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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1937
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists editor H F Byrd Jr at Winchester Virginia with publication daily except Sundays. It provides subscription and advertising rates including memorials and display ads, with deadlines and payment terms for advertisers.
A compact reflection on Isaiah 5 8 condemning those who amass land and holdings to the point of crowding out others. The verse warns of social imbalance when houses and fields are joined until no space remains for the rest of society.
President Roosevelt presented Congress with a broad five point program to reorganize the federal government. Proposals include new cabinet posts Social Welfare and Public Works expansion of Civil Service to all non policy determining posts creation of six executive assistants and an independent Auditor General replacing the Comptroller General. The plan also calls for strengthening the budget bureau and renaming the Interior Department the Department of Conservation. The report warns that mere regrouping wastes work and that economy requires abolishing unnecessary bureaus and boards.
The Kansas City Star questions whether persistent grumbling during lean years was excessive, noting a tendency to overdo both complaints and ballyhoo in boomed eras. It argues humanity adapts through cyclical up and down progress and that most learning occurs in brief mid periods.
An Irish newspaper reports a missed item from Saturday a sack with a ham inside was lost. The sack bears the letters M. T. though worn and illegible. No location or time of loss is known.
In Providence a worker named Mike is told off for standing atop a tree as it is being felled. He replies he learned from a past incident when a tree fell on him, vowing safety this time. The exchange captures a tense moment on the job and the crew’s caution.
A Jackson Mississippi paper cites a writer declaring an alligator may live 800 years but has no soul. The note comments on long waits for travel to nowhere. The item also mentions a man who lost his memory in a New York burlesque show, with the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch remarking on stripped content.
The Star prints a Seventh Day Adventist appeal explaining Sabbath observance as God’s holy day, a sign of creation and redemption, and a commandment binding through ages. The writer George H. Clark urges following Jesus by keeping the laws and honors the Sabbath as eternal and memorial.
A reader can get factual answers by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau Frederic J. Haskin director Washington D C. Enclose three cents for reply. Questions span car registrations 1936 28 5 million, cost of numbers game around 300 million, age ten weeks for Long Island ducklings, and many trivia items about Pope Adrian VI Hiram Walker sign details and Shakespearean and musical inquiries.
A compact roundup of notable past events and incidents from Winchester and Clarke County, including Kipling and Earhart in town, a fatal fall, a deadly explosion, charter changes, park plans, and historic dates. Also notes on typhoid, a brutal murder, bank anniversaries, and council politics.
In London a broom seller built a solid trade until a rival offered cheaper brooms. A customer explains the cheaper option winced by a twist: the rival steals brooms already made while the original mixes raw materials and crafts them himself. The tale ends with a sharp remark on the rival’s methods.
Senator Marvel M Logan sees relief from the depression due to inflationary policy and Roosevelt’s approach to keeping industries alive. Senator Capper supports antiwar sentiment but warns that defining war should be for the White House to decide amid shifting party alignments following Lemke’s congressional comeback.
European factories test artificial yarns yet cannot surpass the chatter of statesmen. The Union League of New York plans to admit loyal Democrats while loyalty to the party is not required. Bulgaria avoids mood swings but should stay modest. Spain escapes World War involvement. A London boxer faints en route to a fight, a collapsible heavyweight novelty. A smart child asks for extra weekly allowance as a pension for Christmas toy soldiers. February is the shortest month, easing March tax concerns.
Ray Robinson born in Kirkville Missouri February 22 1883 attended Frederick County public schools S V A and Washington and Lee University 1908 L L B practiced law in Salem Oregon then in Winchester Virginia organized Shenandoah Valley Apple Cider and Vinegar Co in 1910 remains manager and secretary treasurer active in orchards since 1909 director at Farmers and Merchants National Bank secretary of Winchester Cold Storage Co member of City School Board and Quaker Church board married Ida Helen Robinson of Danville Va has two sons Kenneth and Ray Jr hobby is experimenting with apple orchards
In a mansion at the abbey, Sir Henry Severing’s murder ties Jack Reid and Sir Henry’s widow Lady Hilda to a will that empowers the butler James. Eric Colindale, shadowed by risk and romance, argues over marriage to shield assets while governess Sylvia Lawrence navigates a perilous path amid jealous relatives and looming revelations.
Margaret Bell Ferrington, 17, wore oversized riding boots and slipped her toe into a leopard cage at a Tulsa zoo. The leopard bit her but the boot kept her foot trapped until keepers retrieved it. The boot tore apart, leaving tattered remnants in the cage.
A Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch aphorism notes that stockings not fully filled should be hung, and adds that most men cannot sew yet should mend their ways, underscoring practical thrift and domestic virtue in a tongue in cheek way.
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