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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1936
Page
6
The city library, citing a cramping three stack stories plan, seeks funds to add two more shelves and complete five tier capacity to hold about forty thousand volumes. Last year added 475 books despite budget limits, with 241 discarded and many donated, mended, or rebound by staff and volunteers.
The report lists attendees and borrowing stats for 1935 at the Winchester library. Attendance averaged 173 daily with total 53 277 and a peak of 374 on May 3. About 181 books were borrowed daily totaling 55 628 for the year, with a record 383 borrowed on February 23 and a low of 29 on May 3. 382 new borrowers were issued cards, including 42 non residents who paid deposits.
The Kelly Nash Democratic machine in Chicago backs Dr Herman N Bendesen above Gov Henry Horner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Bendesen received over a million votes in a 1929 coroner race, as the machine moves to sidetrack Horner in the April 14 primary.
Classified note seeks dairy farm suitable property to rent. responds to Star with “F” and date January 13, 1921. Short, plain ad describing rental need.
The colored residents’ branch library in the school building operated 166 days in 1935 with 399 books borrowed for home use. Public and educational groups used the rooms 87 times in the year, but overall activity lagged due to insufficient elementary books. Librarian C Vernon Eddy offers thanks to trustees and pledges improvement in the coming year.
In central Tibet certain tribes treat books as sacred objects worshiping them as the source of all knowledge.
Detroit researcher Christian Dan Fredericksen spent 207 on a telegram to the New Jersey board of pardons regarding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He has made a second plea asserting Hauptmann likely had help in the Lindbergh case. Fredericksen says he sends most messages to President Roosevelt Father Coughlin and Congress. He previously sent a 12 800 word message to the President on the state of the union.
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