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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star published in Winchester Virginia lists mailing and service rates for subscriptions. It also details advertising prices including classified space memorials cards of thanks display ads and transient rates with deadlines and regional representatives. The page ends with a Bible verse from Hebrews about brotherly love.
The International Naval Conference at London produces few results beyond headlines. US and Great Britain press for strict 5-5-3 limits while Japan seeks equality, risking a continued naval arms race across France Italy Germany and others. No near-term breakthrough seen.
The Staunton News Leader reports that all courts affirmed Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s fair trial and verdict in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Governor Hoffman shows possible influence, while clemency avenues include a board petition or a new trial if fresh evidence emerges. No new doubt sufficient to overturn guilt has surfaced.
The argument asserts Hauptmann bore responsibility as a party to the crime, contending the case was overwhelming and unrefuted on key issues.
A fragment from the Alexandria Gazette presents a satirical list of ten questions aimed at readers. The piece mocks questionnaires by asking about drinking, employment, opinions on spouses, debt, crime, politics, religion, voting age, belief in America, and constitutional tenure.
Cumberland Times reports a planned revival of street circus parades next spring. The revivalists pledge old-size grandeur with steam calliope and animals while adopting rubber footwear to protect pavements, a change welcomed by cities and old fans alike. A dramatic writer lauds the return as a public gratitude for a cherished, bygone spectacle.
An American narrator recalls English drivers who crawl at 30 mph and pass slowly with polite horns. A gentleman explains that rushing past would be rude, a courtesy that reduces fatalities and keeps cars longer lasting.
Uncle Sam still has ample credit with a last appeal for 900 million dollars in bonds and notes. offers ran five times higher. Bankers absorb the instruments and see no better use for funds while deficits persist. The piece argues funds would better serve private enterprise and industry, especially building, once borrowing slows.
The piece recalls Winston Churchill and his famous novels The Crisis The Crossing Richard Carvel once widely read. Churchill, en route to the Virgin Islands, paused in Puerto Rico, prompting reflection on his legacy and current readership.
The article notes university reps invited a guest to speak to students but questions whether Puerto Ricans would attend. It questions interest in the speaker and in religion's psychology, and ponders readers' future engagement with bestsellers and authors.
Ff alumma FATS FERA allocates 3000 dollars for cedar rust eradication in Frederick county. Washington cameraman slugged in Fredericksburg by W A Bell. About 800 held in dope raids by U S agents. Miss Cary Harrison seriously injured when horse rears, pins her. Virginia fruit growers convene here.
Miss Suzanne Pollard known as Queen Shenandoah VII will marry Herbert Lee Boatwright Jr on January 3. The report notes Danville textile picketers being tried in groups and Maurice Cosgriff, 78, dying of a heart attack in the county. Heirs of Thomas Cover win a tax suit before the State Supreme Court. Rev. William Hesse, 74, a retired Lutheran clergyman, dies at a Martinsburg hospital in West Virginia.
Arthur G. Jones Woolen Mill Corporation declares an initial dividend payable January 1. Market quotes note eggs at 49c flour 9.50 to 10.00 per barrel corn 4.50 per barrel. A boy sustains a forehead cut after a pony spooks. Elkton fire destroys the Cover Tan nery in Rockingham County with a 1 million dollar loss, fully insured. Justice Tavenner sentences two confessed chicken thieves to one year of road work each.
Charles A. Heller, a leading Clarke county merchant, confirms he will retire from business on July 1. Hon. W. G. Conrad, ex Clarke county resident now in Montana, declares candidacy for the U S Senate. Miss Madelaine Dixon of Boston and Donald Newcomer Gilpin of Clarke county and Baltimore announce their engagement. Joseph A. Miller, 80, retired farmer and former House of Delegates member, dies at Wheatland Nineveh. Rev. Carlton D. Harris of Baltimore is expected to transfer to Epworth Atlanta.
Children who dislike milk and have trouble drinking it can learn to enjoy it by sipping through a straw. The straw method helps them get used to the taste and texture, making milk consumption easier over time.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour precipitation ending in November at 0.60 inches and year to date 33.94 inches. The Winchester Laboratory’s 22 year record lists average annual rainfall at 34.61 inches and monthly averages ranging from 1.94 inches in February to 3.88 inches in May.
Question and answer items list a history quiz. Washington DC established as the permanent national capital on December 12 1800. Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it until 1904. Shaddocks are pear shaped varieties of grapefruit.
Police in Oxford, North Carolina seek a man who has lost an upper plate that was kept as a bond for a prisoner who could not pay court costs. Chief Harvey Jackson still holds the teeth and hopes to locate the owner to settle the account.
Anderson Kansas reports D C Walter Dickson injured when an automobile runs over a bottle and sideswipes him in a rare three part mishap. Doctors treated the injured ankle. In Kansas City a public note says Ray Murphy holds a ceremonial key to the city while Mayor Don C McComb passes the same gilded key to visitors who return it.
St Paul State Representative J O Melby introduces a bill imposing a 1000 dollar fine or one year in jail on candidates who break campaign promises. The measure would require candidates to file a list of promises with the secretary of state.
A Creighton and University of Nebraska student names several ballroom terms such as pump handle death grip bouncing ball clinging vine and rumble seat. The items are described as ballroom pastimes blacklisted by the author.
In New York, Senator Hugo L. Black emerges as the likely chief weapon in a Republican era clash with big business over the New Deal. Black’s Senate lobby committee is expected to expose perceived pernicious influence, as Wall Street and industry resist Roosevelt policies while Midwestern leaders fret about campaign dynamics and public sentiment.
The text notes Hugo has ample material and began a thorough inquiry before congress. Investigators have been examining his findings since adjournment, with more embarrassing questions anticipated. It contrasts big business in Washington as either protecting legitimate interests or being seen as subversive by New Dealers.
The argument centers on advertising rather than merits. Voters must decide if big business aims to fascize government or if labor seeks to communize it. The struggle is framed as a battle of public persuasion.
Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, returns to Madison Square Garden for a scheduled knockout test against Paulino Uzcudun. Louis rose to fame after beating Lee Ramage on December 14, 1934, and now faces a veteran Basque challenger in a highly anticipated bout.
A capacity crowd is expected to wager over 190000 as they watch the potential first man to knock Paulino off his feet.
Local firemen battled a car fire near the corner of Loudoun and Piccadilly streets yesterday afternoon. The blaze was nearly out when they arrived and was completely extinguished with little damage.
The Irish terrier resembles the wire hair fox terrier in outline but is larger and heavier and red in color. It should have a long lean build with small eyes and V shaped ears set high on the head.
Alice Penny runs a boarding house and faces a 720 dollar debt when tenant Andrew Darien must be asked to leave. She worries over money, notices a noise, and prepares to tell Darien to depart as a murder case quietly unfolds in the night air.
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