Winchester Evening Star Classified Advertising Notice
Advertising rates listed for the Winchester Virginia Star include 2 cents per word for classifieds with 25 cent minimum and border display options. Transient rate is 45 cents per inch with national reps across major cities.
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Winchester
Bod
Cinse
Bijnine Star Publishing Co
Coc
Tenneywerd and Conklin, Inc
New York
Detroit City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atta
Los Angeles
Prayer Excerpt Appears In Historic Page
A brief devotional line from a historic newspaper page offers a verse and plea for grace. The fragment reflects religious content likely included as a religious or devotional element within a broader periodical.
Moore's Redistricting Bill Aims to Study Apportionment
Winchester Frederick and Clarke delegates report Blackburn Moore offered a bill to create a nine member commission to study legislative apportionment and propose changes after the 1940 census. The panel would hold hearings and report to the governor and General Assembly sixty days before the next session. Redistricting is overdue, with districts out of line and reform sought.
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Rust Redistricting Commission
Assembly
Blackburn Moore
Woman Thou Art Grand From Paris in 1940 Style
A fashion overview extols the 1940 woman as best dressed since Cleopatra. It notes innovations like cellophane rayon and chromium buckles but emphasizes personal style and resilience amid war and depression. The piece idolizes the well dressed woman as timeless chic.
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Paris
Cleopatra
Milady
U S Tennis Ready for Davis Cup Challenge Postwar
The piece notes Australia won the Davis Cup last year led by Bromwich and Quist. It says neither player can compete as they are called to arms, leaving the United States with a weaker team and arguing for waiting to allow Australia to rebuild, stressing sportsmanship and wartime restraint.
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U. S
Australia
Jack Bromwich
Quist
Bromwich
United States
Repeal era liquor poll tips and looming anti liquor drive
The piece reviews Gallup data showing majority favor strict enforcement without returning to prohibition. It notes 34 percent dry and 66 percent wet, trends since repeal, and local gains for drys amid lax enforcement. It cites anticipated anti temperance efforts, a Richmond conference, and a proposed ten cent tax to fund education programs.
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Newport News Times-Herald
Hoover
Gallup
South
General Assembly
Anti-Saloon League
Richmond
Price
Floyd W. Reeves
The
American Youth Com
Supervised Work Experience For At Risk Youth
The article discusses creating programs that combine supervised work experience with ongoing education during the transition from school to employment. It questions which public agency should lead, whether federal, state, or local, or a mix used experimentally at multiple government levels. It views the program as educational, welfare, or mission oriented.
Branner Won't Seek Re election From Shawnee District
In 1939 month end report clerks show 132 marriage licenses issued, five months ahead of 1938. W H Branner veteran Shawnee supervisor says he will not seek office again. U S Senate rejects Floyd G Roberts nomination as Federal judge for Virginia.
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Circuit and Corporation Courts
W. H. Branner
Board of Supervisors
Shawnee
U.S. Senate
Floyd G Roberts
Virginia
Robbery at Market Street church during Sunday service
Five years ago the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stretchberry was robbed while they attended church. The robber took the Sunday morning collections from Market Street church where Mr Stretchberry was in charge of funds. Also noted are congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Blair Funkhouser on the birth of a daughter on January 11.
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J. A. Stretchberry
Market Street Church
Stretchberry
Blair Funkhouser
Roanoke College Player Mons League Debut and City Council Race
Frank Ritter, ex Handley athlete, joins Roanoke College basketball for a second year. United States and Japanese Naval delegates meet in London to discuss ship ratio misunderstanding. Lawrence Hollis Peyton Marshall Ben Davis and John H. Rosenberger announce for city council opposing six incumbents.
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Frank Ritter
Handley
Roanoke
United States
Great London
Lawrence Hollis
Peyton Marshall
Ben Davis
John H. Rosenberger
Cedar removal safe for land amid cedar rust law case
Entomologists state cutting cedar trees will not injure land in a test case against the Glass heirs under cedar rust law. Mr and Mrs Kern announce the marriage of their daughter Jess Kern to Alexander W Kenney of Staunton amid young couple note. Reports from Paris Petrograd New York indicate heavy fighting on eastern and western fronts as German forces launch a major offensive at Arras.
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Bentley Kern
Jess Kern
Alexander W. Kenney
Staunton
New York
Paris
Petrograd
Arras
Forty Years Ago Friendship Fire Co votes for incandescent system
Forty years ago the Friendship Fire Company voted to install an incandescent light system in their building. A fire at a residence while occupants slept narrowly spared Mr and Mrs Al Fletcher and their child from a deadly outcome.
Seven Quiz Questions From The Daily Page
The Daily Quiz presents seven questions on topics from botany to geography and sports. It asks about the softest wood, wartime naturalization, the Roman god of dreams, women’s suffrage timing, sycamore tree aliases, a capital of New Zealand, Monte Pearson’s sport, vertebrate animals, the highest peak in South America, and Vice President Garner’s birthplace.
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United States
Meee
New Zealand
Monte Pearson
South America
Garner Born
Caffeine Content Compared In Beverages
A archived note states that caffeine in coffee and tea varies by weight with tea leaves containing about twice the caffeine of coffee beans. It references R. J. Scott and a claim about stimulants in coffee and tea products.
Today’s Common Error Guideline Note
A brief reminder on phrasing preferencing direct causation and avoiding vague constructions. It advises using due only when it modifies a noun and avoiding phrases like arrived late because of a misunderstanding.
Lenten Diet Plan Aimed at Easter Weight Loss
Diet column by Logan Clendening, M D outlines a 40 day reducing plan for Lent aimed at losing 10 to 15 pounds by Easter. It lists daily menus with breakfast lunch and dinner options balancing vitamins, minerals and calories around 1100 per day.
Conservative Doctors View Bile Salt Arthritis Therapy
Doctors are cautious about the new bile salt treatment for arthritis noting it is too early for definitive verdicts. Observations from Hench at Mayo Clinic show jaundice can briefly relieve symptoms in many patients, with relief lasting weeks to years in some cases.
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Hench
Mayo Clinic
Thompson and Wyatt
Tucson
Arizona
Queries on kidney stones tonsil health and crippled children
A column answers reader questions on kidney stone dissolution none available. Tonsil enlargement sight and hearing effects discussed, tonsils not cancerous. Foot reflexes and nervous system linked to cold sweating, treatment includes formalin foot soaks and hot cold baths. About 365000 crippled children reported in the United States.
Brent and Myra clash over Romany Haile in radio drama
Brent Nelson, an ambitious announcer, confronts Myra Noyes in his apartment after she accuses Romany Haile of being a gold digger. Myra reveals alleged secrets about Brent, Romany, and Terry O’Rourke, culminating in Myra’s violent outburst and a threat to reveal more as the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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Romany Haile
Cholly O'Neil
Brent Nelson
Romany
Dover Hayworth
Cholly
Myra Noyes
Brent
Terry O'Rourke
Chelli Baxter Tree
Myra
Mfany
Brun
Ran
Othe
Joe
Sticks
Europe
Cissie Harlowe
Indiana U
Nelson
Answers to Questions from Frederic J Haskin
The Winchester Evening Star presents a Q and A column where Frederic J. Haskin answers readers questions on toll bridges in 1939, Pearl Buck’s The Exile, Billy Direct the pacing horse, daily newspaper closures, and other facts. It lists Morse as the author of early geographies and notes stamps first issued at the Columbian Exposition and notable women of 1939.
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Pearl
Everyday's Cook Book Promises Practical Recipes
The Winchester Evening Star advertises Everyday's Cook Book with nearly 300 tested recipes plus sections on table setting marketing advice and cooking time tables. Readers are urged to enclose fifteen cents to cover cost and request a copy by mail.
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The
Winchester Evening Star
Frederick J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
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A. Jedidiah Morse
Woodstock Academy
Yale College
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New York Times
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David Hume
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