This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 23 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1941
Page
4
Advertisement rates listed for the Winchester Evening Star include 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum, and cash required with copy. Display ads with borders due by 9 PM the day before publication. transient rate 45 cents per inch. contract rates available.
A religious quotation emphasizes remaining connected to the source to bear fruit. It asserts that just as a branch cannot bear fruit alone, believers must remain in the vine to prosper. The verse is attributed to John 15 4.
The excerpt records Colonel Lindbergh telling the House Foreign Affairs Committee that U S policy would not change whether Britain or Germany won the war. He urges national defense readiness and questions who America should defend against, noting long peaceful ties with Britain.
Secretary of the Navy Knox provides an estimate comparing U S Navy forces with the combined fleets of Germany Italy and Japan. The assessment outlines relative power, battleship counts, and carrier potential in light of wartime mobilization and strategic balance.
In winter baseball talks, Bob Feller inks the highest salary ever for a pitcher at $30,000 with the Cleveland Indians, surpassing Lefty Grove's $27,500 Red Sox deal. Feller, 22, aims to help his club win the pennant.
The article claims Russia helps Germany by receiving cotton from the United States and oil from South America via Panama to Vladivostok. Britain cannot stop the traffic since Russia uses it, though Russia is not at war. Russian purchases reportedly replenish supplies as German reserves thin.
The piece argues for frank public reporting on defense progress to mobilize citizen support. It urges monthly public statements on overall progress ship commissions and aircraft production, with clear distinctions between combat and training planes, while balancing secrecy and transparency to avoid weakening national resolve.
Police Chief C. W. Hollis reports 1,111 arrests in Winchester during 1939. The annual police summary notes extensive wartime era actions and captures amid broader conflict developments.
Five years after his earlier work, Kenneth Windle, a versatile Winchester musician, is invited to perform at the annual State Chamber of Commerce banquet in Richmond. The piece notes curiosity about whether Mrs. Ernest Simpson, long known as the Prince of Wales dance partner, will remain favored now that he is King.
Winchester Lions attend a charter presentation dinner for the newly organized Charles Town Club sponsored by them. Mrs. 8S. C. Hoshour begins her term as president of the G A A.
Twenty five years ago reports state Britain cannot sustain the blockade around Germany much longer. Matthew Ebersole is injured in a collision between his buggy and the Castleman stage on the Berryville pike. University of Virginia students oppose a women’s college citing masculine spirit and traditions.
Forty years ago Mrs. H. L. Baker, operator of a North Main street millinery, plans to open a second shop in Woodstock. Calvin Anderson, a veteran of the Spanish American War who contracted lung fever in Cuba, dies at his home. The Sarah Zane Fire Co holds a dance and feast for the ladies who served at their bazaar.
Dr. Clendening explains how pituitary thyroid and parathyroid glands regulate growth metabolism and bone health. Overactive glands may be rested radiated or removed while underactive glands can be treated with substitutes and extracts. A Q and A addresses baldness myths and readers can obtain pamphlets for 10 cents each.
The column presents Q and A on varied topics with Frederic J. Haskin including the Pull Dinner Pail slogan of 1900, citizenship for Indians in 1924, the Louisiana Purchase area, tea rationing, Panama Canal Zone electricity, gliding records, first caesarian, piano tuning guidance, Arlington National Cemetery visitor counts, Vermont blue laws repeal, Soviet Pavilion relocation, horse race calls, inverted 24 cent 1918 airmail stamp, and The Bivouac of the Dead as a martial elegy.
A public notice-style advertisement promotes a 48 page booklet titled Historic Churches in the United States. It features 53 churches with descriptive historical captions, highlighting pioneer American customs and architecture. Priced at ten cents postpaid, order via coupon to The Winchester Evening Star.
Seven questions test readers on portraits on tax stamps West Point of the Air Shakespeare eclipse figures Navy under secretary Beatty sage brush state flower sapphires meaning of auf wiedersehen and more.
A style note instructs not to abbreviate titles in letters except for Mr Mrs and Dr. Use Dear Professor Jones instead of Dear Prof Jones. The guidance emphasizes full titles for formal salutations.
In a Hyannis bound night, tensions rise as Kaye mourns Mark Gould and Dave’s alibis crumble. Rand’s defense of Wing’s long ill effect prompts detective scrutiny while Proctor defends his father’s payoffs. The chief locks down the household as investigators seek motive and opportunity.
In College Park Maryland 75 greenkeepers from the middle Atlantic states learned to combat 35 insect pests that threaten grass at a University of Maryland course. With lawns and courses snowbound the program focused on lectures and classroom work.
Boston police describe unconventional raid methods including lighting a pipe and blowing smoke into a room keyhole to trigger a hasty exit. An earlier operation used a catlike meow outside the door to gain entry as part of disrupting gambling games.
In ice hockey a hard rubber disk called the puck is used instead of a ball during play.
A woman requests correspondence with a man who played the record Only Forever on a tavern jukebox three times last November, a lighthearted glimpse of romance in Kewanee Illinois.
In Rome a place where three streets met was called trivia. There people gathered to gossip and idle talk became branded as trivial due to the meeting spot.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.