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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1933
Page
4
A dense rate sheet lists subscription prices and advertising terms. It includes daily publication schedules, advance payment options, and carrier options with amounts for one year six months or three months. Also shows classified rates, memorials, and national advertising representatives.
A devotional line from Matthew 6 19 21 urges readers to lay up treasures in heaven not on earth where moth and rust corrupt and thieves break in. The passage emphasizes where your treasure is there your heart will be also.
The Lindberghs receive a warm welcome in Natal and at Le Bourget. Their world voyage, begun July 9, spans Greenland and Baffin Land, crossing the ice cap and reaching Norway in a single day. European stops include Leningrad and Moscow, with a quiet landing in an unnamed Portuguese village.
Flies have become a problem across Farmville with offices, stores, and homes affected. The piece notes stables as breeding sites and suggests the town, owning a central stable, should set an example by cleaning or relocating it to curb the nuisance.
A French device places an electric eye on a truck rear to signal drivers behind by blinking headlights. The following car learns the signal and should move over. The traveler notes the method may fail in France where drivers favor the middle of the road.
The text notes that drivers mostly cooperate and yield for passing. It argues that without obeying electric signals to guide passing, conflicts would increase and freight trains on highways would face renewed opposition.
Woodstock dispatch reports a car traveling on the Lee Jackson highway plunged from an abandoned river bridge near Mt. Jackson injuring Samuel A. Bradshaw and Elmer Shifflett of Hershey Pennsylvania while Gilbert Keaton 26 died. Coroner Dr William C Ford concluded the driver and passengers were asleep at the time. The car went 40 feet down an embankment into the Shenandoah River after hitting the unblocked abutment. Keaton was 26 and his body was given to undertaker V L Dellinger.
The University of North Carolina Athletic Council dismissed Head Coach Chuck Collins and assistants Al Howard and Odell Sapp after a late night meeting. A field survey will report back to the council on January 8 to select replacements.
Sign writing found near Bridge port and Oshkosh, Nebraska, is believed to be 20,000 years old. A survey shows that between 50,000 and 60,000 people in Hull, England rely on the fishing industry for their livelihoods.
Leesburg dispatch reports more than seventy witnesses summoned for the murder trial of George Crawford. State and defense plan to present extensive testimony in the double slaying of Mrs Agnes Boe ing Dsley and her maid Nina Buckner at the Asley estate. Crawford's attorney Charles Houston will move to quash the jury list citing alleged exclusion of black jurors.
Fourteen private residences are included in the palace of Westminster the official name for the houses of parliament in England.
William C. Bullitt, named by President Roosevelt as America’s first ambassador to the Soviet government, entered Soviet territory en route to Moscow and was greeted at the border by Soviet foreign office representatives. He arrived at Nigoreloje frontier station and was welcomed for recognition talks in Washington.
The city of Benares is described as supremely sacred where even viewing it is considered an act of communion with the gods in Indian tradition. The passage emphasizes the holiness attributed to the town and its surroundings.
Lizetta confronts loneliness as she packs for a mountain retreat. Stuart Logan appears in the nursery, declaring his love and claiming Lolly as his child, prompting forgiveness and plans to sail away together on a yacht.
Present and past rainfall figures show none in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. December to date 11 inches and year to date 36.39 inches. Average monthly rainfall from 20 year records lists January 2.36, February 2., March 2.70, April 4.11, May 8.73, June 3.81, July 4.5, August 3.45, September 2.15, October 3.06, November 2.25, December 2.37.
Market notes report mixed grain receipts and price levels for wheat and eggs in New York and Philadelphia on December 9. Includes egg receipts, various egg grades, live poultry prices, dressed poultry, and regional quotations for broilers, turkeys, ducks, and fowls with color and weight distinctions.
Local and wholesale market listings show prices for corn meal egg mash slates and various feeds. Dairy products and livestock items including butter dairy feed hogs lambs and sheep are listed with price ranges.
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