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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1933
Page
4
The text lists publication mergers with The Associated Press and notes pricing for various subscription options and advertising representation in New York Atlanta Chicago and Detroit. It reflects consolidation and rate terms for a Winchester based news service.
Fragment from a religious text urging trust in God. Mentions hoping in the Lord and praising him as the health of the convenante. Includes biblical verse cues and references to Psalm numbers.
Maxwell Halsey of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters urges walkers to follow common sense rules to reduce deaths and injuries. He advises against crossing against signals, diagonally, from between cars, or where vision is blocked, and stresses facing oncoming traffic and clear paths at streetcars and hills.
The piece reviews three years of leaders failing to predict economic trouble, noting lower production and prices, higher losses, rising unemployment, and widespread distress. It cites shaken confidence and lingering gloom as 1932 ends and 1933 begins, with hysteria among some influential groups.
A Petersburg Progress-Index reflection notes the commercial aspects of Christmas while cautioning against losing sight of its deeper meanings. The piece contrasts market activity with the holiday’s spiritual significance and social impact.
The piece notes shoppers seek satisfactory prices and practical gifts, with buyers trading ties and socks for better suits or hats. It predicts increased consumer activity as holiday cash gifts convert into merchandise, hoping for a broader consumption rebound with normal conditions returning.
John J. Raskob and party leaders discuss prohibition policy. Winchester license fees affect businessmen. Local baseball teams begin spring practice around February 14. In police court last year 70 were acquitted. Babe Ruth comments on salary. Fredgw. Forney reelected president of Friendship Fire Company. Former Governor E. Lee Trinkle backs pay-as-you-go road funding. Red Cross aims for 5 million members in 1928. James N. Moling reelected captain of Sarah Zane Fire Company. Douglas Brown remains head of Rouss Fire Company.
Public installation at 7 30 o clock Sunday evening in the First Baptist Church announced by the Rev E T Clark. Newly elected officers of the church and all organizations will be installed including Sunday School Woman's Missionary Union Young People's Union Workers and church officials. A baptismal service will follow.
A branch of the Christian Endeavor Society is organized at Stines Chapel and will meet first at 7 30 Sunday evening and then on the second Sunday each month. William Cochran and Edward Daugherty lead music. officers include Robert Newlin president Miss Emily Hawkins vice president Miss Pansy Butler secretary and Miss Mary Elizabeth Carpenter treasurer.
The report shows past 24 hour rainfall none, January to date 0.02 inches, year to date 0.02 inches. It lists 20 year average precipitation 34.53 inches and monthly averages by month from February to December ranging 2.15 to 3.81 inches.
The Upsallata Pass in the Andes within Mendoza province Argentina provides a transcontinental railway link between Buenos Aires and Valparaiso through a high altitude tunnel of 9 843 feet above sea level. The pass sits near the Chilean border in the northwest of Mendoza.
Araminta, the beloved daughter of Mary and Nick, grows into a striking beauty who outshines her stepsisters Leontine Helen and Iris. Leontine suggests sending Araminta to Europe to reduce the spotlight, causing friction as Araminta resists both marriage pressures and reliance on family wealth while Barney Tyson plans for their future. The family debates a summer in Europe as tensions rise.
Betty Compson returns to Hable's Palace in Guilty or Not Guilty a mystery melodrama praised as highly entertaining. Also showing are West the Tale with Tom Howard and chapter 5 of The Hurricane Express. Tomorrow Edwina Booth and Duncan Renaldo star in Trapped In Tia Juana.
Mystery drama answers a long riddle as Karen Morley and Ricardo Cortez star in The Phantom of Crestwood at Capitol Theater. The production opens today and draws radio audience curiosity.
Buck Jones arrives in town for the Western feature Hello Trouble at Colonial. He portrays a Texas Ranger with Lina Basquette as the leading lady in a film said to deliver extra thrills.
The article lists dugout canoes in streams feeding the St. Lawrence, a willow frame tub boat on the Mississippi, and birchbark canoes used in Alaska and east of the Rockies, noting regional boat techniques along with a quote about sarcasm and vanity from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Public auction of the Linden A Singhass trust on December 3 1929 conveys no longer. The sale of a 60 by 400 foot parcel at 1607 Valley Avenue Winchester Va will occur January 31 1933 at 11 AM. Terms: one third cash, balance in two yearly installments secured by bonds and deed of trust. Auctioneer I Brumback. Trustee Herbert B. S. Larrick.
Public sale of the McGlathery residence in Winchester Virginia authorized by a 1928 deed of trust. The lot at 19 East Leicester Street fronting 40 feet, improved by a two story brick dwelling, will be offered January 4 1933 at 11 am with cash on day of sale and remaining payments in two annual installments. The sale was adjourned to January 14 1933 at the same time and place.
The Red River of the North rises in western Minnesota near the headwaters of the Mississippi. It flows north between Minnesota and North Dakota, passes into Manitoba, Canada, and discharges into Lake Winnipeg.
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