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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1934
Page
4
The Evening Star Publishing Co of Winchester Virginia lists subscription prices and advertising terms. Rates include mail options on a yearly basis and weekly carrier delivery. Advertising charges apply per word with minimum 25 cents and border ads require 10 AM submission. National reps are Devine Tenney in multiple cities.
The notice states that The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to AP dispatches and local news published in the paper and reserves reprinting rights for any news items credited or not credited to AP.
The Fellowship Club of Winchester urges the community to aid 600 children whose families are financially unable to provide Christmas joy. By calling on neighbors, the club aims to ensure all children share in Christmas cheer, noting past help brought happiness to hundreds of homes and promising to do so again this year.
The London naval conference hints at a need for better cross language understanding between the Oriental mind and English speakers in diplomacy. Terms like ally and disarmament may carry subtler meanings in Japanese, suggesting a translation gap and a possible deliberate fog in Japanese diplomacy.
The United States will conduct a permanent census of agriculture starting after New Year. An enumerator will record farm names, acreage, uses of land, and domestic animals. The census supports government programs affecting agriculture and marks a shift from the ad hoc 10 year census system established at the nation’s founding.
A page fragment presents quiz prompts from the Little Brown School House. Questions cover word origins and geography with brief answer keys. The items include the salamander origin, the capital of Pennsylvania, and biblical language as the Tower of Babel interruption.
The text notes the statistical agency has grown to likely be the world’s largest. Rural free delivery has enabled mail carriers to collect data for government needs. It suggests expansion to maintain accurate census and government statistics.
Two leading baby specialists say available knowledge on child rearing could produce stronger generations within generations. They cite advances in vitamins and disease prevention as improving health and dentition, but warn many babies miss proper care and nutrition due to poor distribution and teaching.
The 1934 Toyland season presents new ideas reflecting modern inventions and enduring joys for children and adults. Readers are urged to explore the toylands to recall the best of the Christmas season and the lasting memories they create through yearly visits.
A notable cast led by Claire Trevor Hugh Williams Norman Foster Henrietta Crosman and Gilbert Roland stars in Elinor Norton at Hable's Palace with preview audiences hailing it as a dramatic thunderbolt. The plot follows Flinor Norton a pampered heir to a wealthy family who must toil on a Montana farm amid barren love and murder on the snow covered ranges.
In tense dawn light Jake and Blane move through woods toward a house as a staged wireless message hangs over Greenleaf. The setup aims to draw a foe to Washington while Greenleaf battles fatigue, with the Countess arriving to probe his nerves and the fate of their operation undecided.
This Saturday the Colonial Theatre presents a double bill headlined by Inside Information starring Tarzan the police dog Rex Lease and Marion Shilling, and I Hate Women featuring Wallace Ford June Clyde and Fuzzy Knight. Also showing Buck Jones serial chapter 12 and a Charles Judels comedy Sea Nuts.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour total ending 8 p.m. at 0.38 inches for December to date 0.38 and year to date 35.50 inches. Twenty one year averages from Winchester Research Laboratory list monthly rainfall figures with January 2.41 inches through July 8.41 inches and December 2.34 inches.
Advertises Broncholine Emulsion as immediate relief from persistent coughs with claims of significant improvement after a few doses and money back guarantee by “All good Cruicists.”
All persons indebted to or having claims against the estate of Laura M. Bayliss are asked to call on M. M. Lynch, administrator, to settle. The notice cites deceased Laura M. Bayliss and requests prompt action on claims or debts.
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