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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1939
Page
4
A troubling problem challenges law enforcement in Clarke and Fauquier Rappahannock areas. No arrests reported yet and rustlers leave few clues. Officials must intensify focus as losses grow graver with each steer stolen.
A reader can get factual answers by writing to the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau. The page lists several Q and A items with dates, figures, and names including Florida 1845, Theodore Roosevelt, Horace Greeley, and Seabiscuit, summarizing beauty shop counts, gold movement history, and Indian castes with concise facts.
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Winchester merchants invite readers to start holiday shopping early with a full range of merchandise, noting prices often rival those in larger cities and urging locals and visitors to browse Winchester stores for quality, value, and a thrifty season.
The League of Virginia Counties meeting in Danville adopts a resolution urging a constitutional change to bar diverting funds from automobile licenses and gasoline taxes from road work and policing. Delegates from the area back the move with support from E. Blackburn Moore and Senator-elect Burr P. Harrison.
A wave of cattle rustling sweeps northern Virginia with rapid truck thefts and thefts across Clarke Fauquier and Rappahannock counties. Edward Lee lost seven steers recovered at Union Stockyards Baltimore. By summer 130 head valued over 12000 dollars had vanished, dulling any glamour of the crime.
The Baltimore Sun analyzes Senator Norris push for Roosevelt to seek a third term as a desperate bid by New Dealers. It argues Roosevelt lacks a trustworthy successor and notes leading administration figures are not true New Dealers, leaving Norris isolated in a political crisis and stuck between tradition and reform.
In convention the Virginia Horticulture Society passes a resolution protesting wage hour rulings. Plans are announced to install Rev. E. L. Roof as pastor of Stephens City Trinity Lutheran Church. Fifteen extra postal workers are hired to handle the Christmas mail surge.
The Little Theatre announced a holiday run of The Drunkard at the Green Gables night club. Dr. James M. Smith was hung in effigy by Louisiana State University students after he refused to let the college paper criticise Huey Long. Miss Cary Harrison, a noted Clarke county horsewoman, was pinned beneath her horse and injured Sunday afternoon.
President Hoover appoints a committee to study relations with Haiti. In Bath County Virginia Sheriff George M Messer Sr is shot and killed while attempting an arrest. Mayor F Amos Shryock calls for two additional police hires to curb city crime.
Berlin claims over 100000 Russians were captured as Lodz fell on the eastern front. The Farmers and Merchants Bank mails 35000 in Christmas Saving Club checks. L Lupton delivers an address at the New Jersey State Horticulture Society meeting.
Forty years ago Edgar M. Kline and Miss Laura M. Hammond were issued a marriage license. J. T. Fisher notes coal prices rising while going down into cellars. Ryuss City council building committee selects plans for a new city hall and prints a front page image of the proposed building by architect Frank Jackson of Washington.
The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau offers a practical booklet CARE OF THE FEET. It provides general home treatment tips, shoe and stocking guidance, and simple exercises to strengthen foot foundations. Order for ten cents postpaid, with name and address provided.
Fabienne contends with conflicting feelings as she realises she loves Bill while Ellen and Dr Mallory comfort her in a chic city apartment. Dick arrives revealing wedding plans for Brenda and Dick adds new drama as Fabienne contemplates a return to her mother’s Paris life. The scene ends with Fabienne preparing to leave to spare Ellen a painful sight.
Fabienne wrestles with forbidden love for Bill Mallory while torn between Ellen her close friend and the pull of memory. She plans to leave Ellen’s apartment quietly as she faces a sudden marriage announcement from Dick and the strain of unresolved passion.
A note on common errors in prior usage shows guidance to alter phrases for phonetic or shorthand rendering. It highlights transforming normal sentences into misspelled or altered forms as a teaching exercise.
Edmund C. Magill, professor of Agricultural Education in Blacksburg Va, commends the Winchester Star November 4 vocational education issue in home economics and agriculture. He recommends extra copies for senior and postgraduate students preparing to teach vocational agriculture and credits the paper and teachers for a well prepared, valuable issue.
Mrs H D Fuller thanks the District Nurse Association and Tuberculosis Association for treatment at Blue Ridge Sanatorium. She explains how the Christmas Seal sale funded room and board during two years there, notes her recovery, and urges public support for the drive in Winchester Virginia.
A eulogic tribute recalls Mr. Godfrey Miller of Highland with vows of faith and memory. Parallelly Minneapolis Albert H Laulai nen, 25, experiences a shocked birth as his wife delivers triplets after a routine twin possibility.
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