispatches report a Senate committee will begin hearings on September 4 into a worldwide munitions trust. The probe centers on an elderly Greek dubbed the mystery man of Europe who allegedly profits from war and on a major American firm supplying weapons. A secretive industrial figure is also expected to be named as the inquiry seeks links between makers, investors and war fomenters.
Economic depressions spur new ideas. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Washington publishes a booklet titled The House for the Growing Income. It outlines a home design meant to expand with a family's growing income and size.
Three quiz items: largest farm income source is milk. An internal combustion motor uses explosive gas in a cylinder to move the piston. A calorie is a unit of heat.
The text describes a method of building a modest four room home for a young married couple that can expand with income and family growth. It contrasts early improvised additions with a planned approach that maintains proper proportions, dignity, and convenience as the house enlarges.
A Mississippi tourist in New York frees his tongue caught in bridgework after an ice cream mishap, then an Estes Park deer disrupts a campfire sing along with musical quirks. A Missouri bartender seeks street work amid changing crowds, a Gulfport convict is jailed again after a mosquito test pardon, Hoffman wins an oyster contest and finds a pearl, while a Philadelphian streetcar robber spares passengers’ money.
The mother of Lucy Cotton Thomas asks the Surrogate's Court to increase the child's maintenance from 5000 a month. Lucy, seven, inherited 2 million dollars and critics note high living costs but contend the spending helps many workers in fashion and service industries.
Robert Fechner, federal director of emergency conservation work, reports Virginia C C C units set a new forest protection and development record for the year ending last March. The first year saw 60 799 acres improved and 64 728 acres protected from fire with 2 244 miles of roads and trails built. 314 miles of telephone lines were constructed. Ten to fourteen units operated in the George Washington National Forest Natural Bridge Forest and Virginia parts of Unaka and Monongahela. Clinch National Forests also improved. Fifteen units now work on state forest projects and five more in Shenandoah Park area.
Six horses on farms of Parran Graves Joseph M Mattingly and Benjamin Abell in Medleys Neck near Leonardtown Maryland found sick with a disease previously spreading across Maryland eastern and western shore districts and Virginia Mosquitoes and flies blamed by County Vet Dr Luther I Bowler for the outbreak though he believed the malady has been brought under control
Washing polishing tire service greasing limonizing street service vacuum cleaning waxing Motor Oil at Jack & Bobby Riley's Service Station located at the corner of Market and Gerard Streets.
Inspector Lee investigates the shooting of Donald Reeves at Center City University as colleagues and a widow react. The English department gathers in an attic room with tensions high while reporter Tim Blade presses for statements. The scene ends with a hint of Hamlet and Conan Doyle in the scholarly atmosphere.
The inspector agrees to brief Tim and a reporter after a confrontation with Mrs Reeves. A frightened driver delivers a blank notebook from a lavender dressed woman as the inspector orders Tim to shadow the suspect and report to headquarters. The car ride back to the English House is quiet and swift.
Present and past rainfall figures show none in the last 24 hours ending 8 am. August to date 4.62 inches and year to date 22.61 inches. Winchester Laboratory records average 21 year monthly precipitation: January 2.41, February 1.97, March 2.82, April 2.21, May 3.94, June 3.65, July 3.41, August 3.29, September 2.34, October 3.00, November 2.33, December 2.34.
One year ago Ernest Woolfe his wife and Fitzhugh G Kine were electrocuted contacting a high powered line near Upperville as the Potomac Edison company begins operation under the code. The Winchester beer sale is halted by police. A Jefferson letter reveals hardships and low mood in 1830.
A collection of regional items notes the 60th annual fair opening, major business deals including Samuel Insull paying 1.1 million dollars for Harper Ferry waterpower rights, political shifts, a notable death in a plane crash, evangelistic services, band organization efforts, gas company reorganization plans, and campaign speeches. Also mentions Ku Klux Klan activity in Kansas and the Lausanne treaty ratified by the French Senate.
The Frederick County School Board invites bids for pupil transportation from Rus sell Grove Friendly Grove and Mt Williams to Mountain View. Bids must be received by September 4. R 28 21 Lee.
In Municipal Court Morris sought to dispossess Lucius Owens of furniture as a hearing began Owens collapsed and died ending the case. The incident closes the dispute and raises questions about the proceedings.
This piece extols the benefits of home air conditioning detailing how indoor air can be heated cooled humidified and purified. It notes compact basement installation automatic operation and potential uses of the basement as recreation space while highlighting reduced wall dirt and improved comfort.
The origin of daylight saving is said to belong to Benjamin Franklin, according to the report. Franklin proposed adjustments to clock time to save candle use and improve urban efficiency.
Danville Virginia August 29 J L Gravely a retired real estate dealer who had announced as an independent Democrat in opposition to Senator Harry Flood Byrd has withdrawn his candidacy He said a Republican nomination makes his bid a carrot between parties and there is no room for an independent Democrat with a Democrat Republican Socialist and possibly a Communist in the field.
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