Winchester Evening Star policy and notices overview
The Winchester Evening Star outlines publication details, pricing for subscriptions and ads, and classified rates. It notes memorials and cards of thanks priced per line, display ads due by 9 PM prior day, and national ad representatives. The paper is a daily publication with Sunday edition and AP affiliation.
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Justice Dept to Strictly Enforce Anti-Trust Provisions
President appoints Mr. Frank Murphy as attorney general pledging no laxity in anti-trust prosecutions. The policy echoes the Democratic platform of 1932 urging stronger enforcement to curb monopoly and unfair trade, criticizing past inaction under NRA and prior DOJ leadership.
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Relief Funding Debate: Relief Roll Reforms Proposed
Washington reports show a compromise on relief appropriations. Roosevelt seeks 875 million for WPA, House cuts 150 million, Senate stalemated. Plan would keep current relief rolls through cold season. Editorial argues against denying summer relief, urges purging waste and undeserving recipients, and warns against graft while allowing adequate funding if needed.
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Parking Meters Adopted by 100 Cities Nationwide
About 100 cities use parking meters to ease congestion in business districts as the International City Managers' Association reports. Nickels dominant. Auburn New Jersey uses pennies for twelve minute slots. Court decisions vary with meters upheld in several states but illegal in Alabama in two cases. An early New York law allows meters statewide except New York City with all income for traffic control.
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Colonel Ruppert and the Rise of the Yankees
Colonel Jacob Ruppert, NY Yankees owner, built a powerful postwar team with Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy. Under his leadership the club won ten pennants and seven world titles while shaping the modern slugging style led by Ruth Gehrig and DiMaggio. Americans mourn his passing as the nation loses a beloved baseball magnate.
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Virginia Tourist Trade Decline Prompts State Action
The Lynchburg News notes Virginia’s tourist traffic fell in the last quarter of 1938 versus the same period a year earlier. Roanoke Times and Richmond News Leader urge study by the State Conservation Commission to identify weather, advertising, counter attractions, and business conditions as possible causes.
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Virginia legislature backs anti billboard measure in brief session
In a brief session the Virginia legislature favors a bill against outdoor advertising. State women's clubs push the measure as part of a broader reform effort. Stanley Reed wins Senate Judiciary Committee approval to become Supreme Court justice replacing Sutherland. W Nelson Page will replace D J Howard as president of the Central Relief Association of Winchester guiding 1938 fundraising drive.
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Public speaking winners crowned in Lee sponsored event
Five years ago Elizabeth Keeler and Carter Baker, Hand ley students, won a public speaking contest sponsored by a local U D C chapter. An outbreak of typhoid fever was reported in Mt Falls county section and teacher Mrs Edna Cleaver died with several pupils ill. The president ordered curtailment of wages and hours for PWA workers as funds near exhaustion.
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Ten Years Go Restaurant Fire and Fatalities Reported
Ten years since Jackson's restaurant on East Cecil Street caught fire believed incendiary. A dozen or more deaths are reported by the Associated Press after a severe cold sweep across the north middlewestern region. Supervisors plan a short road linking the North Frederick Pike with apple storage plants and the Martinsburg pike. William J. Grubbs, 67, longtime invalid, dies at his Clarke County home.
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Memorial tribute to General Lee and anti trust message
Major John Calvin Hemphill delivers a memorial tribute to General Lee. President Wilson presents his anti trust message before Congress signaling a stance against big business. Harrisonburg Normal College students stage a suffrage demonstration. M C Garvin of Gore Virginia is injured when shaft failure causes a runaway horse pulled carriage.
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Gambling vice sermon frames city woes in week of prayer
In a week of prayer sermon at Grace Lutheran Church minister labels gambling as a top city vice. Sam Noakes injures his hand with a chisel while working on the new post office interior. Merchants foresee an ice plant joining local industries. Joseph T. Brown wins a bean jar guessing contest at Sarah Zane bazaar with a pair of Star shoes.
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Answers to Questions Inquiries Offered By Star Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin directs The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington D C and invites readers to mail questions with three cents for a factual answer.
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Watches survive fall tests via miniature shock absorbers
A Swiss watch maker tested wrist watches by dropping them from an airplane. Watches hit ground at 18 miles per second and did not stop working due to miniature shock absorbers that prevent balance wheel damage.
When Job Loss Sparks a New Calling for Herbert Spencer
A 1939 McNaught Syndicate piece tells how a Birmingham and London Railway engineer, fired at 26, found purpose in geology and philosophy. He read Lyell, wrote First Principles, and built a life’s work, proving career setbacks can spark lasting achievement.
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Ambition and schemes swirl in campus romance tale
Peaches Pomeroy hatches a plan to ruin widow Sara Sue Davis by discrediting her in the eyes of Bob Towne. Worthington Gurley, a freshman 18, is roped into a campus prank at the University Club hat check, as sophomores plot mischief including a prank with a bull.
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Lee statue proposal for Arlington sparks political debate
Richmond Times Dispatch notes Representative Hamilton Fish favors erecting a Robert E. Lee statue in Arlington National Cemetery. He plans to fund raise himself, says $40,000 could be collected in New York, and hopes to avoid 1861 65 echoes while pushing the idea without federal appropriation.
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