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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1934
Page
4
Rates listed for fall subscriptions including two week to one year terms with discounts for advance payment. Carrier and weekly rates detailed. Classified at two cents per word with minimum 25 cents, memorials and cards of thanks offered. Display ads with border due by 10 AM. transient and contract rates available. national reps named.
A bank explains its heavy advertising as a way to grow, attract new patrons, and lift customer pride. It argues persistent, aggressive ads boost service standards, motivate staff, and sustain a solid business reputation beyond tax benefits or market size.
Greensboro press notes Herbert Hoover Jr. gains attention for his stance on air mail contracts. He joined an aviation company, promptly resigned illness mentioned, and kept a modest salary. His Senate questionnaire response is described as convincing and clean.
The Baltimore Sun contemplates the Saar crisis and how a pre-Hitler plebiscite might have proceeded peacefully, reflecting on potential peaceable outcomes if the vote had occurred earlier in Germany’s rise.
The item lists three trivia prompts with concise answers. It notes spinach used for green coloring formerly tied to arsenic, identifies Michigan as leading salt mining state, and records the Seventh Machine Gun Battalion as the unit at Chateau Thierry.
The Saar region on the western border of Prussia has lived under League of Nations rule effectively French control for over a decade. In 1935 its inhabitants will vote on whether to return to German sovereignty, an outcome many anticipated as the plebiscite nears.
Cuba returns to a calmer state after weeks of unrest as Carlos Mendieta is sworn in as president. His rise followed his opposition to Machado in 1931 and is seen as a move toward pacification with favorable views from the United States.
In Rawson a gun fight in a Charles Town suburb results in two deaths and three injuries. Funeral services are held for Fielding Lewis Marshall, 79, a Baltimore and Ohio official. An extradition hearing is underway for Crawford. Fifty men swept onto O Neida Lake on ice blocks as a storm breaks up the solid sheet. eight are rescued within two hours. The Young Democratic Club plans a dinner in Northern Virginia this Saturday.
Prof J Newton Fries aged 78 dies of stroke while a native of Frederick county and longtime Berkeley Springs resident. A story on Judge John Handley founder of Handley schools is given to students by Prof W R Legge on the founder's anniversary. Eighteen plants produce goods valued at eight million dollars. Thomas S Hancher devises large city and county property to his family.
Winchester Lodge No. 1267 initiates two new members and holds a banquet. Rotary Club offers to cooperate with hospital plans. Kiwanis president Robert T. Barton Jr. rouses members with opportunities at home. Frank J. Russell dies of heart failure. A cold wave from Alaska sweeps eastward.
Owners of dogs four months old and over must pay taxes on their canines on or before February 1 or a penalty will be added. After February 1 the game warden will inspect all dogs in Winchester and Frederick county. Dogs found without 1934 tags will be registered with the city or county treasurer. Game Warden Francis W. Pingley said killing a dog does not release fines costs or license tags due.
An advertisement touts Creomulsion as combining seven major helps in one remedy for coughs and colds. It promises powerful but harmless relief without narcotics and offers an on the spot money refund if relief is not achieved by Creomadv.
An essay argues that the Treasury and Federal Reserve should shift from short term, tax exempt borrowing to lower short term and then long term government debt to push banks and investors toward private capital. It warns that high short term yields lure funds from productive investment, hindering industrial recovery and raising borrowing costs. It cites Britain’s move to lower long term yields since 1927 as a model.
The passage recounts Colonel Drake directing the 1858 Titusville oil properties with William A. Smith and two sons as drillers. After delays, drilling started in June 1859 near the old oil spring southeast of Titusville and the well was brought in on August 27, 1859.
J Edgar Hoover signals possible link between fugitive Verne Sankey and the abduction of St Paul banker Edward G Bremer. The Bremer case renews pursuit of Sankey, already wanted for questioning in the disappearances of St Paul maker Haskell Bohn and Denver magnate Charles Boettcher II.
In a tense salon at the chateau, Raoul openly addresses Inspector Gorgeret and the marquis. He insists on truth about the Volnic tragedy, Elisabeth Horain, and the marquis inheritance while keeping Antonine and Gorgeret wary of recent discoveries.
The report shows no new rainfall in the past 24 hours ending 8 a m. January to date totals 1.05 inches, year to date 1.05 inches. 21 year average is 34.71 inches. Monthly averages: January 2.36, February 2.70, March 3.11, April 3.73, May 3.81, June 3.45, July 3.45, August 2.15, September 3.06, October 2.25, November 2.37 inches.
The Capitol Theatre opens Marion Davies in Going Hollywood directed by Raoul Walsh. Bing Crosby assists in songs and duets with Davies as Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed supply a tailored score. The film showcases Hollywood backdrops, dance ensembles by Albertina Rasch, and a Donald Ogden Stewart original story.
Fox presents Frontier Marshall starring George O'Brien and Irene Bentley at Hable's Palace for today and Saturday. The film is a romantic Western epic drawn from Stuart N. Lake's old West novel set in the 1890s with rare originality. Also shown are Across The Sea in technicolor, Rin Tin Tin Jr. in The Wolf Dog eighth chapter, and Olson's Big Moment with El Brendel and Walter Catlett in a high laugh-filled comedy for a three day engagement starting Monday.
During the railroad boom counties subscribed to ventures through 1851 when the constitution barred such deals. In this era 87 counties invested 4.178 million dollars 55 townships 1.0051 million and 16 towns 1.672 million. Most public funds were lost as bonds paid for decades without a railroad being built.
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