Winchester Evening Star notices and rates page
The Winchester Evening Star page lists office hours and advertising rates, with 9 PM deadline for ads and a 45 cent transient rate per inch. It includes the newspaper’s Associated Press rights and subscription pricing, ending with a biblical verse from 1 Kings 8 56 dated Friday January 10 1941.
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Winchester
Star Publishing Co
Associated Ted Press
Associated Press
Eeeast
DeLisser-Boyd, Inc
New York
Richmond
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Rochester
Atd
San Francisco
Fanta An Sey
Mati
Building Boom Forecast For 1941 Exceeds 1930 Levels
The Architectural Forum and economists predict 1941 will be the strongest building year since 1930 with total construction at 7.7 billion dollars. Public and private spending rise, defense funds top 3.3 billion, housing and residential construction push toward 2.6 billion, but labor and material costs could derail gains.
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Architectural Forum
One Third Of State Employees Engaged In Highway Work
The article reports that highway work is the largest state government activity, with about one third of state employees in this field. It details regional variations, hospital staff percentages, welfare and protective services, general administration shares, natural resources staff, unemployment compensation, and other duties composing the remaining workforce.
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Council of State Governments
U. S
North Central
Council
Editorial Defense of U S Newspapers by Dr. Thorndike
Reprinted Petersburg Index opines on Dr. E L Thorndike Columbia analysis of American papers. It defends impartiality and asserts papers are not mere commercial tools despite critiques by Ickes and other New Deal figures. It argues papers provide information and arguments enabling public choice and warns against dictatorship era manipulation.
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Petersburg
Index
Ickes
New Deal
E. L. Thorndike
Ogy
Columbia University
Thorndike
Dr. Thorndike
United States
Roosevelt
A Liar Can't Negotiate Peace Talks
The speaker condemns negotiating with Hitler calling him the biggest liar who breaks contracts. He argues the war should end now and notes Hitler's word and signature are worthless. He warns that peace on paper would require an honest partner, which Britain lacks if negotiating with him.
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Hitler
Birth of a daughter to Dr and Mrs Madden noted
In other years notes announce the birth of a daughter to Dr and Mrs James Madden. E R Combs is nominated without opposition for clerk of the state senate. Winchester accepts a $12000 state grant to build an armory community center with local funds.
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James Madden
E. R. Combs
Senate
Winchester
Winchester Names McElligott New Telephone Office Manager
Led. McElligott is named to succeed J.T. Yates as manager of the C. & P. Telephone office here, Yates is promoted to commercial supervisor. Seven of Winchester's automobile dealers report a total of 2,200 used cars sold in 1935. Council votes to hire engineers to estimate the cost of developing a new water supply for the city.
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Led
McElligott
J.T. Yates
Yates
Winchester
Miss Eddy Dies After Long Illness in Local Community
Miss Emma Alice Eddy dies at an advanced age after a prolonged illness. John H. Snyder and George H. Snyder are named defendants in a $10 000 damage suit arising from an auto accident in which Ray Bowley was killed. A man and a woman who tried to fly the first payload to France are still reported missing.
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Emma Alice Eddy
John H
George H. Snyder
Ray Bowley
Atlantic
France
Jabez
Mark
Alice
Mrs. Gould
Wetuxet
Cary
Diplomatic Drive, GOP Split Rumors Middle Years Ago
Twenty five years ago tensions rose as the United States and Germany moved toward diplomatic action against the Allies. Progressives speculated Roosevelt faction pressure on the GOP convention. J Haldeman hosted a Mutual Farmers Club meeting while John Thwaite urged county road upkeep ideas.
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U. S
Germany
Roosevelt
Haldeman
Mutual Farmers Club
John Thwaite
Cedar Grove couple honored on 25th wedding anniversary
Forty years ago Mr and Mrs C B Smith are feted by friends in Cedar Grove for their 25th anniversary. Hope rises for a 25000 appropriation from Congress to build a monument to General Daniel Morgan in Mt Hebron where he is buried. John Silver finds carvings on rocks on his farm off the Front Royal pike with some calling them Indian work.
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C. B. Smith
Cedar Grove
Hope
Congress
General Daniel Morgan
Mt. Hebron
John Silver
Front Royal Pike
Dr Clendening Answers Health Quiz On Cottage Cheese Meat Substitutes
Reader questions explore cottage cheese as a meat substitute with 112 calories per 100 grams, 75 percent water and 20.9 percent protein, compared with porterhouse steak at 280 calories per 100 grams. The piece also covers beef veal pork nutrition, chewing gum effects, liver spots, tea and blood pressure, and available Dr Clendening pamphlets.
Answers To Questions By Frederic J Haskin in The Winchester Evening Star
Reader can obtain factual answers from The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau directed by Frederic J Haskin in Washington DC. The page lists questions answered on topics from Jack Johnson’s reign as heavyweight champion to dew formation and the origin of the phrase by rule of thumb.
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Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, DC
The
Winchester Evening Star
Arenes
Frederick J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Painless Budgeting Booklet Promises Easy Household Thrift
The 1941 Household Budget Booklet offers a monthly accounting page, 20 pages of guidance on spending saving and investing and model budgets for every incomePrinted on special paper to preserve ink or pencil records Available through the Washington Information Bureau price ten cents postpaid Mail order form enclosed includes name address and payment to Washington DC.
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Washington Information Bureau
Seven test questions from The Star Ouiz page
The items ask about polar waters, Confederate pensions, the first White House occupant, Henry George economics, a noted English dramatist noted for vegetation, weight differences at equator and poles, citizenship for Social Security eligibility, the painter of A Reading from Homer, Panama Canal length, and the highest continental US peak.
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North Pole
White House
Henry George
United States
Panama Canal
Continental
Correct Pronunciation of Necessary in Modern Speech
A language note explains the word necessary has four distinct syllables nes e sa ri, not nesary as commonly mispronounced.
Murder Makes a Hero Elliott Fillid Chapter Twenty Two
The Essex family assists old Jabez after a house intruder targetting a safe. Chief Crane questions grounds, servants, and motives while Cary checks the safe and plans care for Jabez. The intruder is thwarted, Jabez recovers, and Mrs Gould reorganizes the serving routine as the mystery deepens.
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Jabez
Cary
Janet
Kaye
Essex
Mark
Frank Crane
Wetuxet
Crane
Barstow
Captain Essex
Central
Super-Highway Rakes In Cash
Pennsylvania's 70 million dollar super highway earned 562 666 in tolls in its first three months. The road runs 160 miles between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh with a 3 percent grade and opened last October 1. Officials estimate tolls at current level would pay the highway in 12 to 18 years pending traffic.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Those Army Cops Play No Favorites
Fort Dix New Jersey dispatch notes Army MPs enforce traffic rules impartially. An incident shows a military policeman saluting Capt. Ernest Steading and asking where he is going, then remarking on a speed violation as the captain continued.
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Fort DIX
N. J
M. P
Ernest Steading
Jobless Man Dies In Blast In Buffalo Hotel
A 38 year old unemployed construction worker died in a Buffalo hotel lobby explosion apparently started by dynamite. Police identified the victim as W. D. Wright of Rochester, noting the blast broke up chairs lamps and scattered the body. The report also notes five persons were lynched in 1939 per Tuskegee Institute statistics.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Thomas V. Meegan
W. D. Wright
Rochester
Ford
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H. PF. Byrd, JR
Charlotte Observer
Britain
Dr. Clendening
By Logan Clendening, M. D
Clendening
W. W
Logan Clendening
Jack Johnson
Public Health Service
A. Jack Johnson
C. A
John
William
Post Office Department
A. K
Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
I. W
David Warfield
David Wohlfelt
Warfield
O— Q
Dilworth W. Woolley
Rockefeller Institute
Ouiz
Scott
R. J. Scott
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Capitol
Washington
Frederick MD
Francis Scott Key
iBez
Murder
Elliott Fillid
Spee
E. S
Tuskegee Institute
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