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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star advertises post office second class mail options with annual and quarterly prepaid rates. Classified rates are 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum, while obituaries cost 1.50 for four stanzas and cards of thanks are 5 cents. Display ads with borders must be submitted by 10 a.m. Transient rates are 42 cents per line inch. contract rates available. National reps listed in several cities.
This item states that The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to its news for republication and that local news published in the paper may be credited to AP or to the paper as credited. The notice explains reprint rights and attribution requirements for AP content.
A religious excerpt centers on God's promise to seek and rescue His sheep as described in Ezekiel 34 11, reinforcing divine guidance and care. The verse emphasizes active salvation and pastoral oversight.
Edwin S. Reid, head of the Richmond motion picture censors division, says recent films are unusually clean. He credits last year’s strong public push against offensive content, including boycotts in many cities, with elevating screen standards nationwide.
The piece weighs how presidents seeking renomination often influence their party selection. It cites examples from Jefferson to Grant, Coolidge, Wilson, and Van Buren, noting defeated incumbents usually have limited sway. It concludes with Grover Cleveland as a rare parallel and suggests Hoover’s 1936 path may center on veto power rather than direct nomination.
The note suggests cautious optimism about Mr. Hoover's interest in history with acknowledgment that he may not be interested.
The text explains memory traces hardened by rest and how learning is aided when sleep occurs after studying. It notes the conscious and subconscious mind cooperate, arguing waking learning followed by sleep improves retention, with some suggesting memorizing after a good sleep or in the early morning.
A critical editorial argues reforms are needed in judicial procedure. It cites burdensome courts, confusing evidentiary rules, and outsized costs as reasons for slow modernization and the untapped potential for taxpayer savings by business leaders who rarely engage in governance.
The article notes public dread of Congress sessions and argues that the adjournment on August 31 after eight months brings equanimity. It suggests a short session signals big work is finished and that further large undertakings would hinder efficiency.
A national safety director cites three main causes of traffic accidents defects of mind or body lack of skill and taking chances The latter stands as the most common factor and includes optimistic belief in luck and assuming others will move aside The piece notes these mindsets blur together and affect both drivers and pedestrians with hundreds of thousands of yearly admissions.
Winchester's men's club basketball team played at home against Hagerstown, losing 43 to 32. Crowl led with 16 points, while Metz 13, Wievel 12, and Hart 9 key the visitors’ balanced scoring. Next game remains December 18 in Hancock, Maryland.
In Pasadena California December 13 a surge of applications for the Stanford Southern Methodist Rose Bowl game swamped Al Masters office. More than 200000 seats were requested for a stadium of 84600 capacity. Postmen deliver new batches daily as rejections depart with the mail.
The article describes Ethiopians as a melting pot of Africans and Asiatics with contributions from ancient Palestine and Arabia, noting various bloodlines. It asserts Ethiopians claim a strong relationship to Semites and highlights diverse ancestral roots.
One year ago W Nelson Page was named chairman of the newly formed City Planning Commission. Mrs John M Fries 83 dies at Cedar Grove in the county. Three judge federal jury hears arguments at Harrisonburg in the Park eviction suite. Many persons die in a hotel fire in Lansing Michigan.
The standard brick measures 2% by 3% by 8 inches. Four and one half bricks laid flat cover one square foot, while seven bricks laid on edge cover a square foot. Joints, quarter inch wide, are filled with cement grout.
Reported rainfall for the past 24 hours ending 8 a.m. shows 0.12 inches with December to date at 0.72 inches and year to date at 34.06 inches. The 22 year average is 34.61 inches per year with monthly averages listed for January through December.
In a five year retrospective a colored merchant George H Magruder leaves an estate valued at four thousand five hundred dollars. The article notes a 30s robbery of a Baltimore financier and wife of three thousand nine hundred dollars in valuables while listening to a radio. Co S W Barnes aged eighty two a Winchester bar former member dies in a Washington sanatorium. A barn fire east of the city from a lantern destroys Jacob Beans barn with four thousand dollar loss.
The quiz lists three questions and answers: the desert wander lasted forty years. the country has about fifty million church members not counting under thirteen. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born 1865 and died 1923, was known as the little cripple with a giant mind for his work on the induction regulator the metallic electrode arc lamp and an electric automobile.
Ten years ago Mrs. William E. Cooper died of angina. Congressman T. W. Harrison introduces bill to appropriate $20 or a monument in Mount Hebron Cemetery to General Daniel Morgan. Greece ordered to pay $249,000 indemnity to Bulgaria after border clash. White Cargo shown all week at Empire Theatre. Potomac Joint Stock Land Bank to increase capital stock by $250,000 subject to stockholder and Federal Farm Loan Board approval.
A collection of brief quirky items from across the country. Included are a missing grand juror found in a county court room in Manilla and his claim of daily reporting. a Philadelphia card game raid case over $42 with $297 court costs. John Demuth plans bee expansion in Batavia amidst winter travel. a Utah quip about aging appearance. Cesare Robbiano’s sidewalk stumble. Chicago prison meals decree of three meals daily. Salt Lake City police hunt for a missing dog belonging to Chief Payne.
Mrs Amanda Beaver a spry Dodge City woman with a 9 percent claim displays a new permanent wave hairstyle. She emphasizes women must take care of appearances and proudly touches her snow white coiffure.
In Des Moines L Carl Dickinson resisted the fake snipe hunt and headed back to camp. He was later fooled and became lost in the woods, demonstrating the old prank’s potential consequences.
The piece surveys tax prospects under the social security law, possible reform in Congress, and party battles in Washington and New York. It notes a Republican revolt west of the Mississippi, potential nominees Borah and Landon, and congressional debates over funding.
Twenty five years ago Roy T Marshall 27 is buried. Prof Cooper D Schmitt UT mathematics dean and Wood stock native dies in Knoxville. Judge T W Harrison presides over Norfolk County Court as Norfolk seeks annexation. John H Sumpton 65 Harrisonburg native sought for alleged wife murder and body in trunk dumped in Lake Como.
Alice Penny, boarding house proprietress, faces missing carving knife and pressure to oust Andrew Darien who lent her funds. A late-night intruder, Miss Cambridge, and the household stir around a crime frame as Penny plans to repay Darien and unravels a tense night.
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