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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1940
Page
4
The page shows advertising rates for classified and display ads at 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum and 45 cents per inch for transient display ads, plus subscription prices by mail or carrier. A biblical verse from 2 Peter 1 19 is included alongside the notices.
Critics note heavy guns lose advantage as planes grow decisive. German big guns near Boulogne Calais require air corrections and costly relining after about 100 shots. Analysts doubt bombardment alone wins modern war. aircraft may outperform traditional artillery in the end.
The piece argues Bermuda could host US military bases expanding American reach far east of current lines. It notes Bermuda’s proximity to the US, potential for fortifications against European approaches, and the possibility Britain offers Newfoundland and Nova Scotia bases in the future.
After the war, restoration of international trade hinges on surviving ships, with Greek losses illustrating wartime devastation. Greece started with 650 merchant vessels, mostly trading between America and England. Twenty were tied up in the U S when war began, and Greece has lost fifty ships in the conflict.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot recalls Ernest Lawrence Thayer who died at 77 in Santa Barbara. He wrote Casey at the Bat for the San Francisco Examiner in 1888 and later faded from fame, though De Wolf Hopper popularized the poem. The piece notes the work’s immortality while calling it a museum piece for the modern era.
The text reflects on baseball’s rise as national sport and the fading iconic status of Casey the héros. It contrasts old sentimental tales with modern athletes and youth culture, noting America’s difficulty in recapturing its past sporting innocence and hero worship.
Newport News Daily Press argues that Roosevelt's pledge for 50 000 aircraft and billions for defense have yielded only orders for 3439 combat planes and no deliveries this year. It criticizes delays, bureaucratic inertia, and unclear industry incentives, calling the rearmament a mere paper plan without real orders or execution.
The couple ties the knot at the bride’s residence on South Stewart street as wartime headlines note continued German English preparations. Local business reports show A. B. C. profits for Winchester Frederick and Clarke counties at 27030.65 dollars.
Idaho Senator Pope says the United States will join the League of Nations if peaceful settlement between Ethiopia and Italy is achieved at Geneva. City Council offers Gas Co. land trade for moving plant to southeast town end. Mr and Mrs Crowell Conner celebrate birth of son on August 25.
Jane Schneider and James Massie win prizes in the baby show at Winchester Fair. Adam H. Bohrer, 63, of DeHaven county section, dies following surgery. Valley farmers seek reduced freight rates on foodstuffs as drought relief.
Twenty five years ago Virginia Fuller Seddon Lacy and George Barrie appear in a short play at a benefit show for the District Nurse Association. An announcement notes the wedding of Miss Jennie Taylor and Mr Harry Woodward. French artillery bombards German trenches on the Eastern front as German forces mop up Russian positions in the East.
Forty years ago rumors said the Southern Railroad planned to extend tracks from Strasburg through Winchester to reach coal fields in Western Frederick county and nearby West Virginia. Also noted were the deaths of Raymond Carver's twins from pneumonia in Red Bud, and the School Board announced a new business course for men in the high school this year.
Logan Clendening announces a prize competition by the National Alliance of Art and Industry for cancer campaign ideas with awards from 10 to 1000 dollars. University of Pennsylvania details use of a cyclotron for cancer research and neutron beam therapy, expanding access beyond California. The note lists radium prices, vaccine injections, mole cancer risk, and Dr. Clendening pamphlets offered at 10 cents each.
The page lists a series of Q and A items answering varied facts. Topics include gun salutes origin, 4-H club enrollment, World War Food Control Act timing, Opie Read’s The Jacklins, nylon hosiery share, Pope’s line on learning, Ballad for Americans, Wilson’s day of prayer, 1920s and 1930s death rates, Krupp head, Canadian royal funding, Princeton campus size, Firth meaning, and a mosquito repellent formula.
Test questions cover the Pledge ending words, lion climbing, geographic center, Japanese self defense art, DNC chairman, Sam H Jones governorship, largest Canadian Great Lake, Harvard Classics selector, Victor Hugo novel, and Ed Porky Oliver’s sport.
The note argues about correct use of transpire in English. It contrasts common error with precise sense meaning to become known and cites an example about a date 1906. The piece emphasizes avoiding misleading phrasing and encourages accurate language.
An up to date dictionary of 20000 words with supplements on new words. 382 pages on Bible paper bound in imitation leather. Order your copy for 25 cents postpaid with coupon to The Winchester Evening Star Washington DC.
Scotland Yard agent Gun Cotton plans a stakeout as Coffin Prescott trails the mysterious Pullinger from a Egyptian Baths to a Soho pub. Prescott tailors a stealthy pursuit through side streets and taxis, observing Pullinger’s associate a flame haired woman before following toward Angel Road Brixton Road.
In the 1936 election Landon carried only Maine and Vermont for 8 electoral votes while Roosevelt racked up 523, winning all other states. The new Florida mill question notes a Pensacola location with a $2 443 000 pulp and paper mill to begin production next March.
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