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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1938
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices for the Winchester Evening Star, showing mail rates of five dollars fifty cents per year, one year advance for carrier fourteen dollars and fifty cents, and shorter terms for six months three months and one month, with weekly options as well.
Classifieds charge 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents, head ing and address counted. Memorials and Cards of Thanks cost 0 cents per line. Display ads with border must be in office by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. Contract rates on application. Woodward and Company operates in multiple major cities.
The Fruit Growers meet for a three day session in Sarah Zane hall tonight. The event benefits local orchardists with an authoritative speaker lineup. Welcomes visiting fruit growers and praises the Sarah Zane Fire Company for its new hall aiding Winchester’s hosting.
The piece argues liberalism depends on definition. It supports regulated markets, anti trust enforcement, relief for the needy, foreign trade, and farmer aid, but opposes centralized power, politicized courts, waste, sit down strikes, and loss of liberty. The paper calls itself liberal yet conservative on unworkable, costly plans.
Good Business Millard E. Tydings argues in favor of policies that boost business for jobs and tax revenue. He says government should be solvent and support fair treatment, while criticizing Washington for harassment and demagoguery.
Attorney General Jack Holt is asked whether school superintendents may ban girls from wearing masculine attire such as overalls especially in cold weather. Holt studies the law, but the question does not reach the Supreme Court, and no ruling is yet made.
The Virginia Beach chief of police McClanlan resigns amid accusations of failing to enforce gambling laws at the resort. He argues gambling existed since before his tenure and that public sentiment tolerated it. The piece notes Governor Pollard's rebuke of the gambling situation as open rebellion and forecasts forthcoming grand jury findings on enforcement.
Washington Redskins meet New York Giants in a pivotal game shaping the eastern professional football championship. Also noted are social items: John W. Morrison hosts a 54th birthday dinner near Stephenson. Miss Jessie M. Hillyard plans a New Year’s Day marriage to William Glaize. and the liner Leviathan, once carrying 220000 doughboys in WWI, is being sold to England for scrap iron.
Five years after federal prohibition ends the country rushes to a new order. A crash near Fredericksburg kills two and injures many as a passenger train collides with a derailed freight car. Charles Lindbergh and his wife receive rapturous acclaim in Natal Brazil after their transatlantic flight from Africa. Evyn Stouffer delivers a standout violin performance at Old Lehmann Hall in Baltimore.
Ten years ago Wo Robinson received a 15 year sentence for robbing local merchant G. O. Snapp. Seven major magazines seek a story on Virginia's industrial progress. Capitol Theatre draw crowds on opening night with thousands outside. State prosperity shows a net over 100 million in income taxes for the year.
Reader questions answered by the information bureau cover topics from Roosevelt’s car license number to the Mosul Oil Pipe Line in Iraq. Other items include motion picture attendance comparisons, Dempsey trivia, coffee word origins, Henry Ford’s grandchildren, and women railroad executives.
A public notice inviting readers to order a 48 page educational booklet titled Historic Churches in the United States. The ad details content on famous churches, cost of ten cents postpaid, and provides the Information Bureau address in Washington D. C. Readers are instructed to enclose ten cents and mail to receive the publication.
Philip Cooper of Illinois visits relatives in Winchester for the first time in 45 years. Apple shipments from the area this past season were larger than in 1912 and brought higher prices. Mr and Mrs Edward Gay Butler invite guests to a dance at Annefield for Dorothy Gilpin and L M Allen who are to marry. Miss Cora Painter of Stephens City lies seriously ill at home.
W A Kahn and Co of Baltimore buys Feinberg Bros stock and announces a greatly reduced sale. T W Harrison and R E Byrd return from a hunting trip to Appomattox Virginia. Rev James B Stonesifer receives a call to Rockingham county parish. Doctors Wheat and Milburn discover their pet horned owl dead in their business house.
The piece argues for going beyond expectations in service and daily work. It cites examples from the Orange Blossom Special railroad and Statler hotels, then urges employees and managers to offer extra effort, time, and kindness to boost goodwill and career prospects. It notes a four o'clock tea as a productivity aid backed by tests.
In autumn 1938 Sara Sue Davis, a young widow near Rice Institute, launches a bold business idea to open a tea room near campus. She leases a cottage, hires Calculus Jones and Cleo, and orders a newspaper ad and Thresher notice as students arrive. The venture reflects her drive to rebuild after husband Larry’s death and her belief in youth leading new business seeds.
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