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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1934
Page
4
Classified and display advertising rates listed by consolidated papers. Rates include 2 cents per word for classified text, memorials at 1.50 for four stanzas, and display ad charges with a 10 A M deadline. National reps Devine Tenney Corp serve major cities.
The Associated Press notes exclusive rights to its dispatches and to local news published in this paper. The notice emphasizes re publication restrictions and credit requirements for content produced by AP and local staff.
The text cites Psalm 39:7 8 asking where to place hope and expressing faith in God. It includes phrases about waiting for the Lord and seeking deliverance from transgressions, framed as a devotional reflection.
Winchester welcomes visiting fruit growers for the Virginia State Horticultural Society annual session. The city promotes its Apple Capital status with the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival and large apple related facilities. The three day meeting includes discussions and a Wednesday dance at the George Washington Hotel.
Sentimentalists note that the southern anthem Dixie marked its 75th birthday. First sung September 19 1859 at a New York theatre the song was composed by a northerner from Mount Vernon Ohio. The idea that a just cause inspired Dixie is questioned by its northern origin.
Bank failures this year total 57, the lowest in 14 years, with seven FDIC members and the rest state banks lacking insured deposits. In the year ending June 30, 1932, 2430 banks failed. Insurance of small accounts boosted public confidence as FDIC guarantees reach 49 115 221 accounts, nearly all fully insured. Yet large sums remain tied up in closed banks awaiting asset distribution.
The text explains verdigris as green rust on copper. It notes Heidelberg is best known for its university, founded in 1386, reputedly the oldest in Germany.
The article notes tuberculosis remains a public health threat requiring ongoing funding. Christmas seals, used for 30 years since their Danish origin, support the global fight in 40 counties and locally, embodying thoughtfulness and sympathy as an effective weapon against the deadly disease.
A yearly roundup notes federal surplus relief purchases hogs nationwide for the needy. Fires burn 2000 acres near Mountain Falls with suspicions of arson. Notre Dame shakes up coaching staff replacing Hank Anderson with Elmer Layden. Roosevelt labels inflation as legalized confiscation in a York speech. Rockingham County landowners receive 279,868 dollars for land granted to Shenandoah National Park.
Judge T. W. Harrison sustains serious injuries when his car skids and overturns near Warrenton. A Baltimore and Ohio train fatally strikes J. W. Butler the painter who dozed on the tracks between Winchester and Millwood crossing. G A Newcome wakes to a burglary at four in the morning finds a colored intruder downstairs threatening him with a gun and fleeing from National avenue. The United States signs Geneva protocol to join the world court via J P Moffatt as chargé d affairs.
The District Nurse Association hires Evelyn C Dean alongside Gertrude Higgins to handle increased work. Nell Walker travels worldwide on a walking quest ending in Winchester. The first Winchester arrest under Prohibition for soliciting liquor sales. Coolidge withholds open backing of Muscle Shoals bill. U S Vice Consul Henry Dayton shot in Belgrade with unclear motive.
Frederick Richens delivered an organ recital at Christ Episcopal Church with Miss Willie McGuire assisting. Reported political tensions include H D Flood and A E Strode potential Democratic contest in the tenth district. J A Newcome, longtime Burnt Factory miller, dies after a long illness. A Clyde built turbine steam yacht for Peter Winchester Rouss, son of Charles Broadway Rouss, is capable of 20 knots.
A group of hunters seeking shelter at a country hotel near Hamburg Pennsylvania watched nine deer cross the Ontelaunee creek as they fired in vain. No deer were killed in the rain soaked chase.
A fragmentary quiz style piece recalls Praxiteles and Rodin as linked masterpieces with a Plutarchan quote on money and war. It then shifts to a Sunday horoscope noting quarrelsome traits and love of show, ending with a prompt answering questions about Sir Edward John Poynter and a celebrated Greek sculptor and Victor Hugo.
Dr John B Nelson of the Rockefeller Institute warned the Livestock Sanitary Association that chicken colds can last two to five months and urged keeping sick birds away from flocks to prevent spread. In Fergus Falls Minnesota a farmer reported his cow Bessie drowning in a Western Township farm pond.
Greenleaf urges a coded scheme to entrap German agents using color coded scarves and a Countess. Blane secretly tests scarves for ink while Jake develops secret pages in Jensen’s memorandum book to uncover hidden writing. TO BE CONTINUED.
A animal frustrated by a six inch drinking cup presses its nose into the cup for a drink, but its horn becomes caught in the mechanism above trapping the muzzle in running water.
Present and past rainfall data show none in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. December to date totals 0.23 inches, year to date 35.35 inches. Twenty one year averages from Winchester Laboratory list a yearly mean 34.71 inches and monthly averages by month, with January 2.41 and December 2.34 inches.
George Arliss stars in The Last Gentleman a 20th Century Fox vehicle at Hables Palace today through Wednesday. The eccentric old millionaire seeks a fitting heir amid colorful relatives in a three day run featuring a Fox News Reel and the musical Gus Van and His Neighbors.
The Jackson Jubilee Singers of Charles Town West Virginia will perform at Handley School auditorium on December 18 for the Christmas Seal Drive benefiting tuberculosis relief. The show is backed by city colored clubs including Cosmopolitan Ferdinand and others and churches such as AME and Shiloh Baptist.
Funeral services for Robert A. Larrick 66 were conducted Saturday at his late home in Middletown with Rev. W. P. Saunders of the Middletown M E Church South officiating. Burial followed in Mount Carmel Cemetery under the direction of Marsh Run Lodge No. 147 I O O F. Pallbearers included Donald Stickley W W Little and others from Strasburg and surrounding areas. Relatives from distant locales attended including Larrick family members from Winchester Washington D C Branchville Md Aurora Hills Va Alexandria and Baltimore.
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