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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1938
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates and policies: 2 cents per word for classifieds with 25 cent minimum, memorials 10 cents per line, display ads 45 cents per inch with border, and required copy by 10 AM publication day. Also notes payment and location details.
The Municipal Finance Officers' Association reports that from 1933 to 1937 many cities and counties saved interest by callable bonds. Cities like New York Chicago Los Angeles Cincinnati Fort Worth Detroit and others retired or refunded in lower rates, with notable gains such as New York City saving over ten million dollars. The study notes low rates reduce appeal but predicts wider use when rates rise.
The late William M Carson left $1,800,000 to 34 workers and many who aided his life. Bequests extended to hotel staff, club employees, hospital workers, church, and university associates, reflecting a personal, people centered final testament.
A San Francisco millionaire left a large bequest to many people who had helped his life run smoothly. The piece reflects on the small human contacts that sustain us, from corner cops to mailmen, and suggests we should honor those who assist us while alive.
News of Other Years reports nearly 300 dead in the worst floods in the nation history with over a million homeless. An Army plane crashed in the Blue Ridge near Front Royal amid sleet ice, with several feared killed. Police and city officials will investigate widespread complaints about weekly payment insurers as Winchester residents donate 840 to Red Cross flood relief.
A grim relic from Winchester youth days, the old oaken door from the first local jail, is discovered in an obscure location and will be preserved in the courthouse. The electric power project for Harpers Ferry has been abandoned. J. P. Arthur becomes director general of the Apple Blossom Festival as plans form for the annual spring event. Ten motorists, including a city councilman, are fined $3 for parking violations as police intensify traffic enforcement.
A reader's quiz column covers varied topics from skating titles to Amelia Earhart memorials. It notes Felix Casper and Miss Cecelia Colledge, naval warfare views, disinfectants versus antiseptics, Canada’s rail beginnings, Detroit parking lots, counts of Black physicians and dentists, and early publishing milestones.
Sergeant H. T. Smith reopens the U S Army recruiting station in the post office here. The state legislature may abolish the posts of almost 800 school officials in the upcoming session. Rotarians Hugh Duffey Joe Hodgson W N Page and W W Glass plan to sing at the Episcopal Church service next Sunday. Restaurant owner Gus Pappas is instantly killed when a car skids out of control during a pleasure ride.
Miss Florence Weddon and Mr Henry M Baker were married yesterday at High Point North Carolina. Several shares of Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co stock are for sale by Good and Co. Miss Frances Page and Miss Douglas Fuller perform as French girls in a hospital benefit show. The Mississippi River remains at the 40 foot stage near Memphis with engineers admitting the situation is grave.
Forty years ago R Gray Williams chaired a committee with J I H Baker and C E B Hoover that drew resolutions thanking C B Rouss for a 1000 donation to the ward Union Steam Fire Co annual banquet. Miss Carrie Lowery and Miss Lucy Lowery sang a duet at the Red Men entertainment. George Copenhaver had a large protruding rock in the pavement at Market and Cecil blasted. Robert Haymaker played his gramophone for Miss Mary Seal who had been ill at her home.
Bryan Conrad, assistant director of the Virginia Division of History, responds to a January 11 1938 article about historical markers. He credits Dr Hamilton James Eckenrode for the highway marker program and says he is merely an amateur who did not oversee marker erection.
In Lincoln Nebraska, University of Nebraska art students chased a ghostly joke after a crash in a deserted hall led them to a wall where an etching slid into place. The image titled The House of Usher by Robert Lawson illustrates Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher.
The piece parodies White House economic talk as a goose and golden eggs metaphor, noting Roosevelt and John Lewis warning industry against cutting wages or inflating prices. It also recounts a Senate cloakroom episode over Milton and Hague, Garner’s late night summons, and Byrnes’ bid to wake the Vice President.
Lucille Merrick reveals Mimi loves Jerry but insists she must choose her world over romance. Jerry persuades with dreams of a castle and land, then proposes a clandestine marriage arranged by Mrs. Merrick to shield Mimi from her family. They plan to marry that night with a quick license and elope to a new life.
Passersby halted as a bull appeared in a vacant store window in Chicago. An investigator traced the owner Thomas Mecili who said he placed the animal there awaiting a taxidermist. The bull was eventually stuffed and displayed, while its mate died.
Charles Luther Ross, a Pierce Idaho mining man, wired his marriage proposal to Florence G. Schumacher, his 1909 sweetheart from Marysville California. She accepted and they married yesterday in Seattle.
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