Classified Advertising Rates and Notices 1939
Advertising rates include memorials and printed lines. Classifieds charged 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum. Display ads with border due by 9 PM prior to publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps listed. Associated Press rights noted. Saturday January 7 1939.
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Tenney- Woodward and Company, Inc
New York
Detroit
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Birds and Regimentation in the German Reich
The piece argues the most individualist birds resist uniformity more than a German hen, doubting even Herr Hitler could force a hungry hen to goose step to her nest and lay 140 eggs for the Reich’s glory.
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Hitler
Trivia Answers From Curious Reader Q A Collection
Reader quiz provides figures on tourist camps and homes in the United States in 1937, the Purple Heart history, 1938 baseball attendance, and other queries. Notable items include Sinking Creek in Kentucky, 21 980 500 acres burned, and the Inland Empire definition spanning Washington Oregon Idaho Montana.
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United States
American Automobile Association
Rocky
Cascade Mountains
Columbia River Plateau
Washington
Oregon
Panhandle
Idaho
Montana
Youth Hostel Movement Gains Ground Across Nation
The Youth Hostel movement expands from New England to California. Open to all under 25 for 1 dollar, with a 25 dollar option no age limit for group trips. Hosts provide supervision, cooking, and dormitory lodging near trails, echoing President Roosevelt’s praise of travel as education.
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United States
New England
California
Presient Roosevelt
Spiritual Conviction Theme From Romans Verse
A devotional excerpt emphasizes thanking God through Jesus Christ and serving the law of God with the mind while acknowledging the flesh’s tendency to sin, reflecting on Romans chapter seven verse twenty five.
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Jesus Christ
God
Rom
Curious Statement by Federal Reserve Chief on Debt Repayment
The Honorable Marriner Eccles argues that repaying debt is a misunderstanding of capitalism, challenging Byrd demands to curb spending. The piece suggests banks led by Eccles would seek more loans, while public officials protect their resources and tolerate taxpayer waste, implying higher taxes and greater debt if not restrained.
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Marriner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Byrd
Eccles
Truce Seen In Dies Committee Fight In Washington
Dispatches report Roosevelt and Representative Dies reached a temporary truce over the Dies committee on un American activities. Roosevelt said the Justice Department is tracing leads from the committee and Ickes canceled a planned speech titled Playing With Loaded Dies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Dies
Department of Justice
Ickes
Mr. Dies
Texas
New Deal
Madame Perkins
Murphy
Gallup
Hitler and the Hen
Germany faces a hen and feed shortage with eggs in short supply. The Reich Association of Breeders of Hens reports average German hens lay 80 to 90 eggs annually, but President Vetter says every hen must lay 140 eggs yearly. The Berliner Tageblatt carries the pledge as observers await further details.
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Germany
Reich Association of Breeders of
Vetter
Virginia billboard tax deadline and removal offer
Owners of sign boards along Virginia highways must notify the State highway department by January 15 to avoid removal at no cost under the new billboard law. Those who do not pay the tax or arrange removal will bear their own expense. The act regulates sign location and character, bans snipe signs, and requires an annual license for permitted boards.
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Virginia
State Highway Department
H. J. Neale
Virginia Highway Department
Why Bristow Is Not Reappointed by State Commission
The Lynchburg News notes Virginia State Banking Commissioner M E Bristow will not be reappointed by the State Corporation Commission. A successor has been announced with no stated reasons for the nonrenewal, no charges, no complaints. The paper voices concern that a semijudicial body should explain such changes.
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Lynchburg News
M. E. Bristow
Virginia State Banking Com
Missioner
State Corporation Commission
Mr. Bristow
Petersburg
Roosevelt Diary Feeds Inflight Work In Pullman Car
The Alexandria Gazette notes Eleanor Roosevelt journaling on trains in a Pullman drawing room. She peers at minutes from a conference on women education a one act play a New York city tax pamphlet and other reading as she travels to Washington and hosts a luncheon for Supreme Court wives attends a Goodwill sale meets callers and still finds time to write her diary.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Mrs. R
City of
New York
Literary Guild
Spain
Washington
Supreme Court
Goodwill Industries
Roosevelts
Wright and Clinton wed at First Baptist Church
Virginia Baker Wright and Charles Clinton, both of this city, are married in First Baptist Church. L. Harris has sold many lots in his new addition northeast of the city. R. N. Royston claims to have shot a 48 pound turkey Tom and a 27 pound hen while hunting recently on Blue Ridge near here.
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Virginia Baker Wright
Charles Clinton
First Baptist Church
L. Harris
R. N. Royston
Blue Ridge
Fourties Ago Death From Christmas Firework Injury
Forty years past Thomas Conner died from lockjaw due to blood poisoning after an infected hand from firing off firecrackers on Christmas day. J. R. Bailey is honored at Frederick Mall near the city with a surprise birthday party. William Carnell and Ella Spielman, of Hayfield, wed in Hagerstown.
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Thomas Conner
J. R. Bailey
Frederick Mall
William Carnell and
Ella Spielman
Hayfield
Hagerstown
1939 Budget Booklet Now Available
A Winchester Evening Star notice promotes the 1939 Household Budget Booklet as a practical thrift guide. It promises a monthly accounting page, budgeting tips, sample budgets, savings pointers, and insurance guidance. Enclose ten cents to receive the booklet by mail from the Information Bureau in Washington DC.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederick Haskin
Washington DC
Confidence Can Conquer Inferiority In Lame Boy
A New York teacher helps a disabled student gain confidence by linking success to a skill he can master. Watching, then trying rifle shooting rebuilt the boy from self-doubt to elite performance, inspiring broader study and eventual medical achievement. The method? provide a area to excel, boosting self esteem and ambition.
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Paul B. Mann
Evander Childs High School
New York
New York Board of Education
Professor Mann
Nocturnal campus intrigue at Rice over Holgate incident
The Houston Post leads Monday morning with Dr Thorn ton Holgate's hospitalization after a dramatic campus rescue. Bob Towne, Sara Sue Davis, and Peaches Pomeroy drive gossip as students, faculty, and staff react. T. J. Sanders seeks Sara Sue while Cleo counsels romance and practical help amid campus whispers.
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Dr. Holgate
Rice
Houston Post
Post
Bob Towne
Sara Sue Davis
Towne
E. O. Lovett
Harry B. Weiser
Galveston
Holgate
Bob
Peaches Pomeroy
Peaches
Davis
Swing slang of Baltimore's evening swing scene
A glossary of swing music slang with terms for instruments players and dancers. It lists phrases like clarinet for agony pipe, bass for belly fiddle, cornet for brass officer, drums for brave boy, and many others describing roles, actions, and attitudes in the swing culture.
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Baltimore Evening Sun
Agony Pipe
Alligators
Brave Boy
Cats
Corny
Dadhouse
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Detriot News
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
Hitler and the Hen
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World News
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Washington, D. C
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Puerto Rico
McNaught Syndicate
Association
Worthington Gurley
T. J. Sanders
T. J
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Mistah T. J
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