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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1935
Page
4
Daily Sunday edition details from The Evening Star Mshing Co. Winchester outline subscription prices by mail and carrier. It mentions consolidation with The Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror.
Advertising rates listed include 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum, 60 to 150 dollars for four stanzas, 75 cents for a Card of Thanks, and a 42 cent per inch transient rate. Display ads with border must be in the office by 10 A M on publication day. contract rates available. National representatives are Devine Tenney Corp. in several major cities.
The notice states The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republish all news dispatches credited to AP and all local news published in the paper. It asserts broad license to reproduce AP material and local items.
A Bible proverb quote appears in a garbled church text. It states that mercy comes to those who confess and forsake their sins, citing Proverbs 28 13. The fragment includes repeated lines and odd formatting.
Editorial urges the Winchester city council to unify relief work among the Red Cross District Nurse Association Welfare Board Emergency Relief Administration Salvation Army and others. It cites the Fellowship Club as a successful centralized model and recommends a citizen advisory body to coordinate distribution and reduce duplication during an acutely relief stressed period.
Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray nearing retirement warns the Oklahoma Legislature against brain busters called brain trusters aiming to damage the government. He implies Washington brain trust activity is fading, contrasts with Today magazine advice and notes speculation about Dr Rex amid the brain trust debate.
Hibbing Minnesota hosts the largest open pit iron mine, about 950 feet deep and extending two and a half miles long over roughly 1 070 acres.
A political note ponders Alfalfa Bill as a vigilant visionary in White House wine oversight while brain trust members depart Capitol Hill, folding tents and vanishing more quietly than a wagon train.
The Interstate Commerce Commission report prompts discussion on possible railroad rate hikes. Analysts note higher rates could push customers to buses cars and trucks while passenger fares may not rise. Some railroads have cut passenger rates and boosted freight income. Enhanced speed and comfort from streamlined oil locomotive trains may lure more travelers.
The article notes films will adapt Frank Merriwell, a famed dime novel hero, into a serial. It reviews dime novels as affordable thrillers once read in barns and fields, praising virtue and cautioning against oversexualized depictions while hoping film writers avoid turning Merriwell into a polygamist.
R J Scott explains a fjord as a long narrow sea inlet between high cliffs, identifies Die Wacht am Rhein as the German national anthem, and credits Ferdinand Count von Zeppelin as a key contributor to lighter than air flight.
Leila faces pressure from Orton over Bet's elopement while Jerr y Redmond aids her. In a Westchester night drive a romantic triangle forms amid Be t and Addy’s secrecy, Aunt Minnie’s world view, and town bathes beach tensions.
The island continent of Australia is about three million square miles, nearly matching the United States in area and width. Both nations are described as similar in expanse and overall breadth.
Present and past rainfall data show a 24 hour total ending 8 p.m. and year to date figures. The Winchester Laboratory 22 year average total is 34.61 inches with monthly averages listed for January through December. January to December monthly averages range from 1.94 to 3.88 inches.
Middletown Grange installs its officers for the coming year. Miss Carolyn Quantz and Mrs. Leo Miller will present Beethoven's Third Symphony tomorrow night. Mrs. Alberta F. Sherman, 67, dies here. Department of Justice sues a major Baltimore alcohol firm for over 8 million dollars in taxes. W. R. Legge presents a new farm adjustment program to Rotarians.
The Virginia legislature approves a Governor's salary of 10000 dollars per year and Governor Byrd becomes a private citizen. Items note local events including a Clarke County horse show president election and a destroyed Lee Baking Company plant by fire.
A Kernstown report recounts a turkey perched on a limb braving a gale. The bird clung to the limb as winds blew, but after the gusts its feathers were gone and it seemed headed for the frying pan.
The 1934 annual report by Rev W L Dudley shows 92 sermons and 77 talks, 905 pastoral calls, 12 additions including 5 by baptism and 7 by statement, 8 marriages, 7 funerals, average attendances 67 morning 56 evening, 130 Bible school, 46 Christian Endeavor. Membership is 232. Congregation raised 2594.95, paid 1104.10 on debt, Bible school 389.35, missions and benevolences 153.20. Hopeful for a better 1935.
The article explains payment dates for U.S. government officials. Minor officials receive pay on the fifteenth and last day of the month while Members of Congress and major officers such as the President and Vice President are paid on the last day of the month.
Berryville Virginia January 15 at the Clarke County stockholders annual meeting the Clarke County Horse Show association summarized a successful year. Officials reported solid entries strong interest and plans for upcoming events and improvements.
A 1935 newspaper notice lists several banks including Commercial and Savings Bank Union Bank of Winchester Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co Shenandoah Valley National Bank closing for the legal holiday Saturday January 19 1935. It directs that maturing paper be paid on Monday January 21 1935 and names bank cashiers John Slait Geo B Bushnell Joe Yoss Harold G Brown.
The Horse and Colt Show Association reported a surplus of 2120.42 after improvements of 679.77. With 600 shares outstanding 58 were bought last year. 418 shares were represented at the meeting which re elected John T. Lindsey as president and directors Lind sey Johnston Gilpin Bowles Warden Lindsey Levi Bell Hummer Dougherty Mickay Smith. Warden and Levi were chosen as delegates to the Virginia Horse Show Association meeting in Warrenton this month.
A local column argues that fear of lightning is needless and notes that bathtub accidents have greater fatality risk, urging calm and practical safety awareness.
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